Made Do Hybrid: 18th C. Hand-painted Chinese Export Tea Cup with Riveted Replacement Handle tarot painting 9 1/16" l x 1"

9 1/16" l x 1" wide

and the patina to dry wood on the other side almost as good

and with the most phenomenal surface

The letter itself begins: "It is very hot and dry down here

I love how little the little house is in relation to the big one

Made Do Hybrid: 18th C. Hand-painted Chinese Export Tea Cup with Riveted Replacement Handle tarot painting 9 1/16" l x 1"I was delighted to find this one of a kind hybrid in Maine this week a late 18th century Chinese export porcelain tea cup with bird and gilded wheat sheaf, which, long long ago lost its handle and was riveted with a replacement borrowed from another. Of a kin to antique staple repaired pieces and to vessels mended with metal handles and bases, but it seems examples of porcelain handles wedded to porcelain vessels are especially rare. (Andrew Basemen's