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943 - Chinese export coffee cup and saucer, Qianlong ca. 1740. Painted with a scene from the Aesop's Fables story of the "House-dog and the Wolf" within scroll cartouches. Borders with gilt scrollwork. Illustrated in Howard & Ayers, "China for the West," Vol. I, pg. 342-3, no. 340. Provenance: 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 252; The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. Lot Essay: The scene depicted is probably after a Barlow edition of ca. 1670, though no exact original has been traced. This scene is one of four used in combinations of twos and threes as border panels on armorial and other export porcelain. The scrollwork border after a Meissen border. (Cup) height: 2 1/4 in x width: 3 1/4 in x diameter: 2 1/2 in. (Saucer) diameter: 4 3/4 in.
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Chinese export coffee cup and saucer, Qianlong ca. 1740. Painted with a scene from the Aesop's Fables story of the "House-dog and the Wolf" within scroll cartouches. Borders with gilt scrollwork. Illustrated in Howard & Ayers, "China for the West," Vol. I, pg. 342-3, no. 340. Provenance: 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 252; The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. Lot Essay: The scene depicted is probably after a Barlow edition of ca. 1670, though no exact original has been traced. This scene is one of four used in combinations of twos and threes as border panels on armorial and other export porcelain. The scrollwork border after a Meissen border. (Cup) height: 2 1/4 in x width: 3 1/4 in x diameter: 2 1/2 in. (Saucer) diameter: 4 3/4 in.
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