A large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with a romance. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette with an episode from a Chinese couple in an architecture. An underglaze blue artemisia leaf is painting to the base.
A powder blue bowl decorated with panels of flowers. Kangxi period.
Decorated with powder blue aground and cartouches of flowers.
A Chinese powder blue plate decorated with a chimera. Kangxi period
Decorated in powder blue ground with panels of aquatic plants, the center with a chimera.
A Chinese lion joss stick holder decorated with famille verte enamels on the biscuit. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit, standing on four feet and looking to the right, with moveable eyeballs and on an Artemisia leaf-shaped base which symbolized the driving away of evil.
A Chinese export porcelain shell shaped dish. Kangxi period
The shell-dish lightly moulded and finely enamelled in shades of green, yellow and black with a quatrefoil ruyi medallion flanked by flowering prunus and magnolia branches, the border with a scroll band in underglaze blue.
A pair of large Chinese imari dishes depicting a scene from The Romance of the Western Chamber. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the traditional imari palette, with a scene from Act III of The Romance of the Western Chamber (Xi Xiang Ji) by the Yuan Dynasty playwright Wang Shifu (c.1260-1336), with Cui Yingying awaiting the arrival of Zhang Sheng. On the rim, a blue treillis and four reserves with Chinese boys.
A pair of large famille verte-imari dishes decorated with a scroll. Kangxi/Yongzheng period
Decorated in underglaze blue, iron-red, green, black, and gold with a border of chrysanthemum blossoms amongst stylized branches framing a half-open scroll, central scene of a bird flying near a prunus branch opposite a cluster of bamboo.
A Chinese famille verte café-au-lait-ground plate decorated with buddhist attributs. Kangxi period
Decorated with à café-au-lait-ground and decorated with attributs in the famille verte palette.
A very large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with flowers. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte palette, with a central medallion and branches of peonies and chrysanthemum.
A very large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with mythological animals and landscape. Kangxi period.
Painted to the central medallion with a pair of ducks in a garden with pomegranate and peony, surrounded by radiating shaped panels of a qilin, a phoenix, a river-landscape and flower-vases, alternate with panels of flowering gardens, all below panels of stylised flowerheads reserved on a diaper-pattern band at the rim, the base marked with […]