Plate 1730-50

Porcelain painted in famille rose enamels | RCIN 59729

A Chinese porcelain plate painted in famille rose enamels. In the centre, a red-covered scroll painted with bamboo plants by a rock with sprays of peony and daisy, on an all-over ground of black scrollwork with scattered blooms, with two quatrefoil cartouches with groups of precious emblems tied in ribbons: one with a pair of scrolls with a gourd, and the other, a scroll with a fan and a spray of lingzhi.

Made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, for export to the West.

Medium and techniques

Porcelain painted in famille rose enamels

enamel, porcelain

painted

Measurements

2.9 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm (diameter)

Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume I.

Set of plates plates: 1710-40, mounts: 18th century

Porcelain painted in underglaze blue, iron-red enamel and gilt, with silver gilt | RCIN

A set of five Chinese porcelain plates painted in Japanese Imari style and with a European silver-gilt rim. Painted across the face is a landscape with a range of hills with a pagoda, and distant peaks among swirling mist, with a formalised tree, and chrysanthemums, prunus and other blooms in the foreground. On the reverse are two sketchy sprays.

Imari-style wares were made in China during the early eighteenth century to meet the Western demand which was no longer being satisfied from Japan. They are characterised by painting in underglaze blue combined with iron-red enamel and gilding, and at times further colours from the famille verte palette. The style was especially favoured in France, where wares painted with armorial devices were ordered by the court. George IV acquired important vases in this style, as well as numerous plates of an everyday character, many of them enhanced with silver-gilt rims, which were perhaps intended for dessert use for banquets at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton.

Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume I.

Set of plates 1725-30

Porcelain painted in underglaze blue, famille verte and rose-pink enamels and gilt | RCIN 58809

Medium and techniques

Porcelain painted in underglaze blue, famille verte and rose-pink enamels and gilt

porcelain

underglazed, glazed, painted

Measurements

2.7 x 22.0 x 22.0 cm (whole object)

A set of four Chinese porcelain plates painted partly in blue, but mainly in aubergine-purple, with a stem bearing peonies, chrysanthemums and other variously coloured flowers; round the well, a border with flower scrolls interrupted by four cartouches with flower sprays; and round the rim, sprays of peony and other flowers, with a narrow lozenge-pattern rim border.

Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume I.

Provenance

Four of the plates appear in the '1866' Windsor Castle Inventory in the State Audience Chamber, described 'with flowers in the centre'. RCIN 58809.1 is numbered 'WC713' on the base.

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