Bidspirit auction | Set 3 Tobacco Leaf 2-Handled

Set 3 Tobacco Leaf 2-Handled Cups w/ Saucers - Set of three Chinese export tobacco leaf porcelain two-handled cups and saucers, Qianlong ca. 1775. Decorated in the classic pattern with large, overlapping leaves issuing blossoms and large pink hibiscus flowers. On pair of larger cups and one smaller single. Illustrated in Howard, ”Choice of the Private Trader, ” pg. 184, no. 211 (larger pair). Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, NY, ”Chinese Export Porcelain and English Pottery, ” January 27, 1988, Lot 222 (larger pair); Christie's, New York, ”Captains and Kilns: British Ceramics, Chinese Export and Maritime Art, ” 21 January 2003, Lot 318 (smaller); The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. (Smaller cup) height: 2 1/4 in x width: 4 1/4 in x diameter: 2 3/4 in. (Smaller saucer) diameter: 5 in. (Larger cups, each) height: 3 in x width: 5 in x diameter: 3 in. (Larger saucers, each) diameter: 5 1/2 in. Condition: To one of the cups both handles have been repaired and may be newer. Another cup has been broken nearly in half and repaired; there are four distinct pieces that have been reattached and hairline cracks are visible. To the smallest cup there is a repaired crack that stretches from the upper rim to the footrim; there are two repaired chips where the crack terminates at each rim. There is an area that fluoresces under UV light to the face of one saucer; this may be an accretion or area of damage. Round area of accretions to the face of another bowl, possibly from a label or sticker. There is a small chip and hairline crack to the rim of this saucer. Chips to the upper and foot rims of both saucers.