A RARE LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'TEA CULTIVATION' DISH
A RARE LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'TEA CULTIVATION' DISH

FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY

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A RARE LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'TEA CULTIVATION' DISH
FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY
Painted at the centre with two figures in the foreground preparing the tea-chests, and in the background an overseer and attendants, all in a garden with buildings, the border boldly decorated with rococo shell scrolls, numbered '3' in underglaze blue on the reverse
14 in. (35.4 cm.) diam.

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Two slightly smaller dishes from this series are in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, illustrated by Clare Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, cat. no. 42, pp. 102-3.