A CHINESE EXPORT 'GARDEN OF EDEN' BOWL
A CHINESE EXPORT 'GARDEN OF EDEN' BOWL

QIANLONG PERIOD

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A CHINESE EXPORT 'GARDEN OF EDEN' BOWL
QIANLONG PERIOD
Finely painted in a delicate famille rose palette with a lively array of paired animals in a landscape, nearby three single mythical Chinese beasts, a large Buddhist lion, a blue qilin, and a yellow phoenix-goat, prance before a winged hirsute man who emerges from a rocky outcropping, the interior with a spearhead border above central pink rose spray
10½ in. (26.8 cm.) diameter

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Becky MacGuire
Becky MacGuire

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By the late Middle Ages in Europe the Garden of Eden was thought of as a paradise populated with African and Asian animals, as so famously portrayed by Hieronymous Bosch (1450?-1516) in The Garden of Earthly Delights (now in the Prado, Madrid) where, in the left panel, we see the Garden filled with elephants and giraffes and exotic birds. This bowl's version of the scene may have been based on a European engraving that included the Archangel Gabriel, guardian of Paradise. Perhaps the Chinese painter then added those auspicious beasts more familar to him. Another example of this rare subject was sold Christie's, New York, 23 January 2007, lot 65.

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