A LARGE DOMED PORCELAIN COVER

Description:

China, early Qianlong period
D. 32,2 cm
Bell-shaped domed cover with a small rim and mushroom-shaped finial on top. The decoration painted in famille rose enamels and gilding, with several different diapers and treillis patterned bands on the outside, the central design prunus and peonies.
South German private collection, assembled before 2007
Jorge Welsh published one domed cover (Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos, The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector’s Vision, 2011, vol. 2, no. 213), and also a set of ten domed covers with their dishes in Out of the Ordinary: Living with Chinese Export Porcelain, 2014, p. 86, no. 22
Few glaze frits, hairline to side