A Chinese export famille rose and silvered armorial plate for the Belgian market (Bistrate of Anvers). Yongzheng period.
The center enameled and silvered with the arms of la Bistrate accollée with those of Proli between greyhound supporters and below a helmet, coronet and crest, surrounded by a trellis-patters in the well, the arms repeated individually around the everted rim between a du Paquier style design of linked feathers, strapwork, shells and hanging drapery.
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with flowers. Qianlong period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels with flowers.
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with crabs. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, this plate depicts two crabs holding a peonies between them.
A Chinese powder blue plate decorated with a chimera. Kangxi period
Decorated in powder blue ground with panels of aquatic plants, the center with a chimera.
A Chinese lion joss stick holder decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit, standing on four feet and looking to the right, with moveable eyeballs and on an Artemisia leaf-shaped base which symbolized the driving away of evil.
A Chinese export porcelain shell shaped dish. Kangxi period
The shell-dish lightly moulded and finely enamelled in shades of green, yellow and black with a quatrefoil ruyi medallion flanked by flowering prunus and magnolia branches, the border with a scroll band in underglaze blue.
A large Chinese famille rose baluster vase decorated with butterflies and flowers. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with butterflies and flowers.
A large Chinese iron-red mancerina. Qianlong period
Of silver form, decorated in iron-red enamelling.
A Chinese famille rose goblet decorated with mandarins. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose enamels with Chinese figures.
A pair of large Chinese imari dishes depicting a scene from The Romance of the Western Chamber. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the traditional imari palette, with a scene from Act III of The Romance of the Western Chamber (Xi Xiang Ji) by the Yuan Dynasty playwright Wang Shifu (c.1260-1336), with Cui Yingying awaiting the arrival of Zhang Sheng. On the rim, a blue treillis and four reserves with Chinese boys.