Lot 323 , A group of Chinese famille rose tea wares and miniature vases, 19th century, tallest 9.5cm, damage

A group of Chinese famille rose tea wares and miniature vases, 19th century, tallest 9.5cm, damage
Estimate £40-60

pair of 9cm vases - both with wear to gilding, one with large section broken from the rim and chipping out of the foot, the other with small rim chips
famille rose tea bowl - firing dirt, minor rim chips
other tea bowl with extensive breaks and repairs
pair of 8cm cylinder vases - wear to gilding, one small chip to rim, firing flaws
pair of cups - light wear to gilding otherwise good
small lidded pot - minor chipping around top
other pot broken into two and stuck with loose fragments that form the lid

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 £120