RARE 35CM 18C Yongzheng/Qianlong Chinese Porcelain Famille Rose Blood Milk Charger

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Condition Report: Overall Condition; See description.

Dish

China

c.1735-1745

Height 43 mm (1.69 inch), diameter of rim 353 mm (13.90 inch), diameter of footring 194 mm (7.64 inch), weight 958 grams (33.78 ounce (oz.))

Dish on footring, wide flat, underglaze brown-edged, rim (jia mangkou). Decorated in ‘Red & Gold’ / ‘Rouge-de-fer’ with iron-red and gold combined with various famille rose overglaze enamels. The centre with a reserved medallion formed by linked ruyi, painted in black enamel with flowering peony and chrysanthemum plants, a vase filled with flowering hibiscus branches and a riverscape within an unfurled scroll with ribbons. On the rim half flowerheads with a leafy flowering stem reserved on a cell-pattern ground alternating with half flowerheads with leafy scrolls. The reverse is undecorated.

This combined decoration of late ‘Red & Gold’ / ‘Rouge-de-fer’ with polychrome enamels is uncommon and rare, especially on dishes of this size.

For another dish decorated in ‘Red & Gold’ / ‘Rouge-de-fer’ combined with polychrome famille rose overglaze enamels, please see:

• Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University, (Th.V. Litzenburg, London 2003), p.68, cat. 51.

Condition: Some loss of enamel and some slight wear to the iron-red decoration. A star-shaped hairline to the base.

References:

Jacquemart & Le Blant 1862, pp. 77-105

Jörg 2003/2, cat. 8

Litzenburg 2003, cat. 51

Sargent 2012, p.183