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A VERY FINE AND LARGE ROSE-VERTE ‘COURTING COUPLE’ Published:
CHARGER Cohen & Cohen, The Golden Gate Collection, Antwerp, 2018, p. 180,
Yongzheng period, 1723-1735 no. 134
Densely and brightly enameled in a variety of colors with a central
courtyard scene on a fenced terrace, a blue-robed dignitary and his 出版：
consort flanked by elegantly clad servants watching an amorously 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《The Golden Gate Collection》，安特
motivated rooster and hen in the foreground, all within an elaborate gilt 衛普，2018年，頁180，圖版編號134
and iron-red Y-pattern border reserved at the compass points with four
leaf-shaped panels depicting elegant ladies and children engaged in The origin of this story is obscure, although the original source of this
recreational activities. carefully balanced and complicated domestic scene is almost certainly
18 3/4in (47.5cm) diam a late Ming or early Qing woodblock print published in a printed
romantic novel. The theme of the design is self-evident, the message
$15,000 - 20,000 defined by the pair of butterflies over the heads of the central figures,
the amorous rooster and hen at their feet, and the ladies in repose
雍正時期 約1730年 五彩描金《遊園男女》大盤 that fill the cartouches to the border. Two facing butterflies (hudie)
imply ‘joyful encounter’ and symbolize the joyful meeting or union of
husband and wife; see Bartholomew 2006, no. 2.5.1.

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