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A FAMILLE ROSE TOBACCO LEAF ‘EXOTIC PHEASANTS AND During the last decades of the 18th century, a new taste emerged
SQUIRREL’ PART DINNER SERVICE in Europe among the newly-rich commissioning and buying Chinese
Qianlong porcelain to decorate their houses and accompany entertaining their
Each piece brightly painted in underglaze-blue and enamelled in colours, guests. Porcelain with the ‘tobacco leaf’ motifs was among the most
the centre decorated with pheasants and squirrels among flowers and popular and constitutes a family of motifs produced between 1765
curling serrated leaves, comprising: a tureen, cover and stand; a sauce to 1795. For a similar ‘tobacco leaf’ dinner service, see P.L.Debomy,
tureen, cover and stand; a pair of large lobed oval dishes; two smaller Tobacco leaf and Pseudo: a tentative inventory, Sevres, 2013, p.107.
lobed oval dishes; four hot-water plates; four plates; two teacups and
saucers; a tea caddy and cover; and a cream jug. See a similar part set of twenty-four ‘tobacco leaf’ plates and soup
The largest stand 42.2cm (16 1/2in) wide (25). plates, Qianlong, which was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 20-22 April
2018, lot 1082.
£15,000 - 20,000
CNY130,000 - 180,000

清乾隆 粉彩菸葉紋餐具一組

Provenance: a distinguished European private collection

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