Chinese Nanking Export porcelain tea bowl and saucer 18th Century

Offered for sale is a fine small Chinese tea bowl and saucer dating to the 18th Century Qianlong Qing period most likely made in Jingdezhan in the Jiangzi province . The style is typical of Chinese Provincial ware Nanking export porcelain or Batavian styled items . The cup and saucer are made from porcelain with hand painted underglaze blue decor loosely painted with a motif of pagodas , a wooded landscape with drooping trees,  rocky outcrops and decorative borders with cross hatching and stipling. This style of porcelain has small glaze and manufacturing imperfections in this case a small firing crack on the base of the tea bowl and impurities in the porcelain which present as  tiny pittings on the underside of the saucer  or grit in the glaze. There is a fine yellowish brown rim mark on the footring  of the tea bowl where the glaze did not fully adhere to the body . As a price comparison similar sets are priced on the internet at around 285 Pounds Sterling. 

Postage is R100 via Postnet or R120 for courier delivery to major cities. Alternatively collection is welcome from Emmerantia Jhb.