A ‘Blanc-de-Chine’ Dehua figure of “Adam”. Kangxi period
A standing figure of a man draped in a cloth and bare from the waist up, wearing bracelets, on rockwork base, covered in a cream glaze.
A Chinese lion joss stick holder decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit, standing on four feet and looking to the right, with moveable eyeballs and on an Artemisia leaf-shaped base which symbolized the driving away of evil.
A Chinese “squirrel” water-dropper decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period
Decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit, modeled holding fruiting vine branches in his mouth, and facing slightly to the left.
A pair of Chinese famille verte dishes decorated with sea shell monsters. Kangxi period
Each decorated in the famille verte palette, with foliate and scalloped rims, enamelled and gilt with sea shell monsters, shen and flaming pearls amongst swirling waves, the border with panels with further shen and birds and flowers
Two turquoise-glaze and underglaze blue Chinese figures of Budai. Kangxi/Yongzheng period
Two Budai, the god of happiness, modelled in a seated pose, with flowing robes, leaving their bellies exposed, a string of beads in their left hand, one decorated in turquoise-glaze, with a short cylindrical joss-stick holder to one side, the other decorated in underglaze blue.
An unusual Chinese enameled relief-decorated coffee pot. Yongzheng period
Of cylindrical form and decorated with pale turquoise-glazed loop handle and dragon-headed spout, the body and cover applied with chrysanthemums and prunus heads on relief-moulded stems.
A Chinese en grisaille tea bowl and saucer decorated with a “bathing scene”. Qianlong period
Decorated with a grisaille European subject semi-eggshell tea bowl and saucer, the saucer painted with a ‘bathing scene’ with a nude lady stepping into a bath with boy attendant pouring water into a bath, within a decorative border at the cavetto with alternating circular and foliate panels painted in puce enamel, all on a gilt decorative […]
A Chinese famille verte dish decorated with “The Mother of the West”. Kangxi period
With shaped, lobed tim and deep well, decorated in rouge-de-fer, gold and famille verte enamels, with a maiden-goddess bearing a spray of fruit on a terrace, while a spotted yellow deer runs beside her, looking up. The rim in rouge-de-fer and gold, the design in imitation of Kraakware.
A rare Chinese famille rose tureen stand decorated with a dragon-fish. Qianlong period
Of shaped oval form, decorated in the famille rose palette and iron-red with foliated gilt rims, and painted with a leaping dragon-fish in iron-red and gilt in pursuit of a flaming pearl above billowing and crested white and pink enamelled waves, between ruyi-shaped clouds, the flat everted rim with pink flowerheads dispersed between gilt precious objects […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a lady and two boys.