A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette at the centre with a scene of a farmer lying on the ground caught by the foot by an official another gentleman standing to one side gesturing with his acolyte behind him, the wide everted rim with fans and leaf panels reserved on a seeded ground.
- Country:
- China
- Period :
- Yongzheng (1723-1735)
- Material:
- Porcelain
- Dimension:
- 8.66 in. (23 cm)
- Reference :
- B915b
- Status:
- sold
Provenance
Collection Emile de Ricqlès (Paris, Drouot, 15/16 october 1931, no. 196).
Related works
For an identical plate from the collection of Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (1822-1904), see Christie’s NYC, Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15 september 2016, no. 942.
