A Chinese armorial oblong dish for the English market (Captain Richard Drake). Qianlong
Of oblong form and lobed outline, painted in the center in the famille rose palette, with a pair of pheasants perched on rock work beneath overhanging branches of flowering tree peony, the rim painted with the arms of Drake, opposite the crest of a castle surmounted by a wyvern, reserved in a border of multi-colored […]
Two Chinese armorial domed covers for the English market (Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol). Yongzheng period
Very heavily potted, of domed shape with moulded lip and large ball finial on pedestal. The outside finely painted with bands of rouge-de-fer and gold, and a crest among famille verte sprays, the crest of Talbot On a cap of maintenance gules, turned up ermine, a lion statant, and in the famille rose palette inside the cover.
A Chinese famille rose tea bowl. Yongzheng
Decorated with diapers and a gilt ground on the rim.
A pair of Chinese Export Porcelain “Judgement of Paris” plates. Qianlong
Decorated in famille rose enamels, the centre depicting Paris wearing rose drapery, holding a staff, seated on an iron-red rock beside his recumbent hound, offering a golden apple to Venus flanked by Juno and Minerva, with Cupid seated at their feet, a border of gilt spearhead on the rim.
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates. Qianlong
Decorated with flowers.
A Chinese domed dish cover for the Ottoman market. Late 18th century.
Of domed form, with a floral decoration and a midnight blue ground with stars.
A Chinese famille rose plate after Maria Sybille Merian. Qianlong period
Finely enamelled at the centre with a white-bodied caterpillar crawling on the leaf of a blue iris, beside another with green body crawling amongst the petals of an orchid, a butterfly hovering above, enclosed by an underglaze blue and gilt floral band in the well and a broad band of elaborate strap work, acanthus leaves […]
Two famille rose figures of immortals. Jiqing
Decorated in the famille rose palette, and standing on a plinthe.
A Chinese famille rose rococo sauce tureen. Qianlong
A Chinese famille rose rococo tureen with its cover, of asymmetrical form with berried knop and colorful, scrolled handles, on a stand molded with shell handles, decorated with loose floral bouquets.
A large Chinese famille rose figure of Tong-fang-cho, Patron of goldsmiths. Late 18th century
Decorated in famille rose enamels, and standing on a plinth, holding the peaches stolen from Si-wang-mou.