A particularly unusual and finely executed Chinese export silver wine cup and saucer. The wine cup designed with families in their courtyards within a rocky foreground with pine trees, the base decorated with overlapping western style foliage. The saucer with outer rim with a continuous acanthus leaf boarder, an inner circle of courtiers in their gardens, supported on three lion feet.
China early 19thCentury, 3.5” x 4”, 9cm x 10cm