A Chinese turquoise glazed water dropper modeled as a cat with a bronze gilt mount. Kangxi period
Turquoise glazed water dropper modeled as a figure of a cat.
A large Chinese blue & white dish decorated with figures. Kangxi period.
Decorated in underglazed blue, the raised center is decorated with an interior scene with figures, surrounded by prunus, peonies, chrysanthemums and water lilies. The everted rim is decorated with further scenes of ladies.
A Chinese famille verte “Stanislaw pattern” dish. Kangxi period
Painted in the famille verte palette and gilt with a jardiniere of peonies, chrysanthemums, pine and others flowers in a fenced garden to the center, the border with shaped panels of birds and butterflies in flowering gardens on underglazed-blue grounds reserved with chysanthemum sprays and scrolling foliage, the underside with flowering branches and panels of […]
A Chinese blue and white “Rotterdam Riots” plate. Kangxi period
Painted in underglaze blue, the center with figures attaching the house of Jacob van Zuylen van Nyevelt within a diaper border reserved with panels painted with flowers and fruits, the base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
A very large Chinese “doucai” dish. Kangxi period
Decorated with doucai enamels with a floral design.
A large Blanc-de-Chine figure of Wenchang, the Daoist god of Literature. Kangxi period
The Daoist god of Literature shown seated on a rockwork throne, holding a ruyi scepter in his left hand, wearing an official’s hat with long tabs, full robes, and two stiff belts that frame his rounded belly, the lower belt with ‘jade’ plaques, his well-modeled face pierced for attachment of a moustache and beard,
A ‘Blanc-de-Chine’ Dehua figure of “Adam”. Kangxi period.
Standing barefoot on a rockwork base, his arms crossed in front, both hands clasping the ends of the short skirt draped around his waist, his upper torso bare, his head facing forward with smiling expression, his hair combed back behind his ears and falling to his shoulders.
A pair of Chinese famille verte dishes decorated with deers. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette with cartouches of deers and cranes.
A pair of Chinese famille verte café-au-lait-ground plates decorated with buddhist attributs. Kangxi period
Decorated with à café-au-lait-ground and decorated with attributs in the famille verte palette.
A very massive Chinese powder blue and gilt baluster vase and cover. Kangxi period
Of baluster form and decorated with figures amongst flowers on a dark blue ground.