Made Do Hybrid: 18th C. Hand-painted Chinese Export Tea Cup with Riveted Replacement Handle the old homestead I can't imagine ever tiring

I can't imagine ever tiring of looking at this

special feeling one

The face is detailed with pencil and what I believe is a natural black dye/ink

Painted olive green on backsides

Made Do Hybrid: 18th C. Hand-painted Chinese Export Tea Cup with Riveted Replacement Handle the old homestead I can't imagine ever tiringI 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