A milk jug Chinese export porcelain polychrome and gilt decoration with the coat of arms of António Machado de Utra Teles or António Teles de Utra Machado (1735-1821) Qianlong period (1736-1795) chips on the edge of the small hole in the cover Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 16,5 cm Notes: vd. CASTRO, Nuno de - "A Porcelana Chinesa ao Tempo do Império - Portugal-Brasil". Lisbon: ACD Editores, 2007, p. 179; SANTOS, A. Varela - "Portugal na Porcelana da China - 500 Anos de Comércio", volume IV. Lisbon: Artemágica, 2010, pp. 1288-1290, no. 6.61; and DIAS, Pedro - "Heráldica Portuguesa na Porcelana da China Qing". Lisbon: Macau Foundation, 2014, pp. 176-177. Apparently, until now only three pieces of this tea service were known: 1st - the teapot, much restored, which is part of the collection of the National Museum of Ancient Art, reproduced in CASTRO, Nuno de – “A Porcelana Chinesa e Os Brasões do Império”. Porto: Livraria Civilização Editora, 1987, p. 163; and in DIAS, Pedro – “Heráldica Portuguesa na Porcelana da China Qing”. Lisbon: Macau Foundation, 2014, pp. 176-177; 2nd - the milk jug, reproduced in CASTRO, Nuno de - "A Porcelana Chinesa ao Tempo do Império - Portugal-Brasil". Lisbon: ACD Editores, 2007, p. 179; 3rd – the saucer that Cabral Moncada Leilões placed with number 373 in its auction number 109 of September 29, 2009 and sold for €4,000 and which is reproduced in SANTOS, A. Varela – “Portugal na Porcelana da China - 500 Anos de Comércio”, volume IV. Lisbon: Artemágica, 2010, pp. 1288-1290, no. 6.61. Not ruling out the possibility that other pieces of the service in question may have surfaced that we missed, such rarity leads us to believe in one of two hypotheses: a. that the service, as a whole, was the victim of an accident and that the vast majority of the pieces broke; b. that the vast majority of the pieces are together in the home of a descendant of the original owner or that they were sold as a block to a foreign institution that has kept them in reserve. Given its proven rarity, the milk jug now being auctioned is very interesting as it could fill a gap in one of the various private and/or institutional collections of Chinese export porcelain decorated with coats of arms of the Portuguese nobility existing in Portugal and abroad.