A Chinese famille verte dish decorated with “The Mother of the West”. Kangxi period
With shaped, lobed tim and deep well, decorated in rouge-de-fer, gold and famille verte enamels, with a maiden-goddess bearing a spray of fruit on a terrace, while a spotted yellow deer runs beside her, looking up. The rim in rouge-de-fer and gold, the design in imitation of Kraakware.
A large Chinese famille verte dish 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 large powder blue dish decorated with panels of flowers. Kangxi period
Decorated with a powder blue ground and panels in the famille verte palette.
A Chinese blue and white silvered mounted double-bodied cruet . Kangxi period
After a European glass model, of a double-bodied form, the body with two twisted spouts, painted in underglaze blue with continuous flower sprays running up the moulded bands, each spout with a narrow band of triangle-work around the rim of the mouths, a small band of stylised wave pattern around the foot.
A Chinese “buddhist lion” stand decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period
Of octagonal form and decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit with Buddhist lions standing on a beribboned brocade ball.
A Chinese pair of buddhist lions decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period
Decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit, represented sitting on cylindrical bases, the mouth open, the eyes mobile, a ribbon of bells and pompons around the neck.
A Chinese armorial dish decorated in the imari palette for the English market (Fellowes quartering Coulson). Kangxi period
Decorated in the imari palette, the arms of Fellowes quartering Coulson.
A Chinese ewer decorated in the famille verte palette. Kangxi period
Decorated in the famille verte palette with a Dutch or French mounts.
A large Chinese blue and white “equestrian warriors” deep dish. Kangxi period. Chenghua mark
Decorated in underglazed blue and painted in the center with five warriors each astride a galloping horse, within eight radiating ovoid panels enclosing alternating prunus and peony trees, reserved on a scale pattern ground, the underside of the rim with flowering branches and ruyi-heads. Apocryphal Chenghua mark in underglaze blue.
A Chinese “brinjal” bowl decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period
Bowl with rounded sides and a wide flaring rim, standing on a short, straight foot ring. The exterior incised with a repeating pattern of flowering branches painted in green and yellow enamels and a clear glaze, on an aubergine-brown enamel ground. A small lingzhi fungus is incised in the centre of the interior. The recessed […]