A Chinese blue & white plate decorated with figures. Kangxi period.
Painted in underglazed blue with an episode of the Xixiang J, with the young Zhang Sheng.
A Chinese blue & white charger decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in underglazed blue with two ladies in a terraced garden near an architecture, the rim with four shaped cartouches containing figures in landscapes and flowers.
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with a scene of the Romance of the Western Chamber. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette, in the center a horseman with his servant, a building in the background surrounded by a fence. On the left a table with precious objects such as a flower vase, an incense-burner and a brush pot, books, a weir board, a lute wrapped in a cloth, ans scrolls with […]
A Chinese famille verte dish with the figure of Mu Guyiying. Kangxi period.
Painted in the famille verte palette, with wide and narrow lotus-shaped panels in low relief on the sides, and an everted scalloped rim, with a woman with long feathers in her hair on horseback, a soldier with a flag on foot and the upper half of a tent in the foreground. The panels filled with […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, with three figures in a garden with a phoenix.
A Chinese plate decorated in famille rose enamels with Laozi. Yongzhzeng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a central medallion encircled by ruyi, with Laozi on his crane . On the rim, panels of landscapes and peonies.
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 Chinese dish decorated with horsemen. Kangxi period and mark.
Decorated in underglazed blue with horsemen.
A Chinese saucer decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Painted in famille rose enamels with three figures in a landscape.
A large Chinese famille rose dish 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.