Chinese Porcelain Statue Porcelain Rooster and Chicken, 20-21th Century

A Chinese Porcelain Caddy with an erotic scene Yongzheng Qianlong period Fantastic and highly detailed decoration in Grisaille/Encre de Chine Chickens having intercourse. Beautiful piece for collectors. Museum Example. Encre de Chine The use of black enamel in imitation of drawings or prints was first developed at the end of the reign of the Kangxi emperor (1662-1722) and the Yongzheng reign (1723-1730). Chinese porcelains decorated in ink colour became popular in Europe around 1740, and until about 1790 continental clients continued to order them, especially for armorials, because the ink-colour process so readily duplicated the engraved bookplates supplied to the decorators as source materials. The technique may have been developed first for use on glass in the 1660s in Germany, where it was called schwarzlot. Eighteenth-century shipping records sometimes may have referenced it as pencilled ware because it was executed with a thin brush called a pencil. Albert Jacquemart dubbel it encre-de-Chine. Another name Jesuit ware was used still...

Description Lovely shiwan statues of ducks. Dating to the 1980/1990´s Condition 1 duck with some scratches. Size 260 x 220 x 130 mm and 190 x 105 x 90 mm Period 20th cent...

Porcelain rooster. Germany, early 20th century. Signed F. Eisenhofer.

A large pair of Chinese turquoise glazed porcelain roosters with purple combs, circa 1920.