A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with cockerels. Yongzheng period.
Two lively cockerels in a peony garden, one perched on rocks, the rim with pink cell diaper border interrupted by three cartouches of flowers and citrus.
For a pair of plates of this model, with a turquoise diaper on the rim, see Christie’s NYC, The Peter H B Frelinghuysen Jr Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain, 24 January 2012, lot 53.
See also G. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose (London, 1927, pl. XLIX, p. 157-158)
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This pattern is also more commonly known with turquoise cell diaper on the rim.