Two Chinese turquoise-glazed vases with birds. Kangxi
Of moulded form and depicting on each side two birds perched on rocks amongts flowers.
A famille verte “five peaks mountain” brush rest. Kangxi
The brush rest is moulded and decorated on the front side with a scene most likely depicting an episode of the novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, titled ‘Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage’ where Liu Bei, accompanied by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, attempts to enlist the services of the brilliant strategist Zhuge Liang. […]
A blanc-de-chine censer with the impressed seal mark Zun gu jie jian. Ming
Well potted on a splayed foot, the compressed globular body rising to an everted rim, flanked at the sides with a pair of lion head finials, under a thick glaze, the base impressed with a four-character zhuanshu seal mark.
A pair of Chinese turquoise-glazed Luduan. Qing dynasty, circa 1800
The animals decorated with turquoise glaze on the biscuit.
A very large and rare Chinese famille rose dish for the New Spain / Mexican market
A Chinese export famille rose porcelain dish decorated in vibrant enamels depicting two double-headed eagles flanked by a wide as- sortment of flowers made for the Mexico market. Two floral arrange- ments are potted in large footed bowls decorated in vertical stripes that mirror the color schemes of the wings of each eagle. A large […]
A famille rose plate « Earth » plate. Qianlong
Enameled in bright colors with a European mythological scene derived from Albani’s ‘Earth’, the center with three female and one male figure, variously robed and unrobed, riding a chariot pulled by lions with six putti dispersed before them, a large leafy tree to one side and a river landscape in the background, the rim with […]
A massive Chinese famille rose goldfishes charger. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette with goldfishes painted in red, pink or grey amongst seaweed ; the border with grapevine.
A rare blue and white armorial plate for the Irish market. Qianlong
Centrally painted, with the coat of arms of Metge, Argent three fleur-de-lis proper, two and one, quartering Lyon, Argent a lion rampant azure within a double tressure flory counter flory (this is for the Lyon – Bowes-Lyon – family, Earls of Strathmore), with the figure of Justice, standing on a column inscribed with the initias […]
An exceptional and very massive pair of emerald green-glazed parrots. Kangxi
Of an exceptional size, naturalistically molded in two halves, perched on a pierced rock work base and with folded wings with plump bodies. The plumage of the parrots very detailed, and glazed with a vibrant emerald green enameling.
A Chinese sancai crab water pot. Kangxi
This oval water pot is modelled as a crab, with protruding eyes picked out in black, the remainder splashed in brown-aubergine, green and yellow, a circular aperture on the top encircled by a band of incised overlapping petals.