A Chinese black-ground tea bowl. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette with cartouches of peonies on the black ground.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with goldfishes. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette with goldfishes painted in red, pink or grey amongst seaweed ; the border with fers-de-lance.
A small Chinese famille verte coffee pot. Kangxi
Of pear-shaped body, and enameled in the famille verte palette with sea creatures amidst waves, a molded ruyi-head at the base of the loop handle.
A Chinese famille rose sconce. Qianlong
Shaped like a human arm, protruding from a flat base which forms a sleeve. The hand is partially clenched to provide a hole in the middle, through which a metal candlestick could be fitted. The sconce is decorated in overglaze enamels of the famille rose palette, including green, blue and red. The arms is painted […]
A Chinese famille rose wall vase. Yongzheng / Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette and modelled as a pique-fleurs with scalloped sides, the wavy rim decorated with lappet-shaped whorl-pattern borders enriched with peonies above two similar horizontal bands, the inner rim and back pierced with apertures.
A Chinese famille rose coffee pot. Yongzheng
Of pear shape with long curving spout and hight curved handle, the body and cover with applied moulded lotus stems and leaves, and painted with cockerels among peonies in riche famille rose enamels.
A Chinese famille rose coffee pot. Qianlong
Of cylindrical form, with rococo spout and pistol grip handle set as right angles, the cover with strawberry finial, and decorated in the famille rose palette with ladies and children in garden.
A chinese tea bowl and saucer. Yongzheng
Of polylobed form, and decorated with a boy herding three goats next to a prunus.
A Chinese famille rose mandarins square teapot and a jardiniere. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with mandarins, the mounts is French 19th.
A Chinese armorial charger for the Spanish Market (José Raón y Gutiérrez, Governor of the Philippines). Qianlong period
Enamelled in the famille rose palette and gilt with a central coat-of-arms for Raón y Guttiérrez, quarterly: 1. or, a gallows, in chief an arm holding a knife argent;2. azure, a tree with a wolf sable against the trunk; 3. or, four bends or and over-all a knife argent;4. azure, a tower argent between two […]