CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN TEA ARTICLES, LOT OF SIX, comprising four teabowls painted with Jesuit scenes, figures in pavilions, roses and garlands, and one lotus-leaf-molded with celadon exterior; a molded saucer with a shepherdess and her flock in a fanciful landscape, under a banded line rim; and a small Famille Rose trefoil bowl with the figure of a scholar applied to the center well, the exterior walls painted with figures in gardens and hundred scholars, with turquoise-painted foot. Unmarked. Qing Dynasty, mid 18th century and later. 1 3/8" to 1 7/8" H.
Provenance: From a Connecticut private collection.

Good condition; the bowl with some wear to gilding and some chipping to scholars lowest robe area; the scholar teabowl with a few nicks and tiny chips to rim; another teabowl with a hairline crack to rim.