Live Auction 14219Noble & Private Collections Part I
A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE TUREEN, COVER AND STAND, AND TWO DISHES, EN SUITE
Lot 138 PROPERTY OF A LADY

A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE TUREEN, COVER AND STAND, AND TWO DISHES, EN SUITE

QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1735-1745

Closed25 April 2017

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GBP 3,250

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A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE TUREEN, COVER AND STAND, AND TWO DISHES, EN SUITE
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1735-1745
Each piece enamelled and gilt with a boy holding a flower astride a buffalo beside its young, beside three golden geese in a garden setting
The tureen-stand 16 7/8 in. (43 cm.) wide

From a Swedish private collection, purchased in the 1930s-1940s, probably at Bukowski's in Gothenburg, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

A smaller tureen and cover of this form, and other pieces from this service are in the Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA, illustrated by Jean McClure Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain in North America, New York, 1986, no. 245, p. 158.