Chinese Export Porcelain Canton Famille Rose Square Dish, ca. 1820.
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.
