A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with goldfishes. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with goldfishes, panels of landscape and highlights.
A Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with goldfishes. Yongzheng period
A very fine teapot and cover with applied branches, leaves and buds to the body and decorated with goldfishes and sea weed in opaque enamels from the famille rose (fencai) palette.
A Chinese famille rose “cockerel” plate. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette in opaque enamels (fencai) with flowers and a rooster.
Unusual Chinese famille rose salt cellar decorated with shells and rocaille scrolls. Qianlong period
Of circular form, with three foots and decorated in the famille rose palette with shells and rocaille scrolls in different shades of pink with gold highlights.
A pair of Chinese armorial plates for the English market (Macgregor of MarcGregor). Qianlong period
The arms are MacGregor of MacGregor, Argent an oak tree eradicated in bend sinister surmounted of a sword in bend bother proper, in the dexter canton an antique crown gules ; crest, A lion’s head proper (crowned with an antique crown). The supporters are Dexter a unicorn argent (crowned), sinister a deer proper ; and […]
A Chinese famille rose eggshell tea bowl decorated with a qilin. Yongzheng period
Decorated in opaque enamels from the famille rose palette with four panels ; two with a bird perched on a tree branch, the other two panels with dense foliage and flower heads and a mythical beast (qilin), against a red and a yellow ground.
A large Chinese famille rose-noire “cockerel” dish. Yongzheng period
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette, at the centre with a cockerel perched on blue pierced rockwork beside tree peony and butterflies within a flower-head panel reserved on a black ground with scrolling peony.
A large Chinese famille rose lighthouse form coffee-pot decorated with a phoenix. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with various overglaze enamels with rocks and flowering plants in a garden near a balustrade, a pheasant on a rock and a peacock on a flowering branch. The shaped handle opposite the spout ends in a bird’s beak. The hight domed cover decorated in the same style.
A Chinese armorial plate for the English market (Selby impaling Tuite). Qianlong period
The arms of Selby of Biddleston, Barry of eight sable and or, impaling Tuite, Quarterly argent and gules; crest of Selby, A saracen’s head wreathed about the temples or and sable.
A Chinese “mandarin palette” and dragon handles vase and cover. Qianlong period
Of baluster form, supported on a pedestal foot and set with a pair of iron-red and gilt dragon handles, the body painted front and back with a vase holding a large bouquet of flowers, the scalloped cover surmounted by an iron-red and gilt Buddhist lion knop.