A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE TEA BOWL YONGZHENG 1723-35 Finely painted with enamels and gilt with a...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE TEA BOWL

YONGZHENG 1723-35

Finely painted with enamels and gilt with a pair of lovers and their servant enjoying tea in a garden, with a band of stylised lotus flowerheads and foliage to the inner rim, 7.8cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay GCB, KCMG, CVO, PC,1877-1945, and thence by descent. Sir Ronald Lindsay was a British civil servant and diplomat, he was the British Ambassador to Turkey from 1925-26 and to Germany from 1926-28; from 1928-30, he was Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and from 1930-39 the British Ambassador to the United States of America.