London decorated Chinese Teabowl and saucer
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A Chinese teabowl and saucer decorated in London with flowers, butterflies and insects. c.1750-60 D: 4.8" 12 cm Ill: Stephen Hanscombe; The Early James Giles and his Contemporary London Decorators, pl. 70, with other pieces from the service. This piece is from the Smith service, so called as the saucer dish was incised Smith, probably the decorator. The palette, with its purple, iron red and green is distinctive. This is one of only two signed pieces of London decorated Chinese known. |