Description
Porcelain; the soft-paste body enamelled in famille-verte colours with a scene from ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber’ of various ladies on a terrace, another making up n front of a mirror and another asleep in a curtained bed behind, beneath a creamy crackled glaze, Jingdezhen kilns.
Soft paste porcelain was developed during the 1720’s by changes in the firing method and temperature of the kilns (see In Search of a Dragon, pp. 9-10 for a full explanation of the process). Soft paste bodieswere usually decorated in underglaze-blue and white and this is a rare example with enamelled decoration.
