A very large and rare Chinese famille rose dish for the New Spain / Mexican market
A Chinese export famille rose porcelain dish decorated in vibrant enamels depicting two double-headed eagles flanked by a wide as- sortment of flowers made for the Mexico market. Two floral arrange- ments are potted in large footed bowls decorated in vertical stripes that mirror the color schemes of the wings of each eagle. A large […]
A famille rose plate « Earth » plate. Qianlong
Enameled in bright colors with a European mythological scene derived from Albani’s ‘Earth’, the center with three female and one male figure, variously robed and unrobed, riding a chariot pulled by lions with six putti dispersed before them, a large leafy tree to one side and a river landscape in the background, the rim with […]
A famille rose ‘Pronk Dame au Parasol’ dish. Qianlong
Painted in bright enamels with a an elegant lady standing under a parasol held by an attendant, the lady holding out a hand to four separate species of marsh birds, three walking on the bank before them, and a fourth, partially submerged with only tail feathers visible, feeding in the marsh behind, the four species […]
A rare and fine Dutch-decorated mythological saucer dish. Yongzheng / Qianlong
A Chinese porcelain dish, with a glaze porcelain carved with scrolling foliage, and decorated in Holland after the engraving of Bernard Picard (1673-1732) for Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1732) and depicting Demeter (Ceres) relinquishing her dragons to Triptolemus.
A Chinese Export Porcelain gilt and puce « Batavia » plate. Qianlong
Decorated with natives, Eastern merchants, the god Mercury and a lion before a flag monogrammed V.O.C for the Dutch East India Company, the foreground inscribed ‘BATAVIA’.
The Hervouët ‘Dutch Whaling Scene’ plate. Qianlong
Painted to the centre in overglaze enamels, including bright shades of iron-red, turquoise, blue, yellow and brown, picked out in black and hightlighted in gilt. It shows a lively whale-hunting scene in an artic region, depicting three Dutch vessels sailing amid icebergs on a rough sea, one behind an iceberg at far right, one in […]
A famille rose « the Sleeping Beauty » teapot. Qianlong
This seldom European motif depicted on Chinese porcelain illustrates a courteous subject that stems from the literary theme “the Sleeping Beauty” well known at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. In a central panel, a man wearing a tricorn takes advantage of the slumber of a young woman to […]
An exceptional ‘lighthouse-shaped’ Pronk coffee pot. Qianlong
Of tall conical shape with high domed pointed cover and bud finial above a collar, the tapering octagonal spout and strap handle at right angles. The decoration, especially designed in Europe, of turquoise green scales divided by a broad white area decorated with butterflies and insects above a shaped black band with famille rose flowers, […]
A Chinese “Meissen style” plate. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, in the center with a scene with building and horsemen dressed in Western style.
A Chinese Dutch-decorated plate with two quails. Kangxi/Yongzheng
A Chinese porcelain Dutch-decorated plate, the plain form later-enamelled with a Kakiemon design of two quails pecking at millet beneath flowering stems, a grasshopper perched above, the rim with four panels of quail within a cracked ice and prunus ground in a famille vert palette.