Chinese Export Famille Rose 'Precious Objects' Porcelain Dish
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Famille Rose 'Precious Objects' Porcelain Dish, Qianlong Period, Circa 1765-1775 This superb oval dish is a quintessential example of Chinese Export porcelain create...
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Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Botanical Teapot Stand
Located in Downingtown, PA
Teatime Elegance: Chinese Export Famille Rose Teapot Stand ________________________________________ This charming Chinese Export Porcelain Teapot Stand i...
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Chinese Porcelain Famille Verte Large "Flower Basket" Dish, Kangxi Period
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vibrant Prosperity: A Famille Verte 'Flower Basket' Dish from the Kangxi Golden Age This magnificent Chinese Export porcelain dish, dating to the height of the Kangxi Period (c. 1700-1710), is a resplendent example of the famed famille verte (green family) palette. This enameling technique, characterized by its brilliant, translucent greens, yellows, and blues, reached its zenith under the patronage of the Kangxi Emperor, ushering in a golden age of ceramic production at the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen (Guest and Gray). Auspicious Symbolism and Design Mastery The dish is a feast of intricate design and rich symbolism, centered on an openwork beribboned basket of peony and lotus flowers. The flower basket motif is highly auspicious in Chinese art, being one of the attributes of the Daoist Immortal Lan Caihe, and symbolizes longevity and good fortune (Sotheby's, Lot 657, 2015). This meaning is powerfully reinforced by the inclusion of a central shou character (寿) in the basket, the Chinese ideograph for Longevity, a core wish in Chinese culture for a long, healthy, and prosperous life (Metropolitan Museum of Art). The presence of the shou character, often incorporated into designs for Imperial birthday celebrations during this era, underscores the dish's grand and celebratory intent. The radial design radiates outward with petal-shaped reserves in the cavetto, each containing detailed flowering plants issuing from rockwork, all set against a signature pale-green stippled ground (Dizi). The border completes the composition with an ornate pattern of green trellis-work punctuated by iron-red flower heads, alternating with oval panels containing various Precious Objects (Ba Gu), further emphasizing wealth and good fortune. This large dish, at over 14 inches in diameter, was one of the exquisite items commissioned for the European export market, particularly by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), where its vibrant colors and complex iconography were highly prized by wealthy clientele (Guest and Gray). The reverse, painted in underglaze blue with delicate floral sprays, maintains a link to the more traditional Chinese aesthetic. This piece is a tangible embodiment of the technical sophistication and artistic brilliance that made Kangxi famille verte porcelain...
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Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Large Dishes, circa 1765-1775
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export famille rose porcelain dishes, circa 1765-1775. The pair of Chinese Export famille rose large dishes are finely painted with a flowering branch design with two la...
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Chinese Export Rose Mandarin Porcelain Saucer Dish, Famille Rose, Circa 1810
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Rose Mandarin Porcelain Saucer Dish, Famille Rose, Circa 1810 Canton, circa 1810, Jiaqing period Early Rose Mandarin at its most charming: a Jiaqing period saucer di...
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Chinese Export Famille Rose Hundred Antiques Porcelain Bowl, Yongzheng-Qianlong
Located in Downingtown, PA
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...
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Antique Chinese Famille Rose Tobacco Leaf Porcelain Pseudo Tobacco Bread Plate
Located in Norton, MA
True antique of Chinese export porcelain dinner plate, meticulously hand-painted in the exuberant Pseudo-Tobacco leaf pattern with rich foliate and fl...
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Antique Famille Rose Chinese Export Porcelain Bowl or Dish
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very fine small Chinese export porcelain bowl. With famille rose decoration, blue underglaze cells, and a scalloped edge. It was likely made for either the American or Europe...
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Antique Chinese Porcelain Kitchen Qing Famille Rose Plate China, 19th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Antique Chinese Porcelain Kitchen Qing Famille Rose Plate China, 19th Century. Lovely piece Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery T...
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19th Century Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Plate with Gilt
Located in Bradenton, FL
Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Plate. Plate features vibrant enameled scenes of flowers, birds, and butterflies, symbolizing beauty, prosperity, and transformation. Executed i...
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Pattipan Porcelain Chine de commande Famille Rose China, 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Nice example, high quality paintwork, Full and beautiful decoration. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Type: Plates Region of Origin: China Age: Pre-1800 Period:...
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Small Antique 18th Century Famille Rose Chinese Export Tray or Dish
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A small Chinese Export porcelain tray or dish. Decorated in Famille Rose flowers and leafwork with a gilded rim and interior edge. Having a wonderful orange peel finish to the glaz...
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