A very fine Chinese famille rose plate decorated with Chinese ladies and their sons. Yongzheng / early Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, depicting the ideals of Chinese mother and son, in a cultured and luxurious lifestyle.
A Chinese Export ‘tobacco leaf’ pattern pomegranate-form tureen. Qianlong period
Of circular form and molded with a blue floral handle on one side, painted with yellow and puce flowers in the center surrounded by large turquoise, yellow, blue and green tobacco leaves, the cover painted with three pomegranates culminating in a blue stem-form knop that surmounts the cover
A pair of Chinese Imari « Governor Duff » plates. Yongzheng period
Finely decorated in the traditional imari palette, the centre with a European couple, traditionnaly thought to be Governor Duff and his wife, standing on a garden terrace beside a hound, within an elaborate floral border with four clusters of the Hundred Antiques.
A Chinese blue & white botanical saucer dish after Maria Sybille Merian. Qianlong period.
Decorated in underglazed blue and gold, in the highest quality for this pattern, painted at the centre with a white-bodied caterpillar crawling on the leaf of an iris, beside another with a crawling amongst the petals of an orchid, a butterfly hovering above, enclosed by an gilt floral band in the well and a broad band […]
Two Chinese famille rose “phoenix & carps” plates. Qianlong period
One decorated with a black border, the other with blue enamels on the rim.
A Chinese rouge-de-fer and gilt basin decorated with flowers. Kangxi / Yongzheng period
Of octogonal shape, decorated with rouge-de-fer and gilt.
A Chinese turquoise glazed miniature square jardiniere. Kangxi period
Of square form and decorated in turquoise glazed.
A Chinese en grisaille and gilt plate decorated with a basket of flowers. Yongzheng period
Decorated with en grisaille, gilt and famille rose enamels with a basket of flowers.
A Chinese lotus water dropper decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period
The vessel is formed as a cupped lotus leaf and a conjoined lotus pod with an aperture. It is covered in green and aubergine glazes. Applied inside the bottom of the bowl is a tiny crab painted in aubergine enamel, which conceal a small opening.
A Chinese famille rose-noire cover set as a gilt-bronze ink stand. Yongzheng period and XIXe century
The porcelain, a cover from a vase of the Yongzheng period (1723-1735), decorated in the famille rose-noire with flowers, the ink stand made by a receptacle placed to the center of the cover, the lid with a rich rococo bronze gilt, three acanthus-shaped feet.