Chinese export eggshell porcelain bowl decorated in opaque enamels from the famille rose (fencai) palette with a European couple, Yongzheng reign.

Chinese export eggshell porcelain bowl decorated in opaque enamels from the famille rose (fencai) palette with a European couple, c. 1735, Yongzheng reign, Qing dynasty, ø 14 cm, 5½ in. 3.4078  

Illustrated: 100 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain, by A. Varela Santos, 2014/2015, cat. 112.

Literature:

• The Book of Famille Rose, by G.C. Williamson, colour plate XL for a small bowl and for a similar beaker and saucer with the same decoration;

• Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, by R.L. Hobson, B. Rackham & W. King, London 1931, p. 157, fig. 288 for a similar plate from the W.J. Holt Collection;

• Chinese export-porcelain, Chine de Commande from the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, catalogue by C.J.A. Jörg, Hong Kong 1989, p. 206/207, cat. 79 for a covered bowl and a saucer with this pattern;

• Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande, by D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, fig. 220 for a saucer with similar decoration.

◆ European patterns in porcelain from the Yongzheng reign are very rare. Only by the 1740’s they were ordered in significant numbers, first in en grisaille and then in opaque (Fencai) enamels.

中國外銷瓷粉彩蛋殼瓷碗, 紋飾為一對歐洲情侶, 約1730年, 清雍正, 直徑14 釐米, 5 1⁄2 英吋。

插图: 《百年中国外销瓷》 阿.瓦瑞拉.桑托斯, 2014/2015, 目录 112。

參考书目:

•《粉彩大全》, 作者G.C. Williamson, 參見彩圖40, 一隻小碗、一隻相近的紋飾相同的撇口 盃和 托盤。

•《私人收藏中国陶瓷》，作者R.L. Hobson, B. Rackham 及 W. King，1931年伦敦出版，見第157 頁，圖288一件 W.J. Holt收藏相似瓷盤；

•《中國外銷瓷，布魯塞爾皇家藝術歷史博物館藏特別訂制瓷器》，圖錄作者C.J.A. Jörg，1989年香港 出版，見第206-207頁，編號79繪相同紋飾的蓋碗及托盤一組；

•《中國外銷瓷，特別訂制》，作者D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer，見圖220一件繪相似紋飾的醬料碟。

◆ 雍正期帶歐洲圖案的瓷器十分罕見。直到十八世紀四十年代才大量定制, 首先是鉛灰色然後是不透明 釉上彩(粉彩)。