Notes:
The decoration could be inspired by the Tang folklore story of the 'Old Man Under the Moon' or another possibility is the 'The Legend of the Jade Rabbit and the Moon Cake'
It has a Christies label for their sale of the 'Chadwick collection' which had been housed at Lypiatt Park. This important sale took place on 22nd April 1998. Lypiatt Park is a Grade I listed medieval and neo-Gothic manor house with over 800 years of history,
Two beakers of this shape sold at Christies auction of the Hackwood Collection on the 27th of May 2022 where they sold GBP 37,800.
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Two famille verte beakers Sold for GBP 37,800
as lot 1104 in sale of The Collection of the late Lord and Lady Swaythling
