A Twenty Four Piece Chinese Export Tea Service

c. 1790

A twenty four piece Chinese export tea service (Chinese, c. 1790) composed of a teapot and cover, sugar bowl, creamer, two waste bowls (.4a-b), a dish/plate, nine saucers, and nine teabowls. Each piece is painted with a famille-rose medallion depicting a bird perched in a flowering tree, surrounded by stylized rock-work and flowering shrubbery. Above the medallion is the monogram "CEC" in gilded script. The rims have blue star borders above bands of red and gold husks.

Chinese

porcelain

.1a-b (tea pot and cover) = 5" x 8.5" x 4.5"

.2a-b (sugar bowl)= 5.25" x 5.75" x 4"

.3 (creamer)= 5" x 6" x 3.25"

.4a-b (waste bowl)= 5" x 5" x 1.5"

.5 (dish/plate)= 7.75" x 7.75" x 1.25"

.6-.14 (saucers)= 5.5" x 5.5"

.15-.23 (handleless cups)= 1.75" x 3" x 3"

.24 (waste bowl)= 5" x 5" x 1.5"

Gift of Miss Edith M.K. Wetmore

PSNC.1778.1a-b-.24