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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE RECTANGULAR ‘ARROW GAME’ Porcelain plaques painted in blue and white, famille verte or famille
PLAQUE rose were often used during the early and mid-Qing Dynasty in
Qianlong-Jiaqing period, circa 1795-1820 certain kinds of furniture construction, several panels at one time
Well painted in a pseudo Tang green-blue style, qinglu, with an unusual being incorporated for decorative purposes for example into large
depiction of an ‘arrow game’, depicting an elegantly dressed lady hardwood folding screens, the main splat at the back of chairs, the
and gentleman each holding an ‘arrow-dart’ in their outstretched right tops of suitably shaped tables, and serving trays. These were however
hands, she in a theatrical dancing pose, taking aim at a small vase on normally of smaller size than the present lot. However, the quality of the
a tiled bridge on which they play the game, a fast flowing river rushes present plaque suggests that it was always intended to be hung on a
under the arches beneath, the scene framed by blossoming cherry wall as a handsome display panel in its own right. Decorative porcelain
trees to one side and venerable contorted pine and other trees and a landscape plaques that were designed from the outset to be hung
pavilion roof to the other, with tall misty peaks and billowing clouds in on the wall as decoration are normally associated with a later date of
the distance, framed. manufacture; large-dimension porcelain plaques like this present lot,
8in (20cm) x 12in (30cm) were in the 18th century, just as likely to have been created to be set
into a hardwood frame as a standing table screen.
$6,000 - 10,000

乾嘉時期 約1795-1820年 罕見粉彩《投壺》長方瓷板畫
Published:
Cohen & Cohen, A Game of Bowls, Gent, 2014, p. 87, no. 63

出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《A Game of Bowls》，根特，2014
年，頁87，圖版編號63

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