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A Chinese export porcelain 'Cherry Picking' dish


Estimate

50 - 80


Session 2

3 June 2026



Description

Chinese export porcelain
Polychrome decoration with Famille Rose and rouge-de-fer enamels, with a central circular reserve depicting a European galant scene, showing a young man at the top of a ladder picking fruit from a cherry tree, a young woman seated by the tree, another figure kneeling beside a basket of flowers, a small dog and a straw hat on the ground
Central reserve bordered by a circular fillet, plain cavetto and decorated border with a braided rouge-de-fer band along the edge
Qianlong period, c. 1770

Diam.: 11 cm


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Literature:
François et Nicole Hervouët, Yves Bruneau, "La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes a Decór Occidental", p. 89, ill. 4.23.



Closed Auction