SIX ENAMELLED PORCELAIN CUPS WITH GILT DETAIL
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Qajar Iran, 19th century

Comprising a set of six porcelain drinking cups, with short straight feet and polychrome-enameled decoration consisting of pairs of birds either perched on blossoming branches or flying together, medallions filled with gilt rosette stems, all flanked by cobalt blue bands with gilt floral detail, the inner rim with a circular rosette stem, 5.2cm diam. and 4.1cm high.