A GROUP OF EXPORT WARES Qianlong Comprising: a blue and white 'Neptune' tea cup and saucer; a soft paste flower-form saucer with quail amongst bamboo and flowering plants; a blue and white shepherdess tea cup; an underglaze blue and iron red tea bowl and saucer with a dignitary on horseback with boy attendants; a floral enamelled fluted tea bowl and saucer; a pair of small tea bowls and saucers decorated with European figures before European style buildings; a tea cup decorated with a European lady within a flower scroll border; a 'Judgement of Paris' tea cup; a flower-form bowl with moulded flowering branches; and a famille rose bowl with gentlemen in a landscape, one holding a hawk. The Neptune saucer: 14.2cm (5 1/8in) diam. (16). Footnotes: 清乾隆 外銷瓷一組 Provenance: Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, 2000 (the shepherdess cup) Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, 2002 (the iron red and blue set) Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, September 2007 (the soft paste saucer) Walter van Halm, March 2009 (the Neptune cup and saucer) John Drew (1933-2006), England; acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, March 2019 (the fluted set) Published and Illustrated: M. White, Drinking at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Whites' House collection, vol. 2, n.p., 2021, p.32 (the moulded flower-form bowl); p.198 (the Neptune set, the quails saucer and the shepherdess cup); p.201 (the underglaze blue and iron red set) John Drew (1933-2006) was born in Tideswell, Derbyshire, and educated at Sedbergh School and the Queen's College, Oxford. He spent the majority of his professional career as an archivist in various African countries, before taking up a post at the University of Cape Town in 1978. His collection of Chinese ceramics encompasses pieces from the Neolithic period through to the eighteenth century. See R. Davids & D. Jellinek, Provenance: Collectors, Dealers and Scholars: Chinese Ceramics in Britain and America, Oxford, 2011, p.157. See an example of a Neptune cup and saucer in the British Museum, London, accession number 1953,1015.1.b. The drawing from which this design derives is the left half of a composition from a copy book by the Dutch artist Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651), which is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Le Corbeiller, 1974, no.28). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing