A Chinese famille rose plate decorated in the Meissen style. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, in the center with a river scene with building painted in shades of brown, one of them fortified with a tower, and small figures dressed in Western style.
A Chinese famille rose plate after Maria Sybille Merian. Qianlong period
Finely enamelled at the centre with a white-bodied caterpillar crawling on the leaf of a blue iris, beside another with green body crawling amongst the petals of an orchid, a butterfly hovering above, enclosed by an underglaze blue and gilt floral band in the well and a broad band of elaborate strap work, acanthus leaves […]
A Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » dish. Qianlong period
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette, to the interior with a peony medallion encircled at the rim by floral sprays and seed pods flanking cartouches alternately enclosing a fish or an eagle.
A Chinese “camaïeu carmin” The Fisherman plate. Qianlong period
Decorated in camaïeu carmin with a Dutch fisherman before traps and a tree trunk, the rim with a Du Pasquier style border.
A Chinese blue and white bowl with an English Over-decoration. Qianlong period
Decorated with underglazed blue Chinese decoration of buddhist attributs, and a polychrome decoration of parrot /cacatoes, ruyi, and vases.
A Chinese famille rose “Madame de Pompadour” pot-pourri. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette.
A Chinese Export en grisaille plate decorated with the Crucifixion. Qianlong period
The religious subject finely painted in the center in tones of black enamel enriched with gilt highlights, a crowd of mourners and onlookers below Christ and the two thieves and the Roman soldiers gambling in the foreground, the border decorated in the Du Pasquier style.
An unusual Chinese sépia and en grisaille “Fortune Teller” sauceboat. Qianlong period
Of European silver shape with deeply scalloped rims and molded edges, decorated en grisaille, sepia and gilt, in an unusual color choice, with a scene inspired in the engraving The gipsy Fortune Teller, by John Smith (1652-1743). A European gentleman, dismounted from his horse, accompanied by two young men, presents his hand to a fortune-teller. […]
A pair of large Chinese Export Pompadour wine coolers. Qianlong period
Decorated with famille rose enamels in the Pompadour pattern.
Unusual Chinese famille rose salt cellar decorated with shells and rocaille scrolls. Qianlong period
Of circular form, with three foots and decorated in the famille rose palette with shells and rocaille scrolls in different shades of pink with gold highlights.