A Chinese famille rose eggshell tea bowl and saucer decorated with a mountainous landscape. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a mountainous landscape.
A Chinese famille rose basin painted with a turquoise ice ground. Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, a domed centre with a scroll shaped panel depicting quail feeding beneath sprays of peony growing from amongst elaborate rock work formations, surrounded by further panels in the form of fruit enclosing scenes of butterflies and insects amongst flowers, reserved on a turquoise ice ground with flowers en grisaille.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with The Judgment of Paris. Qianlong period.
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, the rim bordered by iron-red delineated gilt shells and foliate scrolls.
A pair of small Chinese famille rose tobacco leaf plates. Qianlong period.
Of barbed and lobed outline, enameled with the classic pattern in vivid famille rose colors, underglaze blue and gilt, a very large passion flower in pink and yellow shown against the leaves.
A pair of Chinese famille rose tobacco leaf plates. Qianlong period.
Of barbed and lobed outline, enameled with the classic pattern in vivid famille rose colors, underglaze blue and gilt, a very large passion flower in pink and yellow shown against the leaves.
A massive Chinese famille rose charger from the “Serviço dos Dois Pavões”. Qianlong period.
Enamelled and gilt at the centre with a peacock and peahen perched on rockwork beside a large peony-blossom amongst various flowering branches, comprising one octafoil tray.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with cockerels. Yongzheng period.
Two lively cockerels in a peony garden, one perched on rocks, the rim with pink cell diaper border interrupted by three cartouches of flowers and citrus.
A Chinese famille rose Pronk “Arbor” dish. Qianlong period.
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, the reverse with iron-red and purple lambrequin border.
A pair of large Chinese famille rose dishes decorated with a basket of flowers. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a central basket of flowers.
A large Chinese famille rose group representing the Hehe Erxian. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with two boys seated on pierced rock work, a “three-legged toad” peering out from an opening below.