A Chinese “en grisaille” plate decorated with a mythological subject. Qianlong period
Of scalloped form, decorated en grisaille and in gold, with a central scene of an armed warrior standing over a resting companion and looking toward a winged figure who aims an arrow from a dove-driven chariot amongst clouds in which is also seated a scantily-draped female.
A massive Chinese famille rose “pseudo-tobacco leaf” wine pot. Qianlong period.
Of globular form, brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette and gilt, with flat covers and flower head finials, enamelled on one side with a pair of mandarin crested ducks, one swimming on a pond and the other on a large upturned lotus leaf beside a large stylised peony head, the other side with rococo leaves, […]
A Chinese armorial plate for the continental market. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a moulded foliate-rim and a coat of arms.
A large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with a pheasant. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a pheasant.
A large Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » teapot. Qianlong period.
Brightly enamelled to the interior with a peony medallion encircled at the rim by floral sprays and seed pods flanking cartouches alternately enclosing a fish or an eagle.
A Chinese famille rose ‘Parrot on a perch” vase after a design of Pronk. Qianlong period.
The design sometimes attributed to Cornelis Pronk and also made at Meissen, painted on both sides with a richly coloured parrot holding a sprig of cherry in its talons as he stands chained to his perch, suspended from a melon-form ornament at the neck, within blue band borders.
A very large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with flowers. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette, with flowers and diaper.
A Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with a boy astride a water buffalo. Yongzheng period.
Of globular form, with the concave fluted moulded panels on the cover matched on the base, which has applied aquatic plants. Decorated in famille rose enamels, with a boy on a water buffalo in a landscape, with flowers and rockwork above the fluting.
A very fine Chinese famille rose “cockerel” plate. Yongzheng period.
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette with a cockerel perched on pierced promontory rockwork among flowering branches of peony, surrounded at the well with a sea-green trellis-pattern band reserved with floral vignettes, the rim with four flower sprays.
A Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with Lan Tsai-Ho and her attendant. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with Lan Tsai-Ho and her attendant, diaper and peonies.