A very tall Chinese blue and white baluster vase and cover. Kangxi period
Of slender baluster form, moulded and decorated with swirling panels enclosing flowers, between lappet-shaped floral panels and shoulder, the domed cover similarly decorated with stepped finials.
A large Chinese Export Porcelain dish for the Asian market (Swatow ware). Ming dynasty 16th/17th century
Decorated with green and red enamels with dragons, phoenixes (Fenghuang) and flowers.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with two quails. Yongzheng period.
Delicately enamelled to the centre with two quails on a grassy mound beside prunus, chrysanthemum, peony and bamboo within a yellow spearhead pattern border, surrounded in bianco-sopra-bianco with bamboo, prunus and chrysanthemum sprays in bianco-sopra-bianco below the cracked-ice pattern rim enriched with flower-heads and floral cartouches.
A Chinese blue and white square bottle vase. Late Ming/Transitional period.
Of square shape, decorated overall with exotic birds amidst flowering branches.
A Chinese Export biscuit group of figures. Qianlong period.
Representing a Chinese lady and a Chinese gentleman, standing on an octogonal unglazed base, wearing celadon-glazed long tunics.
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with a basket of flowers. Yongzheng period.
Enameled with a ribbon-tied basket of fruit and flowers, the rim with cartouches of auspicious objects.
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with a foliate. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette and gilt, with a foliate and lotus pendant within border panels of blossoming trees.
A Chinese famille rose covered bowl. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose enamels, with a central basket of peonies.
A pair of Chinese Export Porcelain “Tobacco Leaf” plates. Late 18th/early 19th century
Decorated in underglaze blue, polychrome enamels, and gold, with a pair of pheasants amongst leaves and flower blossoms beneath two squirrels on the branches of vine, three prunus sprays on the reverse, gold edge on the lobed rim.
A Chinese famille rose “twin peacock” charger. Qianlong period.
Enamelled in a rich famille rose palette with a peacock and a peahen standing on a grassy hillock beside blue weathered rocks growing with large pink peony, smaller flowers in gilt and colors growing alongside, all within a series of iron-red borders trailing similar blooms and interrupted by dark grey ground lappets edged in green […]