$225
Group of thee Chinese porcelain cups comprising of a white cup with butterflies, flowers, and foliage in relief and painted scenes in vignette of a man with rabbit and two women in conversation, and a scene depicting two men and a child surrounding a stand with fruit, also small painted details of birds and flowers, along with a pattern in repetition of squared rosettes in cobalt along the inner rim of the cup and a single flower motif on the base of the interior (1. 5" x 2.75"); a white porcelain cup with two figural scenes including two children in green and purple robes playing together, and a scene of two children in ochre and blue robes playing with a dog with a house on the horizon, these are situated between fields of gold scrollwork with rust flowers in the interior (1.75" x 3"); a white porcelain cup with pastoral scene in cobalt blue with a two story house surrounded by trees and stylized waves with a figure holding an umbrella atop a hill beside the house, and a hillside with three houses surrounded by dunes and crosshatching, with the top of the cup being scallopped and lined in gold, and a band of patterning along the interior rim of the cup featuring diaper, shell, and floral patterns in cobalt, and a small detail in cobalt on the base of the interior of the cup (2" x 3.5").
Auctioneer:
Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery
Date:
2014-11-16
