Chinese export eggshell porcelain tea bowl and saucer in famille rose (fencai) palette enamels, Yongzheng

Chinese export eggshell porcelain trunk cone form tea bowl and saucer decorated in opaque enamels from the famille rose (fencai) palette with three fan-shaped panels with flowers separated by yellow mosaic bands and in the centre a rooster, c. 1730, Yongzheng reign, Qing dynasty, d. of bowl 6 cm, 2 ½ in; d. of saucer 10,7cm, 4¼ in. 3.12198

Illustrated: 100 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain, by A. Varela Santos, 2014/2015, cat. 94.

Bibliography:

• A tea bowl and saucer from the Mottahedeh Collection, is illustrated by D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. I, no.151;

• Another tea bowl and saucer in the Hodroff Collection, illustrated by D. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, Minneapolis 1994, p.175, no.197;

• Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, by A. du Boulay, 1984 Oxford, p. 264, cat. 1 for a similar piece.

中國外銷瓷蛋殼瓷樹幹型帶托茶盌, 繪有三個扇形花屏, 分別由 黃色馬賽克寬帶隔開, 繪有一隻公雞, 約1730年, 清雍正，盌口徑6釐米，2½英吋；托盤直徑10.7釐米，4¼英吋。

插图: 百年中国外销瓷, 阿.瓦瑞拉.桑托斯, 2014/2015目錄, 編號94。

參考書目：

• 《西行中國 》，1978年倫敦和紐約出版，由 J. Ayers 與 D. Howard 配圖，第一卷圖151所示 Mottahedeh 藏品中一隻茶盌與托盤。

• 《私人貿易者的選擇 》，1994年明尼阿波利斯出版，由 D. Howard 配圖，第175頁圖197所示 Hodroff 藏品中另一茶盌與茶托。