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.
A massive famille verte charger with the Romance of the Western Chamber. China, Kangxi
Decorated in the famille verte palette and enameled with three tiers of panels surrounding a central scene, all illustrating the Romance of the Western Chamber, the rim with a frieze of various cell-patterns and auspicious objects, the underside with an underglaze blue artemisia leaf mark within a double circle.
A rare Chinese famille verte bowl decorated with a scene of the Romance of the Western chamber. Very early Kangxi
The bowl is decorated in the famille verte palette with two ladies in garden (very likely Cui Yingying and her mother) among rocks, peonies and banana trees. The interior of the bowl is painted with three boys playing with an helmet. An encircled Chenghua six-character mark to the base.
An unusual Chinese famille verte teapot. Kangxi
The teapot is decorated in the famille verte palette, with flower sprigs done in underglaze blue iron red and green enamels. The spout, handle and decorative pattern in relief on the body of this very unusual teapot are modeled as ropes, painted in aubergine enamels.
