Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Tea Bowl and Saucer, 18th Century

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About the Item

Famille rose tea bowl and saucer, painted after an unknown European engraving with three cherubs amongst rockwork, one blowing bubbles, the others embracing, beside a stone pyramid and discarded objects including a coronet, basket, palette, brush and drumsticks with a mask in the foreground, encircled by a border of scrolls and leaves with two suns. The saucer 4 15/16 inches, 12.6 cm diameter, the cup 3 3/16 inches, 8.1 cm diameter. Qianlong, circa 1755. From the collection of Dr Hardouin, Nantes, western France. Sold by Jacqueline Polles, 3.rue des Saussaies, Paris, with label. A similar saucer is illustrated by J. A. Lloyd Hyde in Oriental Lowestoft, Chinese Export Porcelain, Porcelaine de la Cie des Indes, no. 55, plate XVI, pp. 90/1. The author describes this scene as Les Trois Amours and states that the decoration is copied exactly from St. Cloud porcelain after designs by Hubert Robert (1733-1808), the French artist was famous for scenes with pyramids, figures and ruins. An example of his work is the pen and black ink drawing ‘A Roman Capriccio with the Pyramid of Gaius Cestius’ in The National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C. A coffee cup and saucer is illustrated by David S. Howard in The Choice of the Private Trader, the Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated from the Hodroff Collection, no. 209, pp. 182/3, where the author notes ‘such designs, clearly sent from Europe, need to be understood before they can be interpreted, but possibly represent a collage of Masonry (the pyramid and suns in the border) and the artist’s palette and actor’s mask. The intended market is unclear, but the border suggests continental rather than British origin. Very few examples are known and possibly only one service was made.’ A tea bowl and saucer is illustrated by Michael & Ewa Cohen in the Cohen & Cohen exhibition From Poems to Piglets, 2000, no. 22, p. 32; two saucers, indicating the possibility of two tea sets, are illustrated by François & Nicole Hervouët & Yves Bruneau in La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, nos. 13.99 & 13.100, p. 321, where the authors suggest the design is in the manner of a series of engraving by Nicholas Cochin the younger (1610-1686), described as Science and Geometry. A covered bowl and saucer probably from the same set, Bequest J. G. A. N. de Vries, The Hague, 1925, is illustrated by Christiaan J. A. Jörg in Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, no. 341, p. 292. A chocolate pot and cover was included by Yu Chunming in the Nanchang University Museum Exhibition Jing Yan (an exhibition of Chinese export porcelain), 2012, no. 32, pp. 148/9. £3,500

Dimensions:
Height: 3.19 in (8.1 cm)Diameter: 4.97 in (12.6 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 2
Style:
Qing (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain,Enameled,Glazed
Place of Origin:
China
Period:
Mid-18th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1755
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Condition: saucer with hairline crack.
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: R95071stDibs: LU155123249912