Description:
Chinese export porcelain bowl decorated in the Famille rose palette of pink, purple, green, orange, brown, and black with the "Cherry Pickers" pattern on two sides separated by shaped reserves with landscape scenes. The popular French print, "The Cherry Pickers," was engraved by Nicolas Ponce (1746-1831), after a painting of the same title by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (1723-1769). Baudouin's painting (now lost) is thought to have inspired a similar 1765 painting by his father-in-law, François Boucher (1703-1770), "La Cueilette des Cerises," which now hangs at Kenwood House, near London, England. The print found its greatest appeal on examples of Chinese export porcelain, and was rarely translated onto enameled metal pieces. This pattern seems to have been made primarily for the Dutch market according to Christiaan Jörg, who notes that in 1777, the directors of the China Committee of the Dutch East India Company sent a number of samples to Canton, including the "cherry pickers" pattern to be translated onto porcelain. Their letter confirmed that the "cherry pickers" decoration was in high demand, and included the statement that "it distressed us that our competitors and especially that the Swedes brought back more popular kinds than us each year." This is a very rough version where the figures look more Mongol than western with a man standing on a ladder throwing cherries into the skirt of the woman waiting below the tree, a dog and basket by her feet, and another woman sitting next to the ladder. There is a floral spray in the well.
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