A large Chinese famille verte dish decorated with mandarin ducks. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels, gold, and underglaze blue, with mandarin ducks and lotus plants bordered by narrow bands on the rim, alternating cartouches of carp and crayfish amongst water plants reserved at the well on a trellis-diaper ground, central scene within a ruyi-edged roundel of two mandarin ducks amongst lotus plants, flowering prunus branches, […]
A ‘Blanc-de-Chine’ Dehua wine pot. Kangxi period.
A Chinese white porcelain (blanc-de-Chine) hexagonal wine pot and cover with flat base, three corner feet, and six rounded sides. Each side moulded with a recessed relief design within a shaped border, rising to a low, hexagonal mouth. The matching flat cover with infitting unglazed flange has a knob in the form of a seated […]
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 very large Chinese famille verte-imari dish decorated with the generals of the Yang family. Kangxi period.
The centre enameled in the famille verte palette with eight female warriors on horseback being overlooked by a matriach and her attendants on a balcony, the broad everted rim with verte-Imari scrolling flowers, the reverse with three iron-red and underglaze blue prunus sprays.
A Chinese famille verte armorial provinces dish with the arms of Artois. Kangxi period.
Painted and gilt to the center with the coat-of-arms and inscribed « Artoÿs » on a ground of birds, butterflies and flower-sprays, within a moulded floriform border containing panels of figures in gardens alternating with vases and jardinieres of flowers on a diaper-pattern ground.
A pair of blue and white “Sense of Smell” dishes. Kangxi period.
Painted in underglazed blue and decorated with a scene of three figures “à la mode Fontange” in European dress, standing on a veranda holding flower sprays, and representing the Sense of Smell. They attended by a servant holding a basket with more flowers, all within a decorative border painted with flowering peony branches.
A Chinese verte-imari plate with a deer in a garden. Kangxi/Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille verte palette and decorated with a deer pulling a cart containing a flowering plant in a vase, in a fenced garden amongst trees, from which lingzhi fungus grows, and ornamental rockwork. The rim of the plate has a finely-drawn iron red and gilt lotus scroll border with precious objects in reserved […]
A Chinese famille verte dish decorated with a fenghuang. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the famille verte enamels, with a central medallion enclosing a fenghuang flying over rocks and flowers, surrounded by a band of prunus branche, the rim painted with four flowers and butterflies cartouches on a cell-diaper ground.
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with kingfishers. Kangxi period.
Decorated in famille verte enamels, with kingfishers.
A Chinese blue and white charger decorated with flowers. Kangxi period.
Decorated in underglazed blue with flowers.