A Chinese blue and white jar with two archaistic floral dragons. Kangxi
The oviform jar is finely potted and decorated in cobalt blue with two three-clawed archaistic floral dragons grasping a lotus sprays around the body interspersed with ruyi-clouds, flames and two of the Eight Treasures (the double Cash coins and the Artemisia leaf). Half of the body of the dragon already became like a part of […]
A rare blue and white armorial plate for the Irish market. Qianlong
Centrally painted, with the coat of arms of Metge, Argent three fleur-de-lis proper, two and one, quartering Lyon, Argent a lion rampant azure within a double tressure flory counter flory (this is for the Lyon – Bowes-Lyon – family, Earls of Strathmore), with the figure of Justice, standing on a column inscribed with the initias […]
A Kraak porcelain “Mythical beast and the Moon” dish. Ming
This dish is decorated in the center with a mythical Chinese creature, seated below a full moon in front of a garden wall. The central sce- ne is enclosed by radiating lappets with fruits and floral groupings, including pomegranates and tree peonies below the bracket-lobed rim. The reverse is decorated with stylized lappets.
A recumbent elephant form candle holder (taiping youxiang). Jiaqing
The elephant is modelled recumbent, his head turned on the left and his body left white except for the ears and tail. The saddle on its back is surmounted by an archaistic gu-shaped vase decorated with leaves.
A rare blue and white vase with two dragons Qiulong. Kangxi
Pear-shaped, decorated in underglaze blue with two dragons Qiulong amongst clouds.
A pair of Chinese Export lighthouse coffee pots. Qianlong
Of typical conical shape, with bird spout and elaborate shaped handle, painted in underglaze blue, the stepped foot with two decorative borders, the domed cover decorated en-suite.
A Chinese blue and white Ko-sometsuke dish. Tianqi period
The dish, good sized, is decorated on the interior in the centre with a scholar and his attendant in a landscape, enclosed by a band of dots in the cavetto and a ridge border at the rim.
Two blue and white rosewater sprinklers. Kangxi
Two Chinese export porcelain sprinklers on footing, with a spherical body and tall, tapering neck rising from an angular swelling and decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with symmetrically arranged single rosettes, petals and squares in horizontal hands. Marked with artemisia leaf.
A Chinese blue and white / celadon ground tea bowl and saucer. Kangxi
Decorated with a celadon ground to the exterior, and in underglaze blue with a crab and fishes.
A Chinese blue and white dish. Jiajing
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a temple, a pagoda, and ducks on the rim.