$830
Lot of Blue and White Decorated Chinese Export Porcelain Tableware, early 19th century, octagonal dishes decorated with a waterway scene, with trellis, spear and dot, and honeycomb borders, comprising eleven soup plates, thirty-eight dinner plates, two small sauce dishes, and a butter plate; accompanied by two shallow bowls and a small deep bowl in the Nanking pattern, fifty-five pieces total, (imperfections), dia. 5 3/4-9 1/2 in. Provenance: The Paine family of Worcester, Massachusetts. Gilt wear to rims on all items; Waterway pattern: eleven octagonal soup plates- eight have one or two small rim chips, three have hairlines; -thirty-eight octagonal dinner plates- twelve in good condition, 23 with one or a few minor shallow rim chips, three with craacks; -two small sauce dishes and a butter plate- all have a hairline crack, one sauce dish with a small rim nick; - two Nanking shallow bowls- one with hairline, one with repaired crack and three rim chips; small deep bowl in the Nanking pattern- good condition.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-11-07
