Description:
Coffee cup of a cup and saucer set. Chinese export porcelain coffee cup wth a C-shaped handle and saucer decorated with a Meissen-style harbor scene in the Famille rose palette in iron red, green, black, brown, orange, rose, 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. This set is decorated with a riverscape with two men standing by the shore on the right; row boats and ships along the river; tall turreted building on the left shore and other smaller buildings further down on the right shore; and tall hills in the background.
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