A Chinese blue and white bowl with an English Over-decoration. Qianlong period
Decorated with underglazed blue Chinese decoration of buddhist attributs, and a polychrome decoration of parrot /cacatoes, ruyi, and vases.
A Chinese blue and white dish with an English Over-decoration. Qianlong period
Decorated in underglazed blue with a baluster vase, bamboo and peonies, and in an opulent style, with a gold ground and gold outlining and detailing of the pattern, tomato red, pink and yellow flowers. Four dragons are painted on cartouches on the rim.
A Chinese powder blue and gilt teapot and cover decorated with ducks. Kangxi period
Of globular form, gilt decorated with ducks.
A pair of massive Chinese Export “loving cups” and covers decorated with flowers. Qianlong period
Of U-shaped form bowl, decorated in the famille rose palette, to the center on both sides with sprays of flowers, flanked by two molded handles on each side, supported by a cylindrical stem and splaying foot, the tiered cover with a scroll knop studded with shells.
A Chinese armorial “pot à jus” for the Swedish market (Count Gustav Tessin, Swedish Ambassador to Paris, Prime Minister of Sweden). Qianlong period
Decorated to the centre with the coat-of-arms of Count Gustav Tessin, Ambassador to Paris, Prime Minister of Sweden, connoisseur of the arts and a frieze of shells.
A Chinese yellow-glazed water pot. Kangxi period
Of square form, decorated with yellow-glazed on the biscuit, in an archaistic shape with lobed sides and a square opening. It has a small lizard-like qilong dragon picked out in aubergine brown, crawling up the side, his head resting on the edge of the opening. The underside is enameled in yellow. The pot is very […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a lady and her attendant. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a lady and her attendant who is carrying a cithare qin, a chinese musical instrument, in front of a fenced garden decorated with rocks, shrubs and water lilies. The rim is painted with flowering branches of peonie, anemone and prunus, all executed with the balance, the elegance and the […]
Two large Chinese blue and white “figural” dishes. Kangxi period
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a scholar and a lady in leisure a garden accompanied by her maid, carrying a tray with a jug and two cups. An old man sits in a chariot accompanied by his attendant beside an architecture and a pierced ornamental rockwork, the scene possibly inspired by the Romance of the Western Chamber. The […]
An exceptional and massive Chinese armorial charger for the Dutch market (Verhage). Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette and gilt, the coat of arms in the centre of the plate with a man, or huntsman, blowing a horn with two hounds and a tree on a green base with flying angel ; the crest is a demi stag. Red and gold mantling of leaves and scrollwork surrounds […]
A Chinese Imari ‘lighthouse’ coffee pot and cover. Yongzheng period
Of typical conical shape, with bird spout and elaborate shaped handle, painted in underglaze blue and enamelled in iron red and gilt with boughs of sprouting lilies, the stepped foot with two iron red decorative borders, the domed cover decorated en-suite