A Chinese wucai dish decorated with two phoenix. Kangxi period.
The dish is decorated in the wucai palette to the interior centre with various flower sprays including chrysanthemum and lotus, various borders, ruyi, and two confronting phoenix.
A Chinese famille verte wall cistern. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels, with fish amongst lotus leaves and crabs, terminating in an openwork plaque with two confronting dragon fish and a flaming pearl, the cover with the same decoration.
A large Chinese famille verte dish. Kangxi period.
Painted in famille verte enamels, with flowers, peonies, chrysanthemum. On the rim, for panels with carps and shrimps.
A Chinese plate decorated in famille verte-rose enamels with figures. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose-verte, with figures, the design probably from the Xixiang ji.
A Chinese biscuit figure of the immortal Cao Guo-Jiu or a scholar. Kangxi Period.
Figure of an immortal seated on a hexagonal base, decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit, the face, beard and left hand covered with transparent lead glaze. Three sides of the base have geometrical patterns and rosettes in enamels ; the three sides at the back are undecorated except for a stylized flower or a […]
A large Chinese famille verte teapot. Kangxi period.
Fluted lobed melon shape with short straight spout and loop handle, enamelled with two foliate panels enclosing insects flying among peony and rockwork, the conforming covers enamelled with five panels enclosing flowers.
A Chinese famille verte dish decorated with phoenix and dragons. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte enamels, underglazed blue and gold, with a border of two dragons, together with a pair of phoenix separated by a peony spray and a basket of flowers in the center within a scroll band.
A Chinese export porcelain pair of shell shaped dishes. Kangxi period.
The shell-dishes are 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 large Chinese famille verte bowl decorated with figures. Kangxi period.
A strikingly elegant bowl of flared rim form, decorated in famille verte enamels, with figures, rocks and trees.
A Chinese famille verte lobed dish decorated with a lady standing by a fence on a terrace. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the centre with a lady standing by a fence on a terrace. The eight panels on the sides show, alternately, some of the « Hundred Antiquities », bai gu, in enamels, lotuses reserved on a red ground, flowering plants and butterflies in underglazed blue, and a pine or a pavilion and a bamboo in gold […]