A pair of Chinese famille rose 'European Subject' saucers and a famille rose saucer
Qianlong (1735-1795)
The pair of saucers enamelled with a maiden dressed in a pink and white dress balancing a pail on her head as she climbs over a wooden fence, in the distance the facade of a small town, encircled at the rim by a gilt twisted-rope pattern border reserved with small vignettes, the reverse with erotic subject-matter, minute frit, some gilt rubbing, 11 cm. diam.; and a famille rose saucer enamelled with a mounted knight, within a gilt border, hairline crack, 13.1 cm. diam. (3)
A pair of Chinese famille rose 'European Subject' saucers and a famille rose saucer
Qianlong (1735-1795)
The pair of saucers enamelled with a maiden dressed in a pink and white dress balancing a pail on her head as she climbs over a wooden fence, in the distance the facade of a small town, encircled at the rim by a gilt twisted-rope pattern border reserved with small vignettes, the reverse with erotic subject-matter, minute frit, some gilt rubbing, 11 cm. diam.; and a famille rose saucer enamelled with a mounted knight, within a gilt border, hairline crack, 13.1 cm. diam. (3)
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