M3929

A Chinese porcelain large famille rose circular deep dish with everted rim, painted in the centre with a cockerel with yellow body and black chest and tail feathers, with red coxcomb and wattle, standing on blue enamel rockwork amongst flowering peony plants and aster, a butterfly above, the border with eight ruyi-head panels enclosing flowers and fruits,

Qianlong c. 1760.

Chinese porcelain fencai, famille rose jardinière of circular deep form with flat everted rim, painted on the exterior in a continuous scene with Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller, riding a piebald horse beside his attendant carrying a chest and wrapped qin, while accompanying his sister, Mei’er, to her wedding, she is seated and being pushed in a wheeled sedan chair, beneath overhanging willow and beside rockwork, beneath the moon and clouds, the base unglazed with an ink three-character mark.

9 ¼ inches, 23.5 cm diameter; 6 ¾ inches, 17.2 cm high.

Yongzheng period, 1723-1735.

A pair of Chine porcelain famille rose European subject fluted tea-bowls and saucers, each painted with a reclining lady with European hairstyle, lying on a bed beside a stack of books, in a fenced terrace scene with a bird perched on a branch, the ladies shoes in the foreground, encircled by six reserves of peony and chrysanthemum on different diaper grounds of iron-red, turquoise and pink enamel, the body fluted beneath a foliate guilt rim, the tea-bowls similarly painted.

The saucers: 4 ¼ inches, 10.9cm diameter; the tea-bowl: 2 ½ inches, 6.5cm diameter.

Early Qianlong, circa 1750.