A very large Chinese famille verte dish painted 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 Chinese famille rose pronk “Doctors visit” saucer dish. Qianlong period

Enamelled at the centre with a design by Cornelis Pronk, three figures seated around a Ming-style blue and white dish on a Western table, two holding a fish, with a fourth figure gesturing up at a bird perched in an overhanging branch, beside a peacock on the terrace balustrade, the wide border with six ‘fish’ […]