A Chinese famille rose eggshell tea bowl decorated with a cockerel. Yongzheng period

Chinese export eggshell porcelain tea bowl and saucer, decorated with borders in green, blue, and pink with three reserves with peonies and chrysanthemum, the centre with a cockerel standing on a rock surrounded by peonies and painted in opaque enamels from the famille rose (Fencai) palette.

COUNTRY : China
PERIOD : Yongzheng (1723-1735), ca. 1730
MATERIAL : Porcelain
SIZE : 4.33 in. (11.5 cm, saucer)
REFERENCE : C275h
STATUT : sold
Related works :

An identical tea bowl is illustrated by George C. Williamson in The Book of Famille Rose, Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, 1970, pl. V.