Bidspirit auction | Chinese Export Meissen Style Famille

Chinese Export Meissen Style Famille Rose Saucer - Small Chinese export Meissen style porcelain saucer, Qianlong ca. 1750. Decorated in famille rose with a European figure in a landscape within a quatrefoil scrollwork cartouche. Apocryphal blue crossed swords mark along the underside. Illustrated in Howard & Ayers, ”China for the West, ” Vol. II, pg. 525, no. 535 (left). Provenance: The W. Martin-Hurst Collection; Sotheby's, New York, ”Important Chinese Export Porcelain from the Mottahedeh Collection, ” 30 January 1985, Lot 298; The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. Exhibition: Virginia Museum, 1981-2. Sotheby's, 1984. Diameter: 3 1/2 in. Condition: There are five fleabite to small-sized chips along the rim. There is a hairline crack radiating from one of the chips; the hairline crack extends downward approximately 1/2 inch. There are a few fleabite chips along the footrim. Near the footrim, there is a small chip, or possibly a firing flaw. Light surface wear.