A Chinese armorial dish for the Spanish market (1st Marquess of Ensenada). Qianlong period
Of octogonal form and decorated in the famille rose palette with the coat of arms of Zenon de Somodevilla y Bengoechea, 1st Marquess of Ensenada, 1. Purpure, an arm brandishing a sword in bend sinister argent between two Moor’s head crowned or. 2. Azure, a tower and on the sinister three mullets in pale argent. […]
A very fine famille rose coffee pot with a European subject. Qianlong
After a silver-shape, and decorated in the famille rose palette with sprays of flowers and a central medallion on each side depicting a scene of gallantry with a courtship between two lovers. A young man is wooing a lady on a window sill. She has a basket of red berries on her knees, with a parrot […]
A rare, fine and large famille rose group of lovers. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, and depicting a couple with a man seated on a bench-like rock with a lady in his arms who is cleaning his ears. The woman’s hair is worn in a chignon held in place by a pin. She wears a deep blue robe with a cloud scroll motifs. One of […]
A rare, very fine and massive shell-shaped “dragon” ewer and basin. Yongzheng
Following a silver form, probably painted with a unique decoration, the ewer with a hight scroll painted with irregular grisaille spots on a light blue ground, the sides painted predominantly in rouge-de-fer and gilding with blue, yellow and grisaille, with a large dragon amid clouds, below a border of pendent stiff leaves and above a […]
A Chinese armorial plate for the Italian market (Uguccione III Bourbon del Monte, 12th Marquis Regent of Sorbello). Qianlong
Of octogonal form, the centre of the plate decorated with the coat of arms of the Marchesi di Sorbello, with drums and flags while the cavetto is decorated with an unusual inner border and a band of floral swag decoration on the rim.
A Chinese armorial plate for the Spanish market (Fernando de Silva, 12th Duke of Alba). Qianlong
With a lobed rim based on European metal work models, decorated in the famille rose palette and gold, with in the centre a floral medallion of narcissus and magnolias in gold with iron-red highlights, surrounded by a band in the well. On the rim are the coat-of-arms of the Duke of Alba, outlined in red.
A pair of Chinese armorial plates for the French market (Orry). Yongzheng
With the arms of Orry, de gueule à un lion rampant et grimpant sur un rocher d’argent, in colors and gilt with a rocaille surrounded by a vividly enameled foliate border, the rim scalloped.
A large famille rose charger decorated with mandarin ducks and the eight Daoist Immortals. Yongzheng
Richly painted in the famille rose palette, the centre of the charger is decorated with two mandarin ducks surrounded by lotus enclosed by a diaper at the well with four cartouches comprising buddhist attributs; on the rim the eight Daoist Immortals in choppy coastal seas.
A Chinese famille rose “Romance of the Western Chamber” plate. Yongzheng
Richly decorated in the famille rose palette, the scene, running to the border of each plate, depicted a Chinese man on his horse fording a river while his heavily laden servant wades behind him.
The Alfonso Cumberbatch vases. China, Yongzheng period
Of baluster form, each shaped panel finely enameled with figures at leisure on a pavilion terrace, alternating with butterflies in flight and birds perching on entwined flowering branches, reserved on a blue cell-pattern ground with gilt flower-heads, between ruyi bands at the shoulder and foot with flower sprays on a dense scroll ground, the neck […]