A Chinese famille verte wall cistern. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels, with fish amongst lotus leaves and crabs, terminating in an openwork plaque with two confronting dragon fish and a flaming pearl, the cover with the same decoration.
A Chinese famille rose plate painted with carps. Yongzheng period.
Painted in famille rose enamels, with a basket of flowers and a border of carps swimming among water weeds.
A Chinese blue and white dish decorated with two ladies. Kangxi period.
The dish is decorated on the interior with two Chinese ladies in a landscape. The wide everted rim is decorated with two hares leaping amidst rocks and plants. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal six character Chenghua mark, indication of quality.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, with tree figures in front of a Chinese architecture, depicting probably an episode from The Romance of the Western Chamber, a man spying on Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng. On the rim, sprays of peonies with fingered citrus and pomegranate.
A large Chinese famille rose dish depicting a scene from The Romance of the Western Chamber. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose palette, with a scene from Act III of The Romance of the Western Chamber (Xi Xiang Ji) by the Yuan Dynasty playwright Wang Shifu (c.1260-1336), with Cui Yingying and her attendant Hongniang, awaiting the arrival of Zhang Sheng.
A large Chinese Milk & Blood dish depicting a scene from The Romance of the Western Chamber. Kangxi period.
Decorated in Rouge-de-fer with iron-red, black enamel and gold on the glaze, the spreading sides modelled with pomegranate-shaped panels in low relief, and depicting an episode from Act III of The Romance of the Western Chamber (Xi Xiang Ji), with Cui Yingying and an attendant awaiting the arrival of Zhang Sheng. On the sides large panels filled […]
A massive Chinese famille rose charger decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Enamelled at the center with two ladies on a terrace and in a building holding a lotus and a fan, and a peony, within a lappet band at the well and a composite flower and a fruit band at the border including prunus, chrysanthemum, pomegranate and finger citrus.
A Chinese plate painted in famille rose enamels with a pair of pheasants. Yongzheng period.
Painted in famille rose enamels. In the centre, a pair of pheasants on a blue rock among peonies, magnolia blooms and daisies, in the well, a pink lozenge-diaper border with four cartouches, with emblems (pair of books, Artemisia leaves) tied in ribbons, round the rim, flower sprays alternating with formal floral designs enclosed in wreaths.
A large Chinese dish decorated in the famille rose palette for the Persian market. Qianlong period.
Of octogonal form, painted in the famille rose palette, the wide rim moulded in eight planes sloping inwards, with angles clearly showing where they radiate towards the points on the rim. Decorated with eight sepia roundels, each gilded with one of two alternating flowers and set within an irregular border of sepia scrollwork, heightened with […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with pheasants. Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, with two pheasants and ornements.