A Chinese blue and white dish with hunting scene. 19th century
The plate painted in underglaze blue, with a landscape and two Chinese archers on horseback, a third riding beside, led by the hunting dog, the scene surrounded by a double circle. The flattened rim painted with leiwen border having lobed blue-bordered reserves of flowerheads and foliate sprays, the verso centering with a ”conch”, one of the […]
A Chinese export porcelain pair of shell shaped dishes. Kangxi period.
The shell-dishes are 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 large Chinese famille verte bowl decorated with figures. Kangxi period.
A strikingly elegant bowl of flared rim form, decorated in famille verte enamels, with figures, rocks and trees.
A Chinese famille verte lobed dish decorated with a lady standing by a fence on a terrace. Kangxi period.
Decorated in the centre with a lady standing by a fence on a terrace. The eight panels on the sides show, alternately, some of the « Hundred Antiquities », bai gu, in enamels, lotuses reserved on a red ground, flowering plants and butterflies in underglazed blue, and a pine or a pavilion and a bamboo in gold […]
A Chinese Dehua “Blanc de Chine” porcelain libation cup in the shape of a rhinoceros horn. Kangxi period.
Decorated in relief with auspicious signs of deer and plum branches, with two figures of monsters on the other side.
A Chinese imari plate decorated with three carps. Kangxi period.
Decorated in iron red on underglazed blue, with three carps in a double encirclement and surrounded by foliaged flowers. On the rim, sea plants.
A Chinese famille verte plate decorated with carps. Kangxi period.
Decorated in translucide famille verte enamels, with three carps in a double encirclement and surrounded by foliaged flowers. On the rim, four carps alternating with flowers and sea plants.
A Chinese moulded pumkin shaped teapot. Kangxi period.
Painted in the traditional imari palette, with a design representing butterflies and floral motifs.
A very large Chinese famille verte dish painted 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 Chinese blue and white dish painted with a fenghuang. Kangxi period.
Decorated in underglaze blue 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.