A rare famille verte biscuit figure of Xianlong Luohan, the dragon tamer. Kangxi
The luohan is cast seated with his legs pendant, his left hand is holding an alms bowl, and his right arm is raised, holding a pearl in his right hand. The slightly tilted head looks towards his left hand; his face cast with exaggerated facial features with a broad, hooked nose and large bulging eyes. […]
A large and rare Chinese armorial plate for the Spanish market (Navia-Osorio for the Palace of Anleo). Qianlong
The plate decorated with flowers and insects, with on the rim the coat of arms of a Spanish family. In the center, a simple bouquet of chrysanthemums and daisies with small flowers and tied at the stems with a very fine ocher ribbon. Around the bouquet are painted several little birds, curiously the same size […]
A grisaille « Les pèlerins de l’isle de Cythère » tea bowl and saucer. Qianlong
After the engraving “Les pèlerins de l’isle de Cythere » (1708), by Bernard Picart (1673-1733), painted en grisaille, gilt and iron red, the scene depicting a Cupid (‘Eros’) holding a staff and torch guiding a pilgrim couple travelling by boat to the Greek Isle of Cythere. The couple is sharing a cup of wine. There are three boats and the island […]
A Chinese camaïeu carmin “Le pêcheur” plate. Qianlong period
Decorated in camaïeu carmin at the centre with a fishing scene, a young man standing barefoot on a river-bank holding his rod, beside two large fishing baskets below a tree-trunk with birds in flight overhead, the border with a Du Pasquier style border.
A large Chinese figure of parrot with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi
Perched on a pierced rockwork, base splashed in aubergine and green, the bird glaze in tones of green with feather-markings delineated in black, standing with head slightly turned in attentive attitude, the pupils picked out in black and the black and legs left unglazed.
A Chinese camaïeu carmin “card players” plate. Qianlong
Finely enameled at the center with two figures seated at a table playing cards watched by another seated figure and a fourth standing holding a pipe, to their right a further seated figure holds his wine goblet in one hand and his other arm embracing the waist of the serving wench, in the foreground cockerels, […]
A rare grisaille dish with a European subject “L’eau”. Qianlong
This dish is decorated en grisaille with a cartouche depicting a man fondling a lady while a second one looks on. The scene takes place in a wooded landscape. Both women are holdings fishing rods.
A Chinese famille verte figure of Guanyin in a grotto. Kangxi
Well modeled, the Goddess of Mercy seated on a lotus pedestal rising from a dark craggy grotto towering behind her. She is flanked by the Golden Youth, Xancai and the Jade Maiden, Longnu. The biscuit glazed in dark-brown, ivory-white, and green with the hair painted black. The base left unglazed.
A rare Chinese shell-shaped ewer and basin reproduced in Octave du Sartel. Yongzheng
Following a silver form and probably painted with a unique decoration, the ewer features a high scroll painted with rouge-de-fer scrolls and a turquoise blue ground of clouds. The sides are adorned with brown and white bands decorated with gilt clouds and sprays of flowers, with the basin similarly decorated.
An unrecorded chinese armorial cup for the French market (Conen de Saint-Luc). Qianlong
The cup richly decorated in the famille rose palette, bearing the arms of the Conen de Saint-Luc family. The arms are party per fess or and argent, a lion rampant counterchanged, armed, langued, and crowned gules, surmounted by a marquis’s coronet and supported by two lions couchant on a mound with a gilt scroll. On […]