A large and very fine Chinese famille verte Lady and cat dish. Kangxi

The large dish decorated in the famille verte palette, with a lady sit next to a table surrounded by a rich furniture with object, playing, amused, a cat in front of her.
A Chinese Sancai ink stick box. Kangxi

The sancai glazed biscuit ink stick box is decorated with crosshatch patterns on the cover.
A very massive charger for the French market. China, ca. 1720-1725

Decorated in the famille verte palette the coat- of-arms of Louis-Alexandre, comte de Toulouse, D’azur, à trois fleurs de lys d’or, au baton de gueules péri en barre, in the center. The coat-of-arms is surrounded by the collars of the orders of the Golden Fleece and the Holy Spirit. The cavetto is decorated with a […]
A powder blue wine pot. China, Kangxi

The cylindrical wine pot with a broad shoulder tapering toward the foot ring has a S-shaped spout and an ear-shaped handle. It is painted in underglaze powder blue, overglaze famille verte enamels and gold. On each side is a barbed quatrefoil panel outlined in gold and reserved in white. The wine pot presents two distinct […]
A famille verte water-dropper. China, Kangxi

The water-dropper is decorated in the famille verte palette and depicts a squirrel approaching grapevines on one of the Daoist Eight Precious Things, an artemisia leaf, a symbol of felicity, healing and health.
Three water droppers modelled as squirrels. China, Kangxi

Decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit and modeled holding vine branches bearing grapes in their mouth and facing slightly to the left.
A pair of famille verte figures depicting a European lady and a gentleman. China, Kangxi

The pair of figures is decorated in the famille verte palette. The gentleman wears a yellow jacket embroidered with flying cranes and Chinese characters in aubergine, a red buttoned shirt and cravat. The figure rest against a green rock formation on a thin rectangular base. The lady wears a green cowl over her high coiffed […]
Two large famille verte baluster-shaped jars. China, Kangxi

The baluster-shaped large jars decorated in the famille verte palette have domed covers with a finial in the form of a bud and a short, wide, slightly tapered neck with everted round rim. The body of each vase is covered in rich translucent enamels: several shades of green, iron-red, bright blue, yellow, aubergine and black […]
An unusual famille verte biscuit figure of Guanyin. China, Kangxi

The goddess of mercy shown sitting, her left knee raised and holding a lotus. She is wearing long robes, her high topknot under a scarf.
A Chinese famille verte guglet water bottle. Kangxi

Pear-shaped with a slightly flaring mouth, decorated with six vertical panels of flowering plants and cockerels in the famille verte palette on a “rouge-de-fer” and white floral ground, a cell diaper and green lotus leaves around the neck.