A Chinese export porcelain shell shaped dish. Kangxi period
The shell-dish lightly moulded and finely enamelled in shades of green, yellow and black with a quatrefoil ruyi medallion flanked by flowering prunus and magnolia branches, the border with a scroll band in underglaze blue.
A pair of large famille verte-imari dishes decorated with a scroll. Kangxi/Yongzheng period
Decorated in underglaze blue, iron-red, green, black, and gold with a border of chrysanthemum blossoms amongst stylized branches framing a half-open scroll, central scene of a bird flying near a prunus branch opposite a cluster of bamboo.
Two Chinese Transitional fan shaped dishes decorated in the famille verte palette with birds. Late Ming – Chongzhen reign – Chenghua six characters mark.
Decorated in famille verte enamels with birds and flowers, with a Chenghua six characters mark.
A Chinese famille verte café-au-lait-ground plate decorated with buddhist attributs. Kangxi period
Decorated with à café-au-lait-ground and decorated with attributs in the famille verte palette.
A very large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with flowers. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette, with a central medallion and branches of peonies and chrysanthemum.
A very large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with mythological animals and landscape. Kangxi period.
Painted to the central medallion with a pair of ducks in a garden with pomegranate and peony, surrounded by radiating shaped panels of a qilin, a phoenix, a river-landscape and flower-vases, alternate with panels of flowering gardens, all below panels of stylised flowerheads reserved on a diaper-pattern band at the rim, the base marked with […]
A Chinese famille verte dish decorated with a prunus, peonies and a seal mark. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels in the Chinese taste, with a large flowering prunus and peonies. The rim with a border of four cartouches
A very large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with flowers. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette, with flowers and diaper.
A Chinese famille verte biscuit water pot modeled as the drunken poet Li Tai Bai. 18th/19th century
Famille verte water pot modelled as the drunken poet Li Bai (701-762), wearing green and yellow robes and resting against a wine jar.
A pair of Chinese libation cups decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period.
After an archaic bronze form, each applied with a handle flanked by chilong dragons, two further green dragons on the underside of the mouth, all on a famille verte simulated bronze ground.