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| Figure 3 Tea bowl and saucer, Ching-tê-chên,
China, circa 1730. Hard paste porcelain. D. of saucer: 4 3/8". (Private
collection; photo, Gavin Ashworth.) Images of Adam and Eve, while common
on English delftwares of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries,
are rare on Chinese porcelain. This tea bowl and saucer were enameled in
the Netherlands. |