A pair of Chinese ‘bleu celeste’ biscuit vases. Kangxi
Decorated with turquoise (bleu celeste) glaze on the biscuit. The mounts, 19th c.
A Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with cats. Yongzheng period.
Decorated with a central medallion with a cat sitting next to a table and a vase with peonies. Gilt and famille rose diapers grounds are painted. The same decoration is painted on the cover.
A set of three Chinese famille rose knives. Yongzheng
Moulded and decorated in the famille rose palette with flowers, steel blades of the 18th century.
A Chinese armorial tea set for the French market. Qianlong
The tea set decorated in the famille rose palette, with the large coat of arms of Denis Bossinot de Pomphily, captain of the Compagnie des Indes, d’azur à trois grenouilles d’or (ici d’argent). Probably one of the most complete tea set for the French market, it includes one teapot, twelve cups and saucers, and a sugar pot.
A Chinese Export Porcelain gilt and puce « Batavia » plate. Qianlong
Decorated with natives, Eastern merchants, the god Mercury and a lion before a flag monogrammed V.O.C for the Dutch East India Company, the foreground inscribed ‘BATAVIA’.
The Hervouët ‘Dutch Whaling Scene’ plate. Qianlong
Painted to the centre in overglaze enamels, including bright shades of iron-red, turquoise, blue, yellow and brown, picked out in black and hightlighted in gilt. It shows a lively whale-hunting scene in an artic region, depicting three Dutch vessels sailing amid icebergs on a rough sea, one behind an iceberg at far right, one in […]
A famille rose « the Sleeping Beauty » teapot. Qianlong
This seldom European motif depicted on Chinese porcelain illustrates a courteous subject that stems from the literary theme “the Sleeping Beauty” well known at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. In a central panel, a man wearing a tricorn takes advantage of the slumber of a young woman to […]
An exceptional ‘lighthouse-shaped’ Pronk coffee pot. Qianlong
Of tall conical shape with high domed pointed cover and bud finial above a collar, the tapering octagonal spout and strap handle at right angles. The decoration, especially designed in Europe, of turquoise green scales divided by a broad white area decorated with butterflies and insects above a shaped black band with famille rose flowers, […]
A Chinese blue and white dish. Jiajing
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a temple, a pagoda, and ducks on the rim.
A Chinese group of a lady standing beside jardinière of coral. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, this group depicts a lady standing beside a clump of rocks supporting a jardinière of coral. Her dress is embellished with large floral motifs and archaic dragons in iron-red. The skirt is decorated with an iron-red panel depicting a translucent green landscape motif. Her hair pulled back in a small […]