Asian Art I - 18 May 2011

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A Chinese blue and white erotic subject teabowl and saucer 18th century

£400 - £600 £900

A Chinese blue and white erotic subject teabowl and saucer 18th century, painted with a naked couple on a mattress beneath a willow tree, their modesty just covered by a sheet, within a petal band rim, 11cm. (2) Cf. Christiaan J A Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, col. pl.113, for a similar cup and saucer from the bequest of J P Baroness van Brakell tot den Brakell.

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