A Chinese famille verte figure of Guanyin in a grotto. Kangxi
Well modeled, the Goddess of Mercy seated on a lotus pedestal rising from a dark craggy grotto towering behind her. She is flanked by the Golden Youth, Xancai and the Jade Maiden, Longnu. The biscuit glazed in dark-brown, ivory-white, and green with the hair painted black. The base left unglazed.
A Chinese famille verte biscuit figure of a woman and a squirrel. Kangxi
The figure has been molded and decorated in the famille verte enamels, with a yellow coat over a green undergarment, and holds a bag in her left hand. Covering her right hand is a cloth, left in the biscuit with remnants of cold-painted red pigment, upon which is perched an aubergine-glazed tree squirrel. The hair […]
A Chinese famille verte biscuit cockerel. Kangxi
The cockerel finely modeled, standing rock work base with grass, the details of his plumage ridged, incised and splashed in colored glazes. Eyes, ears, comb and wattles are left in biscuit.
A Chinese famille verte biscuit of the He He Erxian. Kangxi
Decorated in the famille verte on the biscuit, one holding a fly whisk, the other a lotus leaf branch, both standing on an aubergine-glazed pierced rock work base sprayed with yellow-glazed cash, one wearing a green jacket, the other a yellow jacked, their faces, heads and body with a clear glaze, the flat base unglazed, […]
An unusual and very fine Chinese famille verte biscuit figure of Cao Guo-jiu. Kangxi
The immortal standing on a rectangular sancai base, decorated in famille verte enamels, the face beard and left hand covered. He is holding a hu tablet.
A large Chinese “egg and spinach” glazed biscuit figure of budai. Kangxi
The laughing, corpulent monk shown seated holding prayer beads in his right hand and the neck of his bag in the left, wearing loosely draped robes splashed in amber, green and aubergine that frame his naked torso, his face well modelled with a jovial expression.
The famille verte “Imperial consort Lady Yang” bowl of Octave du Sartel (1823-1894). Kangxi period
Of a very hight quality of painting, and depicting the Imperial consort Lady Yang smashing her bracelet with a hammer at the Hundred Flowers Pavilion, with two maids next to her. On the other side of the bowl are depicting three figures, possibly three generals or the Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. The back of the […]
A Chinese famille verte bell-shaped teapot. Kangxi
The bell-shaped teapot decorated in the famille verte palette, with two panels painted on each side of the teapot, the first with branches of prunus, and the second with blossoming peonies, both of them surrounded by butterflies. The upright handle simulating wrapped rattan.
A very fine and large Chinese famille verte “écuelle à bouillon”. Kangxi
The circular bowl applied with two flat foliate flange handles at the rim, the exterior enameled with lotus and a tree peony growing from the base, the shallow domed cover similarly enameled around the floral finial.
A pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit “horses” sweetmeat dishes. Kangxi period
Decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit, six sided, and depicting the Eight horses of King (Wang) Mu.