Description
| Dia.: 12 cm Qianlong, ca. 1760 Condition: Intact, with a slight area of surface wear situated in the lower left part of the noble lady's skirt, and one just above the head of the female servant. The saucer finely painted with European figures after the print Le Printemps, ‘Spring’, showing a lady standing with a basket of flowers beside a gentleman holding a spade and another lady watering plants, all in a continuous landscape with pale blue-enamel washed sky, the cover with plants, a tree and similar blue sky surmounted by a bud finial. See also: - A famille rose cream jug and cover, with Marchant Asian Arts. - Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande, D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, no. 209 & 210, for a cream jug and cover together with a spoon tray of this design. The author also illustrates an engraving by Nicolas de Larmessin III (1684-1755), part of a series of engravings, Les Quatre Saisons, devoted to the four seasons. These were produced between 1740 and 1745 after paintings by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743) of 1738. - A part tea and coffee service of this pattern was sold by Sotheby’s London in their auction of Fine Chinese Export Porcelain, 6th November 1973, lot 214, p. 60, and colour page opposite. - A plate of this pattern in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Basil Ionides Bequest, CIRC. 159-1963, is illustrated by Rose Kerr and Luisa E. Mengoni in Chinese Export Porcelain, no. 80, p. 63. - A coffee pot and cover of this pattern is illustrated by William Motley in the Cohen & Cohen exhibition catalogue Now and Then, 2005, no. 22, p. 47. (Research text courtesy of Marchant Asian Arts) |
Lot 817
A fine Chinese Chine de commande export porcelain saucer, 18th C
Not sold
