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CUP  &  SAUCER .

Very delicately painted in subtil  FAMILLE  ROSE .   Ladies on horseback in a grisaille landscape; one lady holding a " ruyi-scepter"  . All within  densely patterned  geometric- and floral scroll bands .

Period :           YONGZHENG  :      1723 - 1735 .

Provenance:   -  the Martin HURST Collection , n° 60 .
                       -  Sotheby's Amsterdam  : 07/12/ 1999 ,  n° 752.

Exhibited    :     Dorchester Hotel, London :  Loan Exhibition Oriental 
                         Ceramic Society :  28 May- 18 June 1931 , catal. n° 384.

Excellent condition  ,  except small crack to the cup, 2 tiny frits on the saucer.