Chinese Export Porcelain Canton Famille Rose Square Dish, ca. 1820.
Chinese Export Porcelain Canton Famille Rose Square Dish, ca. 1820. The shaped dish with a central design depicting a theatre pavilion Imperial Court scene with six figures, including a musician on stage, with hyper-vivid enamels and fine gilt accents, with multi-layered raised enamels forming the pleats and texture of the silk qipaos, and blue Taihu stones to the foreground, the elaborate border with the figure of a bird within a lantern-shaped cartouche, together with brightly hued pheasants, flowers, ju-i-scepters, a fenced pond, lotus pad, and multi-colored crickets.
Book Reference:
Dr. John Quentin Feller, THE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAINS: From the Alma Cleveland Porter Collection in the Peabody Museum of Salem. Salem, MA: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1982, p. 43, number 7.
Chinese Export Porcelain Canton Famille Rose Square Dish, ca. 1820. The shaped dish with a central design depicting a theatre pavilion Imperial Court scene with six figures, including a musician on stage, with hyper-vivid enamels and fine gilt accents, with multi-layered raised enamels forming the pleats and texture of the silk qipaos, and blue Taihu stones to the foreground, the elaborate border with the figure of a bird within a lantern-shaped cartouche, together with brightly hued pheasants, flowers, ju-i-scepters, a fenced pond, lotus pad, and multi-colored crickets.
Book Reference:
Dr. John Quentin Feller, THE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAINS: From the Alma Cleveland Porter Collection in the Peabody Museum of Salem. Salem, MA: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1982, p. 43, number 7.
Chinese Export Porcelain Canton Famille Rose Square Dish, ca. 1820. The shaped dish with a central design depicting a theatre pavilion Imperial Court scene with six figures, including a musician on stage, with hyper-vivid enamels and fine gilt accents, with multi-layered raised enamels forming the pleats and texture of the silk qipaos, and blue Taihu stones to the foreground, the elaborate border with the figure of a bird within a lantern-shaped cartouche, together with brightly hued pheasants, flowers, ju-i-scepters, a fenced pond, lotus pad, and multi-colored crickets.
Book Reference:
Dr. John Quentin Feller, THE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAINS: From the Alma Cleveland Porter Collection in the Peabody Museum of Salem. Salem, MA: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1982, p. 43, number 7.
