A Chinese armorial plate for the Spanish market (Juana Bucareli y Baiza, Grandee of Spain). Qianlong, ca. 1775
The plate is decorated in the famille rose palette with a garland of pink leaves and flowers of different species delicately painted in gold looped between triple rings which are suspended from the rim. To the center, the coat of arms of Juana Antonia Bucareli y Bean 4th Marquise of Vallehermoso, Grandee of Spain, 6th […]
A Chinese armorial dish for the Portuguese market exhibited at the “Musée Oriental”, Paris, 1869 . Qianlong
The oblong dish with a deep cavetto and scalloping rim, painted in the famille rose palette with garlands of flowers on the rim and a coat of arms suspend from a large bow with a long wavy ribbons, from which emerges a garland surrounding the coat of arms in the centre of José Antonio de Mata […]
A Chinese famille rose tea bowl and saucer with figures. Late Yongzheng / early Qianlong
The figural scene depicts a young woman seated on an extravagant silk carpet leaning on a yellow barrel-form stool turned on its side as she looks expectingly at her small square cup while a male attendant kneels beside her to serve her tea. Behind the seated woman, a female attendant holds a long-handled oval fan […]
A Chinese famille verte tureen and stand for the French market. Kangxi / Yongzheng
Modeled after a European faience original, each oval hexagonal tureen has lightly fluted sides and rim, its cover surmounted is surmounted by a finial in the shape of a green-glazed eel doubly-coiled. The cover, sides and stand are brightly enameled and gilded with bold clusters of hibiscus and peony amongst smaller flowers and foliage, all […]
A Chinese ‘egg-and-spinach’ biscuit-enamelled bowl. Kangxi
Decorated on the biscuit with green, yellow and aubergine-purple enamels in a loose “egg-and-spinach” pattern the base glazed white and with an underglaze-blue seal mark.
A pair of Dehua Blanc-de-Chine cockerels. Kangxi
The cockerels are crowing with their wings folded, their tongues visible inside their open beaks, and their plumage depicted in incised detail, supported on a triangular rockwork base.
A pair of turquoise glazed reticulated “Three friends of Winter” biscuit brush pots, bitong
Each exquisitely molded in the form of a bamboo grove with gaps between each stem, issuing bamboo leaves and applied with gnarled branches of flowering prunus and pine.
Two Chinese aubergine glazed stands. Kangxi
Of hexagonal form, the center is hollow, supported by six feet shaped, the back are unglaze.
A Chinese famille rose “doctor’s consultation” plate. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette with seven figures in a landscape, the border with floral sprays interspersed with insects and butterflies.
A large Dehua Blanc-de-Chine figure of a female deity. Kangxi
The moulded figure depicts a female deity standing on a low, hollow rock work base, her hair in a high bun. She wears a long-sleeved dress; the collared undergarment is tied with a beribboned sash. She holds a flute in her right hand; to her left a fenghuang, partly obscured by her dress.