A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with Laozi. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with Laozi and his deer, with two taoists in the mountainous landscape.
A Chinese cup and saucer with a dutch enamelled decoration. Yongzheng period.
Decorated by a dutch painter over a blue and white decoration, with a hunter and a leopard.
A large Chinese famille rose charger decorated with a peacock and a peahen. 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 large Chinese blue and white “equestrian warriors” deep dish. Kangxi period. Chenghua mark.
Decorated in underglazed blue and painted in the center with five warriors each astride a galloping horse, within eight radiating ovoid panels enclosing alternating prunus and peony trees, reserved on a scale pattern ground, the underside of the rim with flowering branches and ruyi-heads. Apocryphal Chenghua mark in underglaze blue.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a cockerel. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the centre in bright enamels with a cock beside a tree peony within a lobed medallion outlined in yellow and blue, surrounded by four bright butterflies separated by lobed vignettes of floral sprays extending onto the rim, with stylized lotus sprays reserved on the pink cell-diaper ground.
A pair of Chinese armorial plates for the French market (Bouczo). Yongzheng period.
Decorated in polychrome enamels, gold and silver, with clusters of peonies on the rim, and central armorial at the center D’azur, à trois besants d’or, rangés en bande entre deux cotises de même.
An unusual and large Chinese dish decorated in the famille rose palette with a bird. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the center with a bird perched among flowering plants, the flanged rim with floral sprigs and painted in bright and vibrant rose-verte enamels upon a white ground.
An unusual doucai plate decorated with a floral design. Kangxi period.
Decorated in doucai enamels, with a floral design comprising peonies, bamboo, lotus and chrysanthemum.
A large Chinese famille verte jug and cover. Kangxi period.
The body of pear form standing on a splayed foot encircled by a petal border in green enamels and rouge-de-fer, the sides encircled by a formal borders and a central horizontal floral frieze, the border around the rim repeated on the low domed cover pierced with a hole corresponding to another on the bold loop […]
A pair of Chinese famille rose botanical plates. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels, with a branch of roses to the center, spearheads and tendrils at the rim.