A CHINESE EXPORT SAUCER circa 1740

painted with a white-bearded man fondling a young beauty with his right hand while offering her a bag of money with his left, the rim with a gilt floral and foliate-scroll border beneath a blue and gilt stylized foliate border around the edge.  Small hair crack.

John Sparks Ltd., London
The collection of Jorge Getulio Veiga, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Property of a West Coast Private Collector, sold, Sotheby's, New York, January 25, 1989, lot 243

1/2-in. haircrack to the rim. John Sparks sticker, Veiga collection sticker.
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A teabowl and saucer depicting this scene within a different border are illustrated by Jörg 1989, p. 212, no. 82; and a saucer of that type is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, p. 176, no. 7.104; and by Howard and Ayers, Vol. II, p. 365, no. 357, who illustrate the W. Martin-Hurst Collection example also illustrated by Williamson, pl. XLII (top, right), which was in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, sold in these rooms on January 30, 1985, lot 221.  A saucer identical to the present example was sold at Sotheby's in London on November 19, 1985, lot 135.