18th-century Chinese Export Porcelain Large Famille Rose Cachepot

Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Temple Jar, American Market, Monogrammed This large Chinese export porcelain temple jar and cover is of baluster form, painted in famille rose...

Chinese Export Porcelain Mandarin Famille Rose Punch Bowl Qianlong period, circa 1780–1785 This Chinese Export punch bowl is of deep circular form, raised on a short slightly spread...

A fine Chinese Export porcelain punch bowl, Yongzheng–early Qianlong period, circa 1735–1740, painted in the famille rose palette with a distinctive version of the "Hundred Antiques" theme, unusual for its focus on furniture and precious objects rather than figures. Around the exterior are ranged a canopied couch and red-lacquer scholar's stands set with vases, flowering branches, and jardinières of peonies, together with tables bearing brush pots, censers, and boxes — a catalogue of the furnishings and treasures of the cultivated Chinese interior, giving the bowl an almost interior-portrait quality. The interior is centered with a beribboned vase of flowers within a cell-diaper and floral-panel border. The famille rose palette — named for the opaque rose-pink enamel derived from colloidal gold, introduced in the 1720s — transformed export porcelain in the second quarter of the 18th century. Bowls of the 1730s such as this, painted at the transition from the Yongzheng to the Qianlong reign, are among the most delicately enamelled of all export wares. The "Hundred Antiques" was a favored auspicious theme, a gathering of objects emblematic of scholarship and good fortune; the present bowl's emphasis on domestic...

A handsome Chinese Export porcelain soup tureen and cover, Qianlong period, circa 1770–1780, of octagonal baluster form painted in the famille rose palette with lush bouquets of Euro...

Chinese Famille rose medallion export porcelain jardiniere, 19th century.  

Antique 18th century Chinese export porcelain bulb pot or cachepot vase circa 1790. Painted on all sides with bright flowers in famille rose palette. Relief molded basketweave design...

Early 20th Century Famille Rose Porcelain Planter. Planter is decorated with a continuous figural family scene of a man, woman, child and elder. All are dressed in traditional garmen...

French Porcelain Kakiemon Cachepot, Chantilly, circa 1740.