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Lot 2048
A Group of Chinese Batavia Ware Tea Bowls and Saucers
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Circa 1750, includes two matching tea bowls and saucers with hand painted to interior of quaint riverside village with mountains and birds, gilt rim, exterior sides glazed in brown, probably made for the Dutch market (tea bowl 1 7/8 in., 3 in. diameter; saucer 1 1/4 in., 4 5/8 in. diameter), and two petite tea bowls hand painted with riverside landscape in underside blue, band of decoration around the rim, chrysanthemum petal molding to sides of tea bowls reflected in interior, exterior sides also glazed in brown (1 5/8 in., 2 3/4 in. diameter.)

Private Collection, New London, North Carolina

One tea bowl with very slight nick to rim; not examined under UV blacklight.