A Blanc de Chine figure of Guanyin. Late Ming dynasty
Seated on rockwork, the serene Goddess of Mercy is modelled with soft contours, she holds a child in her arms, her long cowled robe fall in soft pleats on her feet.
A Chinese blue and white Ko-sometsuke dish. Tianqi period
The dish, good sized, is decorated on the interior in the centre with a scholar and his attendant in a landscape, enclosed by a band of dots in the cavetto and a ridge border at the rim.
A Chinese seated figure. Ming dynasty
A heavily-potted made figure seated on a large rectangular pedestal, with a tall three-panel screen behind him. He wears a court headdress and long robes. The robes are painted in turquoise and aubergine enamels. His face, hat and feet are left in biscuit.
A Chinese blue and white dish. Jiajing
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a temple, a pagoda, and ducks on the rim.
Polychrome Grotto. Ming dynasty
Grotto or « Scholar mountain », moulded as a mountain with Guanyin.
A Chinese blue and white Chinese kraak porcelain wine pot. Wanli, 1573-1619
This Kraakware wine pot is a moulded with panels, it is thickly potted and has an S shaped handle. The six moulded panels that surround the body are painted using the pencil-drawn technique, that is to say it is line-drawing without the normal use of coloured washes that create tone. The fine, briskly executed brushwork […]
A Chinese blue and white klapmuts bowl. Late Ming / Transitional period.
Of klapmuts form, decorated underglaze blue, with a confucian scholar.
A Chinese blue and white Hatcher Cargo kendi. Ming
Decorated in underglaze blue with a crane.
A pair of Chinese blue and white « chilong » bowls. Tianqi
Decorated in underglaze blue with chilong, the exterior decorated with two chilong separated by plant motifs, and the interior also has a single dragon in the centre. The base has an underglaze blue seal script mark and character mark for the other.
A Chinese blue and white kraak porcelain dish with two deers. Wanli
Decorated in underglaze blue with two deers.