AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE 'CHICKEN' JARDINIERES, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE 'CHICKEN' JARDINIERES

QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

清十九世紀 粉彩童子雞石圖詩文小花盆一對

each of deep cylindrical form supported on a short foot, painted to one side with a boy approaching a rooster within a garden of blooming peonies and blue rockwork, the reserve inscribed with an imperial poem by the Qianlong Emperor, dated to the bingshen year of his reign, corresponding to 1776, the base with a drain hole (2)

Height 4⅜ in., 11.2 cm