A VERY RARE LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE CANTON ENAMEL DISH COVER.

Qing Dynasty, 18th Century.

Painted in colourful enamles with four quatrefoil panels each enclosing a differently painted colourful landscape beneath a gilt embellished moon, the salmon-red ground decorated with freely painted gilt patterns of lotus flowers interlinked with scrolling tendrils, 42cm diameter.

清十八世紀 廣東銅胎繪琺瑯山水樓台圖紋蓋

Chinese covers to be placed over dishes are extremely rare in either painted enamel or porcelain, and an example of this type appears to be unrecorded, and seems to be derived from porcelain decoration of the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods. Smaller painted enamel dish covers were made as part of the extensive porcelain dinner service bearing the arms of Dom Gaspar de Saldanha e Albuquerque; see China of All Colours, Painted Enamels on Copper, Jorge Welsh, London, 2015, pp. 66-71. A famille rose painted enamel cover was sold Christie’s South Kensington, 28 November 2017, lot 15.

A pair of strikingly similar gilt-decorated iron red bowls with famille rose decorated landscape quatrefoil panels of 43cm diameter are in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen, and are illustrated Ayres, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art: in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, volume 2, 2016, cat no 715-716 bearing mid 18th Century European mounts.

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