A Chinese famille rose cup decorated with a musicial scene. Qianlong
Painted with a Meissen inspiration decoration in pink camaieu, with a vine foliage garland and a Du Paquier Viennese style rim define the central reserve of the saucer. A musician playing flute is standing in front of two seated and embracing spectators.
A large and unusual Chinese famille verte dish. Kangxi
Decorated in the famille verte palette to the interior with three buddhistic lions frolicking on rocky promontories alternating with three horses prancing on stylized circular waves, all encircling a central medallion of a carp leaping from froth-capped waves, the everted rim decorated with shaped panels of various sea creatures reserved against a iron-red and gilt floral […]
A Chinese yellow-ochre enamel on the biscuit reclined hound. Kangxi
Decorated with a yellow glaze, its head turned slightly to its left. It has flat drooping ears and a long muzzle. Its tail curls against the left haunch. The sides of the body are deeply carved to indicate the ribs. A bell hangs at its chest from a cord around the neck. Eyes are pencilled in black.
A Chinese Dehua “Romance of the three Kingdoms” group. Kangxi
Well modeled depicting a young soldier, Lü Bu, reuniting with the beautiful Daio Chan while being observed by the jealous warlord, Dong Zhuo, peering at the amorous couple from behind a floor screen, all supported on a pedestal base.
A Chinese Export Porcelain coffee pot. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a peasant woman spinning her distaff, accompanied with a man and two bovids.
A Chinese blue and white kraak porcelain dish. Wanli period
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a foliate rim and decorated to the centre with a two mandarin ducks on a riverbank below leafy stems of lotus flowers and lotus buds and by overhanging rocks. The cavetto is further decorated with panels of stylised peach stems and precious objects.
An unusual and very large Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with a lacustrian landscape. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a cartouche depicting Chinese ladies in a lacustrian landscape, handle and spout molded as bamboo.
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with flowers. Qianlong period
Decorated in famille rose enamels and gold, with spearhead border on the rim, stylized peony sprays, chrysanthemum, and passion flowers at the well and in the center.
A large Chinese blue and white covered bowl decorated with figures. Kangxi period
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a scholar and a lady in leisure a garden accompanied by her maid, carrying a tray with a jug and two cups. An old man sits in a chariot accompanied by his attendant beside an architecture and a pierced ornamental rockwork, the scene possibly inspired by the Romance of the Western Chamber.The decoration […]
A large Chinese Imari pot pourri jar and cover. Yongzheng/Qianlong period
The pear-shaped sides painted stalks of chrysanthemum and bamboo alternating with peach-colored vases of flowers standing on blue rockwork, pierced near the rim and again around the top to release the scent.
