A Chinese mythological plate “The Choice of Hercule”. Qianlong period
Decorated in overglaze blue and gilt, Hercules is portrayed between the figure of Virtue, pointing upward, and that of Pleasure, pointing down.
A large Chinese blue & white botanical plate decorated with an “Iris” design after Maria Sybille Merian probably after the Pronk studio. Qianlong period.
Decorated in underglazed blue and gold, in the highest quality for this pattern, painted at the centre with a white-bodied caterpillar crawling on the leaf of a iris, beside another with a crawling amongst the petals of an orchid, a butterfly hovering above, enclosed by an gilt floral band in the well and a broad band […]
