A FAMILLE ROSE FIVE-PIECE GARNITURE

CIRCA 1740

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A FAMILLE ROSE FIVE-PIECE GARNITURE
CIRCA 1740
Comprising three baluster vases and covers and two beaker vases, each piece finely decorated in bright colors with two cockerels, one standing atop a weathered blue rock as another looks on from below, among daisies, prunus, sacred fungus, and large peony blooms, each rim or shoulder with a pink-ground foliate lappet band
11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high, the baluster vase and cover (8)

Provenance

with The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York

Lot Essay

For a pair of baluster vases of identical enamelling and form described as being 'the most wonderful specimens of colouring, with the shades beatifully blending', see W.G. Guilland, Chinese Porcelain, London, 1918, pp. 462-463, pl. 809 and 810. Guilland also posits that the two birds are 'disputing posession of the rock'.

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