A Chinese powder blue zhadou. Kangxi
Spittoon of the zhadou type, with a wide, dish-shaped flaring mouth over a globular body resting on a small ring foot. It is covered with a monochrome powdered blue glaze, with some gilt highlights.
A Chinese Dutch-decorated Kakiemon-style “chilong” bottle vase. Kangxi
The pear-shaped bottle vase with a body rising from a slightly splayed foot to a tall slender cylindrical neck with an applied underglaze-blue moulded dragon to the shoulder and painted in iron-red and enamels with exotic birds beside lotus, chrysanthemum and prunus.
A pair of Chinese Imari “La dame au parasol” plates after a design of Pronk. Qianlong period
Decorated in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gilt with ‘La Dame au Parasol’ after a design by Cornelis Pronk, the central scene with a lady holding a parasol above another woman standing near waterfowl on a grassy bank, within a narrow band of flower-sprays at the well, the border with figural and bird cartouches on a honey-comb […]
A large Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » dish. Qianlong period
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 Chinese armorial (unrecorded) oval tray for the French / Irish market (Sutton de Clonard). Qianlong
The oblong tray, decorated in the famille rose palette with garlands of flowers, bears the arms and crest of Thomas Sutton, of Wexford (Ireland), comte de Clonard, France: Or, a lion rampant double-queued gules standing on a lizard vert, surmounted by a crest — Out of a Ducal Coronet, Or, a demi-lion double-queued vert (double […]
A pair of famille rose court lady candleholders. Qianlong / Jiaqing
The candleholders modelled as standing Chinese ladies riding a dragon and decorated in opaque enamels from the famille rose.
A Chinese powder blue dish. China, Kangxi
Large circular dish with flaring sides, decorated with a powdered-blue ground heightened with gilt. At the center, a medallion shows a globular vase on a flaring foot, filled with a bouquet of flowers. The sides are divided into eight alternating radiating cartouches: some with rocks and leafy stems, others with figures in a lakeside landscape […]
A large famille verte “Stanislaw pattern” charger. China, Kangxi
Decorated in underglaze blue and famille verte enamels. The centre with an exuberant flower vase on a terrace with double fences on each side, surrounded by a border in blue with six reserved cartouches filled with butterflies and chrysanthemums. The sides and rim with three irregularly shaped fields filled with flowering plants at a rock, […]
A Chinese blue and white garlic-neck bottle vase with floral design. Transitional period
The bottle with globular body and long neck, widening gently below the rim, with a bulbous ring on the upper part, and standing on a low straight foot. Made of very white porcelain, it is decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with “floating flowers”, scattered peony, lotus, and chrysanthemum sprays on the body, a border of […]
A Chinese blue and white ginger jar. Kangxi
The ginger jar potted with a rounded baluster form and surmounted by a finely carved hardwood cover. it is richly decorated in vibrant underglaze cobalt blue with a continuous landscape populated by cranes among pine trees and rocky outcrops.