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Chinese export porcelain tea bowl and saucer decorated with Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Order of the Jesuits, early Qianlong reign.

Stock Number: 3817

Very rare and fine Chinese export porcelain eggshell tea bowl and saucer decorated in en grisaille and gilt with the full portrait of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Christian Order of the Jesuits, c. 1740, early Qianlong reign, Qing dynasty, d. saucer: 12 cm, 4¾ in. 6.6027

Illustrated: Yuan to Qing Ceramics, by A. Varela Santos, 2016/2017, cat. 67.

Literature:

• La Chine des Salons, Collection du Musée Royale de Mariemont, Belgique, 2000, p. 20 for a saucer with the same decoration;

Porcelaine de la Compagnie des Indes, by M. Beurdeley, Fribourg 1974, p. 151 208, cat. 231 for a tea canister from the same set;

La Ceramique Chinoise sous les Ts’ing, by J.P. van Goidsenhoven, Brussels 1936, plate 109, cat. 256 for a saucer with the same decoration. 

非常珍稀且精美的中國外銷蛋殼瓷墨彩描金茶盌及茶托,器身繪聖人依納爵.羅耀拉肖像,其為耶穌會創始人,約1740年,清乾隆早期,茶托直徑12釐米,4¾英吋。

圖例:《元代至清代陶瓷》,作者阿.瓦瑞拉.桑托斯,2016/2017, 目录 67。

參考文獻:

• 《上流社會的瓷器,比利時馬里蒙皇家博物館收藏》,2000年出版,參見第20頁繪有相同紋飾的一隻碟子;

• 《印度公司瓷器 (中國貿易瓷) 》,作者M. Beurdeley,弗里堡1962年出版,1969年二次印刷, 參見第151,208頁,編號231出自同一套茶具的茶罐一隻;

• 《中國清代陶瓷》,作者J.P. van Goidsenhoven,布魯塞爾1936年出版,參見圖版109,編號256繪 有相同紋飾的碟子一隻。