A Chinese blue and white erotic subject teabowl and saucer 18th century
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £900
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Description
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.
