A Chinese famille rose “Dutch folly fort” butter dish and stand. Qianlong period
Painted with a view of the Dutch folly fort on the Pearl River within a scroll border in underglaze-blue, the rim with butterflies and shaped cell-patterned panels.
A Chinese famille verte dish decorated with “The Mother of the West”. Kangxi period
With shaped, lobed tim and deep well, decorated in rouge-de-fer, gold and famille verte enamels, with a maiden-goddess bearing a spray of fruit on a terrace, while a spotted yellow deer runs beside her, looking up. The rim in rouge-de-fer and gold, the design in imitation of Kraakware.
A Chinese famille rose plate depicting a scene from The Romance of the Western Chamber. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose 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 and her attendant Hongniang, awaiting the arrival of Zhang Sheng.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with the hoho. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose enamels with the hoho.
A Chinese famille rose plate depicting a scene from The Romance of the Western Chamber. Yongzheng period.
Painted in famille rose enamels and decorated with a scroll-form panel painted with a scene from Romance of the Western Chamber, surrounded by flowers and shaped panels enclosing auspicious emblems, on dense scroll ground.
A famille rose charger (from a pair) decorated with Lan Tsai-Ho. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the the famille rose palette with the figure of the Immortal Lan Tsai-Ho.
A pair of “Rockefeller Pattern” dishes. Qianlong period.
A pair of Rockefeller pattern dishes decorated in the highest quality of the end of the Qianlong period, with Mandarin scenes within roundels center the design while finely rendered sepia landscapes float in reserve against meticulously detailed gilded ground.
A Chinese famille rose dish decorated with The Generals of the Yang family. Yongzheng period.
Enamelled in the famille rose palette and gilt, with a scene of the Yang Jia Jiang Yanyi (The Generals of the Yang Family), with six female warriors on horseback in a garden being watched by a dignitary and attendants on a pavilion balcony, the rim with a band of cell and trellis-pattern and reserved with six […]
A Chinese famille rose “Romance of the Western Chamber” plate. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a scene from Xixiang Ji, the Romance of the Western Chamber.
A Chinese blue & white dish decorated with figures. Kangxi period.
Decorated in underglazed blue, the raised center is decorated with an interior scene with figures, surrounded by prunus, peonies, chrysanthemums and water lilies. The everted rim is decorated with further scenes of ladies.
