A Chinese armorial plate decorated in the famille rose palette for the English market. Qianlong period.
The coat is of Pierson (sometimes spelled Peerson or Pearson), Per fess embattled gules and azure three suns in splendour or, with the crest recorded as A parrot beaked and legged gules.
A Chinese famille rose mythological teacup and saucer. Qianlong period.
Each of ogee shape and painted with Zephyr offering a posy to Flora reclining in a glade, the scalloped and barbed rim with a flowering vine border.
A Chinese famille rose platter from the “Serviço dos 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 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 Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a lady playing a qin. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the centre with quatrefoil panel with a seated lady playing a qin in front of a black cabinet, on her right two vases and a tree, another vase on her left side, all reserved on a grisaille swastika diaper ground with overglaze red and gold scrollwork, the floral rim […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels, with figures. On the rim, sprays of flowers.
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates decorated with geese. Late Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with four geese amongst rockwork and flowers. On the rim are painted sprays of peonies.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Brightly decorated in the famille rose palette, with a man on a horse and a lady in a chariot accompanied by attendants within sepia “fish-roe” and floral lappets.
A Chinese famille rose figural group of the ‘Laughing Twins’, Hehe Erxian. Qianlong period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels, with jovial expressions, carrying a lotus sceptre and a ruyi, wearing green and yellow robes, standing side by side on a pierced rockwork base washed with a brown glaze.
A large Chinese famille rose charger decorated with mandarin ducks and the eight Daoist Immortals. Yongzheng period.
Richly painted in rose-verte enamels, the centre with two ducks swimming among lotus enclosed by a yellow enamel spearhead line at the well. On the rim, the eight Daoist Immortals in choppy coastal seas.