A Chinese famille rose “double peacock” sauce tureen. Qianlong period
Oviform, decorated in the famille rose palette with the well-known double peacock pattern, with asymmetrical scroll knops and rabbit-head handles, the stand decorated to match the body with peacock and peahen in a peony garden.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a lady riding a buffalo. Yongzheng period
Enamelled in the famille rose palette and gilt with a lady carrying a lotus stem and riding a buffalo over turbulent wares accompanied by two ladies attendants, one bearing a basket of peaches, all within a pale pink cell-pattern border with floral cartouches.
A large Chinese blue & white botanical plate 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 […]
A Chinese turquoise glazed five peaks mountain brush rest. Kangxi period
Decorated in turquoise glazed, with five peaks mountain with a central bat among flowers.
A large Chinese blue and white figural dish. Kangxi period
The interior of the dish is delicately painted with a circular panel depicting two boys playing in a garden, beside a lady and a scholar in a pavilion. The scene is encircled by a border featuring ladies at leisurely pursuits. On the back ten different flowering plants on the rim, on the base a large […]
A very fine Chinese famille rose “batavian ware” teapot decorated with figures. Early Qianlong period
Of globular form, with two cartouches on each face, the first with a boy astride a buffalo, the second with a fisherman.
A small Chinese Dehua seated buddhist lion (dog of Fo). Kangxi period
Seated on a hollow, leaf-shaped base, facing right, his head turned to the front. The leading paw rests on an embroidered ball. With open jaws, prominent ears and a bushy tail.
A Chinese brush rest decorated with green and yellow enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period
Of rectangular box-shaped, with three openings on the top for holding brushes. The top surface is also pierced with three openwork cash-shaped designs above a hallow space.
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with a pine tree. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette, to the centre with a jardiniere containing a pine tree, and with multi-coloured lingzhi fungi growing around the base of the tree. There are four floral sprays around the rim
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates decorated with figures. Late Yongzheng / early Qianlong period
Each painted with a central scene of an official, lady and a warrior beckoning to his waiting pony, the cavetto with four cartouches containing precious objects, the rim with a border of flowers.