A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with peonies and phoenix. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with blossoming peony and a long-tailed phoenix.
A Chinese famille verte café-au-lait-ground plate decorated with buddhist attributs. Kangxi period
Decorated with à café-au-lait-ground and decorated with attributs in the famille verte palette.
A very large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with flowers. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette, with a central medallion and branches of peonies and chrysanthemum.
A Chinese en grisaille armorial plate 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 very large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with mythological animals and landscape. Kangxi period.
Painted to the central medallion with a pair of ducks in a garden with pomegranate and peony, surrounded by radiating shaped panels of a qilin, a phoenix, a river-landscape and flower-vases, alternate with panels of flowering gardens, all below panels of stylised flowerheads reserved on a diaper-pattern band at the rim, the base marked with […]
A Chinese famille rose barber’s bowl. Yongzheng period.
Decorated the famille rose enamels and iron-red, in the center with an unrolled scroll showing a scene with a basket of flowers and a ruyi scepter, against boughs of prunus and peonies, a cell pattern rim set with four panels containing Chinese figures.
A Chinese en grisaille and gilt “Le pêcheur” plate. Qianlong period.
Decorated en grisaille at the centre with a fishing scene, a young man standing barefoot on a river-bank holding his rod, beside two large fishing baskets below a tree-trunk with birds in flight overhead, the border with four different landscape vignettes decorated primarily in gilt with details en grisaille and iron-red, interspersed with gilt florettes, […]
A large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with birds and flowers. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with birds and flowers.
A Chinese famille verte dish decorated with a prunus, peonies and a seal mark. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels in the Chinese taste, with a large flowering prunus and peonies. The rim with a border of four cartouches
A Chinese “en grisaille” and gilt marriage plate for the Dutch market. Yongzheng period.
Finely and delicately decorated with an allegorical marriage scene in a grand architectural setting, below an arch inscribed SEMPER AMOR PRO TE FIRMISSIMUS ATQUE FIDELIS, the columns on either side surmounted by small coats-of-arms of Nicolas Geelvinck and Johanna Graafland, Neptune and sea-nymphs emerging from reeds to watch the scene in the foreground, the well with […]