A rare Chinese Adam and Eve tea bowl and saucer 18th century
A rare Chinese Adam and Eve tea bowl and saucer 18th century, delicately painted in gilt and grisaille with the two figures, a serpent in a tree to one side and animals in the distance, a foliate gilt border to the rims, 11.6cm. (2)
Cf. D Howard and J Ayers, China for the West, Vol.1, p.307, no.300 for a teapot of the same design.