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Object 2011914A

Teacup and saucer

China

1730-1735

Height of teacup 30 mm (1.18 inch), diameter of rim 54 mm (2.13 inch), diameter of footring 25 mm (0.98 inch), weight 20 grams (0.71 ounce (oz.))

Height of saucer 17 mm (0.67 inch), diameter of rim 87 mm (3.43 inch), diameter of footring 49 mm (1.92 inch), weight 34 grams (1.20 ounce (oz.))

Small teacup and saucer on footring, spreading sides and everted rims with six small indentations. Polychrome decorated in various overglaze enamels, iron-red, black and gold with a central flower spray surrounded by moulded panels filled with a bird in flight alternating with a insect on a flower spray. The reverse is undecorated. The teacup is decorated en suite.

The indented rim is characteristic of a group of well-enamelled tea-wares of a thin, pure body produced during the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns. (Jörg & Van Campen 1997, p.213)

Condition:

Teacup: Two tiny fleabites to the rim and a firing flaw with a fleabite to the footring.

Saucer: Three frits to the rim.

Reference:

Jörg & Van Campen 1997, cat. 237

Price: Sold.