Sold Ceramics - Sold Shipwreck Porcelains - The Nanking Cargo, 1752 - Tea, Coffee and Chocolate wares - Page 1
Object 2010208
Teacup and saucer
China
Provenance: The Nanking Cargo sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 28 April - 2 May 1986
1752
Height of teacup 37 mm (1.46 inch), diameter of rim 75 mm (2.95 inch), diameter of footring 35 mm (1.38 inch), weight 38 grams (1.34 ounce (oz.))
Height 20 mm (0.79 inch), diameter of rim 115 mm (4.53 inch), diameter of footring 70 mm (2.76 inch), weight 59 grams (2.08 ounce (oz.))
Teacup and saucer on footrings, straight rims. Chinese Imari, decorated in underglaze blue, iron-red and gold with a double-roofed pavilion on the slope of a riverbank, a leafy tree overhanging at the back and two outcrops of rock sloping down to the water, a smaller island at the left, beneath a band of trellis-pattern at the rim. The reverse is undecorated. The teacup is decortated en suite. On both bases the original circular paper Christie's The Nanking Cargo sale lot 5191 labels proving they have been one of 288 similar teacups and saucers sold in lot 5191. On the base of the saucer the original rectangular paper Christie's lot 5191/288 label.
The design on this saucer is known as the 'Imari Pavilion' pattern. In total 2,982 teacups and saucers and 934 teacups without saucers with the 'Imari Pavilion' pattern, were sold divided over the lots: 5179-5196 & 5197-5203. (Amsterdam 1986)
Condition teacup: A hairline to the rim..
Condition saucer: A few very tiny fleabites to the rim.
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Price: Sold.
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