A Group of Chinese Export Tea Bowls

includes a fox hunt export Mandarin tea bowl with dogs on exterior sides chasing a fox, interior with purple and pink diaper patterns with registers of floral sprays (1 7/8 in.)(a few minor rim nicks), a taller Chinese Imari tea bowl with groups of auspicious fruits to exterior sides (2 3/4 in.)(good estate condition), a smaller thinly potted tea bowl with three leaf shaped registers against a floral black ground that contain deer and flowers, a rooster is painted to interior well, with label "Elinor Gordon" to underside (1 3/8 in.)(good estate condition), and a small yellow tea bowl with quatrefoil shaped registers containing floral sprigs, underside with a floral mark in iron red (1 1/4 in.)(small rim chip).
From the Collection of John and Barbara Suval, Fredericksburg, Virginia, by descent of Philip Suval Inc., founded 1896
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Not examined under UV blacklight.