A rare Chinese export faience-form blue and white tureen. Yongzheng
A rare Chinese export blue and white tureen, of shaped oblong outline with eel handle, decorated with flowers, the interior painted with a single flower.
A very fine and large Chinese famille rose tea bowl. Yongzheng / Qianlong
The tea bowl and the saucer decorated in the famille rose palette with blossoming begonia and aster amidst tall grasses.
A very fine and large Chinese armorial teapot for the French market. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the coat of arms Trublet de la Villejegu, D’azur, au chevron d’argent, chargé de trois roses de gueules, with Montigny du Timeur, D’argent, au chevron de gueules (ici d’azur), chargé de cinq coquilles d’or, accompagné en chef de deux étoiles d’azur (ici de gueules), et en pointe d’un […]
A large Chinese famille rose dish with squirrels and flowers. Early Qianlong
Decorated with underglaze blue and raised with a famille rose decoration, comprising a central panel with a large iris, and cartouche of squirrels running amongst vines or bird perched on branches of prunus.
A Chinese blue and white “Romance of the Western Chamber” teapot. Yongzheng
Decorated in underglaze blue, the scene from Act III of The Romance of the Western Chamber (Xi Xiang Ji) by the Yuan Dynasty playwright Wang Shifu (c.1260-1336), where the scholar Zhang climbs over the garden wall to see Cui Yingying. The other woman is her maid, Hongniang.
A Chinese armorial plate for the English market (Hotham). Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the coats are of Hotham, Barry of ten argent and azure, on a canton or a Cornish though proper ; crest, A demi seaman issuing out of the water proper, holding in the dexter hand a flaming sword argent, hilt and pommel or, on the sinister arm a shield […]
A large Chinese blue and white lobed « crab & fish” dish. Kangxi
Decorated with underglazed blue, of European form and painted with fish and crabs among aquatic plants.
A Chinese Export “Tobacco Leaf” dish. Qianlong period
Decorated in underglaze blue, polychrome enamels, and gold, with a pair of pheasants amongst leaves and flower blossoms beneath two squirrels on the branches of a vine, three prunus sprays on the revers, gold edge on the lobed rim.
A very large Chinese encre-de-chine and gilt tea bowl and saucer. Yongzheng
Finely potted with rounded sides, and decorated with figures, thatched pavilions, pagoda, and boats in a riverside landscape, the details picked out in gilt.
A Chinese blue and white ‘Ship’ Dish. kangxi
Decorated in underglaze blue, this dish imitates the Japanese style. The rim is divided into six panels – three with diaper and tree with boys in floral scrollwork – enclosed a body painted European merchant ship under full sail. The reverse with three flower sprays.