A Chinese famille verte tea bowl with “The Eight Horses of Wang Mu”. Kangxi
Decorated in the famille verte palette and a café-au-lait ground, with The Eight Horses of Wang Mu, under a pine in a mountainous landscape. The reverse, with flowering sprigs painted on a cafe au lait ground.
A rare, very fine and massive shell-shaped “dragon” ewer and basin. Yongzheng
Following a silver form, probably painted with a unique decoration, the ewer with a hight scroll painted with irregular grisaille spots on a light blue ground, the sides painted predominantly in rouge-de-fer and gilding with blue, yellow and grisaille, with a large dragon amid clouds, below a border of pendent stiff leaves and above a […]
A Chinese armorial plate for the Italian market (Uguccione III Bourbon del Monte, 12th Marquis Regent of Sorbello). Qianlong
Of octogonal form, the centre of the plate decorated with the coat of arms of the Marchesi di Sorbello, with drums and flags while the cavetto is decorated with an unusual inner border and a band of floral swag decoration on the rim.
A Chinese armorial plate for the Spanish market (Fernando de Silva, 12th Duke of Alba). Qianlong
With a lobed rim based on European metal work models, decorated in the famille rose palette and gold, with in the centre a floral medallion of narcissus and magnolias in gold with iron-red highlights, surrounded by a band in the well. On the rim are the coat-of-arms of the Duke of Alba, outlined in red.
A very fine famille rose “Madame de Pompadour” sugar pot. Yongzheng / Qianlong
Enameled with two eagles and two fish within feathery foliage below lotus seed pods, lychee, peony and other fruiting and flowering stems.
A pair of Chinese armorial plates for the French market (Orry). Yongzheng
With the arms of Orry, de gueule à un lion rampant et grimpant sur un rocher d’argent, in colors and gilt with a rocaille surrounded by a vividly enameled foliate border, the rim scalloped.
A rare famille verte armorial ewer and basin (Duvelaër)
Of helmet shape, the spout moulded with bearded mask, decorated all over with foliate patterns and bands, the lower body with a band of moulded lotus petals against a seeded-green ground, supported on a stepped spreading foot, with upright scroll handle, the basin similarly decorated.
A large famille rose charger decorated with mandarin ducks and the eight Daoist Immortals. Yongzheng
Richly painted in the famille rose palette, the centre of the charger is decorated with two mandarin ducks surrounded by lotus enclosed by a diaper at the well with four cartouches comprising buddhist attributs; on the rim the eight Daoist Immortals in choppy coastal seas.
A pair of Chinese blue and white dishes. Kangxi
Each dish with a fluted rim and wavy edge, decorated on the interior in tones of blue with a scene of two Chinese ladies next to a table with a jardiniere, on a terrace beside a balcony and an architecture. Six characters Chenghua mark within a double ring at the back.
An unusual Chinese blue and white domed cover and stand. First half of the 18th c.
