Large Chinese Export Cider Mug Decorated with a Hunt Scene and an Imari-decorated Mug

Description:

Large Chinese Export Cider Mug Decorated with a Hunt Scene and an Imari-decorated Mug, c. 1750, both cylindrical form, one with famille rose palette depicting a hunting scene with Western garbed figures on horseback, hounds, and a fox with underglaze blue butterfly and cell rim border and cell border around base, (handle repaired),ht. 5 5/8; and an Imari-decorated mug decorated with a scenic waterway landscape with blue underglaze trellis border, ht. 5 3/4 in.

Provenance: Estate of Peter Rosenberg.
Estimate $400-600

Hunt scene- Staple repair on lower handle.
Imari dec.- with 1/4 in. rim crack appears to have occured in the making of the mug.


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