A Chinese export famille rose and silvered armorial dish for the Belgian market (Bistrate of Anvers). Yongzheng period.
The center enameled and silvered with the arms of la Bistrate accollée with those of Proli between greyhound supporters and below a helmet, coronet and crest, surrounded by a trellis-patters in the well, the arms repeated individually around the everted rim between a du Paquier style design of linked feathers, strapwork, shells and hanging drapery.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with two pheasants in a garden. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels with two pheasants in a garden.
A Chinese famille rose charger painted with an unfurled scroll. Yongzheng period.
Very large dish, richly enameled in the famille rose palette, with an unfurled scroll, vases with lotus and peonies flowers, and a duck on a table.
A Chinese famille rose dish decorated with Hsi Wang Mu – “Mother of the West”. Yongzheng period.
The dish, simulating a lotus flower, with scalopped edge and painted with a central scene depicting, Hsi Wang Mu, Queen Mother of the West, Royal Lady of the West, and a deer amongst peonies. This represents queen, mother of the West. Eight panels are painted on the rim, with lotus, peonies, bamboo, prunus and chrysanthemus […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with an unfurled scroll and the hundred antiquities. Yonghzeng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels and gold with a central scene within an unfurled scroll of two pheasants perched on a willow tree amongst peonies. The back is decorated with the « Hundred Antiquities », « bai gu », amongst white flowers. A gilt-decorated scroll band on a black ground at the rim.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a lady and her attendant. Yongzheng period.
The plate is decorated with a lady and her attendant who is carrying a cithare qin, a chinese musical instrument, in front of a fenced garden decorated with rocks, shrubs and water lilies. The rim is painted with flowering branches of peonie, anemone and prunus, all executed with the balance, the elegance and the beauty of […]
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates decorated in the Meissen style. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels and gold, in the Meissen style, with a central scene depicting a bird flying over peonies and rocks, in a shaped cartouche ; the rim with sprays of flowers.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with an elaborate throne. Yongzheng period.
The center scene, unusual in that it shows a richly-appointed interior without any human figures, depicts an elaborate throne surrounded by the ornate furnishings favored by the Qing emperors. These furnishing include a low table with books, incense burner, ornamental vases with flowers, scholarly paraphernalia, a barrel seat and a fan. The famille rose palette, with its […]
A very large Chinese famille rose-verte dish painted with flowers and auspicious objects. Yongzheng period.
Very large dish, richly enameled in the famille rose-verte palette, with a butterfly foraging pink and red peonies, green rocks ; the rim decorated with ribbon-tied auspicious objects.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a mountainous landscape. Yongzheng period.
The central scene inside an hibiscus leaf, depicting two figures, a man on horseback and his attendant ridding towards a pavillon in a mountains landscape. The rim is decorated with blossoming flowers and the exterior by scattered lingzhi sprays.