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Jan Menze van Diepen Stichting
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Two teacups and one saucer on footring, spreading sides. Undecorated in China, decorated in enamel colours with a garden landscape. To the right a pheasant with raised foot standing on a boulder, another pheasant perched alongside. A flowering tree at left, its stem growing out of the floral border around the rim. The same floral border on the inside of the cups. Inside on the base of the cups a small flower. It is unknown if these tea utensils were overdecorated in The Netherlands or in England. The tree growing from the rim evokes kraak porcelain, where trees grow out of rock faces in a way not always clear and which may have been interpreted as 'typically' Chinese by the European painter. The little flower inside the cup copies the orchids used as a decoration on much Yongzheng-period teaware.

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JMD-P-1470
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