Finding Blossoms

Imperial kilns, Jingdezhen, 1821-1850
Height: 5.65 cm 
Mouth/lip: 0.62/1.72 cm
Stopper: jadeite; gilt-metal collar

Provenance:
Galerie Bertrand de Lavergne, Paris, June 2007

 

Famille rose enamels on colourless glaze on porcelain; with a slightly convex lip, and recessed flat, oval foot surrounded by a protruding flattened, oval foot rim; painted with a continuous scene of Meng Haoran on his donkey, followed by an attendant on foot holding a branch of prunus blossoms in a water-side landscape with a blossoming tree, possibly a white prunus, heading towards a small stone bridge across an inlet towards another similar tree with pink blossoming prunus, the far bank with a country residence and a small open pavilion, the foot inscribed in iron-red regular script Daoguang nian zhi 道光年製 (‘Made in the Daoguang era’), the interior glazed.

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Alexander Whittaker