A massive Chinese famille rose charger from the “Serviço dos Dois Pavões”. Qianlong period.
Enamelled and gilt at the centre with a peacock and peahen perched on rockwork beside a large peony-blossom amongst various flowering branches, comprising one octafoil tray.
A Chinese famille rose “pseudo-tobacco leaf” plate. Qianlong period.
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette and gilt, with a pair of crested ducks, undoubtedly mandarins, one swimming, the other situated on a blue underglaze mound punctuated with gilding. The ducks, the Chinese symbol of fidelity, are looking at one another. The one on the right, undoubtedly male, looks as if it had been […]
A pair of “Rockefeller Pattern” dishes. Qianlong period.
A pair of Rockefeller pattern dishes decorated in the highest quality of the end of the Qianlong period, with Mandarin scenes within roundels center the design while finely rendered sepia landscapes float in reserve against meticulously detailed gilded ground.
A Chinese famille rose « rooster » plate. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in opaque enamels from the famille rose (Fencai) palette, with one rooster and flowers.
A Chinese famille rose dish decorated with The Generals of the Yang family. Yongzheng period.
Enamelled in the famille rose palette and gilt, with a scene of the Yang Jia Jiang Yanyi (The Generals of the Yang Family), with six female warriors on horseback in a garden being watched by a dignitary and attendants on a pavilion balcony, the rim with a band of cell and trellis-pattern and reserved with six […]
A Chinese plate decorated in famille rose enamels with figures. Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, with three figures in garden with a phoenix. Peonies and landscape on the rim. The phoenix is the motif for the empress of China and is displayed in the crown and her clothing.
A Chinese famille rose “Romance of the Western Chamber” plate. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a scene from Xixiang Ji, the Romance of the Western Chamber.
A Chinese famille rose candlestick decorated with flowers. Qianlong period.
Modelled after a European silver form, with knopped stem, the spreading shallow domed bases with wavy rims and brightly enamelled with flowers.
A Chinese pair of famille rose plates decorated with children on a boat and dormouses. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, to the center with children on a boat. On the rim, branches of peonies with dormouses.
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with figures. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette, with two ladies in a fenced garden outside a walled enclosure, the rim encircled by a green-ground diaper border decorated with a bright iron-red flowerheads spaced between panels in reserve alternately enclosing butterflies and cicadas.