Vietnamese Bleu de Hue Porcelain 7-Piece Tea Service for Four W/Fishing Scene & Poem (Marked "In the Collection of Roushen") - This porcelain tea set for seven includes (4) tea cups, (1) tea pot with lid, and round trays for both the tea pot and cups. They are elaborately decorated in a vivid blue underglaze with a fisherman sitting on a riverbank underneath a pine tree. The pieces are also decorated with a poem. The base of each piece bears a "Nhuoc tham tran tang" four character marking in underglazed blue, meaning "in the collection of Roushen". The first two characters could be the name of a person or a studio or could simply mean "deeply," and the last two characters mean "treasure of" or "treasured." This piece has excellent investment potential, as it is thought by experts around the world and avid collectors that due to the rapid modernization of Vietnam, Vietnamese antiques will within the next ten years be more valuable than Chinese antiques. According to some of the most expert collectors in the world, what used to sell for hundreds are now selling for tens of thousands. Measurements: large tray-5" in diameter, small tray-4.25" in diameter, tea pot-3"H, cups-1.5"H x 1.75" diameter.