Lot 326 , A group of Chinese famille rose tea wares and vases, 18th/19th century, tallest 20cm, (8), damage

A group of Chinese famille rose tea wares and vases, 18th/19th century, tallest 20cm, (8), damage
Estimate £150-200

Large teapot - rim chipped.
Smaller teapot - lid cracked in half
Larger teapot (circular with handle) - finial chipped
Lidded 2 handle cup and cover - cup has a large pice missing.
2 handle vase - Has a large crack from rim down the vase neck and across (possibly reglued)
Jar and lid - Jar completely cracked in half and lid the same.

Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1910-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke lived in Carmarthenshire, Wales and was an avid collector of European & Asian works of art and an author of the History of Llandovery. He was collecting from the 1940s to the 1980s.


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Sold for £300