A Chinese lotus water dropper decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period
Naturalistically modeled in the form of a lotus leaf and seedpod, with a bowl formed by the upturned leaf. It is painted with faille verte enamels on this biscuit, the exterior painted with yellow and aubergine-brown enamels, while the interior of the bowl and top of the seedpod are painted in green. A long stem […]
A Chinese famille verte figure of a parrot. Kangxi
Decorated in green enamels on the biscuit, the rock base yellow.
A very fine pair of sancai-glazed parrots. Kangxi
Naturalistically moulded in two halves, perched on a pierced rock work base and with folded wings with plump bodies. The plumage of the parrots very detailed, and glazed with a vibrant enameling.
A very fine Chinese famille verte plate decorated with two kingfishers. Kangxi
Decorated in the famille verte palette, with two kingfishers, one in flight – the other perched, among various flowering plants and within a border of crickets and flowers on a seeded ground.
A Chinese Wucai bowl. Kangxi
Decorated with flowers.
A Chinese blue and white klapmuts bowl. Late Ming / Transitional period.
Of klapmuts form, decorated underglaze blue, with a confucian scholar.
A Chinese wucai carp plate. Kangxi
The shallow, rounded sides rising to a broad flaring rim, painted with a theme for scholarly success comprised of three interlocked iron-red and gilt fish surrounded by a wide band of underglaze-blue foliated scrolls bearing enameled and gilt buds, the flat rim with four vibrantly painted and gilt fish swimming amidst waterweed and lotus blossoms, the […]
A Chinese yellow-glazed biscuit “horse” water dropper. Kangxi
Decorated yellow glazed, the horse lying down, with a harness.
A large and unusual Chinese famille verte dish. Kangxi
Decorated in the famille verte palette to the interior with three buddhistic lions frolicking on rocky promontories alternating with three horses prancing on stylized circular waves, all encircling a central medallion of a carp leaping from froth-capped waves, the everted rim decorated with shaped panels of various sea creatures reserved against a iron-red and gilt floral […]
A large Chinese blue and white lobed « crab & fish” dish. Kangxi
Decorated with underglazed blue, of European form and painted with fish and crabs among aquatic plants.