A Chinese famille verte dish from the Dresden collection. Kangxi
Decorated in famille verte enamels with a lady holding a fan and a boy in a rocky garden with a fence. The left of the background is decorated with the roof of a pavilion in clouds and a moon. The rim is painted with four cartouches reserved on a ground with lotus flowers and scrolls. […]
A Chinese famille verte tureen and stand for the French market. Kangxi / Yongzheng
Modeled after a European faience original, each oval hexagonal tureen has lightly fluted sides and rim, its cover surmounted is surmounted by a finial in the shape of a green-glazed eel doubly-coiled. The cover, sides and stand are brightly enameled and gilded with bold clusters of hibiscus and peony amongst smaller flowers and foliage, all […]
A Chinese ‘egg-and-spinach’ biscuit-enamelled bowl. Kangxi
Decorated on the biscuit with green, yellow and aubergine-purple enamels in a loose “egg-and-spinach” pattern the base glazed white and with an underglaze-blue seal mark.
A pair of Dehua Blanc-de-Chine cockerels. Kangxi
The cockerels are crowing with their wings folded, their tongues visible inside their open beaks, and their plumage depicted in incised detail, supported on a triangular rockwork base.
A pair of turquoise glazed reticulated “Three friends of Winter” biscuit brush pots, bitong
Each exquisitely molded in the form of a bamboo grove with gaps between each stem, issuing bamboo leaves and applied with gnarled branches of flowering prunus and pine.
Two Chinese aubergine glazed stands. Kangxi
Of hexagonal form, the center is hollow, supported by six feet shaped, the back are unglaze.
A large Dehua Blanc-de-Chine figure of a female deity. Kangxi
The moulded figure depicts a female deity standing on a low, hollow rock work base, her hair in a high bun. She wears a long-sleeved dress; the collared undergarment is tied with a beribboned sash. She holds a flute in her right hand; to her left a fenghuang, partly obscured by her dress.
A Chinese Dehua blanc-de-Chine “Dutch family’ group. Kangxi
Modeled as a family in western dress seated between a small table, in front of a cross, and a food dish, the family formally arranged with a pet dog and monkey seated either side of a potted plant.
A very fine Chinese powder blue coffee pot. Kangxi
A cone-shaped coffee pot, with a circular base that tapers towards the rim, an S-shaped spout and a curved handle attached to the side, with a cover of domed form surmounted by a pointed bid finial. It is covered in underglaze powder blue and decorated in overglaze gold with a continuous scene with two birds, […]
A pair of Chinese parrots decorated in famille verte enamels. Kangxi
Naturalistically moulded in two halves, perched on a sancai pierced rock work base and with folded wings with plump bodies. The plumage of the parrots glazed with a vibrant emerald green enameling.