A pair of Chinese armorial dishes for the French market (Philibert Orry, royal finance minister under Louis XV). Yongzheng period
With the arms of Orry, de gueule à un lion rampant et grimpant sur un rocher d’argent, in colors and gilt with a rocaille surrounded by a vividly enameled foliate border, the rim scalloped.
A very fine Chinese famille rose plate decorated with Chinese ladies and their sons. Yongzheng / early Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, depicting the ideals of Chinese mother and son, in a cultured and luxurious lifestyle.
A Chinese Export ‘tobacco leaf’ pattern pomegranate-form tureen. Qianlong period
Of circular form and molded with a blue floral handle on one side, painted with yellow and puce flowers in the center surrounded by large turquoise, yellow, blue and green tobacco leaves, the cover painted with three pomegranates culminating in a blue stem-form knop that surmounts the cover
Two Chinese famille rose “phoenix & carps” plates. Qianlong period
One decorated with a black border, the other with blue enamels on the rim.
A Chinese en grisaille and gilt plate decorated with a basket of flowers. Yongzheng period
Decorated with en grisaille, gilt and famille rose enamels with a basket of flowers.
A Chinese famille rose-noire cover set as a gilt-bronze ink stand. Yongzheng period and XIXe century
The porcelain, a cover from a vase of the Yongzheng period (1723-1735), decorated in the famille rose-noire with flowers, the ink stand made by a receptacle placed to the center of the cover, the lid with a rich rococo bronze gilt, three acanthus-shaped feet.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period
Delicately enamelled in pastel tones at the centre with a gentleman on horseback, with his consort walking at his side, both wearing elaborately decorated robes, their way led by an attendant carrying their belongings suspended from a pole over his shoulders, the rim with a grisaille diaper-pattern band reserved with blue enamel and gilt half […]
A Chinese “camaïeu carmin” The Fisherman plate. Qianlong period
Decorated in camaïeu carmin with a Dutch fisherman before traps and a tree trunk, the rim with a Du Pasquier style border.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a burst pomegranate. Yongzheng period
Decorated in a combination of dark underglazed blue with pink, grey, green and yellow enamels. The central motif is a pomegranate on a knobby stem with flowers and leaves and a pair of smaller flowers and laves in futile, in front and surrounding the fruit. The pomegranate has burst open to reveal its seeds. The central […]
An unusual and very large Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with a lacustrian landscape. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a cartouche depicting Chinese ladies in a lacustrian landscape, handle and spout molded as bamboo.