Nineteen-Piece Collection of Assembled Chinese Export Ch'ien Lung Tea Wares, fourth quarter 18th century, decorated with Mandarin scenes in the famille rose palette, including a covered chocolate or hot milk jug on a stand with a crabstock handle, h. 10-1/4", w. 6", a globular teapot on a stand, h. 7-1/2", w. 5-1/2", four tea bowls and saucers with scalloped edges, h. 2", dia, 5-1/2", a coffee cup and saucer, h. 2-1/4", dia. 4-3/4", four assorted saucers, dia. 4-1/2" to 6", and three waste bowls, one matching the chocolate pot, one with a bat-decorated interior border, and one with deer and hogs, h. 2-1/2", dia. 5-1/2". Provenance: The Estate of James C. Westerfield, Jackson, Mississippi.

The chocolate pot has restoration to the cover and gilt loss to the handle, spout and knop. The teapot has a tiny frit to the end of the spout and a small, old restoration to the edge of the cover. One tea bowl has two hair cracks forming a "Y" in the side. Coffee cup and matching saucer have slight roughness to the top edge of the cup - no other chips, cracks or restorations. On three waste bowls, one has a tiny upper edge flake and one has two upper edge chips and a very small glaze loss to the upper edge. The tea set cake dish has a small chip to the rim. Three saucers have scattered minor fritting and glaze losses to the edges.