Description:
Part of a set of eight Chinese export porcelain round teacups and seven saucers decorated a Meissen-style harbor scene in the Famille rose palette of iron-red, rose, brown, black, blue, green, purple, and gilding. Hervouet and Bruneau illustrate several variations of these harbor scenes painted in the style of the German Meissen Factory porcelain of the 1730s and 1740s, which probably reached China through the Dutch East India Company and appear to have remained popular into the 1760s. The quality of painting can vary greatly. In January, 2004, Christie's auctioned a Chinese export porcelain partial teaset with the same style of decoration purchased by George Washington on May 1, 1762: "1 Sett Tea China- cost sterlg. 64 shillings." The interior center wells have iron-red and black floral sprigs with traces of gilding. The exterior decoration on both sides have brown and gilt lobed cartouches with a harbor scene surrounded by rose and iron-red Meissen-like flourishes; the rim edges are gilt. 64.009 the 7th piece? or 57.281B?
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