Description: This is a three piece set of Chinese export "Rose Medallion". A vegetable bowl with warming dish and lid. Lid has a gilt pomegranate finial and gilt handles. Rose Medallion is the pattern with the widest variations in forms, pattern, and quality. Four alternating panels around a central gold circle "medallion") enclosing a bird and a tree peony characterize it. Within the four panels are birds, flowers, butterflies, and people in a house. Separating the panels are scrollwork vines, and flying "Fu" bats, a symbol for good luck and happiness.

History: Chinese export porcelain includes a wide range of porcelain that was made and decorated in China exclusively for export to Europe and later to North America between the 16th and the 20th century. It is typically not used as a descriptive term for the much earlier wares that were produced to reflect Islamic taste and exported to the Middle East and Central Asia. The new Famille Rose palette was adopted and quickly supplanted the earlier Famille Verte porcelains of the Kangxi period. Famille rose enamels for the export market included the Mandarin Palette. Specific patterns such as tobacco leaf and faux tobacco leaf were popular as were, from around 1800, Canton decorated porcelain with its figures and birds, flowers and insects. Many other types of decoration such as encre de chine or Jesuit wares, made for Christian missionaries, pieces with European subjects like the Judgement of Paris, or Adam and Eve, were made for the European market. Other examples include the Sydney punchbowls from the Macquarie era in Australia, 1810–1820.

Provenance: Arthur J Connolly, Naples, FL

Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 5.125 | Height(in) = 5 | Width(in) = 11 | Depth(in) = 8

Size of Artwork(in): 5 x 11 x 8"

Artist Name: Chinese

Medium: Hard paste

Circa: Circa 1840

No chips or cracks. One factory check in bottom of finial. Some age discoloration and pitting inside bowl. Some paint loss on rim of warming dish.