A Chinese famille verte dish decorated with a bird. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette with a bird.
A Chinese famille verte charger decorated with two birds. Kangxi period
The circular deep dish had a central design of a tree with iron-red blossoms with one bird alighted on a branch and another hovering, both watching a large cricket which stands on a central leaf. The inner border consists of alternating panels of famille verte trees and branches on a green ground and oval panels […]
A Chinese famille verte teapot and cover. Kangxi period
Enamelled to the fluted baluster side with vertical panels of various floral patterns, modelled with S-shaped spout.
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with buddhist attributs. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte plate with buddhist attributs.
A Chinese crayfish jug decorated with sancai enamels on the biscuit. Ming dynasty
The ewer is modelled as a crayfish rising from crashing waves with carp and lotus amongst the waves. One lotus stem curves upwards to form the slightly serpentine spout. Another lotus stem forms the loop handle terminating in a half-lotus pot as the filler with a small flat cover with frog finial. The exterior is […]
A large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with flowers. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette with flowers.
A Chinese famille verte-imari dish decorated with European figures. Kangxi period
The center painted in tones of iron-red and gilt with two westerners riding in a Chinese chariot pulled by spotted ponies, an attendant shielding them with a parasol and a lattice-fence in the foreground, all within a petal-molded border reserved on a verte cell-diaper ground.
A Chinese famille verte charger decorated with a jardinière, a deer and a pavilion. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette, with a jardinière within a garden with a pavilion, a deer, various flowers, the borders with matching flowers, and a vegetation inside interlaced cartouches, flowers branches to the reverse, with underglaze blue ribbon-tied emblem mark.
Three famille verte foliate dishes decorated with mythical sea creatures. Kangxi period
Decorated at the centre with mythical sea creatures amongst fire-scrolls and turbulent waves beneath panels of precious emblems, riverscapes and flowers-sprays in the fluted well.
A pair of Chinese famille verte hoho. Kangxi period
Standing smiling and each holding a vase, their feet on a high plinth and decorated in famille verte enamels.