A rare Chinese en grisaille and gilt royal portrait plate (Louise of Denmark-Norway). Qianlong period
Decorated en grisaille, and heightened in blue enamel and gold. In the centre is a circular medallion displaying the three-quarter length portrait of Louise of Denmark-Norway, dressed with an ermine collar over a royal robe embossed with crowns and wearing elaborate earrings and a pearl tiara atop her curly hair. The plate is decorated with with […]
A Chinese “en grisaille” armorial teapot for the Dutch or the English market. Qianlong period
Decorated en grisaille and gold with a central coat-of-arms.
A Chinese “en grisaille” plate decorated with Luohan and a tiger. Qianlong period
Decorated en grisaille, with Luohan and a tiger.
A Chinese en grisaille “L’Amour et le badinage” teapot and cover. Qianlong period
Of globular form and decorated en grisaille with a scene depicting a courting couple beneath a tree and an amorous couple behind them. A polychrome border of flowers.
A Chinese armorial tea bowl and saucer for the Dutch market (Abeleven of Amsterdam). Qianlong period
Painted en grisaille with the coat-of-arms, the exterior with three groups of vases flanked by flowering branches, each painted beneath with a calligraphic monogram in black enamel.
A Chinese en grisaille “The Seamstress” plate. Qianlong period
Decorated “en grisaille” and gilt, with a seamstress seated in an interior (or The Embroiderer’), with her back to a window.
A very large Chinese en grisaille armorial platter for the English market (Birkbeck). Qianlong period
Of octagonal form and decorated en grisaille and gilt with a central coat of arms, the dexter of Birkbeck, Argent a fess cherry or and azure between three lions heads gules (with an unusual crest), on a count’s coronet a demi lion rampant holding between the paws a cross pattée. The motto PATIENTIA VINCIT. The […]
A Chinese en grisaille armorial plate for the English market (Birkbeck). Qianlong period
Of octagonal form and decorated en grisaille and gilt with a central coat of arms, the dexter of Birkbeck, Argent a fess cherry or and azure between three lions heads gules (with an unusual crest), on a count’s coronet a demi lion rampant holding between the paws a cross pattée. The motto PATIENTIA VINCIT. The […]
A Chinese en grisaille and gilt “Le pêcheur” plate. Qianlong period.
Decorated en grisaille at the centre with a fishing scene, a young man standing barefoot on a river-bank holding his rod, beside two large fishing baskets below a tree-trunk with birds in flight overhead, the border with four different landscape vignettes decorated primarily in gilt with details en grisaille and iron-red, interspersed with gilt florettes, […]
A Chinese “en grisaille” and gilt marriage plate for the Dutch market. Yongzheng period.
Finely and delicately decorated with an allegorical marriage scene in a grand architectural setting, below an arch inscribed SEMPER AMOR PRO TE FIRMISSIMUS ATQUE FIDELIS, the columns on either side surmounted by small coats-of-arms of Nicolas Geelvinck and Johanna Graafland, Neptune and sea-nymphs emerging from reeds to watch the scene in the foreground, the well with […]