A large and rare Chinese armorial plate for the Spanish market (Navia-Osorio for the Palace of Anleo). Qianlong
The plate decorated with flowers and insects, with on the rim the coat of arms of a Spanish family. In the center, a simple bouquet of chrysanthemums and daisies with small flowers and tied at the stems with a very fine ocher ribbon. Around the bouquet are painted several little birds, curiously the same size […]
A Chinese camaïeu carmin “Le pêcheur” plate. Qianlong period
Decorated in camaïeu carmin at the centre with a fishing scene, a young man standing barefoot on a river-bank holding his rod, beside two large fishing baskets below a tree-trunk with birds in flight overhead, the border with a Du Pasquier style border.
A Chinese camaïeu carmin “card players” plate. Qianlong
Finely enameled at the center with two figures seated at a table playing cards watched by another seated figure and a fourth standing holding a pipe, to their right a further seated figure holds his wine goblet in one hand and his other arm embracing the waist of the serving wench, in the foreground cockerels, […]
A rare Chinese shell-shaped ewer and basin reproduced in Octave du Sartel. Yongzheng
Following a silver form and probably painted with a unique decoration, the ewer features a high scroll painted with rouge-de-fer scrolls and a turquoise blue ground of clouds. The sides are adorned with brown and white bands decorated with gilt clouds and sprays of flowers, with the basin similarly decorated.
An unrecorded chinese armorial cup for the French market (Conen de Saint-Luc). Qianlong
The cup richly decorated in the famille rose palette, bearing the arms of the Conen de Saint-Luc family. The arms are party per fess or and argent, a lion rampant counterchanged, armed, langued, and crowned gules, surmounted by a marquis’s coronet and supported by two lions couchant on a mound with a gilt scroll. On […]
A famille rose fluted tea bowl and saucer decorated with a European lady. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose enamels with a European figure in a long robe picked out in sepia and with gilt highlights, reclining on a day-bed, the convex fluted sides with flowering stems extending across panels of different diaper patterns.
A Chinese Export dish “le moine entreprenant” after Francis Hayman. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, depicting a monk catching a woman under a tree, after a painting of Francis Hayman (1708-1776).
An unrecorded Chinese armorial cup for the French market (comte de Goyon). Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with garlands of flowers and the coat of arms of the Goüyon family (Goyon) in a rocaille style, D’argent au lion de gueules couronné d’or. It is surrounded by two banners, the first of Goüyon, the second of the maison de Rieux, D’azur, à dix besants d’or (ici neuf). The maison […]
A rare Chinese armorial platter for the Spanish market (Manuel de Azlor y Urries, Conde de Azlor, Governor of Santo Domingo). Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with flowers ans the coat of arms of Manuel de Azlor y Urries, Purpure, three sickles argent with the handle or, with five nails in saltire argent. The arms beneath a count’s coronet; on s scroll, the moto: “SANGUINE EMPTA TUEBOR”, and surrounded by flags, standards and war trophies.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with the Xi Xiang ji. Yongzheng
The plate decorated in the famille rose palette, with a central panel with four figures in a luxury setting. On the rim are painted flowers and butterflies.