A large Chinese blue and white dish decorated with flowers. Ming dynasty – Hongzhi period
Decorated in underglaze blue with rocks and flowers.
A large blue and white Chinese Export dish for the Asian market (Swatow). Ming Dynasty – 16th/17th Century
Decorated in underglaze blue and painted to the interior with a central mountainous landscape including pagodas, the border with panels of flowers and boats.
A Chinese blue and white “kraak porselein” dish. Wanli period
Decorated in underglaze blue and painted to the central star-shaped panel with a grasshopper perched on rockwork beside blossoming flowers and plants, the radiating panels alternating further flowers and precious objects.
A Chinese blue and white “Kraak” dish decorated with two deer – Ming dynasty – Wanli reign (1573-1620)
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a wide everted rim and a lobed edge, showing two deer in a landscape among stylized rocks and with a large pine tree in the background, surrounded by radiating panels containing alternately paired panels of single flowers and bunches of peaches bordered by narrow panels with dots and spiral designs. […]
A very large Chinese blue and white charger decorated with the The Eight Daoist Immortals. Transitional period, circa 1635-1650.
Painted to the central panel with the Eight Immortals , the moulded sides painted with panels of farmers and a scholar divided by panels of stylized tulips.
A Chinese blue and white “landscape” foliated-rimmed dish. Ming dynasty, ca. 1550-1600
Of foliated-rimmed form, decorated in underglaze blue, the centre decorated in tones of cobalt blue with mountains, steep cliffs, pavillion, pagoda, rocks and trees, the border with aquatic plants and birds.
A large Chinese Export Porcelain bowl for the Asian market (Swatow ware). Ming dynasty 16th/17th century
Decorated with green and red enamels with animals and flowers.
Two Chinese Transitional fan shaped dishes decorated in the famille verte palette with birds. Late Ming – Chongzhen reign – Chenghua six characters mark.
Decorated in famille verte enamels with birds and flowers, with a Chenghua six characters mark.
A very large Chinese Export Porcelain blue and white dish for the Asian market (Swatow). Ming Dynasty – circa 1600/1619
Painted to the centre with a marine rose radiating lines, two large cargo ships under sail on either side, and a giant fish-like sea monster emerging from waves opposite a mountainous landscape with ornamental gates to the foreground, the cavetto with cartouches framing emblematic patterns in opposite pairs, one pair flanked by long tailed birds, […]
A large Chinese Export Porcelain dish for the Asian market (Swatow ware). Ming dynasty 16th/17th century
Decorated with green and red enamels with dragons, phoenixes (Fenghuang) and flowers.