A LATE 18TH CENTURY CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN TEA BOWL AND SA...

Hammer

£160

A LATE 18TH CENTURY CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN TEA BOWL AND SAUCER, decorated with circus performers, including a tightrope walker and knife juggler, s.d., together with a pair of Chinese export porcelain armorial bud vases, a late 18th Century porcelain tea bowl and saucer with pink scale and floral decoration, a Meissen cup and saucer in the Imari palette and four other late 18th and 19th Century porcelain saucers, cup and tea bowl, s.d. (12) (condition: tightrope walker tea bowl has wear to the gilding, the saucer has a deep chip in the rim, one of the vases has a chip to the underside of the rim, the other has an extensive crack from the rim, a glued repair and a chip, the matching tea bowl and saucer have several rim chips to the bowl and a crack, the saucer has a chip and is cracked, the Meissen cup has a chip and a crack to the inside of the rim, both the cup and saucer has gilding loss, the tea bowl has a stained crack, the saucer has firing faults/inclusions, the deutsche blumen cup has gilding loss)