A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE 'ELEGANT LADIES' FIVE-PIECE GARNITURE Qianlong period, circa 1740 Comprising three baluster vases and two beaker vases finely painted in pastel rose enamels with two elegant ladies and a child gathering spring blossoms from a flowering prunus that issues from pale blue rockwork on a garden terrace with a low table nearby with two barrel-shaped garden seats and a small jardinière on stand issuing pinks, clouds and the rising sun above, the domed covers with further floral sprays. 14in (36cm) high (5). Footnotes: 乾隆時期 約1740年 粉彩《花園仕女圖》飾瓶一套五件 Published Cohen & Cohen, Take Two!, Antwerp, 2017, pp. 90-91, no. 38 出版： 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Take Two!》，安特衛普，2017年，頁90-91，圖版編號38 Five-piece garniture sets were very popular in Europe at this date and designs for furniture, fireplaces and room panelling allowed for this with brackets and niches for the display of such sets. Many such arrays followed the designs of Daniel Marot (1661-1752) a French Huguenot designer and engraver who moved to Holland after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) and later to England with William and Mary, introducing the court style of Louis XIV to both countries. One of his designs for a chimney piece included spaces for 300 pieces of porcelain. This fashion was further added to with the publication in 1755 of Jean-Baptiste Pillement's designs of Chinese Ornament, that combined the 'high rococo' with a revived taste for chinoiserie and Chinese porcelain.