Chinese Export Famille Rose Tureen & Cover, Hare-Head Handles, Qianlong

Chinese export porcelain Imari Tureen and cover, Circa 1780 The Chinese Export porcelain tureen and cover are painted in the Imari palette. The body and cover are painted in underglaze blue and iron-red with ducks on a pond surrounded by water lilies . The unusual handles are in the form of upturned water lily pods. The finial is shaped as a closed flower with leaves and the rim of the tureen and the edge of the cover have an undulating design. Dimensions: 9 inches high x 13 1/2 inches wide x 9 3/4 inches deep. Provenance: Chinese Porcelain Company...

A fine Chinese Export porcelain punch bowl, Yongzheng–early Qianlong period, circa 1735–1740, painted in the famille rose palette with a distinctive version of the "Hundred Antiques" theme, unusual for its focus on furniture and precious objects rather than figures. Around the exterior are ranged a canopied couch and red-lacquer scholar's stands set with vases, flowering branches, and jardinières of peonies, together with tables bearing brush pots, censers, and boxes — a catalogue of the furnishings and treasures of the cultivated Chinese interior, giving the bowl an almost interior-portrait quality. The interior is centered with a beribboned vase of flowers within a cell-diaper and floral-panel border. The famille rose palette — named for the opaque rose-pink enamel derived from colloidal gold, introduced in the 1720s — transformed export porcelain in the second quarter of the 18th century. Bowls of the 1730s such as this, painted at the transition from the Yongzheng to the Qianlong reign, are among the most delicately enamelled of all export wares. The "Hundred Antiques" was a favored auspicious theme, a gathering of objects emblematic of scholarship and good fortune; the present bowl's emphasis on domestic...

18th century Chinese Export Famille rose tureen with lid & underplate.

Early 20th-century Chinese Export porcelain terrine with matching tray, richly enameled and gilded with traditional embossed floral and courtly motifs - vibrant color palette. This ...