A massive and rare Chinese armorial domed cover for the English market (Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol).Yongzheng period
Very heavily potted, of domed shape with moulded lip and large ball finial on pedestal. The outside finely painted with bands of rouge-de-fer and gold, and a crest among famille verte sprays, the crest of Talbot On a cap of maintenance gules, turned up ermine, a lion statant, and in the famille rose palette inside the cover.
A Chinese ewer decorated in the famille verte palette. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette with a Dutch or French mounts.
A Chinese en grisaille “The Seamstress” plate. Qianlong period
Decorated “en grisaille” and gilt, with a seamstress seated in an interior (or The Embroiderer’), with her back to a window.
A large Chinese blue and white “equestrian warriors” deep dish. Kangxi period. Chenghua mark
Decorated in underglazed blue and painted in the center with five warriors each astride a galloping horse, within eight radiating ovoid panels enclosing alternating prunus and peony trees, reserved on a scale pattern ground, the underside of the rim with flowering branches and ruyi-heads. Apocryphal Chenghua mark in underglaze blue.
An unusual and rare Chinese armorial pattipan for the Dutch market (Sichterman). Yongzheng period
Decorated in rouge-de-fer and gold with brown, green, purple and blue with a honeycomb diaper border and the Sichterman arms in the centre.
An unusual Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a Chinese landscape. Late Yongzheng/Early Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a Chinese landscape, including a pagoda, the rim with an unusual border having reserves of landscapes en grisaille.
A Chinese “brinjal” bowl decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period
Bowl with rounded sides and a wide flaring rim, standing on a short, straight foot ring. The exterior incised with a repeating pattern of flowering branches painted in green and yellow enamels and a clear glaze, on an aubergine-brown enamel ground. A small lingzhi fungus is incised in the centre of the interior. The recessed […]
A Chinese armorial plate for the French market (Suffren de Saint-Tropez). Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a garland of flowers on the rim and the coat of arms of Louis-Jérome de Saint-Tropez.
A Chinese blue and white octogonal dish decorated with two ladies on a terrace. Yongzheng period
Decorated in underglaze blue, at the center with two ladies on a terrace and in a building holding a lotus and a fan, and a peony, within a lappet band at the well and a composite flower and a fruit band at the border including prunus, chrysanthemum, pomegranate and finger citrus.
A Chinese “mandarin pattern” rounded rectangular vase. Qianlong period.
Painted boldy and bright colours with a variety garden scenes with elegant gentlemen, ladies and children within underglaze-blue, Y-pattern-ground, the necks with iron-red and gilt archaistic dragon handles, the domed covers with seated buddhistic lion finials.