Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A Chinese export porcelain part tea service 2nd half 18th century, decorated in the European manner with dragonflies in flight above tied censers of flowers within gilded garlands, en grisaille and in gilt. Comprising: a teapot and cover, a sugar bowl and cover, a milk jug and cover, a slop bowl, a coffee cup, a teabowl, a saucer, a saucer dish and an English porcelain plate in the same pattern, made as a replacement. (12)

Provenance: from the Geoffrey Godden Reference Collection.