Description
Description: Chinese porcelain tea caddy finely decorated in famille rose palette with cows, a boy offering a peach to an old man and a lady. It looks as being a motif which meaning is related to the Confucian traditional moral value of Filial Piety, because of the child feeding the elderly man, the lady helping to herd the cattle and even the calf looking affectionately at the mother cow and the latter returning a passionate look.
Dating: 18th century, Yongzheng period
Size: 10.1 cm high
Provenance: Antiquarian market. Ex Corrado Zingone collection. The Zingone family are managing the chidren’s clothing brand Zingone: https://www.zingone.it/lanostrastoria
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