WINTER EXHIBITION 2008 - Roger Keverne

72 ROGER KEVERNE WINTER 2008
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A fine painted enamel dish
18th century
Diameter: 6G in, 16.2 cm
with rounded sides standing on a broad
foot ring. The interior is painted in the
famille-rose palette with a large spray of
fruits and flowers, including chrysanthemum,
peach, finger citron, camellia, rose, pink
and prunus, all enclosed by a narrow frieze
of scrolling flowers on a yellow ground.
The interior walls are decorated with five
bats (Wu fu) and clouds against a pink
diaper ground, all beneath a formal blue
classic scroll. The outside walls are painted
with a broad floral scroll above bands of
blue and pink classic scroll, and the base
with a phoenix medallion in shades of blue
on a yellow ground.
Formerly in the collection of Alfred and
Ivy Clark.
Wu fu (The Five Blessings) are longevity,
wealth, health, love of virtue and a
peaceful death.
Arapova illustrates a dish with a similar
main design in Chinese Painted Enamels,
no. 165a, pl. 109.
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A large painted enamel tray
18th century
Diameter: 18D in, 46.3 cm
with eight lobes and rounded sides, and
painted in the famille-rose palette. The
interior is decorated with a magnolia tree,
crab apple, peony, lily and other flowers
emerging from rocks, enclosed within an
elaborate border of lingzhi fungus scrolls.
The sides are painted with a narrow pink
border beneath four shaped cartouches of
floral sprays alternating with fruit-shaped
panels of various flowers in pink, all
reserved against a formal floral scroll.
The base is painted with flowers and fruits,
including peach, pomegranate and finger
citron, the San duo (Three Abundances),
on a white ground, and the exterior sides
with cracked ice.