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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'TEA PACKING' SAUCEBOAT AND A SWEETMEAT TRIPOD DISH
Circa 1740

A Life in Ceramics: The Peter and Mary White Collection of Chinese Art
31 October – 10 November 2025, 10:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'TEA PACKING' SAUCEBOAT AND A SWEETMEAT TRIPOD DISH

Circa 1740
Painted around the exterior with scene depicting the cultivation and marketing of tea, with baroque shell beneath the spout and in the interior, the handle with floral spray. 25cm (9 7/8in) long; together with a blue and white flower-head six-lobed supper set dish, Qianlong, the interior of each section painted with a landscape. 26.5cm (10 1/2in) wide. (2).

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Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

約1740年 青花人物紋汁斗 及青花山水紋攢盤 一組兩件

Provenance: acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, on 5 May 2009 (collector's notes) (the sauceboat)
acquired from Beryl Joyce, on 30 January 2008 (collector's notes) (the sweetmeat dish)

Published and Illustrated: M.White, Eating at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection, vol.3, n.p., 2022, p.372 (plate), p.408 (sauceboat)

來源：獲得於倫敦古董商R & G McPherson Antiques，2009年5月5日（藏家筆記）（汁斗）
獲得於Beryl Joyce，2008年1月30日（藏家筆記）（攢盤）

著錄：M.White，《Eating at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection》，第三冊，無出版地，2022年，第372頁（攢盤），第408頁（汁斗）

The Rococo sauceboat is modelled after a European silver prototype. Compare it with a blue and white example of similar form, c.1740-1750, illustrated by F.C.Alves and P.C.Alves, From East to West: The Quest for Chinese Export Porcelain with Western Themes (1695-1815), Lisbon, 2016, p.278, pl.172. See a further blue and white oyster or sweetmeat dish, Yongzheng/Qianlong, illustrated by B.Macguire, Four Centuries of Blue and White: The Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain, London, 2023, p.385, no.370.

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