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    PAIR OF CAFÉ-AU-LAIT-GROUND FAMILLE VERTE CUPS AND SAUCERS
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    CATALOGUE NUMBERS 1388 & 1389

    PAIR OF CAFÉ-AU-LAIT-GROUND FAMILLE VERTE CUPS AND SAUCERS

    KANGXI PERIOD (1661-1722)

    DIMENSIONS

    Diameter of stands: 4 ¼ inches

     

    PROVENANCE

    • Luis Alegria, Portugal, 2001

    • Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York (according to label)

     

    CATALOGUE NOTES

    Pair of famille verte and caf‚ au lait cups and saucers. The saucers, decorated in famille verte with a lotus pond, with swimming carp beneath the water, and a songbird perched on a reed. The reverse, with flowering sprigs painted on a cafe au lait ground. The cups are similarly decorated inside and out, with exterior decoration painted in famille verte upon a caf‚ au alit ground. The underfoot of each saucer bears a chop mark. The underfoot of each cup bears an apocryphal mark of a rabbit.