Lot 161
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A CHINESE EXPORT PART TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE, QING DYNASTY, JIAQING PERIOD, CIRCA 1810 |

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • height of coffee pot 9 1/2 in.; 24.1 cm
each piece painted in the center in either sepia or en grisaille with an oval vignette depicting a landscape with two towers on the right and bushes on the left with two bare trees, all underneath an elaborate and intertwining neoclassical border, comprising: a light house coffee pot and cover, a teapot and cover, a sugar bowl and cover, a helmet-shaped cream jug, a tea canister and cover, a bowl, a small saucer dish, two small plates, six cylindrical handled coffee cups and saucers and six teabowls and eight saucers. 39 pieces.

Provenance

Matthew and Elisabeth Sharpe, Spring Mill, Pennsylvania, December 26, 1978