A CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE-ROSE TEABOWL circa 1724

painted on the front with a cock perched amidst rocks and peonies, the reverse with an inscription and a rose seal mark, the rim with a white Y-diaper border and the interior rim with a yellow trellis diaper and floral panel border above a central orchid blossom. Small rim chip.

2 mm chip on outer edge of rim, 5 mm enamel chip in the border on exterior near white peony.
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An identical teabowl and its saucer are illustrated by Jörg 1997, p. 213, no. 236, who cites the inscription and its translation as: "Gong ming fu gui jiachen huazhao yie yu Zhujiang jingshe, 'Honour and riches. Written on the day of the flowers in the year jiachen [1724] in a beautiful house on the Zhujiang river', and a seal mark in pink, reading Baishi, 'white stone'." Dr. Jörg goes on to comment that inscribed pieces of this type seem "to be absent from the available literature, which makes this a particularly rare and important specimen." A pair of teabowls and saucers identically decorated and inscribed was sold at Sotheby's in Monte Carlo on May 27, 1980, lot 1034.