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.
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with a basket of flowers. Yongzheng period.
Enameled with a ribbon-tied basket of fruit and flowers, the rim with cartouches of auspicious objects.
A Chinese famille rose covered bowl. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose enamels, with a central basket of peonies.
A pair of Chinese Export Porcelain “Tobacco Leaf” plates. Late 18th/early 19th century
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 vine, three prunus sprays on the reverse, gold edge on the lobed rim.
A Chinese famille rose “twin peacock” charger. Qianlong period.
Enamelled in a rich famille rose palette with a peacock and a peahen standing on a grassy hillock beside blue weathered rocks growing with large pink peony, smaller flowers in gilt and colors growing alongside, all within a series of iron-red borders trailing similar blooms and interrupted by dark grey ground lappets edged in green […]
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.
A Chinese silvered famille rose plate decorated with a lady playing a qin. 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 very massive Chinese famille rose “Mandarin-pattern” punch pot. Qianlong period.
The large vessel is decorated to each side with shaped panels depicting Chinese ladies. The spout and the handle with moulded decoration and painted in gilt.
A rare Chinese Export “Four Elements ” plate depicting “Water”. Qianlong period (circa 1742)
Decorated in the famille rose palette and depicting Galatea, a sea-nymph, in a shell-shaped chariot drawn by dolphins, being guided by a putti, two other putti grasping a shaded red and pink cloth which is billowing to form a canopy, sea-nymphs, tritons and other putti playing in the turbulent river and on the chariot, a […]
A large and unusual Chinese famille rose “La Dame au Parasol” dish. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with scalloped rim, painted with the famous scene of a lady standing before waterbirds as her attendant shades her with a parasol, the fluted border with pendant swags of ribbon-tied objects and peony.