Lot 91 , A pair of Chinese export armorial teabowls, Yongzheng period, diameter 7.2cm, both with tiny areas of damage

A pair of Chinese export armorial teabowls, Yongzheng period, each painted to the interior with iron-red and black basket of flowers with a green enamelled cellular band, the exterior with a coat of arms for Hesketh and grisaille flower panels on an iron-red and gilt brocade pattern ground, diameter 7.2cm, both with tiny areas of damage
Estimate £200-300

Provenance: UK private collection; purchased from specialist dealers and auctions in the 1950s and 1960s.

see David Sancturay Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Faber & Faber Ltd., 1974, E14 p. 257 for examples of pieces from this service dating to c.1733.

One of the teabowls has a 3mm x 2mm chip to the rim with a short associated hairline crack and occasional slight patches of wear to the gilding, the second teabowl has occasional slight patches of wear to the gilding and very slight nibble to the bottom edge of the foot rim which may have been made in manufacture, there is also a slight curved fine crack / bruise to the edge of the rim which can only be seen under an eye glass.


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Sold for £340