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A VERY FINE AND LARGE FAMILLE ROSE BLACK-GROUND See the footnote to lot 34 for a discussion of the invention and
‘CONFRONTED COCKERELS’ FIVE-PIECE GARNITURE significance of ‘black’ enameled wares in the context of the demand
Yongzheng-early Qianlong, 1730-1740 for Chinese export ceramics, both the early-18th newly imported
The superbly enameled garniture comprising three oviform jars and wares and when these antiques became hugely in demand again in
covers and two beaker vases, each decorated in dark famille rose the later 19th century. Black enamel decoration is most often found
enamels with various reserve panels set against colorfully decorated on smaller sized vases, teapots and table wares made during the later
scrolling chrysanthemum green-foliage black ground, the largest decades of the Kangxi period (1662-1722); it unusual to find this rarest
panels on either side of melon-shape and painted with two cockerels and most desirable of all Kangxi-period enamel color very successfully
standing on rockwork amidst flowering peony with a butterfly above, paired with and brilliantly complementing the finest new innovatory
the smaller reserve panels of fan and scroll-painting shape, painted ‘pink’ palette widely used for the first time during the subsequent reign,
with birds and flowers, the domed covers similarly enameled and with that of the porcelain-obsessed Emperor Yongzheng (1723-1735).
large bud finials.
the tallest: 17in (43.5cm) high (5). References: Cohen & Cohen, 2012, no. 12, p. 18 for a larger pair
of vases with similar decoration; and Williamson, 1974, plate LIV,
$50,000 - 80,000 for famille rose display jars of similar shape and decoration which
were particularly in fashion with, and feverishly competed for by, top
乾隆時期 約1736-95年 罕有大件青花古塔湖景圖盤 European collectors when he was writing his important and innovatory
study of Chinese enameled designs.
Published:
Cohen & Cohen, Baroque & Roll, Antwerp, 2015, pp. 58-59, no. 39

出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Baroque & Roll》，安特衛普，2015
年，頁58-59，圖版編號39
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