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A FAMILLE ROSE RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE RETICULATED HANGING
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) BASKETS
The plaque is fnely decorated to depict a smiling bird seller presenting two QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)
bird cages to two elderly gentlemen, one wearing spectacles and holding a
brush and the other wrapped in a fur jacket, all within a rocky bamboo grove. The baskets have openwork sides formed by three registers of interlocking
11√ in. (30 cm.) wide endless knots below the fat rims decorated on the underside with cranes
$3,000-5,000 amidst peaches and lingzhi fungus, and on the top with two chilong prowling
amidst blossoms and foliate scrolls. The rims are applied on the upright lip
PROVENANCE with two gilt hooks for suspension of chains attached to a yoke-form handle
with central loop.
Monique Mardellis, London, mid-1970s.
清乾隆 粉彩買鳥圖瓷板 11Ω in. (29.2 cm.) high, wood stands (2)
$8,000-12,000
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PROVENANCE

Cohen & Cohen, London (according to label).

Two similar porcelain hanging baskets decorated in a famille verte rather than
a famille rose palette are illustrated in The Taft Museum: Chinese Ceramics
and Works of Art, New York, 1995, p. 631, nos. 1931.7 and 1931.9.
清乾隆/嘉慶 粉彩鏤空如意雙錢紋吊籃一對