R9506
£1,800
Description
A Chinese porcelain grisaille European subject semi-eggshell tea bowl and saucer, the saucer painted with a ‘bathing scene’ with a nude lady stepping into a bath with boy attendant pouring water into a bath, within a decorative border at the cavetto with alternating circular and foliate panels painted in puce enamel, all on a gilt decorative ground, the cup painted with the same scene repeated on two sides.
Saucer 11.8cm diameter, cup 4cm high.
Qianlong, 1736-1795.
Condition
Cup with tiny rim nibble
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in the Dr. Hardouin collection, Nantes, France.
- A similar coffee cup and saucer from the Mottahedeh Collection is published by Hervouet & Bruneau in La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, no. 6.34, p.125.
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