Chinese export pseudo tobacco leaf saucer, decorated with two rats, pomegranates, leaf clusters and flower sprays.

This rare pattern is only known from a few teabowls and saucers and a teapot. Plates, tureens etc. are not recorded. Rodents appear on several patterns of tobacco leaf, this one being the most prominent.

China c. 1770
4.625" diameter

PRICE: $495  

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Condition: Fine condition- no chips, cracks or repairs.

See: Pierre L. Debomy, et al. "Tobacco Leaf and Pseudo, A Tentative Inventory". Societe des amis du musee national de ceramique, 2013, pp. 214-215.