A large and unusual Chinese famille rose “La Dame au Parasol” dish. 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 rouge-de-fer « Governor Duff » cup. Yongzheng period.
Finely decorated rouge-de-fer with a European couple, traditionnaly thought to be Governor Duff and his wife, standing on a garden terrace beside a hound.
A Chinese pair of “en grisaille” plates decorated with the adoration of the shepherds. Qianlong period.
Decorated in Chinese ink (en grisaille) and with gold highlights on some details, at the centre with Mary, Joseph and the Three Shepherds surrounding the baby Jesus in a crib, a donkey asleep in the foreground. Two differents borders are painted with tendrils, flowers, leaves berries and floral garlands, typical of Viennese Du Paquier porcelain style.
A large Chinese plate decorated in iron-red and gold with scene of the Baptism. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in various shades of iron-red and gold, with a central scene of the baptism of the Christ by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan River, while the Holy Ghost flies above them. The rim is painted with garlands of foliage and flowers, supported at the top by a basket of flowers and on […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated in England. Qianlong period.
Painted in famille rose enamels with a decoration made in England during the Eighteenth century.
A large 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 pair of blue and white “Sense of Smell” dishes. Kangxi period.
Painted in underglazed blue and decorated with a scene of three figures “à la mode Fontange” in European dress, standing on a veranda holding flower sprays, and representing the Sense of Smell. They attended by a servant holding a basket with more flowers, all within a decorative border painted with flowering peony branches.
A pair of Chinese famille rose botanical plates. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels, with a branch of roses to the center, spearheads and tendrils at the rim.
A Chinese « Madame de Pompadour » polychrome 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.
A Chinese famille rose mythological subject cup and saucer. Qianlong period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, with a mythological subject, Diane, nymphs and Actéon.