A Chinese blue and white brushpot. Kangxi
A Chinese porcelain blue and white brush pot (bitong) of round and waisted form. This bitong is decorated in vivid and rich cobalt blue tones with a mountainous river landscape with rocks, a pavilion, a travelling attendant and a lone fisherman steering his boat to shore. Such mountainous river landscapes were a popular theme amongst the literati during […]
A Chinese sancai biscuit brush washer. Kangxi
The biscuit depicts a pheasant hen perched on a rock, next to a water point used as a brush washer.
A large underglaze-blue archaistic form vase. Kangxi
After a bronze original and decorated with taotie masks.
Two Imari fountains forming a pair. Qianlong
A massive Chinese armorial pot-à-oille for the French market. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a wide and ornate frieze of fruit and flowers, a serrated frieze, emblazoned with the coat of arms of the Jubert de Bouville. Quarterly: 1 and 4, azure, a cross couped or; 2 and 3, azure, five spearheads argent, three and two; and Guyot, Quarterly: 1 and 4, […]
A polychrome figure of the Daoist immortal Li Tieguai. Qianlong
This sculpture depicts the standing figure of the Daoist Immortal Li Tieguai, decorated in famille rose and famille noire enamels. He is wearing an open black robe. His pink trousers have a contrasting yellow border, bare feet showing. The right foot is placed on his pink crutch and in his left hand he holds small […]
A very fine pair of emerald green-glazed parrots. Kangxi
Naturalistically moulded 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 famille rose pompadour rounded tureen. Qianlong
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette, to the interior with a peony medallion encircled at the rim by floral sprays and seed pods flanking cartouches alternately enclosing a fish or an eagle.
A massive Chinese famille rose basin with a landscape. Late Yongzheng / Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a mountainous landscape with temple, pine, rocks.
A Chinese blue and white Chinese kraak porcelain wine pot. Wanli, 1573-1619
This Kraakware wine pot is a moulded with panels, it is thickly potted and has an S shaped handle. The six moulded panels that surround the body are painted using the pencil-drawn technique, that is to say it is line-drawing without the normal use of coloured washes that create tone. The fine, briskly executed brushwork […]