A pair of Chinese quadrilobed Meissen-style AR-marked cups and saucers, Tongzhi L.: 14 cm (the saucers) - H.: 8 cm - L.: 8 cm (the cups) Provenance:- A Belgian private collection. - Acquired at auction house Leys, Antwerp, ca. 35 years ago. Catalogue fragment joined. Ref.: Five examples of this type are known with a yellow ground. The present green peacock feather-ground type does not appear to have been previously recorded. - Howard and Ayers, China For the West: Chinese Porcelain and other Decorative Arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection, London, 1978, vol. II, cat. no. 539. - A pair in the Helena Woolworth McCann Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York, 1974, cat. no. 37.- Elinor Gordon (ed.), Chinese Export Porcelain: An Historical Survey, New York, 1975, p. 80.- Sotheby's, The Henry H. Arnold collection, New York, Oct. 29, 2019, lot 352. (link) and illustrated in Gordon, 1977, p. 79, pl. 65.