A Chinese famille verte “Stanislaw pattern” dish. Kangxi period
Painted in the famille verte palette and gilt with a jardiniere of peonies, chrysanthemums, pine and others flowers in a fenced garden to the center, the border with shaped panels of birds and butterflies in flowering gardens on underglazed-blue grounds reserved with chysanthemum sprays and scrolling foliage, the underside with flowering branches and panels of […]
A Chinese armorial tea bowl and saucer for the Dutch market (Abeleven of Amsterdam). Qianlong period
Painted en grisaille with the coat-of-arms, the exterior with three groups of vases flanked by flowering branches, each painted beneath with a calligraphic monogram in black enamel.
A Chinese blue and white “Rotterdam Riots” plate. Kangxi period
Painted in underglaze blue, the center with figures attaching the house of Jacob van Zuylen van Nyevelt within a diaper border reserved with panels painted with flowers and fruits, the base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
Three Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » plates. Qianlong period
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette, to the interior with a peony medallion encircled at the rim by floral sprays and seed pods flanking cartouches alternately enclosing a fish or an eagle.
A very large Chinese “doucai” dish. Kangxi period
Decorated with doucai enamels with a floral design.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a qilin. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a qilin amongst peonies.
A Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with ladies and their children. Yongzheng period
Of globular form and decorated in the famille rose palette with ladies and their children.
A large Blanc-de-Chine figure of Wenchang, the Daoist god of Literature. Kangxi period
The Daoist god of Literature shown seated on a rockwork throne, holding a ruyi scepter in his left hand, wearing an official’s hat with long tabs, full robes, and two stiff belts that frame his rounded belly, the lower belt with ‘jade’ plaques, his well-modeled face pierced for attachment of a moustache and beard,
A ‘Blanc-de-Chine’ Dehua figure of “Adam”. Kangxi period.
Standing barefoot on a rockwork base, his arms crossed in front, both hands clasping the ends of the short skirt draped around his waist, his upper torso bare, his head facing forward with smiling expression, his hair combed back behind his ears and falling to his shoulders.
A pair of Chinese famille verte dishes decorated with deers. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette with cartouches of deers and cranes.