1506 Antique Chinese Porcelain Plate With Famille Rose Decoration of Birds and Flowers

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Description:

1506 Antique Chinese Porcelain Plate With Famille Rose Decoration of Birds and Flowers

Diameter: 207mm approx
Period:1720-30
Code: 380

Pictured in Helen Espirs BoonProvenance:

– Woolley and Wallis Asian Art II – 21 May 2025

– Helen Espir Collection

– Bonhams

• Bernard Watney Collection

The prunus blossom is heightened in opaque white enamel, a probable indicator of an English origin. The treatment of the painting is reminiscent of a group of Staffordshire saltglazed wares enamelled in a similar palette. Formal roses feature prominently in a number of these saltglazed pieces and may have a Jacobite significance. The decoration of some early Bow porcelain is also related, in particular a vase in the Freeman collection illustrated by Adams and Redstone, Bow Porcelain, colour pl. D and Anton Gabszewicz, The Freeman Collection, fig 9 (another view).

The Watney Collection of Dutch and English Decorated Chinese Porcelain

7 November 2003, 18:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

Reference:

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