A very large Chinese Blanc-de-Chine libation cup. Kangxi
Sculptured in the shape of a rhinoserous horn, decorated with dragons and deer in a landscape.
Two blue and white rosewater sprinklers. Kangxi
Two Chinese export porcelain sprinklers on footing, with a spherical body and tall, tapering neck rising from an angular swelling and decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with symmetrically arranged single rosettes, petals and squares in horizontal hands. Marked with artemisia leaf.
A Chinese blue and white / celadon ground tea bowl and saucer. Kangxi
Decorated with a celadon ground to the exterior, and in underglaze blue with a crab and fishes.
A Chinese black-ground tea bowl. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette with cartouches of peonies on the black ground.
A Chinese equestrian figure. Kangxi
The horse, standing on four-square, is enameled a deep brownish yellow with dark brown spots, brown mane, tail, and hoofs, and is equipped with yellow bridles and green harness ; the rider, seated astride, is turning on the right.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with goldfishes. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette with goldfishes painted in red, pink or grey amongst seaweed ; the border with fers-de-lance.
A Chinese blanc-de-Chine jar. Kangxi
Decorated with flowers of prunus, the mounts of the 19th c. by Keller.
A Chinese famille verte pounce pot. Kangxi
Decorated in the famille verte palette, with flowers and diapers.
A small Chinese famille verte coffee pot. Kangxi
Of pear-shaped body, and enameled in the famille verte palette with sea creatures amidst waves, a molded ruyi-head at the base of the loop handle.
A Chinese famille rose sconce. Qianlong
Shaped like a human arm, protruding from a flat base which forms a sleeve. The hand is partially clenched to provide a hole in the middle, through which a metal candlestick could be fitted. The sconce is decorated in overglaze enamels of the famille rose palette, including green, blue and red. The arms is painted […]