Dia.: 12 cm Qianlong, ca. 1760 The saucer finely painted with European figures after the print Le Printemps, a€?Springa€?, showing a lady standing with a basket of flowers beside a gentleman holding a spade and another lady watering plants, all in a continuous landscape with pale blue-enamel washed sky, the cover with plants, a tree and similar blue sky surmounted by a bud finial. See also: - A famille rose cream jug and cover, with Marchant Asian Arts. - Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande,??D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, no. 209 & 210, for a cream jug and cover together with a spoon tray of this design. The author also illustrates an engraving by Nicolas de Larmessin III (1684-1755), part of a series of engravings, Les Quatre Saisons, devoted to the four seasons. These were produced between 1740 and 1745 after paintings by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743) of 1738. - A part tea and coffee service of this pattern was sold by Sothebya€?s London in their auction of Fine Chinese Export Porcelain, 6th November 1973, lot 214, p. 60, and colour page opposite. - A plate of this pattern in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Basil Ionides Bequest, CIRC. 159-1963, is illustrated by Rose Kerr and Luisa E. Mengoni in Chinese Export Porcelain, no. 80, p. 63. - A coffee pot and cover of this pattern is illustrated by William Motley in the Cohen & Cohen exhibition catalogue Now and Then, 2005, no. 22, p. 47. (Research text courtesy of Marchant Asian Arts)
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