A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with figures. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette, with two ladies in a fenced garden outside a walled enclosure, the rim encircled by a green-ground diaper border decorated with a bright iron-red flowerheads spaced between panels in reserve alternately enclosing butterflies and cicadas.
A Chinese famille verte dish decorated with a carp. kangxi period.
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 Chinese famille verte “mandarin ducks” dish. Kangxi period
Painted and gilt with a central medallion depicting mandarin ducks in a lotus pond, within a border of the Eight Daoist Immortals riding upon mythical beasts amongst foaming waves.
A Chinese famille verte teapot decorated with a lion and a phoenix. Kangxi period.
Decorated in underglazed blue and famille verte enamels with a lion and a phoenix.
A Chinese famille verte tea bowl and saucer. Kangxi period.
Painted in underglazed blue, in famille verte enamels with rocks and flowers.
A Chinese famille verte cruet-stand. Kangxi period.
Of silvered form, painted in famille verte enamels with sprays of flowers.
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with a scene of the Romance of the Western Chamber. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette, in the center a horseman with his servant, a building in the background surrounded by a fence. On the left a table with precious objects such as a flower vase, an incense-burner and a brush pot, books, a weir board, a lute wrapped in a cloth, ans scrolls with […]
A Chinese famille verte dish with the figure of Mu Guyiying. Kangxi period.
Painted in the famille verte palette, with wide and narrow lotus-shaped panels in low relief on the sides, and an everted scalloped rim, with a woman with long feathers in her hair on horseback, a soldier with a flag on foot and the upper half of a tent in the foreground. The panels filled with […]
A Chinese famille verte platter decorated with a crenelated wall. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette with a crenelated wall and pagodas, within a floral border and moulded gadrooned rim.
A Chinese famille verte biscuit “sea horse” sweet meat dish. Kangxi period.
Of hexagonal section, the green ground covered with a brown horse amid swirling waves, auspicious emblems and florets.