A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with cockerels. Yongzheng period.
Two lively cockerels in a peony garden, one perched on rocks, the rim with pink cell diaper border interrupted by three cartouches of flowers and citrus.
A Chinese famille rose Pronk “Arbor” dish. Qianlong period.
Decorated after the Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk’s design with the classic topiary garden scene, the border with cartouches of moths, butterflies, flowers and fruits, the reverse with iron-red and purple lambrequin border.
A Chinese blue and white teapot with Dutch silver mounts. Qianlong period.
Decorated in underglaze blue, with Dutch silver mounts.
A pair of large Chinese famille rose dishes decorated with a basket of flowers. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a central basket of flowers.
A large Chinese famille rose group representing the Hehe Erxian. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with two boys seated on pierced rock work, a “three-legged toad” peering out from an opening below.
A large Chinese blue and white ‘Chrysanthemum” dish. Kangxi period.
Painted in vivid shades of blue, the center with two chrysanthemum blossoms growing from rockwork, the scene within double-line borders and encircled by rocks and flowers.
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with peonies. Yongzheng period.
Decorated with panels of peonies, the rim with a gilded Y-diaper border, the outer rim in blue enamel.
A Chinese “en grisaille” and gilt marriage plate for the Dutch market. Yongzheng period.
Finely and delicately decorated with an allegorical marriage scene in a grand architectural setting, below an arch inscribed SEMPER AMOR PRO TE FIRMISSIMUS ATQUE FIDELIS, the columns on either side surmounted by small coats-of-arms of Nicolas Geelvinck and Johanna Graafland, Neptune and sea-nymphs emerging from reeds to watch the scene in the foreground, the well with […]
A Chinese “en grisaille” and gilt “Martin Luther” plate. Qianlong period.
Decorated en grisaille at the centre with a framed portrait of Martin Luther flanked by two angels, the frame inscribed with the initials D:M:L:, all above an oval cartouche depicting Christ preaching to His disciples, a band of grisaille and gilt spearheads in the well and an elaborate border of foliage in the style of […]
A pair of Chinese libation cups decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period.
After an archaic bronze form, each applied with a handle flanked by chilong dragons, two further green dragons on the underside of the mouth, all on a famille verte simulated bronze ground.