A Chinese famille rose-noire plate decorated with a scroll. Yongzheng period
Boldly enameled in the famille rose palette, at the centre with an open scroll revealing peony branches across a narrower similar scroll, all reserved on a black ground with different varieties of chrysanthemum and green foliage.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a landscape. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a landscape including a pagoda.
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.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a pheasant. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a pheasant.
A very large Chinese famille rose “mother and son” charger. Late Yongzheng/early Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a Chinese mother and her son in a garden.
A very large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with a vase. Yongzheng period
Very large famille rose dish decorated with a vase of chrysanthemum and peonies.
A Chinese famille rose “cockerel” tea bowl & saucer. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a cockerel perched on blue pierced rocks and a seal mark.
A pair of Chinese famille rose tea bowls decorated with children. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with children.
A large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with flowers. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with flowers.
A pair of famille rose tea bowls and saucers decorated with Chinese ladies and their sons. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with an interior domestic scene, which represents two Chinese ladies playing musical instruments, as the cithare qin, and their sons. Behind the group are standing the Hundred Antiquities, bai gu. They represent decorative attributes of a luxurious and cultured lifestyle. It is one of the ideals of the confucian society, and a […]