A pair of Chinese famille rose plates decorated with shells and rocaille scrolls. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the center with flowers, the shaped rim painted with shells and rocaille scrolls in different shades of pink with gold highlights.
A Chinese famille rose wine cooler decorated with shells and rocaille scrolls. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with shells and rocaille scrolls in different shades of pink with gold highlights.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a “bois simulé” ground border. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette and painted with colourful flower-sprays at the centre below a border of four peaches dividing leaf-shaped panels painted with flowers, reserved on an unusual sepia and grisaille bois simulé ground.
A Chinese figure of Guanyin decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period
The deity seated on a throne and holding a small boy in her lap, her robes painted in famille verte enamels.
A pair of Chinese export porcelain shell shaped dishes. Kangxi period
The shell-dishes lightly moulded and finely enamelled in the traditional imari palette with sprays of flowers.
A Chinese blue and white “kraak porselein” dish. Wanli period
Decorated in underglaze blue and painted to the central star-shaped panel with a grasshopper perched on rockwork beside blossoming flowers and plants, the radiating panels alternating further flowers and precious objects.
A Chinese blue & white lotus-shaped dish. Kangxi period.
Formed as a lotus flower with nine radiating petals, similarly painted at the centre with insects in flight above a grasshopper perched on rockwork beside chrysanthemum an peony sprays, below nine lappets enclosing mandarin ducks on a lotus pond, a pair of birds beside a prunus branch, a pair of birds perched on a willow […]
An extremely large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Enamelled in the famille rose palette 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 famille rose teapot depicting the Judgment of Pâris. Qianlong period.
Of globular form, painted on either side with Paris seated wearing a puce robe, with a small dog beside him, and offering a green object to Aphrodite who is flanked by Hera and Athena, and with Cupid looking on, Hera and Aphrodite only covered by either a shawl or a fan, Athena dressed in long […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period
Brightly decorated in the famille rose palette, with a man on a horse and a lady in a chariot accompanied by attendants within sepia “fish-roe” and floral lappets.