A Chinese famille rose tea canister. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with flowers, leaves, and branches around a reserve with a man riding a black donkey, followed by an attendant. The cover with a dog finial.
A Royal Chinese Export écuelle for the French market. Qianlong
The cylindrical sides with projecting shell motif handles washed in underglaze-blue, decorated in cobalt and enamels heightened in gilding with the sides with Buddha’s hand citron or a gourd in a dish on a lotus blossom and pads or branches, the arms of France encircled by the Orders of the Holy Ghost and of Saint Michael and […]
A Chinese recumbent goat. Qianlong
Modelled in white porcelain, the body painted with black patches, the horns finely heightened en grisaille.
A rare Chinese export faience-form blue and white tureen. Yongzheng
A rare Chinese export blue and white tureen, of shaped oblong outline with eel handle, decorated with flowers, the interior painted with a single flower.
A very fine and large Chinese famille rose tea bowl. Yongzheng / Qianlong
The tea bowl and the saucer decorated in the famille rose palette with blossoming begonia and aster amidst tall grasses.
A very fine and large Chinese armorial teapot for the French market. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the coat of arms Trublet de la Villejegu, D’azur, au chevron d’argent, chargé de trois roses de gueules, with Montigny du Timeur, D’argent, au chevron de gueules (ici d’azur), chargé de cinq coquilles d’or, accompagné en chef de deux étoiles d’azur (ici de gueules), et en pointe d’un […]
A large Chinese famille rose dish with squirrels and flowers. Early Qianlong
Decorated with underglaze blue and raised with a famille rose decoration, comprising a central panel with a large iris, and cartouche of squirrels running amongst vines or bird perched on branches of prunus.
A Chinese armorial plate for the English market (Hotham). Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the coats are of Hotham, Barry of ten argent and azure, on a canton or a Cornish though proper ; crest, A demi seaman issuing out of the water proper, holding in the dexter hand a flaming sword argent, hilt and pommel or, on the sinister arm a shield […]
A Chinese Export “Tobacco Leaf” dish. Qianlong period
Decorated in underglaze blue, polychrome enamels, and gold, with a pair of pheasants amongst leaves and flower blossoms beneath two squirrels on the branches of a vine, three prunus sprays on the revers, gold edge on the lobed rim.
A Chinese armorial plate for Giulio Visconti, Viceroy of Naples. Yongzheng period
Painted in the center with the magnificent arms of Visconti and Cusani, both of Milan, within a demi-ruyi-head border around the well and a cell diaper border around the cavetto, the rim with two sprays of fans and peonies and two sprays of iris and fungi, all alternating with four shaded rose hibiscus blossoms within […]