SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

This service typifies the combination of purely Chinese decoration with wholly Western shapes that characterizes Canton famille rose porcelain of this period. The richly enameled scenes, no doubt from beloved Chinese legends or dramas, are displayed on the forms of an English dessert service. For a similar "Mandarin" pattern edged in these distinctive turquoise rocks, see D. Nadler, China to Order, Paris, 2001, p. 131.