Porcelain Covered Box with Roosters, Peony and Rockwork, Yongzheng Mark

Ceramic

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The Curio Cabinet Collection

Name/Title

Porcelain Covered Box with Roosters, Peony and Rockwork, Yongzheng Mark

Entry/Object ID

CR3707

Description

Small Chinese polychrome porcelain covered box with a gently domed lid painted with two roosters amid peony, flowering plants and pierced ornamental rockwork. Brown concentric bands accent the fitted rims. The underside bears an iron-red four-character 雍正年製 (Yongzheng nian zhi, “Made in the Yongzheng reign”) mark within a square border. The rooster-and-peony garden composition carries auspicious associations with rank, prosperity and honor.

Category

Chinese Painted Porcelain

Made/Created

Artist

Maker presently unidentified

Time Period

20th Century

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Continent

Asia

Culture/Tribe

Chinese

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Iron-red four-character square mark 雍正年製 (Yōngzhèng nián zhì), “Made in the Yongzheng reign,” enclosed within a double-square border. Treated provisionally as an apocryphal Yongzheng mark

Dimensions

Height

1-1/8 in

Diameter

3-1/8 in

Weight

133 g

Accessories

Accessory

Wooden base

Materials

Material

Porcelain

Material Notes

With polychrome overglaze enamels

Acquisition

Acquisition Method

Purchase