SET OF FAMILLE ROSE TEA POT. Extraordinary, Chinese Qing Dynasty Period, QianLong Set of famille rose tea pot. The Finest porcelain set elegancy presented in one big tea pot, four tea cups, and four plate, all in one set of tea pot. The big tea pot potted in thick and slight tall, cylindrical body, slight heavy on mid belly, emerge a loop handles giving a balance on the opposite sides, flanked on the shoulder to mid belly, and the lid with finial bud fitted perfectly unto gallery mouth without any gap, raised with flat round foot base.
The tea cups potted of inverted bell form, deep curved side, bulbous lower body steep round straight upward to straight opening mouth rim, emerge a loop handles flanked on the shoulder to mid belly, raised on short footed ring. The Plates potted in shallow vessel form, thick and large, with broad wide central interior, rounded cavetto gently tapering to open wide, with a straight open lip, raised with round shallow draft, slight concave base. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in creme brown under glazed base color which contrast against the famille rose design color. Famille rose hand painting depicted vividly hand painted in colorful design, famille rose translates to the pink family, on a colored ground decoration.Each bulging sides enclosing colorful falangcai, famille rose on a colored ground decoration, of BaJiXiang. All The Exterior delicately fine depicted in snarling huge imperial five claws dragon careening through cumulus clouds, flowers blooms, and scrolling tendril above thrashing Li-shui waves in a red color dragon squama to chasing flaming pearl amidst flames and vapors.
Dragon is the symbol of the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, eternity, Yang and Yin, male vigor and fecundity, the Li-shui wave pattern which is known to be the abode of dragons. Elegantly presented upon a carved hardwood stand and fitted original hardwood box, with deep royal red yellow interior cushion, adorned with. Gilt auspicious pattern on metallic thread ribbon. The Lines of the drawings are clear, the light and dark shades are subtle.The porcelain conformed all required specimen to be high valued Chinese porcelain wares, with finest material, the whiteness, the glaze, and the carving. Without overlap the outlines of the design, well carved, clear, subtle, distinct, and the shape is uniformly proportioned. Mark on upper mouth rim, a four over glazed blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within double square frmae borders, QianLong Reign Period. Dish: 5 1/4W x teapot: 7 1/2.