A large Chinese famille rose “La Dame au Parasol” fluted dish after Cornelis Pronk. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with scalloped rim, painted with the famous scene of a lady standing before waterbirds as her attendant shades her with a parasol, the fluted border with pendant swags of ribbon-tied objects and peony.
A Chinese famille rose pronk “Doctors visit” saucer dish. Qianlong period
Enamelled at the centre with a design by Cornelis Pronk, three figures seated around a Ming-style blue and white dish on a Western table, two holding a fish, with a fourth figure gesturing up at a bird perched in an overhanging branch, beside a peacock on the terrace balustrade, the wide border with six ‘fish’ […]
A set of three Chinese « Madame de Pompadour » polychrome plates. 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 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” plate decorated with a mythological subject. Qianlong period
Of scalloped form, decorated en grisaille and in gold, with a central scene of an armed warrior standing over a resting companion and looking toward a winged figure who aims an arrow from a dove-driven chariot amongst clouds in which is also seated a scantily-draped female.
A large Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » teapot. Qianlong period.
Brightly enamelled 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 famille rose bowl decorated with a couple resting after the hunt. Qianlong period.
The bowl decorated in the famille rose palette with a couple resting after the hunt in a landscape.
A Chinese famille rose Pronk “Arbor” dish. Qianlong period.
Decorated after the Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk’s design with the classic topiary garden scene, the border with cartouches of moths, butterflies, flowers and fruits, the reverse with iron-red and purple lambrequin border.
A Chinese “en grisaille” plate decorated after the painting “Les Oies de Frère Philippe” by Nicolas Lancret. Qianlong period.
Decorated en grisaille and in flesh tones and gilt, with narrow bands and continuous border of garlands on the rim, spearheads at the well, central scene of an old man and a young boy observing two women accompanied by a servant girl holding a parasol.
A rare Chinese Export “Four Elements ” plate depicting “Water”. Qianlong period (circa 1742)
Decorated in the famille rose palette and depicting Galatea, a sea-nymph, in a shell-shaped chariot drawn by dolphins, being guided by a putti, two other putti grasping a shaded red and pink cloth which is billowing to form a canopy, sea-nymphs, tritons and other putti playing in the turbulent river and on the chariot, a […]