A large Chinese oblong octogonal famille verte dish decorated with figures. Kangxi period
Of octagonal form, painted with two ladies on a terrace, one holding a fan, looking over a lotus-filled pond, the border with stylized peony and four butterfly cartouches, the moulded rim enriched in iron-red.
A Chinese powder-blue-ground plate with a gilt decoration. Kangxi period
Painted in gilding with a Chinese lady with a child in a landscape, reserved on a powder-blue-ground.
A “Blanc-de-Chine” Dehua figure of Guanyin. Kangxi period
The figure standing on a seawave base, wearing long flowing robes and beaded jewellery, her hair tied in high top knots.
A large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with a romance. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette with an episode from a Chinese couple in an architecture. An underglaze blue artemisia leaf is painting to the base.
A Chinese famille rose molded and reticulated “brocade ball” teapot. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the teapot molded on each side with two convex reticulated and gilt roundels encircled by petal lappets and green diaper, on another diaper ground. The whole is flanked by two Buddhist lions which form the handle and the spout. The cover is surmounted by a cockerel-form finial.
A very fine and large Chinese famille rose “landscape” dish. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a mountainous river landscape with figures, parrots, pavilions and pagoda, nestled amongst trees and rocks. The rim is decorated with sprays of flowers.
A large Chinese famille rose armorial dish for the Belgian market (Jacobus-Gerardus de Knyff). Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose enamels, gilt and silvered, with the arms of Knyff.
A powder blue bowl decorated with panels of flowers. Kangxi period.
Decorated with powder blue aground and cartouches of flowers.
A Chinese famille rose bowl with an applied decoration. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with sprays of peonies and an applied decoration of squirrels running in vine branches.
A very rare and large Chinese famille rose armorial oblong dish for the Spanish Market (José Raón y Gutiérrez, Governor of the Philippines). Qianlong period
Enamelled in the famille rose palette and gilt with a central coat-of-arms for Raón y Guttiérrez, quarterly: 1. or, a gallows, in chief an arm holding a knife argent;2. azure, a tree with a wolf sable against the trunk; 3. or, four bends or and over-all a knife argent;4. azure, a tower argent between two […]