A RARE CHINESE ENAMEL EUROPEAN SUBJECT STEM BOWL AND COVER

QIANLONG 1736-95

The exterior of the bowl decorated with three cartouches enclosing Europeans in classical dress, the cover with two panels depicting herders and their livestock, all reserved on a green ground painted with many flowers and leaves, with a dense band of various fruits encircling the foot, 13cm. (2)

The panels on the bowl depict Vertumnus and Pomona with two dogs at their feet, Ceres, Pomona and Flora beneath a tree, and Cybele seated in her chariot pulled by two lions with a beggar woman kneeling before her with a wreath.

Cf. Asian Art Day One, 19th May 2010, lot 41 for a comparable stem bowl and cover sold in these rooms; see also D S Howard and J Ayers, China for the West, vol.2, pp.636-637, no.662 for a similarly decorated enamel saucer dish with the same scene of Cybele meeting a beggar woman.