A FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT CANTON ENAMEL DISH painted at the centre with an elderly bearded man, two ladies and several children seated beneath pine among rockwork, all within a delicate border of insects amongst scrolling flowers, the reverse painted with scattered flower-sprays, insects and a frog, the base with a puce phoenix roundel (some restoration and crackling), 18th/early 19th Century

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A FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT CANTON ENAMEL DISH painted at the centre with an elderly bearded man, two ladies and several children seated beneath pine among rockwork, all within a delicate border of insects amongst scrolling flowers, the reverse painted with scattered flower-sprays, insects and a frog, the base with a puce phoenix roundel (some restoration and crackling), 18th/early 19th Century
23.9cm. diam
Provenance
Eugene O. Perkins
Literature
Chinese Painted Enamels, The China Institute in America, 1969-1970, Catalogue pl. 3

Lot Essay

The scene is uncertain and in the above is called a "curious mythological view of European figures in a Chinese landscape", it is also suggested that, "with its elaborate floral border and rather hazy, muddy coloring, this piece was quite likely done in Beijing"

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