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 […]
A Chinese armorial plate for the French market (Fleuriot de Langle /Lasnier). Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the coat-of-arms of Fleuriot de Langle, Argent, a chevron between three roses gules, stemmed and leafed vert, and Kerouartz, Argent, a wheel between three crosscuts coupe sable, with the collar of the Knight of Saint Louis.
A Chinese famille rose lotus dish decorated with a cockerel. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a cockerel.
A very fine Chinese famille rose spittoon. Yongzheng
Of globular form, with a highly everted trumpet-shaped mouth and a curved strap handle, attached to a relatively small body set on a low foot. It is decorated in overglaze enamels of the famille rose palette with branches of flowers and a duck.
Unusual Chinese Mythological subject cup and saucer. Early Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with Procris dying in the woods, hit by an arrow of Céphalus, the scene being based on an illustration of S. Le Clerc for Les Métamorphoses d’Ovide en rondeaux by Issac de Bensérade (1676, p. 260).
A Chinese mythological plate “The Choice of Hercule”. Qianlong
Decorated in overglaze blue and gilt, Hercules is portrayed between the figure of Virtue, pointing upward, and that of Pleasure, pointing down.
Unusual Chinese “faux marbre” pomegranate-form tureen. Qianlong
A Chinese Export famille rose “faux marbre” pomegranate-form tureen, reserved on either side with a panel of quatrefoil panel of stylized flowers, the ends affixed with stalk and twig handles, the cover molded in hight relief with three naturalistically colored pomegranates, around a stalk finial.
A Chinese famille rose teapot for the Dutch market. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose teapot with a large gilt cypher to the center.
A Chinese famille rose “Dutch folly fort” reticulated dish. Qianlong period
Painted with a view of the Dutch folly fort on the Pearl River within a scroll border in underglaze-blue, the reticulated rim with spearheads.
A pair of Chinese blue and white octogonal bassins. Qianlong
Of octogonal form, very finely painted in underglaze blue, with two deers in a mountainous landscape.