A Chinese famille verte plate. Kangxi
Decorated in underglaze blue and famille verte enamels, with the meeting of the phoenix and the qilin.
Unusual Chinese Mythological subject cup and saucer. Early Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with Procris dying in the woods, hit by an arrow of Céphalus, the scene being based on an illustration of S. Le Clerc for Les Métamorphoses d’Ovide en rondeaux by Issac de Bensérade (1676, p. 260).
A Chinese Dutch-decorated plate with two quails. Kangxi/Yongzheng
A Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated plate, the plain form later-enamelled with a Kakiemon design of two quails pecking at millet beneath flowering stems, a grasshopper perched above, the rim with four panels of quail within a cracked ice and prunus ground in a famille vert palette.
A Chinese export blue and white tureen, cover and stand. Qianlong
Lobed oval outline with stem knop and flower-bud handles.
A pair of Chinese famille verte powder-blue ground plates. Kangxi
Each reserved with a square panel enclosing two figures in a landscape and insect cartouches at the border, the blue ground with traces of gilt decoration
A very fine Chinese famille verte panel decorated with the Empress. Kangxi
A Chinese fragment of a larger and rounded panel, decorated in the famille verte panel, with an old Chinese empress sit on an armchair, and next to her, three court ladies, one of them carrying a baby. To the left of the Empress, one of the 100 different ways to write the character shou, which means […]
A Chinese mythological plate “The Choice of Hercule”. Qianlong
Decorated in overglaze blue and gilt, Hercules is portrayed between the figure of Virtue, pointing upward, and that of Pleasure, pointing down.
A Chinese blue and white pineapple plate. Qianlong
Decorated with underglaze blue, with a pineapple.
A Chinese armorial plate for the English market. Yongzheng
The arms are of Carr (and Kerr), Gules on a chevron argent three mullets of the fiels, impaling Bigge, Ermine on a fess engrailed between three martlets sable – as many annulets or. The crest is of Carr, A stag’s head cooped proper.
Unusual Chinese “faux marbre” pomegranate-form tureen. Qianlong
A Chinese Export famille rose “faux marbre” pomegranate-form tureen, reserved on either side with a panel of quatrefoil panel of stylized flowers, the ends affixed with stalk and twig handles, the cover molded in hight relief with three naturalistically colored pomegranates, around a stalk finial.