A rare Chinese 'Cape of Good Hope' tea bowl and saucer, Qianlong, circa 1740
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ZAR 25 000 - 35 000
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ZAR 42 332
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About this Item
A rare Chinese 'Cape of Good Hope' tea bowl and saucer, Qianlong, circa 1740
Notes
Woodward discusses Chinese porcelain decorated with shipping in the roadstead at Table Bay, for which the original designs given to the Chinese enamellers have not yet been identified.
Further examples are also held in the William Fehr Collection at The Castle, Cape Town
Literature
cf. CS Woodward, Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795, AA Balkema, Cape Town, 1974, between pages 116 and 117, colour plate E, where a similar example belonging to the Africana Museum is illustrated
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