拍品 126
126
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CRANES
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF SIR EDWIN A.G. MANTON
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CRANES

QIANLONG PERIOD

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CRANES
QIANLONG PERIOD
The waterbirds standing on brown treestumps streaked in black, their long, thin beaks glazed green and their curly topknots and knobby foreheads in pink, plumage glazed white with finely incised details and black highlights
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

The crane, an important symbol of longevity in China, is often shown alongside the strong and long-lived pine. A very similar, but plainly colored, single example of this model in the Copeland Collection is illustrated by W.R. Sargent, op. cit., p. 165, who discusses the history of China trade orders for the waterbirds. M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre (Qing Porcelain, p. 108) note that these birds must have been made also for the Imperial Palace, citing a May 1742 entry in the notebook of Tang Ying (director of the Imperial kilns 1736-56) reading: Received an order to make pairs of storks that should be depicted viewed from the front."