A Chinese blue and white dish with a mongolian hunting scene. Kangxi period.

The plate is decorated in underglazed blue and white, with an iconic Kangxi image : two Mongolian horsemen in a rocky landscape, armed with bow spear, pursuing a deer, and accompanied by hound hunting. The rim is painted with a large band of scrolling lotus around the scalloped edge with Buddhist auspicious emblems like the pair of […]

A Chinese blue and white dish with hunting scene. 19th century

The plate painted in underglaze blue, with a landscape and two Chinese archers on horseback, a third riding beside, led by the hunting dog, the scene surrounded by a double circle. The flattened rim painted with leiwen border having lobed blue-bordered reserves of flowerheads and foliate sprays, the verso centering with a ”conch”, one of the […]

A Chinese export armorial plate for the dutch market (Jonge). Qianlong period.

Painted in the centre with the dutch arms of de Jonge (or de Jongh), heightened in blue and green enamel, iron-red, gilt and silver encircled in the cavetto by an underglaze-blue floral, bead and scroll band, the rim with four precious objects and flower sprays encircled by a chain linked border, the underside with underglaze-blue […]