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A FAMILLE ROSE ‘EUROPEAN-SUBJECT’ PART TEA SERVICE Although the exact source of this attractive design has not been
Qianlong period, circa 1760 positively identified, the style of clothing, elegance of the tall figures,
Comprising teapot and cover, tea caddy and cover, sugar bowl and and general air of cosmopolitan figures behaving slightly badly in the
cover, small coffee pot and cover, slop bowl, and small oval stand, open air, all suggest an origin in prints copying the amusing, bucolic,
each delicately enameled after an unidentified European print source fanciful garden scenes of mock-rustic figures painted in in the style
with figure in elegant outdoor ‘fetes champetres’, the vessels painted of the French artists Watteau, Lancret and Boucher, whose ‘fetes
with a different scene to each side, one with an embracing courting champetre’ oil paintings represent the quintessence of rococo frivolity
European couple seated on rockwork on a grassy hillock, with a lone and were widely reproduced as engravings.
clown-like figure standing behind them and an urn on a column near
trees to the other, the reverse side depicting another similar garden
scene with a standing couple in conversation with a seated lady, both
scenes bordered above by a swag design of delicate roses, the small
tray with the former scene only.
the teapot in ( cm) across (6).

$1,200 - 1,800
乾隆時期 約1760年 粉彩《歐洲人物》茶具同組六件

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