A 'FAMILLE ROSE' PORCELAIN TILE DEPICTING FIVE PAIRS OF BIRDS UNDER A TREE, 'WU LUN TU', AS A TABLE SCREEN ON A WOODEN STAND

Description:

China, titled, dat. 1887 and sign. Yu Chun, late Qing dynasty/Republic
25.5 x 39 cm, Paneel 55.2 x 40 cm, gesamt 75.5 x 59.5 x 21 cm
Under a wutong tree, a pair of phönix birds standing on a rock amidst flowering peonies, surrounded by another four pairs of birds of cranes, mandarin ducks, stilts and orioles. These birds symbolise the five basic relationships (wu lun) of Confucianism between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, older and younger brother and between friends. Titled: "Depiction of Fünf Relationships", signature: "In the winter month of the dinghai year (1887) painted by Yu Chun in Zhushan". Wooden stand carved in openwork.
From a South German private collection, acquired before 1990 - Minor wear and soiled, wooden stand chipped and minor repaired