A Japanese bottle with Dutch Initials. Edo
Decorated in underglaze blue, with Dutch initial AL.
A large Chinese blue and white plate with figures. Kangxi
Decorated in underglaze blue, with figures.
A Japanese blue and white dish. Edo, 18th c.
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a bird.
A Chinese blue and white brushpot. Kangxi
A Chinese porcelain blue and white brush pot (bitong) of round and waisted form. This bitong is decorated in vivid and rich cobalt blue tones with a mountainous river landscape with rocks, a pavilion, a travelling attendant and a lone fisherman steering his boat to shore. Such mountainous river landscapes were a popular theme amongst the literati during […]
A large underglaze-blue archaistic form vase. Kangxi
After a bronze original and decorated with taotie masks.
A Chinese blue and white Chinese kraak porcelain wine pot. Wanli, 1573-1619
This Kraakware wine pot is a moulded with panels, it is thickly potted and has an S shaped handle. The six moulded panels that surround the body are painted using the pencil-drawn technique, that is to say it is line-drawing without the normal use of coloured washes that create tone. The fine, briskly executed brushwork […]
A pair of small Chinese blue and white double-gourd vases. Kangxi
Of double-gourd form, decorated in underglaze blue, and painted with boys and rocks.
A Chinese blue and white charger. Kangxi
Decorated with flowers and a central pan with a fan.
A very large and rare Chinese blue and white charger ‘Imperial consort Lady Yang getting drunk. Kangxi
Decorated in underglaze blue, depicting “Imperial consort Lady Yang getting drunk ». The rim encircled by a trellis diaper-pattern border reserved with six cartouches of flowers.
A Chinese blue and white silvered mounted double-bodied cruet. Kangxi period
After a European glass model, of a double-bodied form, the body with two twisted spouts, painted in underglaze blue with continuous flower sprays running up the moulded bands, each spout with a narrow band of triangle-work around the rim of the mouths, a small band of stylised wave pattern around the foot.