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 pair of Chinese Imari “La dame au parasol” plates after a design of Pronk. Qianlong period
Decorated in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gilt with ‘La Dame au Parasol’ after a design by Cornelis Pronk, the central scene with a lady holding a parasol above another woman standing near waterfowl on a grassy bank, within a narrow band of flower-sprays at the well, the border with figural and bird cartouches on a honey-comb […]
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 en grisaille tea bowl and saucer decorated with a “bathing scene”. Qianlong period
Decorated with a grisaille European subject semi-eggshell tea bowl and saucer, the saucer painted with a ‘bathing scene’ with a nude lady stepping into a bath with boy attendant pouring water into a bath, within a decorative border at the cavetto with alternating circular and foliate panels painted in puce enamel, all on a gilt decorative […]
A Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » tea bowl and saucer. 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 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 Chinese famille rose platter with shells and rocaille scrolls. Qianlong period
Of canted rectangular form with notched corners, decorated in the center with flowers, the shaped rim painted with shells and rocaille scrolls in different shades of pink with gold highlights.
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates decorated with shells and rocaille scrolls. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the center with flowers, the shaped rim painted with shells and rocaille scrolls in different shades of pink with gold highlights.
A Chinese famille rose teapot depicting the Judgment of Pâris. Qianlong period.
Of globular form, painted on either side with Paris seated wearing a puce robe, with a small dog beside him, and offering a green object to Aphrodite who is flanked by Hera and Athena, and with Cupid looking on, Hera and Aphrodite only covered by either a shawl or a fan, Athena dressed in long […]
A Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » plate. 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.