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A VERY FINE AND MASSIVE ROSE-VERTE CHARGER The sheer size and splendid decorative qualities of this brilliantly
Yongzheng period, 1723-35 enameled charger explain why the finest famille rose porcelains
Superbly enameled with an elegant domestic scene in a pavilion caused a sensation when they begin to arrive in Europe after 1700.
standing at the side of an ornamental terrace set with Lake Tai pierced Although the earlier display dishes and vases were decorated in a
garden rocks issuing flowering shrubs, the pavilion interior with five predominantly green palette (famille verte), it was the introduction to
brightly-robed figures standing around a rectangular table in front of the Chinese palette of blush-pink tones derived from colloidal gold,
a handsome landscape screen in the background, a female servant initially created in the Limoges enameling workshops in France which
approaching from a smaller room at the left beneath a banner with created the biggest sensation in Europe and proved to be the longest-
a three-line inscription describing the lead female protagonist in the lasting revolution in taste. The ability to add an opacifier (lead arsenate
scene depicted, all within an elaborate gilt and iron-red Y-pattern powder) to the normally translucent enamels of Qing Dynasty China
border reserved at the compass points with four leaf-shaped panels enabled enamellers in Jingdezhen to create much greater contrasts of
depicting elegant ladies and children engaged in recreational activities. color and tone, by adding the opacifier in different quantities until the
18 3/4in (47.5cm) diam right one tone of pink, green and even creamy white was achieved.
This charger demonstrates the vastly wider range of shades of color
$20,000 - 25,000 which an accomplished decorator in China could achieve with this new
technology, brought to the Chinese Court by Jesuit missionaries from
雍正/乾隆早期 約1730年 五彩加粉彩礬紅描金庭院人物故事大盤 Italy and France
Published:
Cohen & Cohen, The Golden Gate Collection, Antwerp, 2018, p. 181,
no. 135

出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《The Golden Gate Collection》，安特
衛普，2018年，頁181，圖版編號135

The first half of the banner on the roof of the small room at the left
reads “My sixteen-year-old daughter is proficient in any literary style.”
Most likely, the daughter is depicted as the young woman wearing a
red jacket and green and yellow dress to the left of the table, having
proffered a gilt bowl to the figure in green robes who leans on the (detail)
table, and her father is the elderly mustached gentleman at the rear of
the scene.

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