A Chinese “cracked ice” ground dish. Early Qianlong
Painted in the famille rose palette, a domed centre with a scroll shaped panel depicting quails feeding beneath sprays of peony growing from amongst elaborate rock work formations, surrounded by further panels in the form of fruit enclosing scenes of butterflies and insects amongst flowers, reserved on a turquoise “cracked ice” ground with flowers en […]
A Chinese silvered famille rose plate. Yongzheng period.
Finely enamelled to the central octafoil panel with a lady playing the qin among archaic vessels and a chest of drawers, reserved on a trellis-pattern ground encircled by a stylised lotus scroll, the rim with cartouches of flowers alternated with iron-red ground cartouches of flower scrolls, reserved on a silver-grey ground
A Chinese lion joss stick holder decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period
Decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit, standing on three feet and looking to the left, with moveable eyeballs and on an Artemisia leaf-shaped base which symbolized the driving away of evil. Under its left front paw is a moveable yellow ball.
A Chinese armorial salt cellar. Qianlong period
Brightly enamelled to the interior with the arms of (de Pina Manique Nogueira Matos de Andrada. It is encircled by a floral chain, and floral swags are painted on the sides.
A Chinese “en grisaille” and gilt tea bowl and saucer. Yongzheng period
Decorated en grisaille and gilt, with a bird and two butterflies.
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates decorated with two cockerels. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with two cockerels perched on a pierced rock.
A Chinese Imari type ovale tureen. First half of the XVIIIe century
Of oval shape, decorated in the Imari palette with moulded lotus petal shaped decoration around the base, large shell shaped handles at each end, and a domed cover finished with a finial in the shape of a Buddhist lion. Inside the tureen is a spray of peonies with gilt bamboo and two red flowers, a […]
A pair of Chinese Export Porcelain plates decorated with the figure of Flore. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the figure of Flore holding a flower crown.
A Chinese imari aspersoir. Kangxi period
Decorated in the Imari palette.
A pair of Chinese famille rose “pseudo-tobacco leaf” plates. Qianlong period.
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette and gilt, with a pair of crested ducks, undoubtedly mandarins, one swimming, the other situated on a blue underglaze mound punctuated with gilding. The ducks, the Chinese symbol of fidelity, are looking at one another. The one on the right, undoubtedly male, looks as if it had been […]