A large blue and white Chinese Export dish for the Asian market (Swatow). Ming Dynasty – 16th/17th Century
Decorated in underglaze blue and painted to the interior with a central mountainous landscape including pagodas, the border with panels of flowers and boats.
A pair of large and unusual Chinese “lavender ground” beaker vases. Kangxi period.
Two beaker vases decorated in underglaze blue and pale lavender wash, with peony and bamboo.
A large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with a fenced garden. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette with flowers and rockwork beside a fenced garden.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with Chinese figures in a landscape.
A very large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with a prunus. Yongzheng period.
The center enamelled with a knarled prunus branch entwined with a stem of pink peony, small daisies and gourds, bordered with pink and green diaper patterns on the well and edged in sepia and gilt cash pattern on the rim.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a Chinese landscape. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a Chinese landscape and hawthorn sprays on a cell-diaper ground framed by narrow bands at the rim.
A very large Chinese dish with the coat-of-arms of Count Gustav Tessin, Swedish Ambassador to Paris, Prime Minister of Sweden.
Decorated to the centre with the coat-of-arms of Count Gustav Tessin, Ambassador to Paris, Prime Minister of Sweden, connoisseur of the arts.
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with a scene from the Romance of the Western Chamber. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette, in the center a horseman with his servant, a building in the background surrounded by a fence. On the left a table with precious objects such as a flower vase, an incense-burner and a brush pot, books, a weir board, a lute wrapped in a cloth, ans scrolls with […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette at the centre with a scene of a farmer lying on the ground caught by the foot by an official another gentleman standing to one side gesturing with his acolyte behind him, the wide everted rim with fans and leaf panels reserved on a seeded ground.
A Chinese famille rose platter with shells and rocaille scrolls. Qianlong period
Of canted rectangular form with notched corners, decorated in the center with flowers, the shaped rim painted with shells and rocaille scrolls in different shades of pink with gold highlights.