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Chinese export porcelain cream jug and cover, Qianlong ca. 1735-45. Decorated in sepia and gilt along the pear-shaped body with a butterfly and a cricket or large spotted beetle among peonies, morning glories, and chrysanthemums. The rims with a pink cell-pattern bands interrupted with three panels of flowers. Illustrated in Howard & Ayers, "China for the West," Vol. I, pg. 166, no. 155. Provenance: The W. Martin-Hurst Collection, no. 733; Sotheby's, New York, "Important Chinese Export Porcelain and Chinese Works of Art from the Collection of the Late Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh," 19 October 2000, Lot 157; The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. Exhibition: Virginia Museum, 1981-2. Height: 4 in x width: 3 1/4 in x diameter: 2 1/2 in.
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