A pair of very large Chinese reticulated famille rose dishes decorated with mandarins. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, a cartouche to the center with Chinese lady and two children.
A Chinese famille rose mythological plate. Qianlong period.
Enamelled in the famille rose palette, with Hermes with a beauty, possibly Venus, below a tree, two lovebirds beside them, flower sprays at the rim.
A pair of Chinese en grisaille armorial plates for the English market (Birkbeck). Qianlong period
Of octagonal form and decorated en grisaille and gilt with a central coat of arms, the dexter of Birkbeck, Argent a fess cherry or and azure between three lions heads gules (with an unusual crest), on a count’s coronet a demi lion rampant holding between the paws a cross pattée. The motto PATIENTIA VINCIT. The […]
A Chinese armorial plate for the English market (Laroche – Yeoman). Qianlong period.
Deocorated in the famille rose palette with the coat of arms of Laroche-Yeoman to the center.
A large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with a deer. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte translucent enamels, with six cranes bordered on the rim by a fish-roe band, peony branches reserved in cartouches at the well on a star-diaper border, central scene of a yellow spotted deer amongst lingzhi, bamboo shoots, and rocks beneath a pine tree, the sun, clouds, and a crane in flight above, […]
A large powder blue dish decorated with panels of flowers. Kangxi period
Decorated with a powder blue ground and panels in the famille verte palette.
A very large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with a cockerel. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a cockerel on a rock and peonies.
A Chinese blue and white silvered mounted double-bodied cruet . Kangxi period
After a European glass model, of a double-bodied form, the body with two twisted spouts, painted in underglaze blue with continuous flower sprays running up the moulded bands, each spout with a narrow band of triangle-work around the rim of the mouths, a small band of stylised wave pattern around the foot.
A Chinese “buddhist lion” stand decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period
Of octagonal form and decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit with Buddhist lions standing on a beribboned brocade ball.
A Chinese & Japanese Dutch-decorated mythological “Cephalus and Procris ” cup and saucer. Qianlong period
The saucer in Chinese porcelain, the cup in Japanese porcelain, enamelled with the figure of Procris giving to Cephale a spear and the dog Lailaps, the top of the rim inscribed : “PROKRIS..ET..CEFALES..BEVESTIGE..HAAR.. ONGELUKIGE..MINNE.MET..SCHENKACIEN”.