Bidspirit auction | 3 Pcs Export Yongzheng Teabowl

3 Pcs Export Yongzheng Teabowl & Saucers - Group of three Chinese export famille rose porcelain ceramics, Yongzheng ca. 1723-1735. Including: One conical tea cup decorated with precious objects in archaistic form within roundels on a black, iron-red, and gold floral ground. Interior with a sprig of fruit. Six-character mark of the period along the underside. One saucer decorated with a pheasant or phoenix in a flowering tree branch. Surrounded by gilt fruiting grapevine. One saucer decorated with a landscape within a gilt dragon cartouche surrounded with a rim of blue cell-pattern. Illustrated in Howard & Ayers, ”China for the West, ” Vol. I, pg. 164, no. 150 (cup only). Provenance: Philip Suval, Inc., New York, NY, March 16, 1976 (bird plate); Sotheby's, New York, ”Important Chinese Export Porcelain and Chinese Works of Art from the Collection of the Late Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, ” 19 October 2000, Lot 170 (cup); The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. (Cup) height: 2 in x diameter: 3 in. (Blue saucer) diameter: 4 3/4 in. (Gold saucer) diameter: 4 1/2 in. Condition: There are two chips to the rim of the gold saucer. One small chip tot he rim of the blue saucer. A few fleabite chips to both saucer's rims. One chip to the rim of the cup. There is a firing flaw along the underside of the cup that extends nearly to the interior. No restorations under UV light.