A Chinese famille rose botanical plate decorated with an “Iris” design after Maria Sybille Merian probably after the Pronk studio. Qianlong period.
Finely enamelled at the centre with a white-bodied caterpillar crawling on the leaf of a blue iris, beside another with green body crawling amongst the petals of an orchid, a butterfly hovering above, enclosed by an underglaze blue and gilt floral band in the well and a broad band of elaborate strap work, acanthus leaves […]
A Chinese famille rose mythological plate. Yongzheng period.
Depicting Apollo playing his lyre, seated beside a nymph or Diana, on a rock in a hilly grass field with trees in the background, the everted rim with finely painted sprays of peonies.
A Chinese famille rose semi-eggshell plate decorated with flowers. Yongzheng period.
With a very white porcelain (proof of the quality of the porcelain), and decorated in the famille rose palette with chrysanthemum, lotus, peonies and bamboo.
A very large Chinese punch bowl decorated with carps and figures. Qianlong period.
Painted in the famille rose palette with Chinese ladies on a terrace, and carps inside the bowl.
A large Chinese famille rose mancerina decorated with flowers. Qianlong period.
Mancerina (cup holder) of silver form, decorated in famille rose enamels with sprays of flowers.
A Chinese famille rose cup and saucer in the form of a chrysanthemum flower. Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, and in the form of a crimson-pink chrysanthemum flower, the undersides with applied stems of “rat-and-vine” forming feet.
A Chinese famille rose cup decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose enamels, with a scene of a lady reclining on a carpet with two attendants.
A Chinese famille rose gobelet decorated with figures. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the famille rose enamels, with figures.
A Chinese ‘Liberty & Matrimony” bowl decorated after Pater. Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, after the painting of Pater “L’attrapeur d’oiseaux”, representing a couple seated in a garden, the lady holding an open birdcage.
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates decorated with a pair of pheasants. Yongzheng period.
Painted in famille rose enamels. In the centre, a pair of pheasants on a blue rock among peonies, magnolia blooms and daisies, in the well, a pink lozenge-diaper border with four cartouches, with emblems (pair of books, Artemisia leaves) tied in ribbons, round the rim, flower sprays alternating with formal floral designs enclosed in wreaths.