A pair of Chinese blue and white shell-shaped dishes. Kangxi
The shell-dishes lightly moulded and finely enamelled in blue and white with sprays of peonies and a large ruyi.
A Chinese “Chrysanthemum” salt cellar. Kangxi
Decorated in underglaze blue, shaped to the top as a chrysanthemum, the moulded petals painted with flowers, supported on a wide pierced base decorated with further flowers.
A Chinese blue and white “hunting” vase. Kangxi period
Deocorated in underglaze blue, with European figures, after a hunt.
A Chinese blue and white sauce boat. Qianlong period
A décor d’un paysage lacustre.
A Chinese blue and white jar and cover. Kangxi period
Of ovoid form, decorated in underglaze blue, the body with floral sprays between wide blue-ground lappet bands, filled with leafy scrollwork. The short neck and a thin ring at the top of the vase is unglazed to accommodate the small, low-domed cover, that is decorated with a central flower.
A Chinese blue and white jar with a Dutch silver mounts. Kangxi period
Decorated with underglaze blue, with an ice-ground and prunus flowers.
A Chinese blue & white botanical saucer dish after Maria Sybille Merian. Qianlong period.
Decorated in underglazed blue and gold, in the highest quality for this pattern, painted at the centre with a white-bodied caterpillar crawling on the leaf of an iris, beside another with a crawling amongst the petals of an orchid, a butterfly hovering above, enclosed by an gilt floral band in the well and a broad band […]
A large Chinese blue and lotus bowl decorated with Long Elizas. Kangxi period
Moulded as a lotus flower, decorated with underglaze blue and painted with Long Elizas.
Two Chinese blue and white lotus dishes. Kangxi period
Each formed as lotus flowers with nine radiating petals, and painted with chrysanthemum and peony sprays, below nine lappets.
A Chinese blue and white charger decorated as a lotus. Kangxi period
Decorated with underglaze blue as the lotus flower.