tea bowl & saucer

Summary

Public: Tea bowl and saucer, soft paste porcelain, painted in overglaze green enamel and gilt with floral festoons. Private: Deep tea bowl with curved base on high tapered footring. Sides decorated with floral festoons in monochrome green outlined in black, suspended in four loops from gilt rings at bowl rim. Interior painted with small green and black floral spray in well. Gilt dentil edge to bowl rim, gilt band round footring. Deep curved saucer on tapered footring, decorated with matching decoration of green and black festoons in six loops from gilt rings at rim. Two small green sprigs scattered to one side of well. Dentil edge to saucer rim, gilt band round footring.