A Chinese famille rose “pseudo tobacco leaf” pair of plates. Qianlong period.
With shaped octogonal rim indented at the moulded corners and accentuated by a sepia line. Covering the plate is a poorly-designed “floating” pattern of flowers and plants in famille rose enamels, including turquoise, orange and green, reminiscent of the five “mandarin” shades which were by this date dominating much of the figure painting on Chinese […]
A Chinese famille rose plate painted with a dutch decoration. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with flowers.
A Chinese famille rose cylindric brush pot. Qing period.
The cylindrical brush pot decorated on the exterior in the famille rose enamels with a figures in a garden and flowers.
A Chinese famille rose saucer with an English hunting scene. Qianlong period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, with an English hunting scene with pointers, in the style of James Seymour.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a musician. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with gilt foliate rims, painted in the centre with a European gentleman seated on a pierced rock playing a fanfare trumpet amongst flower sprays, encircled by an elaborate border with stylised archaic phoenix birds amongst shells, flowers and scrolls, the flat everted rim with four double-tailed birds in flight between […]
A Chinese armorial famille rose plate for the Dutch market. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette and painted in the center with the arms of de Neufville of Amsterdam within a spearhead-and-dot border around the well and a pink cell diaper border interrupted with flowering branches around the cavetto the rim with the demi eagle crest between famille-rose fruit sprigs alternating with three floral sprays […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with pheasants. Yongzheng period.
Pinted in the famille rose palette with two pheasants, peonies, rocks and pomegranate.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, with three figures in a garden with a phoenix.
A Chinese famille rose three pieces garniture. Yongzheng period.
Each vase brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette, with pheasants on rockwork beside peony, comprising one baluster vase and covers and a pair of beaker vases.
A Chinese famille rose cup and saucer decorated with mandarins. Qianlong period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, with stepped rim and wavy edge. In a furnished interior a group of boys are shown at play wearing mandarin’s robes and hats, some drinking, and one in the foreground with a long sword or pikestaff. The patterned borders are in gold, red and black.