Teabowl & saucer, Qianlong c.1775, with a European couple
Teabowl and saucer, c.1775, with brightly enamelled scene of a country gentleman seated outside an inn with a well-dressed lady holding a shepherdess’ crook, probably illustrating the ‘country idyll’. See Hervouet p.164 for a version with a later border. Provenance: Elinor Gordon Collection.
Reference : Hervouët, François et Nicole and Bruneau, Yves; La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, p. 164
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