A RARE PAIR OF MASSIVE CANTON ENAMEL CHARGERS

Property from the Estate of EUGENE O. PERKINS

Details

A RARE PAIR OF MASSIVE CANTON ENAMEL CHARGERS
QIANLONG

Each painted in a famille rose palette with women and a group of boys at play in a terraced garden, two boys fighting, one climbing a tree, one riding a hobby horse, one reading, another being offered a peach by one of the women and two watching ducks swimming in a lotus pond in the foreground, the exterior decorated in blue with various flowers issuing from rocks, and the base of each painted in black calligraphy with a lengthy inscription with two seals in ruby red, some chips to enamel, some restoration--30 in. (76.2cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

One from the J. A. Lloyd Hyde Collection

Literature

Chinese Painted Enamels, The China Institute in America, 1969-1970, Catalogue col. pl. front and back cover and pl. 35

Lot Essay

The lengthy inscription, translated on pages 28 and 29 of the Catalogue, is a poem by Chun Kung-Yin, one of the three great Guangdong poets of the Qing Dynasty, and is taken from a collection of his works entitled Tou Lo Tang

A square Canton enamel tray, also painted on the back with a lengthy calligraphic inscription dated the jiwei year, corresponding to 1799, was included in the exhibition, The Minor Arts of China III, Spink & Son Ltd., 1987, Catalogue no. 109