A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with a deer. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte translucent enamels, with six cranes bordered on the rim by a fish-roe band, peony branches reserved in cartouches at the well on a star-diaper border, central scene of a yellow spotted deer amongst lingzhi, bamboo shoots, and rocks beneath a pine tree, the sun, clouds, and a crane in flight above, […]
A Chinese famille verte dish in the Kakiemon style. Kangxi period.
Moulded as a chrysanthemum flower, on a footring, the petal in very low relief. Decorated in enamels with bamboo and blossoming prunus near a zigzagging bamboo fence, a dancing boy and three approaching tigers.
A Chinese blue and white kraak porcelain dish with two deers. Wanli
Decorated in underglaze blue with two deers.
A Chinese “Meissen style” plate. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, in the center with a scene with building and horsemen dressed in Western style.
A Chinese famille verte dish decorated with a boy and antiquities. Kangxi
Decorated in the famille verte palette, of polylobed form, with a central shaped panel showing a boy near an architecture, surrounded by medallions and groupings of antiquities. Double circle mark with the rabbit.
A Chinese armorial plate for Giulio Visconti, Viceroy of Naples. Yongzheng period
Painted in the center with the magnificent arms of Visconti and Cusani, both of Milan, within a demi-ruyi-head border around the well and a cell diaper border around the cavetto, the rim with two sprays of fans and peonies and two sprays of iris and fungi, all alternating with four shaded rose hibiscus blossoms within […]
A Chinese armorial plate for the French market (Fleuriot de Langle /Lasnier). Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the coat-of-arms of Fleuriot de Langle, Argent, a chevron between three roses gules, stemmed and leafed vert, and Kerouartz, Argent, a wheel between three crosscuts coupe sable, with the collar of the Knight of Saint Louis.
The Chinese Export Porcelain teapot of the Governor of Louisiana (French /American market). Qianlong
Of globular form, decorated with gilt and grisaille sprays of flowers, the arms are Billouart de Kerlerec, Or (here argent), a cross cooped azure (here or) in chief two mullets of six points azure pierced of the field , and (du) Bot, Argent (here azure), a fess gules (here or). These arms illustrate well the […]
A Chinese famille rose lotus dish decorated with a cockerel. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a cockerel.
A very fine Chinese famille rose spittoon. Yongzheng
Of globular form, with a highly everted trumpet-shaped mouth and a curved strap handle, attached to a relatively small body set on a low foot. It is decorated in overglaze enamels of the famille rose palette with branches of flowers and a duck.