A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with peonies. Yongzheng period.
Decorated with panels of peonies, the rim with a gilded Y-diaper border, the outer rim in blue enamel.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with elephant and mahout for the Indian market. Qianlong period.
Of scalloped form with bianco-sopra-bianco floral ground, decorated in famille rose enamels and gold, with lotus flowers and buds on the rim, narrow bands and dots at the well, central scene within a cartouche of a mahout astride an elephant amongst rocks, flowers, and shrubs.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with elephant and mahout for the Indian market. Qianlong period.
Of scalloped form with bianco-sopra-bianco floral ground, decorated in famille rose enamels and gold, with lotus flowers and buds on the rim, narrow bands and dots at the well, central scene within a cartouche of a mahout astride an elephant amongst rocks, flowers, and shrubs.
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with elephant and mahout for the Indian market. Qianlong period.
Of scalloped form with bianco-sopra-bianco floral ground, decorated in famille rose enamels and gold, with lotus flowers and buds on the rim, narrow bands and dots at the well, central scene within a cartouche of a mahout astride an elephant amongst rocks, flowers, and shrubs.
A rare set of nine Chinese Export “Tobacco Leaf” plates. Qianlong period.
Decorated in underglaze blue, polychrome enamels, and gold, with a pair of pheasants amongst leaves and flower blossoms beneath two squirrels on the branches of a vine, three prunus sprays on the revers, gold edge on the lobed rim.
A pair of large Chinese turquoise ground flowers-encrusted mandarin-pattern vases. Qianlong period.
Of flattened baluster form, decorated in the famille rose palette, with pairs of gilt branch handles ‘growing’ into applied leafy flowering vines, panels front and back painted with Chinese domestic scenes in ‘Mandarin’ colors, the knops boys seated by blue rocks.
A Chinese famille rose plate depicting a scene from The Romance of the Western Chamber. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose palette, with a scene from Act III of The Romance of the Western Chamber (Xi Xiang Ji) by the Yuan Dynasty playwright Wang Shifu (c.1260-1336), with Cui Yingying and her attendant Hongniang, awaiting the arrival of Zhang Sheng.
A Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with a boy astride a water buffalo
Decorated in the famille rose palette and gilt, with two panels decorated with a boy astride a water buffalo, the cover decorated with two panels of peonies.
A Chinese famille rose tea bowl and saucer decorated with mandarins. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette and gilt, with a palace scene.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with two quails. Yongzheng period.
Delicately enamelled to the centre with two quails on a grassy mound beside prunus, chrysanthemum, peony and bamboo within a yellow spearhead pattern border, surrounded in bianco-sopra-bianco with bamboo, prunus and chrysanthemum sprays in bianco-sopra-bianco below the cracked-ice pattern rim enriched with flower-heads and floral cartouches.