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Lot 413
A Chinese Porcelain Vase, 19th century, of cylindrical form with sloping shoulders and a trumpet neck, painted in famille verte enamels with birds in branches in a panel on an iron red and gilt foliate ground within panelled borders, 63cm highCondition report: Two hairline cracks from rim, one with associated loss at rim, the other with rivetted repair. Two rivetted cracks through body. Some wear and scratching throughout.
Lot 60
Chinese porcelain vase, belonging to the Rose Family. Late 19th century.Measurements: 62 cm x 25 cm (diameter).Large Chinese porcelain vase decorated with enamelled cartouches depicting genre scenes in which courtly characters appear on terraces and pagodas set in leafy landscapes. These scenes are outlined and completed with floral and vegetal decoration that covers the rest of the body of the vase, contrasting with the base of the lower part in shades of pink, red and aquamarine-blue. The pictorial decoration is completed by a series of zoomorphic reliefs in the form of tigers and dragons on the neck of the vase. The Rose Family is characterised by the predominance of light, luminous tones, especially pink and green. During the second half of the 19th century, thanks to the discovery of white glaze, Chinese potters broadened their palette to include new shades, which allowed them to enrich their wares with greater chromatic splendour, achieving a higher quality of plastic representation.The Rose Family style originated at the end of the Kagnxi period, an emperor of the Qing dynasty who reigned from 1662 to 1722. The new ornamental style is based on the introduction of new enamels, the most famous of which is pink, after which the style is named. Other new colours were also added, such as opaque yellow, white and the now independent black (until then, in order to fix the black glaze, it had to be covered with a glaze of another colour, usually translucent green). Technically, the most important is opaque white, as it could be mixed with other glazes to achieve a wide range of pastel shades, as well as allowing a smooth tonal gradation that made it possible to successfully imitate Western painting. What defines the Rose Family, therefore, is not the predominance of this colour, but this new polychrome. The new style led to the abandonment of the previously predominant Green Family, characterised by the abundance of this colour and the use of more watery glazes.
Lot 131
18th century Chinese porcelain tea caddy and cover decorated in famille rose style with flowers below a famille rose border (repair to base), together with a shaped jar finely decorated in polychrome with a phoenix in famille vert amongst famille rose flowers and other decoration, Kangxi mark to base but 19th century (2), the jar 14cm high
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