A Chinese famille rose « écuelle à bouillon » decorated with a boy astride a water buffalo. Qianlong period.
Decorated in famille verte and famille rose enamels and gilt, with foliate-vine border at the edge and with a principal scene on the cover depicting a boy holding a flowering branch while astride a water buffalo next to a calf close by a stream flanked by a willow tree amongst prunus, rocks, and chrysanthemums. Ducks […]
A Chinese Dehua “Blanc de Chine” porcelain libation cup in the shape of a rhinoceros horn. Kangxi period.
Decorated in relief with auspicious signs of deer and plum branches, with two figures of monsters on the other side.
A Chinese export famille rose and silvered armorial dish for the Belgian market (Bistrate of Anvers). Yongzheng period.
The center enameled and silvered with the arms of la Bistrate accollée with those of Proli between greyhound supporters and below a helmet, coronet and crest, surrounded by a trellis-patters in the well, the arms repeated individually around the everted rim between a du Paquier style design of linked feathers, strapwork, shells and hanging drapery.
A Chinese export armorial plate for the Dutch market (Greven). Qianlong period.
Painted in underglaze blue, with the arms of Greven and Gronard(t) side-by-side.
A Chinese export armorial plate for the dutch market (Jonge). Qianlong period.
Painted in the centre with the dutch arms of de Jonge (or de Jongh), heightened in blue and green enamel, iron-red, gilt and silver encircled in the cavetto by an underglaze-blue floral, bead and scroll band, the rim with four precious objects and flower sprays encircled by a chain linked border, the underside with underglaze-blue […]
A pair of Chinese export armorial plates for the english market (Laroche). Qianlong period.
A pair of octagonal plates, painted in underglaze blue, with a central scene depicting a quail and a grasshopper perched on a flowering branch of chrysanthemum. The rim is decorated with flowers. The arms are of Laroche, Quarterly first and fourth a raven proper, second and third an eagle close looking at the sun in its […]
A pair of Chinese plates decorated with “The leaping pekinese” after a design attribued to the Cornelis Pronk studio. Qianlong period.
Each decorated at the centre in blue enamel with a leaping pekinese dog, the iron-red trellis border reserved with parrot and other bird cartouches.
A Chinese imari « Governor Duff » plate. Yongzheng period.
Finely decorated in the traditional imari palette, the centre with a European couple, traditionnaly thought to be Governor Duff and his wife, standing on a garden terrace beside a hound, within an elaborate floral border with four clusters of the Hundred Antiques.
A pair of Chinese plates painted in the famille rouge enamels. Yongzheng period.
Richly enamelled and decorated in the famille rouge palette, with a tree amongst peonies, pomegranate and citrus.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with two pheasants in a garden. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels with two pheasants in a garden.