A large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with mandarin ducks. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels, gold, and underglaze blue, with mandarin ducks and lotus plants bordered by narrow bands on the rim, alternating cartouches of carp and crayfish amongst water plants reserved at the well on a trellis-diaper ground, central scene within a ruyi-edged roundel of two mandarin ducks amongst lotus plants, flowering prunus branches, […]
A Chinese Kraak porcelain charger decorated with mandarin ducks. Ming Dynasty-Wanli period (1573-1619)
Decorated in underglaze blue, the rim well painted with panels of fruits and flowers surrounding ducks and a lotus pond centering the broad floor, the exterior decorated with simplified reserves.
A Chinese famille rose plate depicting a scene from The Romance of the Western Chamber. Yongzheng period.
Painted in famille rose enamels and decorated with a scroll-form panel painted with a scene from Romance of the Western Chamber, surrounded by flowers and shaped panels enclosing auspicious emblems, on dense scroll ground.
A Chinese “en grisaille” pair of armorial plates for the Spanish market. Qianlong period.
Painted in the centre with the coat-of-arms of José de Ovando y Solís, 1st Marquis of Ovando (1693-1755), which has a marquis coronet as a crest and surrounded by an elaborate diamond trelliswork and framed by rococo scrolls and the letters OBAN-DO in gold. The en grisaille decoration (Encre-de-Chine) on the rim, with gold highlights, is based […]
A large Chinese blue and white dish decorated with two deers. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in underglaze blue, with two deers in a landscape and peonies on the rim.
Two famille rose “Rockefeller” reticulated baskets (Palace ware). Late Qianlong/early Jiaqing period
Decorated in the “Rockefeller Pattern”, each centered with a Mandarin scene – each one always unique – a diapered border, and each pieced edged with a band of finely detailed gilded scrollwork with landscape reserves.
A famille rose charger (from a pair) decorated with Lan Tsai-Ho. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the the famille rose palette with the figure of the Immortal Lan Tsai-Ho.
A Chinese blue and white dish decorated with a peacock. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in underglaze blue, with honey-brown edge, flowers on the rim, cell-diaper band at the well, and a central scene of pheasant perched on rockwork amongst flowers.
A Chinese armorial plate for the Dutch market. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in polychrome enamels, on the outer rim of the plate there is a narrow band of flowerheads and leaves enamelled in rouge de fer, blue, yellow, black, and gold. On the rim there are two large lotus sprays together with various Chinese symbolic figures, such as a jar and a small landscape with a […]
A ‘Blanc-de-Chine’ Dehua wine pot. Kangxi period.
A Chinese white porcelain (blanc-de-Chine) hexagonal wine pot and cover with flat base, three corner feet, and six rounded sides. Each side moulded with a recessed relief design within a shaped border, rising to a low, hexagonal mouth. The matching flat cover with infitting unglazed flange has a knob in the form of a seated […]