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Chinese Famille Rose Rooster and Cabbage Plate 18C
Catalogue:
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Asian:
Chinese:
Porcelain:
Pre 1800 item# 1199674 (stock# 2576)
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EastWest Gallery
240 Euros
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The plate is decorated with a flowering Chinese cabbage, qingcai, a homophone for money or wealth, cai, combined with a pair of Roosters, ji, a homophone for happiness, one of which is grasping within its beak, a cricket, xishua, again a homophone associated with xi, happiness. So the design can be seen both as a summer scene, and as an auspicious wish for wealth and happiness.
The plate is in good condition just having three frits and one small chip to the rim, no hairlines or restoration, som ...click for details
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