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16. Pair of tea bowls and saucers, each decorated in grisaille and gilt, the centre of the saucer with a seated man looking at a
woman holding a tea bowl, the hairstyle and costume of the period shortly after circa 1710, encircled by a broad band
of lobed scroll-work with peonies and other flowers on a gilt ground, the tea bowl with an individual portrait on each
side, on a similar lobed floral ground.
The saucers 4 ¾ inches, 12.1 cm diameter, the tea bowls 3 inches, 7.6 cm diameter.
Yongzheng/Qianlong, circa 1735.
• From the collection of Dr Hardouin, Nantes, western France.
• A similar saucer is illustrated by David S. Howard & John Ayers in China for the West, Volume one, no. 275, pp.
276/7, where the author notes ‘The figures resemble the style of those on the blue and white ‘Music Party’ dish (no.
35, p. 77), copying a French costume print by Bonnart, and it is seems probable that this service was made for the
Dutch or French market’; three other similar saucers, one from the Musée Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, are illustrated
by François & Nicole Hervouët & Yves Bruneau in La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, nos. 7.5-7, p. 143.

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