Chinese export porcelain tea bowl and saucer, Qianlong ca. 1740-55. The cup with a splayed rim and painted in sepia and blue with a rural scene of two peasants…

Chinese export porcelain tea bowl and saucer, Qianlong ca. 1740-55. The cup with a splayed rim and painted in sepia and blue with a rural scene of two peasants in conversation be a stream, one leading an ox and the other gathering sticks. With a narrow gilt tendril border. Illustrated in Howard & Ayers, "China for the West," Vol. I, pg. 169, no. 160. Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, "Important Chinese Export Porcelain and Chinese Works of Art from the Collection of the Late Mildred R. and Rafi

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