A great famille rose tea bowl and saucer in a rare lotus form. Both the tea bowl and saucer were potted into the form of lotus peddles which reflect the colors of the enameling. The central subject of the saucer is a sacred fungus, I believe it is a source of immortality but I could be wrong. Comment if you remember. This tea bowl is available from: Polly Latham Asian Art who was kind enough to allow me to photograph it.
Famille Rose Tea Bowl with applied decoration.
This very rare tea bowl and saucer not only are decorated with fine enameling but also rare applied decoration which makes up the feet of both the bowl and dish.
Famille Rose Tea Bowl
This is a great example of over glazed ground colors. (for another great example see the blue ground bowl) This is a famille rose set from the early 1700’s. The very dark areas you can see around some of the flowers in the saucer decoration are tarnished silver gilding.
Famille Rose Tea Cup and Saucer
So I had to blow this one up so you could see the incredible diapering pattern. This is a fantastic example of what the Chinese artisans of the time were capable of. I post more info on this over the next few days.
This is a lovely piece of famille rose; a tea bowl and saucer depicting a group of girls playing the Chinese game of war. The blue pattern around the edges is called diapering. This set is made of egg shell porcelain which is extremely thing and fragile. This set was made during the Yung Cheng era. Im not sure of the significance of the two bunnies but I will look it up soon.
An amazing famille rose tea bowl and saucer. On the bottom is an applied decoration. I belive it was made around 1745 for the western market. The lotus its self is loaded with symbolism in the east, how much of this was understood by the western customers is up for debate. All in all a one of the best exsamples of famille rose i have seen.
