A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a boy holding a flowering branch. Qianlong period.
Decorated in famille verte and famille rose enamels and gold, with foliate-vine border at the edge and with a principal scene on the cover depicting a boy holding a flowering branch while astride a water buffalo next to a calf close by a stream flanked by a willow tree amongst prunus, rocks, and chrysanthemums. Ducks […]
A Chinese famille rose armorial teapot for the English Market (John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont). Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the arms of Perceval, Argent on a chief indented gules three crosses pattée of the field; with crest, A thistle erect leaved proper, and the motto”Sub crude candor”.
A Chinese famille rose bowl decorated with a couple resting after the hunt. Qianlong period.
The bowl decorated in the famille rose palette with a couple resting after the hunt in a landscape.
A Chinese famille rose eggshell tea bowl and saucer decorated with peonies. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with panels of peonies.
A Chinese famille rose eggshell tea bowl and saucer decorated with a mountainous landscape. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a mountainous landscape.
A very large Chinese Export Porcelain blue and white dish for the Asian market (Swatow). Ming Dynasty – circa 1600/1619
Painted to the centre with a marine rose radiating lines, two large cargo ships under sail on either side, and a giant fish-like sea monster emerging from waves opposite a mountainous landscape with ornamental gates to the foreground, the cavetto with cartouches framing emblematic patterns in opposite pairs, one pair flanked by long tailed birds, […]
A Chinese Dutch-decorated tea bowl and saucer with the Crucifixion. Qianlong period.
Decorated in polychrome enamels and gold, with central scene of the Crucifixion, the instruments of the passion on the reverse and on interior together.
A Chinese armorial plate for the Dutch market (Van Schoonhoven and Geraerds accollee). Qianlong period.
Painted with the arms of Van Schoonhoven (from Rotterdam and Leiden) and Geraerds (Haarlem) accollee, a Continental coat-of-arms on bianco-sopra-bianco ground, the rims in the Du Paquier style, with elaborate strapwork and diaper pattern border in grisaille and gilt.
A Chinese famille rose basin painted with a turquoise ice ground. Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, a domed centre with a scroll shaped panel depicting quail feeding beneath sprays of peony growing from amongst elaborate rock work formations, surrounded by further panels in the form of fruit enclosing scenes of butterflies and insects amongst flowers, reserved on a turquoise ice ground with flowers en grisaille.
A Chinese powder blue dish with a gilt decoration. Kangxi period.
Decorated in powder blue with a gilt decoration.