A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN ‘TOBACCO LEAF’ PART DINNER SERVICE FROM THE ASTOR FAMILY - photo 1
A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN ‘TOBACCO LEAF’ PART DINNER SERVICE FROM THE ASTOR FAMILY - photo 2
A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN ‘TOBACCO LEAF’ PART DINNER SERVICE FROM THE ASTOR FAMILY - photo 3
A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN ‘TOBACCO LEAF’ PART DINNER SERVICE FROM THE ASTOR FAMILY - photo 4
A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN ‘TOBACCO LEAF’ PART DINNER SERVICE FROM THE ASTOR FAMILY - photo 5

A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN ‘TOBACCO LEAF’ PART DINNER SERVICE FROM THE ASTOR FAMILY

Lot 10
07.02.2025 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
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CHRISTIE'S
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
ID 1357907
Lot 10 | A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN ‘TOBACCO LEAF’ PART DINNER SERVICE FROM THE ASTOR FAMILY
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 70 000
A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN ‘TOBACCO LEAF’ PART DINNER SERVICE FROM THE ASTOR FAMILY
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1775
In the classic pattern, some plates with figures on lotus, others with pheasants and tree-shrews, comprising:

A large vegetable tureen and cover
A smaller vegetable tureen and cover
A pair of sauce tureens, covers and oval stands
Two sauceboats and leaf-shaped stands
Seventeen graduated oval platters
Seventeen soup plates
Twenty-seven dinner plates, ten in a slight variation of the pattern
Eight pudding dishes
A side plate

Together with:
Twenty pseudo ‘tobacco leaf’ plates with a woman on lotus, Qianlong period
Eight pseudo ‘tobacco leaf’ plates with pheasants, Qianlong period
An additional large vegetable tureen cover
18 1/8 in.(46.3 cm.) long, the largest platter




Provenance

Descended through the Astor family to Emily Sophia Harding and probably used at both Astor Courts and Marienruh in Rhinebeck, New York.
Applied technique:Pottery
Medium:Ceramic, Porcelain
Place of origin:China, Eastern Asia, Asia
Category:Services
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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