Lot Essay
See note to lot 214.
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QIANLONG (1736-95)
Details
A RARE FAMILLE ROSE CANTON ENAMEL EUROPEAN-SUBJECT RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
Qianlong (1736-95)
Repoussé in relief and finely enamelled with a tranquil riverside scene depicting a young man pushing three barrels in a cart being watched by another man standing leaning on his stick accompanied by a dog in the foreground, two other figures in conversation walking to one side of a European building, all on the bank of a river with trees and shrubbery issuing from rocky mounds, the river with three boats in the distance and similar European buildings on the far bank
12 x 10½ in. (30.5 x 26.5 cm.), wood frame
Qianlong (1736-95)
Repoussé in relief and finely enamelled with a tranquil riverside scene depicting a young man pushing three barrels in a cart being watched by another man standing leaning on his stick accompanied by a dog in the foreground, two other figures in conversation walking to one side of a European building, all on the bank of a river with trees and shrubbery issuing from rocky mounds, the river with three boats in the distance and similar European buildings on the far bank
12 x 10½ in. (30.5 x 26.5 cm.), wood frame
Provenance
Herman von Mandl, of Vienna; merchant and Consul to the Netherlands in China in the late 19th Century.
Special notice
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