A Chinese blue and white Ko-sometsuke dish. Tianqi period
The dish, good sized, is decorated on the interior in the centre with a scholar and his attendant in a landscape, enclosed by a band of dots in the cavetto and a ridge border at the rim.
A Chinese green enamel biscuit dish. Kangxi
Decorated with green enamel.
A Chinese Canton enamel on copper teapot. Qianlong
A square-shaped teapot with slightly indented corners, short neck and domed lid, standing on curved feet. It has a square section curved spout and flat shoulder surmounted by a tall handle with indented corners. It is decorated with polychrome enamels on a white ground, which include pink, blue yellow, turquoise iron-red, black and gold. Each side […]
A Chinese water dropper in the shape of a lotus. Kangxi
The watercup and dropper combined in the shape of a lotus leaf and seed-pod, the stem forming a short handle, a small pod the brush rest. The two parts have a communicating water channel masked by a black crab. The cup decorated in underglaze blue, the veins on the blue outside reserved in white, on […]
A Chinese famille verte hookah base for the islamic market. Kangxi
Of Islamic shape, with a globular body, rounded base, tubular neck and flanged lip and collar, decorated in the famille verte palette with branches of flowers issuing from rockwork, with a band of diaper decoration above, the neck with sprays of flowering prunus
A very fine and large Chinese famille verte barber bowl. Yongzheng
Decorated with famille verte enamels, with a central medallion of flowers encircled by fers-de-lance, and three cartouches of flowers on the fish roe ground.
A Chinese famille rose ‘erotic’ group. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the man seated and wearing a pale blue robe with a pink shou character medallion and a green skirt, the woman in a green coat with pink sleeves and underskirt, with one knee raised revealing a bound foot as she leans over to examine the man’s ear.
A very fine Chinese famille rose « cockerel » teapot. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the classic image of a cockerel amongst rockwork and flowering branches of peony and carnation flowers. Diapered borders on the neck and the cover.
A Chinese famille verte tureen. Kangxi
Decorated in the famille verte palette, the finial in the form of a cockerel.
A Chinese armorial plate for the English market (Gordon). Qianlong
An elegantly decorated Chinese export octagonal famille rose plate bearing the arms of Gordon for the English market with a Chinese-inspired central scene and border panels depicting rural landscapes in polychrome enamels.