Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Rare Chinese famille rose plate, early Qianlong (1736-95), decorated with a couple seated on a terrace, the man playing an oboe, the lady feeding a parrot sitting on a perch between them, all within an elaborate cartouche, the border with four rococo vignettes containing landscapes against a floral bianco-sopra-bianco ground, ;
Dimensions:
Diameter: 9in., 23cm
Condition:
slight rubbing to enamels of parrot.
Notes:
For a similar plate see the British Museum Collection, no. 1963,0422.24. Other plates of this design are in the Costa collection, Lisbon, Portugal, and in a private Brazilian collection. SOLD
Guest & Gray 58 Davies StreetLondonW1K 5LP
