Adam's Asian Art - Fine Oriental Ceramics, Sculptures & Art November 3rd 2018

27 33 A FAMILLE ROSE DECALOBED LEMON GROUND TEA-TRAY JIAQING MARK (1796-1820), with rounded sides and raised on four bracket feet, decorated to the exterior and interior with lotus sprays and florets reserved on a lemon-yellow ground that sur- rounds an imperial poem in praise of fine tea, inscribed in iron red reserved in white and dated to the cyclical dingsi year of Jiaqing’s reign (1797), the reverse with a six-char- acter reign mark of Jiaqing reserved in a white square on a lemon-yellow ground, 16cm wide Provenance: by repute, formerly in the possession of Barnaby Fitzpatrick, second Baron Castletown, and pur- chased at an auction of chattels from his house, Grans- ton Manor, co. Laois, conducted by Battersby’s, Dublin, 5 May 1938. € 10,000 - 20,000 www.adams.ie