Two Chinese Export Porcelain Plates, "Rockefeller" or "Palace" Pattern, ca. Qianlong Period, Late 18th Century
Two fine porcelain plates with tapered body, unglazed smooth foot rim an flared rim; hand enamelled in polychrome depicting scholars and arhat in a pavilion terrace on one plate and ladies in a garden outside a building with mountain landscape on the other; the borders with landscape panels in iron-red and brown on a minutely painted filigree gilt foliate ground and scaled inner border with reserves with iron-red landscapes and birds in blooming gardens. Both have attached old paper labels "Pr. Chinese Export Plates, c. 1790 "Rockefeller" Service / 2000 - Pr." on the bottom. Provenance: old private collection, Sewickley, PA.
Ref.: The service features a design loosely known as 'Rockefeller pattern' or ‘Palace’ ware. This is not an 18th century name, but reflects the fact that a very handsome and extensive service of this pattern was once owned by the distinguished American collector John D Rockefeller Jnr. Americans also call similar wares 'Palace ware' which was a term used by the generation of buyers in New York, Boston and Philadelphia in the 1930's. For similar examples see, Ronald W. Fuchs, Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur, Winterthur, 2005, p.99.
Condition: One plate is very good with minor wear to gilt and small touch up, the other plate with old restoration on the border, some touch-ups and wear to pigments and gilt.
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Two fine porcelain plates with tapered body, unglazed smooth foot rim an flared rim; hand enamelled in polychrome depicting scholars and arhat in a pavilion terrace on one plate and ladies in a garden outside a building with mountain landscape on the other; the borders with landscape panels in iron-red and brown on a minutely painted filigree gilt foliate ground and scaled inner border with reserves with iron-red landscapes and birds in blooming gardens. Both have attached old paper labels "Pr. Chinese Export Plates, c. 1790 "Rockefeller" Service / 2000 - Pr." on the bottom. Provenance: old private collection, Sewickley, PA.
Ref.: The service features a design loosely known as 'Rockefeller pattern' or ‘Palace’ ware. This is not an 18th century name, but reflects the fact that a very handsome and extensive service of this pattern was once owned by the distinguished American collector John D Rockefeller Jnr. Americans also call similar wares 'Palace ware' which was a term used by the generation of buyers in New York, Boston and Philadelphia in the 1930's. For similar examples see, Ronald W. Fuchs, Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur, Winterthur, 2005, p.99.
Condition: One plate is very good with minor wear to gilt and small touch up, the other plate with old restoration on the border, some touch-ups and wear to pigments and gilt.
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