A large Chinese bowl decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period.
Bowl with rounded sides and a wide flaring rim, standing on a short, straight foot ring. The exterior is decorated on the biscuit with green, yellow and aubergine-purple enamels in a loose “egg-and-spinach” pattern.
A Chinese figure of Bodhisattva Guanyin decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period.
A figure of the Bodhisattva Guanyin seated upon a thin base with one leg touching the ground and the other bent upwards. She wears a long robe and cloak over head, and is modeled with a serene expression on her face. She is holding a fly-whisk in one hand and a small vase. Her robes […]
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with figures. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels, with figures.
A large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with mandarin ducks. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels, gold, and underglaze blue, with mandarin ducks and lotus plants bordered by narrow bands on the rim, alternating cartouches of carp and crayfish amongst water plants reserved at the well on a trellis-diaper ground, central scene within a ruyi-edged roundel of two mandarin ducks amongst lotus plants, flowering prunus branches, […]
A very large Chinese famille verte-imari dish decorated with the generals of the Yang family. Kangxi period.
The centre enameled in the famille verte palette with eight female warriors on horseback being overlooked by a matriach and her attendants on a balcony, the broad everted rim with verte-Imari scrolling flowers, the reverse with three iron-red and underglaze blue prunus sprays.
A Chinese famille verte armorial provinces dish with the arms of Artois. Kangxi period.
Painted and gilt to the center with the coat-of-arms and inscribed « Artoÿs » on a ground of birds, butterflies and flower-sprays, within a moulded floriform border containing panels of figures in gardens alternating with vases and jardinieres of flowers on a diaper-pattern ground.
A Chinese verte-imari plate with a deer in a garden. Kangxi/Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille verte palette and decorated with a deer pulling a cart containing a flowering plant in a vase, in a fenced garden amongst trees, from which lingzhi fungus grows, and ornamental rockwork. The rim of the plate has a finely-drawn iron red and gilt lotus scroll border with precious objects in reserved […]
A Chinese famille verte dish decorated with a fenghuang. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte enamels, with a central medallion enclosing a fenghuang flying over rocks and flowers, surrounded by a band of prunus branche, the rim painted with four flowers and butterflies cartouches on a cell-diaper ground.
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with kingfishers. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels, with kingfishers.
A large Chinese famille verte jug and cover. Kangxi period.
The body of pear form standing on a splayed foot encircled by a petal border in green enamels and rouge-de-fer, the sides encircled by a formal borders and a central horizontal floral frieze, the border around the rim repeated on the low domed cover pierced with a hole corresponding to another on the bold loop […]