A Chinese blue and white “Kraak” dish decorated with two deer – Ming dynasty – Wanli reign (1573-1620)
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a wide everted rim and a lobed edge, showing two deer in a landscape among stylized rocks and with a large pine tree in the background, surrounded by radiating panels containing alternately paired panels of single flowers and bunches of peaches bordered by narrow panels with dots and spiral designs. […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with cockerels. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a cockerel perched on rockwork looking at another, among branches of flowering peony, surrounded by a composite border enclosing panels of white flowers.
A Chinese famille rose black-ground “lotus” teapot. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette on a black ground, with petal-form panels enclosing lotus blossoms on a black ground.
A famille rose plate decorated with Lan Tsai-Ho. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the the famille rose palette with the figure of the Immortal Lan Tsai-Ho.
A large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with peonies. kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette with a branche of peonies.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with butterflies. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the centre in bright enamels with a spray of peonies within a lobed medallion outlined in yellow and blue, surrounded by four bright butterflies separated by lobed vignettes of floral sprays extending onto the rim, with stylized lotus sprays reserved on the pink cell-diaper ground.
A pair of very large chinese famille rose vases. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with flowers.
A Chinese famille rose tea bowl and saucer decorated with horses. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with horses in a mountainous landscape.
A very large Chinese en grisaille armorial platter 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 famille rose teapot with a moulded decoration. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with deers, birds, cranes and cockerels and a moulded and applied decoration.