An unrecorded Chinese armorial saucer for the French market. Yongzheng
Decorated with the coat of arms of the Fleuriot de La Saudrais, D’argent au chevron de gueules accompagné de trois quintefeuilles d’azur and Lasnier, D’azur à l’aigle éployée d’argent (ici d’or).
A large Chinese polychrome charger decorated with a mythological subject. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a central scene depicting Minerva standing over and protecting the sleeping Telemachus from Cupid and Venus amongst clouds.
A Chinese Canton enamel on copper teapot. Qianlong
A square-shaped teapot with slightly indented corners, short neck and domed lid, standing on curved feet. It has a square section curved spout and flat shoulder surmounted by a tall handle with indented corners. It is decorated with polychrome enamels on a white ground, which include pink, blue yellow, turquoise iron-red, black and gold. Each side […]
A Chinese famille rose ‘erotic’ group. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the man seated and wearing a pale blue robe with a pink shou character medallion and a green skirt, the woman in a green coat with pink sleeves and underskirt, with one knee raised revealing a bound foot as she leans over to examine the man’s ear.
A very fine Chinese famille rose « cockerel » teapot. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the classic image of a cockerel amongst rockwork and flowering branches of peony and carnation flowers. Diapered borders on the neck and the cover.
A Chinese armorial plate for the English market (Gordon). Qianlong
An elegantly decorated Chinese export octagonal famille rose plate bearing the arms of Gordon for the English market with a Chinese-inspired central scene and border panels depicting rural landscapes in polychrome enamels.
A Chinese famille rose cup decorated with a musicial scene. Qianlong
Painted with a Meissen inspiration decoration in pink camaieu, with a vine foliage garland and a Du Paquier Viennese style rim define the central reserve of the saucer. A musician playing flute is standing in front of two seated and embracing spectators.
A Chinese famille rose figural cup. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with an elegant lady with a fan seated a fine table with what appears to be an unfurled scroll that she has been contemplating, her attention diverted by what we assume to be her small son who is carrying a ruyi scepter, his presence dwarfed by being sandwiched between […]
A Chinese armorial neoclassical ‘portrait’ plate for the Danish market. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, in overglaze polychrome enamels, including pink, green, iron red, black and gold. At the centre is a large medallion with a wavy frieze framed by gold circles enclosing the bust-length portrait of the Roman goddess Minerva wearing a Corinthian helmet in a pink ground. There is also a pink […]
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.