SET OF FIVE CANTON ENAMEL SQUARE TEA CUPS AND SAUCERS
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
£1,071
Auction: 17 May 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
清 賞玩及清玩款 廣東銅胎畫琺瑯花鳥及博古圖方形杯盤(五組十件)
comprising: five square saucers of canted edges, together with matching five square cups with canted edges, two sets painted with a pheasant perching on rockworks with flowers, one set with magpie standing on a leafy branch, one set with a butterfly flying towards peonies below rockwork, one set with a small figure in a mountainous landscape below an inscription, and one further set decorated with antiquities, four saucers with their bases inscribed with a two-character 'Shang Wan' mark, one base with ‘Qing Wan’, and one base with a black chi-dragon (10)
Dimensions
saucers: 9.8cm wide each; cups: 4.7cm wide each
Provenance
Private collection, Cambridgeshire