A Chinese blue and white “Romance of the Western Chamber” teapot. Yongzheng
Decorated in underglaze blue, the scene from Act III of The Romance of the Western Chamber (Xi Xiang Ji) by the Yuan Dynasty playwright Wang Shifu (c.1260-1336), where the scholar Zhang climbs over the garden wall to see Cui Yingying. The other woman is her maid, Hongniang.
A large Chinese blue and white lobed « crab & fish” dish. Kangxi
Decorated with underglazed blue, of European form and painted with fish and crabs among aquatic plants.
A Chinese blue and white ‘Ship’ Dish. kangxi
Decorated in underglaze blue, this dish imitates the Japanese style. The rim is divided into six panels – three with diaper and tree with boys in floral scrollwork – enclosed a body painted European merchant ship under full sail. The reverse with three flower sprays.
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with a deer. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte translucent enamels, with six cranes bordered on the rim by a fish-roe band, peony branches reserved in cartouches at the well on a star-diaper border, central scene of a yellow spotted deer amongst lingzhi, bamboo shoots, and rocks beneath a pine tree, the sun, clouds, and a crane in flight above, […]
A Chinese famille verte dish in the Kakiemon style. Kangxi period.
Moulded as a chrysanthemum flower, on a footring, the petal in very low relief. Decorated in enamels with bamboo and blossoming prunus near a zigzagging bamboo fence, a dancing boy and three approaching tigers.
A Chinese famille verte dish decorated with a boy and antiquities. Kangxi
Decorated in the famille verte palette, of polylobed form, with a central shaped panel showing a boy near an architecture, surrounded by medallions and groupings of antiquities. Double circle mark with the rabbit.
A Chinese famille verte plate. Kangxi
Decorated in underglaze blue and famille verte enamels, with the meeting of the phoenix and the qilin.
A pair of Chinese famille verte powder-blue ground plates. Kangxi
Each reserved with a square panel enclosing two figures in a landscape and insect cartouches at the border, the blue ground with traces of gilt decoration
A very fine Chinese famille verte panel decorated with the Empress. Kangxi
A Chinese fragment of a larger and rounded panel, decorated in the famille verte panel, with an old Chinese empress sit on an armchair, and next to her, three court ladies, one of them carrying a baby. To the left of the Empress, one of the 100 different ways to write the character shou, which means […]
A Chinese blue and white pineapple plate. Qianlong
Decorated with underglaze blue, with a pineapple.