A large Chinese blue and white “double herring” dish for the Dutch market. Qianlong period.
Of rectangular shape with notched corners, the centre painted with two herring placed in opposite direction, beneath a row of demi– peony-heads interlaced with scrollwork suspending from a cell-pattern band around the everted rim.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Brightly decorated in the famille rose palette, with a man on a horse and a lady in a chariot accompanied by attendants within sepia “fish-roe” and floral lappets.
A Chinese famille rose figural group of the ‘Laughing Twins’, Hehe Erxian. Qianlong period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels, with jovial expressions, carrying a lotus sceptre and a ruyi, wearing green and yellow robes, standing side by side on a pierced rockwork base washed with a brown glaze.
A pair of Chinese famille verte dishes decorated in the Kakiemon style. Kangxi period.
Moulded as a chrysanthemum flower, on a footring, the petal in very low relief. Decorated in enamels with bamboo and blossoming prunus near a zigzagging bamboo fence, a dancing boy and three approaching tigers.
A large Chinese famille rose charger decorated with mandarin ducks and the eight Daoist Immortals. Yongzheng period.
Richly painted in rose-verte enamels, the centre with two ducks swimming among lotus enclosed by a yellow enamel spearhead line at the well. On the rim, the eight Daoist Immortals in choppy coastal seas.
A Chinese vase jue decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period.
The rounded sides supported on tripod scroll feet washed in yellow issuing from aubergine animal masks and decorated with taotie masks on a blossom-strewn seeded green ground divided and interspersed with flanges, the concave rim and spout with dragon panels on a similar ground.
A pair of Chinese famille rose cups decorated with flowers from the Martin Hurst Collection. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a panels of peonies and foliage.
A Chinese famille rose “twin peacock” dish. 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 […]
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with a pine. Kangxi period.
Decorated in underglaze blue and famille verte enamels, with a pine, bamboo and peonies.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with crabs. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, this plate depicts two crabs holding a peonies between them.