A Chinese brush rest decorated with green and yellow enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period
Of rectangular box-shaped, with three openings on the top for holding brushes. The top surface is also pierced with three openwork cash-shaped designs above a hallow space.
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with a pine tree. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette, to the centre with a jardiniere containing a pine tree, and with multi-coloured lingzhi fungi growing around the base of the tree. There are four floral sprays around the rim
A very large Chinese imari charger decorated with flowers. Kangxi period
Decorated with scrolling lotus, chrysanthemum and peony sprays with their leafy foliage, and panels of landscape.
A Chinese doucai charger decorated with a floral design. Kangxi period
Decorated to the centre with the buddhist wheel, and sprays of flowers.
A set of four Chinese famille tea bowls and saucer decorated with butterflies. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette with butterflies.
A Chinese famille verte teapot decorated with the « Hundred Antiquities ». Kangxi period
Of baluster ribbed shape, with an important bamboo handle, and decorated in the famille verte palette with the “Hundred Antiquities” (bai gu), including a central archaic vase.
A pair of Chinese figures of Guanyin decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi
Each Guanyin in a royal ease on a lotus throne raised above unglazed square plinth, a ruyi sceptre held in her right hand resting on her knee and a bird perched at her left hand side, the veil and robes brightly splashed in yellow, green and aubergine enamels.
A Chinese powder blue and gilt teapot and cover decorated with ducks. Kangxi period
Of globular form, gilt decorated with ducks.
A Chinese yellow-glazed water pot. Kangxi period
Of square form, decorated with yellow-glazed on the biscuit, in an archaistic shape with lobed sides and a square opening. It has a small lizard-like qilong dragon picked out in aubergine brown, crawling up the side, his head resting on the edge of the opening. The underside is enameled in yellow. The pot is very […]
Two large Chinese blue and white “figural” dishes. Kangxi period
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a scholar and a lady in leisure a garden accompanied by her maid, carrying a tray with a jug and two cups. An old man sits in a chariot accompanied by his attendant beside an architecture and a pierced ornamental rockwork, the scene possibly inspired by the Romance of the Western Chamber. The […]