Chinese export pate-de-sur famillie rose
Just add famillie vert and you'll be really confused. Sometimes with antiques there is a temptation to be or seem to be pompous, however each one of these terms describes fully various processes and styles of production and design.
Keeping things focused famillie vert, basically means a green background or overall effect of colour, and the mug in the picture obviously is a famillie rose, rose being the french word for pink or red, items tend to be famillie rose as opposed to famillie rouge but could be either.
It seems many terms seem to stem from French however makes sense, as we even in England spoke french until the 1400's in particular in court and parliament. Many words also come from Latin, and as French is a Latin language all makes sense.
As with many seeming high flaunting words breaking them down easily makes sense and show what they mean, more explanations of future blogs, reference the other terms.
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