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FOUR FAMILLE ROSE BLACK-GROUND OCTAGONAL The very desirable ‘black’ color was created by combining two different
BEAKERS AND SAUCERS mineral glaze colors. Firstly, the ground color which was initially a matt
Yongzheng period, circa 1730 black wash was painted over the clear glaze. To achieve a lustrous
Each beaker brightly enameled on the four main exterior faces with rich black finish, a second translucent apple-green glaze wash was
a large upright basket containing a pink tree peony flower, the four then carefully painted on top of the black. When fired together in a
shorter sides at the angles with two chrysanthemum heads amongst low temperature ‘muffle’ kiln, this combination fused to produce a
scrolling green tendrils reserved on a lustrous black ground, the spectacular lustrous black finish which was clearly appreciated in the
saucers enameled en suite but with one flower head in each black- early 18th century. ‘Famille noire’ (as French scholars renamed this rare
ground panel. mixed enamel in the md 19th century) became positively venerated in
saucers 4 3/4in (12cm) across, cups 2 5/8in (6.8cm) high (4). the late 19th century by the richest American and European buyers
of the grandest Chinese porcelain. It is believed that Henry Clay Frick
$1,500 - 2,000 paid his New York neighbor, the Fifth Avenue mega-dealer Joseph
Duveen, over $100,000 shortly after 1900 for a splendid ‘famille noire’
雍正時期 約1730年 粉彩黑地花卉紋八方杯盤四組 (black overglaze enamel) vase that is further overlaid with a translucent
green enamel and is now still on view in the Frick Mansion in New York.
Published: There is another version called ‘famille noire on the biscuit,’ referring to
Cohen & Cohen, Tyger Tyger!, Antwerp, 2016, p. 38, no. 16 (six Chinese ceramics where this black enamel is painted directly onto the
beakers and saucers) unglazed surface of the vessel.
出版： References: a single example from the Samuel Putnam Avery Sr.
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Tyger Tyger!》，安特衛普，2016年， (1822-1904) Collection, was in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
頁38，圖版編號16(杯盤六組) York, accessioned in 1879, deaccessioned in 2016.

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