A Chinese crayfish jug decorated with sancai enamels on the biscuit. Ming dynasty
The ewer is modelled as a crayfish rising from crashing waves with carp and lotus amongst the waves. One lotus stem curves upwards to form the slightly serpentine spout. Another lotus stem forms the loop handle terminating in a half-lotus pot as the filler with a small flat cover with frog finial. The exterior is […]
A large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with flowers. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette with flowers.
A Chinese famille verte-imari dish decorated with European figures. Kangxi period
The center painted in tones of iron-red and gilt with two westerners riding in a Chinese chariot pulled by spotted ponies, an attendant shielding them with a parasol and a lattice-fence in the foreground, all within a petal-molded border reserved on a verte cell-diaper ground.
A Chinese famille rose tea bowl and saucer decorated with a cockerel. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a cockerel perched on a rockwork amongst blossoming peony and beside a seal as if copied from a painting, within a shaped floriform border reserved in gilt Y-pattern, the rim with a diaper border.
A Chinese famille rose tea bowl and saucer decorated with a cockerel. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a cockerel perched on a rockwork amongst blossoming peony and beside a butterfly, within a shaped floriform border reserved in pink Y-pattern, the rim with a diaper border.
A Chinese famille verte charger decorated with a jardinière, a deer and a pavilion. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette, with a jardinière within a garden with a pavilion, a deer, various flowers, the borders with matching flowers, and a vegetation inside interlaced cartouches, flowers branches to the reverse, with underglaze blue ribbon-tied emblem mark.
A Chinese famille rose domed cover decorated with flowers. Yongzheng / Qianlong period
Bell-shaped domed cover with a small rim and mushroom-shaped finial on top. The decoration painted in famille rose enamels and gilding, with several different diapers and treillis patterned bands on the outside, the central design prunus and peonies.
A pair of Chinese famille rose “Valentine” pattern plates. Qianlong period
Enamelled at the centre with a long-tailed bird in flight beside a tree intertwined with a long floral garland below which two hounds and three smaller beasts recline, with a mountain in the background and in the foreground a flowering shrub, two ribboned halberds, a vessel and a stylized helmet, all within a gilt shell-scroll […]
A pair of Chinese ruby ground tea bowls and saucers. Yongzheng period
Decorated with a ruby ground and panels with flowers.
A Chinese famille rose hexagonal brush pot decorated with figures. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette to each of the six sides with Lan Tsai-Ho and scholarly figures within a mountainous moonlit landscape, below an iron red geometric border to the rim.