A Chinese silvered famille rose plate. Yongzheng period.
Finely enamelled to the central octafoil panel with a lady playing the qin among archaic vessels and a chest of drawers, reserved on a trellis-pattern ground encircled by a stylised lotus scroll, the rim with cartouches of flowers alternated with iron-red ground cartouches of flower scrolls, reserved on a silver-grey ground
A Chinese armorial salt cellar. Qianlong period
Brightly enamelled to the interior with the arms of (de Pina Manique Nogueira Matos de Andrada. It is encircled by a floral chain, and floral swags are painted on the sides.
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates decorated with two cockerels. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with two cockerels perched on a pierced rock.
A pair of Chinese Export Porcelain plates decorated with the figure of Flore. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the figure of Flore holding a flower crown.
A pair of Chinese famille rose “pseudo-tobacco leaf” plates. Qianlong period.
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette and gilt, with a pair of crested ducks, undoubtedly mandarins, one swimming, the other situated on a blue underglaze mound punctuated with gilding. The ducks, the Chinese symbol of fidelity, are looking at one another. The one on the right, undoubtedly male, looks as if it had been […]
A Chinese famille rose “Dutch folly fort” butter dish and stand. Qianlong period
Painted with a view of the Dutch folly fort on the Pearl River within a scroll border in underglaze-blue, the rim with butterflies and shaped cell-patterned panels.
An unusual pair of Chinese famille rose Pronk “Arbor” octogonal salt cellars. Qianlong period
Of octogonal form, decorated after the Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk’s design with the classic topiary garden scene, the border with cartouches of moths, butterflies, flowers and fruits.
A large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with “The Hundred Antiquities”. Yongzheng period
Decorated with vibrant enamels, with “The Hundred Antiquities” and peonies.
A Chinese famille rose “goldfish” bowl. Yongzheng period
Decorated to the exterior and to the interior with iron-red and gilt or en grisaille goldfish swimming amongst gilt water-weed.
A Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » dish. Qianlong period
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette, to the interior with a peony medallion encircled at the rim by floral sprays and seed pods flanking cartouches alternately enclosing a fish or an eagle.