Chinese Famille Verte Style Porcelain Basin with Ladies and Boys中国粉彩五彩仕女婴戏纹瓷大盘（仿康熙风格）
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Let’s take a look at this lively Chinese Famille Verte Style Porcelain Basin with Ladies and Boys. At first glance it feels straight out of a Kangxi palace banquet: elegant ladies, mischievous boys, garden rocks and pine, all swirling across a generous, shallow bowl.
The scene is a classic “many sons” motif, beloved in late imperial China as a visual wish for lineage and prosperity. Collectors prize these narrative pieces because they read almost like a comic strip of domestic happiness.
Here the artist works in the famille verte, or wucai, palette—greens, iron red, aubergine and turquoise enamels over a clear glaze. The drawing is fine but slightly sentimental, and the turquoise diaper band is almost too neat, pointing us away from the 17th century and into the revival fashions of the late Qing and early Republic.
Condition is very good: the enamels are intact with only light rubbing, the rim appears undamaged, and the foot shows honest kiln grit and soiling rather than modern artificial aging.
In terms of authenticity, I would place this around 1880 to 1930, a genuine antique but not a Kangxi original—hence an authenticity score around 55%. On today’s market, a reasonable auction estimate would be in the $600 to $1,200 range. A true Kangxi imperial charger of this size and subject would be a five‑figure story entirely. Here, you have a charming revival piece that captures the spirit of the earlier era without carrying its price tag.
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Item Report
Chinese Famille Verte Style Porcelain Basin with Ladies and Boys
中国粉彩五彩仕女婴戏纹瓷大盘（仿康熙风格）
By:Unknown kiln, Jingdezhen-type production
Style:Chinese famille verte (wucai) revival porcelain, late Qing to Republic period style
Origin:China
Materials:Porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels and underglaze blue double circles
Age:Circa 1880–1930 (late Qing to early Republic period revival of Kangxi famille verte style)
Condition:Very good (no obvious cracks or large chips visible; minor surface wear, firing specks and footrim soiling consistent with age)
Value:$600–$1,200 (auction, conservative)
Maker's Marks / Writing:No reign mark; only underglaze blue double circles to base.
Date:2025-11-22 05:03:03.342051
Description:
Large circular porcelain basin or charger, the interior finely enamelled in famille verte palette with two elegant ladies attended by numerous boys in a garden setting of rocks, pine and flowering plants, symbolising wishes for many sons. The cavetto is bordered by a floral diaper band with blossoms reserved on a turquoise ground. The exterior shows scattered ribbon-tied emblems, and the base has double blue concentric circles within an unglazed footring.
一件大口圆形瓷盘／盥洗盆，内壁以五彩粉彩绘仕女带众童子花园婴戏图，配以山石、松树及花卉，寓意多子多福。斜腹处饰以青绿地锦纹开光花卉边饰。外壁点缀系带吉祥纹饰，底心绘青花双圈，圈外露胎圈足。
Curator Questions
Curated by Jade
Assessment:
This is a well-painted large Chinese porcelain basin in the famille verte tradition, imitating Kangxi-period aesthetics but more likely made in the late 19th to early 20th century. The enamels are bright and slightly glassy, the drawing of faces and costumes shows a later, somewhat sweetened style, and the turquoise diaper border is more regular than early Qing examples. The footring, although convincingly soiled, appears relatively even and the glaze has a smooth, modern feel, suggesting natural age of around 100–140 years rather than 300. No reign mark is present, only double blue circles, which is consistent with many revival pieces. A word about fakes.. in the field of Qing-style famille verte, modern reproductions and artificially aged forgeries are extremely common, so caution is always required. Overall, this basin is a decorative antique of good quality, desirable for its size and lively ‘ladies and boys’ subject, but not an early Kangxi-period original. Jade approves.
这是一件绘画颇为精细的大型中国五彩瓷大盘，整体仿康熙时期的五彩风格，但更可能烧造于19世纪末至20世纪初的晚清‑民国时期。其色彩鲜艳、釉面略显玻璃感，人物面部与服饰线条带有稍甜美的晚期画风，青绿锦地花卉边饰亦较早期康熙器规整工整。圈足虽带有自然陈旧污渍，但胎釉整体较为均匀细腻，手感偏光滑，更符合约百余年历史的器物，而非三百年老物。底无年款，仅有青花双圈，这与许多仿古复兴器相吻合。A word about fakes.. 在仿康熙五彩这一门类中，现代仿品与做旧伪作极为普遍，因此鉴定时必须格外谨慎。综合来看，此盘应为晚清至民国间的优质装饰性古董，以大尺寸和热闹的“仕女婴戏”题材见长，但不属于真正的康熙朝官窑作品。Jade approves。
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Provenance:
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Condition:
Very good (no obvious cracks or large chips visible; minor surface wear, firing specks and footrim soiling consistent with age)
Identification Score: 88%
Form, palette, border design and subject clearly indicate a Chinese famille verte-style basin/charger of late Qing–Republic revival type; some minor uncertainty remains regarding exact decade and kiln.
器形、彩料、边饰以及人物题材都明确指向中国晚清至民国时期仿康熙五彩的大盘／盥洗盆，仅在具体年代及窑口上存在少量不确定性，因此给出约88%的识别把握。
Authenticity Score: 55%
Likely an authentic late 19th–early 20th century porcelain piece but not of the Kangxi imperial period it emulates; good natural wear and firing flaws support genuine age, yet the very clean, even glaze, regular foot, and later drawing style argue against early-Qing manufacture.
本件器物应为晚清至民国时期的真品瓷器，但并非其所仿效的康熙朝原作。圈足、釉面可见自然使用与烧造痕迹，支持其具有一定年代；但胎釉过于均匀细腻、圈足规整，加之人物绘画风格偏晚，都不符合早期清代官窑特征，因此真实性评分为55%，即认定为晚期仿古真品，而非康熙朝原作。
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Keywords
Chinese, famille verte, wucai, ladies and boys, porcelain basin, charger, late Qing, Republic period, China
中国, 五彩, 粉彩, 仕女婴戏, 瓷大盘, 盥洗盆, 晚清, 民国, 景德镇
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