A very rare Chinese blue and white “Burghley House” sauce tureen. Qianlong
Of oval-shaped form, decorated in different shades shades of underglaze blue with a scene of a large Elizabeth style mansion surrounded by trees, called “Burghley House”, the sauce tureen with handles in the form of masks with hight plumes, with a domed cover with a coronal knot and a border of baroque foliate scrollwork.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with “The Hundred Antiquities”. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the center of the plate decorated with The Hundred Antiques design (Bai gu). Turquoise diaper pattern on the cavetto and flowers as well as fruits around the rim.
A pair of Chinese armorial plates for the Dutch market (van Reverhorst). Qianlong
Decorated in blue, green, black, iron-red and gilt with the coat-of arms of van Reverhorst with coronet and crest, surrounded by smaller arms of the families van Reverhorst, de Winter, Vereyck and de Bruyn to the left, and Schrevelius, Peenen, Groenedijk and de Vroede to the right, within a gilt and iron-red shell scroll border.
A Chinese Export Porcelain coffee pot. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a peasant woman spinning her distaff, accompanied with a man and two bovids.
A Chinese Blanc-de-chine budaï. Kangxi
The naturalistic figure reclining, his left arm by his side holding a pearl in his hand, wearing long robes open at the front to reveal his stomach. With a hongmu stand.
A Chinese famille verte Taoist divinity. Late Ming / early Kangxi.
Decorated with green and yellow enamels.
A Chinese armorial plate for the French market (Monti de Rezé). Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette with the coat of arms of Monti de Rezé to the center of plate.
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates with two boys “back to back”. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the two little boys “back to back” in a central medallion.
A Chinese armorial oblong dish for the English market (Captain Richard Drake). Qianlong
Of oblong form and lobed outline, painted in the center in the famille rose palette, with a pair of pheasants perched on rock work beneath overhanging branches of flowering tree peony, the rim painted with the arms of Drake, opposite the crest of a castle surmounted by a wyvern, reserved in a border of multi-colored […]
A Chinese famille verte Li Taibo-form brushwasher. Kangxi
Modelled as the drunken poet wearing a scholar’s cap, voluminous brown robes and pants, holding a hu tablet while leaning against a green-glazed wine jar applied on the interior with a small biscuit bat partially covering a small hole in the base.