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33. Famille rose cream jug and cover, painted with European
figures after the print Le Printemps, ‘Spring’, showing a
lady standing with a basket of flowers beside a gentleman
holding a spade and another lady watering plants, all in
a continuous landscape with pale blue-enamel washed
sky, the cover with plants, a tree and similar blue sky
surmounted by a bud finial.
5 ⅛ inches, 13.1 cm, total height.
Qianlong, circa 1760.
• A cream jug and cover together with a spoon tray of this
design are illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer in
Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande, no. 209
& 210, where the author also illustrates an engraving by
Nicolas de Larmessin III (1684-1755), part of a series
of engravings, Les Quatre Saisons, devoted to the four
seasons. These were produced between 1740 and 1745
after paintings by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743) of 1738.
• A part tea and coffee service of this pattern was sold by
Sotheby’s London in their auction of Fine Chinese Export
Porcelain, 6th November 1973, lot 214, p. 60, and colour
page opposite.
• A plate of this pattern in the Victoria and Albert
Museum, Basil Ionides Bequest, CIRC. 159-1963,
is illustrated by Rose Kerr and Luisa E. Mengoni in
Chinese Export Porcelain, no. 80, p. 63.
• A coffee pot and cover of this pattern is illustrated by
William Motley in the Cohen & Cohen exhibition
catalogue Now and Then, 2005, no. 22, p. 47.

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