A CHINESE EXPORT EGGSHELL PORCELAIN TEA BOWL AND SAUCER

Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng Period

Decorated in opaque enamels from the famille-rose palette with four panels, two with a bird perched on a tree branch, the other two panels with dense foliage and flower heads and a mythical beast, respectively against a red and yellow ground (2)

清雍正 粉彩繪蛋殼瓷茶盌及碟

For a similar tea bowl and saucer see J.P. van Goidsenhoven, La Ceramique Chinoise sous les Ts’ing, Brussels 1936, plate 104, cat. 245, a similar tea bowl is reproduced in G.C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, plate XXIX.