Teacup and saucer on footring, spreading sides. Decorated in encre de chine and gold with a scalloped medallion containing a view into an interior. A man and a woman are sitting behind a railing, he is playing the guitar and she is looking at a dog jumping up in front of the railing. In the room at left a table with a bowl and a tall cup with an ear, above it a billowing curtain, a sconce and an open window at right. On the sides of the saucer scrolling vines and Asian squirrels with long golden tails. This motif is also painted between the two medallions on the cup. Much of the chine de commande made in the second quarter of the 18th century is decorated in encre de chine, a grey-black enamel that could be thinly applied and which lent itself to copies of Western engravings and etchings. It is not ink, as the French term implies, as ink burns during firing. The picture that served as the model has not been traced. Variations of this decoration are known where the curtain is missing and a cityscape can be seen at the far end of the room (Hervouet).