
A pair of blue and white ‘boy and peony’ dishes. China, Kangxi
The dishes are painted in underglaze blue, at the centre with a small boy wearing a waistband holding over his right shoulder a curling branch

The dishes are painted in underglaze blue, at the centre with a small boy wearing a waistband holding over his right shoulder a curling branch

The pair of vases, of gu form, rests on a slightly spreading foot and rises to an everted neck. The continuous decoration, painted in underglaze

The shallow dishes are decorated in underglaze blue, enriched with Kakiemon enamels and touches of gilding. At the centre, a river landscape painted in underglaze

The plate is enamelled in the famille rose palette and gilt with a lady carrying a lotus stem and riding a buffalo over turbulent wares

Finely decorated in the traditional Imari palette, the centre painted with a European couple, traditionally identified as Governor Duff and his wife, standing on a

The hound is decorated with an aubergine-brown glaze, its head turned slightly to its left. It has flat drooping ears and a long muzzle. Its