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1550 Antique Chinese Porcelain Blue and white Anhua Bowl with Pastoral Redecoration

1550 Antique Chinese Porcelain Blue and white Anhua Bowl with Pastoral Redecoration

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1550 Antique Chinese Porcelain Blue and white Anhua Bowl with Redecoration

Diameter: 145mm approx
Period:1730-1740
Code: 240

Provenance:

– Onder de Boompjes  Veiling 15 – 17 september 2025

Reference:
Espir, Helen. European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain, 1700–1830. London/Lisbon: Jorge Welsh Books, 2005.

Interestingly this is Identical to 1549 but one difference. Here the man offers the lady an egg and there is no cloaked 3rd person.

In 18th-century visual language, this is symbolic:

  • Pipe smoking and drinking man – the male folly

  • Man playing cello: The good male

  • Lady tossing letters?

  • Man and lady together with the man offering an egg

Together they form a genre scene — a genre scene of warning and potential love and t

During the 18th century, under the influence of Rococo art, “pastoral love” became a fashionable theme in painting and decorative arts.

 

Additional Information

Type

Region of origin

China

China dynasty period

Qing (1661 – 1912)

Decoration type colour

Amsterdam Bont

Century

18th century

Size

14cm-17cm

Emperor

Yongzheng (1722-1735)