Page 170 - Fine Chinese Ceramics Sept 2016

PROPERTY FROM A DUTCH PRIVATE COLLECTION

1367
A SET OF SIX FAMILLE ROSE MILLE FLEURS CUPS
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD
(1796-1820)

Each is decorated with a dense design of diferent fowers below a gilded rim.

3º in. (8.2 cm.) diam. (6)
$80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE (mark)

Private collection, The Netherlands, early 1960s.

The lovely mille feurs or wanhuajin (myriad fower brocade) design was developed in the
Qianlong reign (1736-1795) and continued to be much admired at court during the reign
of his successor, the Jiaqing Emperor. A pair of cups decorated with the same design and
bearing iron-red Jiaqing marks from the Edward T. Chow Collection was illustrated by C.
and M. Beurdeley in La Ceramique Chinoise, Fribourg, 1974, no. 151 and subsequently sold
at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, The Edward T. Chow Collection, Part One, 25 November 1989,
lot 171, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29-30 April 2002, lot 708. See, also, the pair
sold at Christie’s New York, 21 September 2004, lot 343.

清嘉慶 粉彩百花不落地小盃六件 礬紅六字篆書款

168