Chinese Export Porcelain Fruit-Decorated Bowl and Plate

A matched Chinese export porcelain bowl and plate decorated in famille rose enamels with a central fruit arrangement, including peaches, grapes, and other fruit motifs, surrounded by small floral sprigs and scattered decorative elements. The forms are refined and lightly scalloped, with gilt borders and delicate hand-painted enameling typical of high-quality mid-18th-century Chinese export wares. The palette is bright and naturalistic, reflecting the European taste for chinoiserie and fruit painting. The plate appears to have a repaired break/staple repair, while both pieces show age-related wear to the gilding and enamel surfaces.

Chinese export porcelain of this period is historically significant as evidence of global trade between China and the West in the 18th century. Famille rose fruit-decorated pieces were especially desirable among European and American collectors and often commissioned for elite households.

• •Plate has staple repair
• •Both pieces show losses to gold and enamels
• •No other restoration clearly visible from the image