R9520
£1,400
Description
A Chinese export porcelain famille rose cream jug and cover, heightened in iron-red and gilt, painted with three figures on a rooftop looking out over a bay with ships and a walled city in the distance, after a Meissen design, all in a shaped panel with gilt border amongst leaf scrolls in puce and iron-red, beneath a further gilt band on the rim, the cover with two European river landscape scenes after Meissen and similarly decorated.
4 1/2 inches, 11.4 cm high.
Qianlong, circa 1750.
Condition
Excellent.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the collection of Dr Hardouin, Nantes, France.
- A cup and saucer of this pattern, possibly from the same tea set in the Victoria & Albert Museum, is illustrated by Francois & Nicole Hervouet & Yves Bruneau in La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, no. 15.27, p. 349.