Made Do Hybrid: 18th C. Hand-painted Chinese Export Tea Cup with Riveted Replacement Handle the old homestead and with only a nub

and with only a nub for one of its ears (I am not sure that there was ever more than that)

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

I can't imagine ever tiring of looking at this

which are in very good condition

special feeling one

Made Do Hybrid: 18th C. Hand-painted Chinese Export Tea Cup with Riveted Replacement Handle the old homestead and with only a nubI 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