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Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Master Tea Cup and Saucer, Manigault Family
Lot 1093

Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Master Tea Cup and Saucer, Manigault Family

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circa 1820, with sepia decoration centering the Manigault family arms depicting three hooded falcons within a shield with a crescent topped by a figure with headdress over a banner inscribed "Pros Picere Quam Ul Cisci", tea cup 2-3/4 x 5 in., saucer 1-1/2 x 6 in.

Provenance: Collection of Emma Manigault Gribbin, 6 Gibbes Street, Charleston, South Carolina; thus through family descent

Note: Charles Izard Manigault of Charleston, South Carolina left for China in 1817 and returned in 1823. Manigault recorded that he purchased the set in Canton in 1820. The set originally totaled an elaborate service of 381 pieces. For more on the set, see Robert Leath, In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad 1740-1860, pp. 293 and 328. See also David Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Volume II, p. 543.

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Collection of Emma Manigault Gribbin, 6 Gibbes Street, Charleston, South Carolina; thus through family descent

anomalies, pinholes, trapped dirt, glaze voids, some scratching, and loss to enamel; tea cup with one 1-1/4 in. hairline from rim, one small repaired flat chip at rim with retouch, horizontal linear firing anomalies, and some small glaze voids/anomalies near base; saucer with one hairline to rim and one to base, and chip to foot

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