AN UNUSUAL PAINTED ENAMEL MOLDED FOOTED TRAY

Property from the Estate of Marc Haas

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AN UNUSUAL PAINTED ENAMEL MOLDED FOOTED TRAY
QIANLONG

Of European inspiration and of shaped oval form, the center painted in a famille rose palette with an allover pattern of composite foliate meander surrounding a central flowerhead within foliate scroll borders and repeated on the flat rim below a raised and molded border decorated with demi-lotus blossoms separated by gadrooning or petals variously painted in red, blue and green to create a striped effect, the underside painted in the center with a fruiting peach branch and flowering branches surrounded by detached flower sprigs on the underside of the rim, the whole raised on four copper supports (some restoration)
21 7/8in. (55.5cm.) long

Lot Essay

For another tray influenced by European metalwork see the quatrefoil example included in the exhibition, Chinese Painted Enamel, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, June-July, 1978, Catalogue, p. 80, no. 104. Compare, also, another tray of this type sold in our London rooms, June 26, 1978, lot 289