Chinese export eggshell bowl and saucer in famille rose(fencai) palette enamels, Yongzheng

Chinese export eggshell porcelain tea bowl and saucer decorated in opaque enamels from the famille rose(fencai) palette with four panels; two with a bird perched on a tree branch, the other two panels with dense foliage and flower heads and a mythical beast (qilin), respectively against a red and a yellow ground, c. 1730, Yongzheng reign, Qing dynasty 3.12200

Illustrated: 100 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain, by A. Varela Santos, 2014/2015, cat. 93.

Literature:

• The Book of Famille Rose, by G.C. Williamson, plate XXIX for a similar tea bowl and saucer;

• Oriental Ceramic Art, by S.W. Bushell, 1896 New York reprint of 1980, fig. 362 for a tea bowl and saucer and a teapot from the same set;

• La Ceramique Chinoise sous les Ts’ing, by J.P. van Goidsenhoven, Brussels 1936, plate 104, cat. 245 for a similar tea bowl and saucer.

中國外銷瓷 (粉彩) 蛋殼瓷粉彩四屏帶托茶盅, 兩屏 繪有雀上枝頭圖案, 另兩屏在紅、黃地上分別繪有怪 獸 (麒麟) 、團花和茂密樹葉的圖案。約1730年, 清 雍正。

插图: 阿.瓦瑞拉.桑托斯, by A. Varela Santos, 阿.瓦瑞拉.桑托斯, 2014/2015, 目录93。

參考文獻:

•《粉彩大全》, 作者 G.C.Williamson, 參見圖29相近的茶盅茶托；

•《東方陶瓷藝術》，作者S.W. Bushell，1896年紐約出版，1980年再版，見圖362，出自同套 茶具的茶盌及盌托；

•《清代陶瓷》，作者J.P. van Goidsenhoven，1936年布魯塞爾出版，見彩圖104，編號245 近似茶盌及盌托一組。