"A Rare Cafe Au Lait Tea Bowl And Saucer Decorated With Silver Kangxi E18thc "
Rare Cafe au Lait tea bowl and saucer. Moulded and decorated using silver over the rich brown glaze with a "Long Elisa" standing on a terrace. The rim is decorated with floral sprays arranged in lotus flower-shaped panels. Kangxi-Yongzheng, 1720-1730.Saucer diameter: 13.5 cm.
Condition: perfect; wear to the silver decoration.
It is very rare to find porcelain decorated with silver in this way, as silver is very susceptible to oxidation and wear.
Pere d'Entrecolles, a Jesuit priest in China in 1722, described in a letter to his family the process of applying gold and silver decoration to porcelain.
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