A FINE AND RARE FAMILLE ROSE LOBED TEA TRAY

JIAQING SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

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A FINE AND RARE FAMILLE ROSE LOBED TEA TRAY
JIAQING SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The tray has shallow rounded sides raised on four bracket supports, and is painted in the center in iron red with an Imperial poem praising well-prepared tea that is dated to the cyclical year of dingsi, corresponding to 1797. The inscription is surrounded by scrolling sprays of lotus and other flowers in famille rose enamels within gilt borders reserved on a pale lime-green ground, which is repeated on the base around the nianhao. The exterior is similarly decorated.
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) long

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James L. Kraft (1874-1953) Collection.
Lizzadro Collection, Chicago, Illinois, acquired prior to 1960.

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The poem, composed by the Jiaqing Emperor, praises the pleasure of drinking tea and appears on tea trays and tea pots of different palettes. S.W. Bushell translates the poem in Oriental Ceramic Art, London, 1981, p. 239, as:
'Finest tribute tea of the first picking
And a bright full moon prompt a line of verse.
A lively fire glows in the bamboo stove,
The water is boiling in the stone griddle,
Small bubbles rise like ears of fish or crab.
Of rare Ch'i-ch'iang tea, rolled in tiny balls,
One cup is enough to lighten the heart,
And dissipate the early winter chill.'
An identical tray, of Jiaqing date, is illustrated by A. J. Allen, Allen's Introduction to Later Chinese Porcelain, New Zealand, 1996, p. 193, pl. 109, and another was sold at Christie's Paris, 13 June 2007, lot 223. A similarly decorated teapot in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5, Taiwan, 1991, p. 216.