A Chinese imari four-clawed dragon tea bol. Qianlong period.
Tea bowl and saucer painted in iron red underglazed blue with the so called four-clawed dragon pattern, depicting a coiled beast pursuing a flaming pearl amongst clouds with its tail curling over the rim. This model was copied by the manufacture of Worcester.
A Chinese blue and white plate decorated with precious objects. Kangxi period.
Executed in a very nice quality porcelain, especially white and almost in eggshell porcelain, decorated in the centre with flowers vases and precious objects, encircled by alternating cartouches of flowers and antiques, the bases painted with an auspicious mark.
A Chinese blue and white plate decorated with a bird. Kangxi period.
Decorated in underglaze blue with a bird amongst flowers and fruits.
A Chinese blue and white dish with a mongolian hunting scene. Kangxi period.
The plate is decorated in underglazed blue and white, with an iconic Kangxi image : two Mongolian horsemen in a rocky landscape, armed with bow spear, pursuing a deer, and accompanied by hound hunting. The rim is painted with a large band of scrolling lotus around the scalloped edge with Buddhist auspicious emblems like the pair of […]
A Chinese blue and white dish decorated with two ladies standing by a fence on a terrace. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the center with a lady standing by a fence on a terrace, with peonies ; the other lady in a pavilion. On the rim, four cartouches containing flowers against a diaper background.
A Chinese blue and white dish with hunting scene. 19th century
The plate painted in underglaze blue, with a landscape and two Chinese archers on horseback, a third riding beside, led by the hunting dog, the scene surrounded by a double circle. The flattened rim painted with leiwen border having lobed blue-bordered reserves of flowerheads and foliate sprays, the verso centering with a ”conch”, one of the […]
A pair of Chinese export plates with Dutch enamelled decoration. Yongzheng period.
Chinese pair of plates, with a Dutch enamelled decoration, in the Kakiemon style with birds, parrots and oriental themes.
A Chinese export porcelain pair of shell shaped dishes. Kangxi period.
The shell-dishes are lightly moulded and finely enamelled in shades of green, yellow and black with a quatrefoil ruyi medallion flanked by flowering prunus and magnolia branches, the border with a scroll band in underglaze blue.
A large Chinese famille verte bowl decorated with figures. Kangxi period.
A strikingly elegant bowl of flared rim form, decorated in famille verte enamels, with figures, rocks and trees.
A Chinese famille verte lobed dish decorated with a lady standing by a fence on a terrace. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the centre with a lady standing by a fence on a terrace. The eight panels on the sides show, alternately, some of the « Hundred Antiquities », bai gu, in enamels, lotuses reserved on a red ground, flowering plants and butterflies in underglazed blue, and a pine or a pavilion and a bamboo in gold […]