Chinese export porcelain tea caddy and cover, Qianlong ca. 1735-45. Decorated in famille rose and grisaille with an exotic bird perched on a weathered rock…

Chinese export porcelain tea caddy and cover, Qianlong ca. 1735-45. Decorated in famille rose and grisaille with an exotic bird perched on a weathered rock among peony and lily blooms. Baby-blue band of trellis along the rim. The foot with pierced scrolls. Illustrated in Howard & Ayers, "China for the West," Vol. I, pg. 167, no. 156. Provenance: The W. Martin-Hurst Collection; Sotheby's, New York, "Important Chinese Export Porcelain and Chinese Works of Art from the Collection of the Late Mild

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Asian art

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St. Paul