A large Chinese baluster “Mirror black” vase, Kangxi
This vase, glazed in the so-called mirror black, is decorated in gilt with floral reserves. Of baluster form with broad shoulders, a gently flaring neck and a slightly splayed foot, it displays on the main sides rectangular panels finely painted with stylised bouquets of chrysanthemums and peonies. The narrower sides are set with lotus-leaf cartouches […]
A Chinese Sancai ink stick box. Kangxi
The sancai glazed biscuit ink stick box is decorated with crosshatch patterns on the cover.
A powder blue bottle vase. China, Kangxi
This bottle vase has a globular body and a long and slender cylindrical neck. It is painted in underglaze powder blue and overglaze famille verte enamels with gold. Around the body, the bottle has three multilobed panels reserved in white and outlined in iron-red. Each of the three cartouches is decorated with a different design. […]
A Chinese Imari bowl for the French market (Thomas-Auguste Miniac of Saint-Malo). Kangxi, circa 1710
Painted in the Imari palette with underglaze blue, rouge-de-fer and gilding with the coat-of-arms of Miniac, Quaterly: 1 and 4, gules, an eagle displayed argent between five billets of the last, three and four; 2 and 3, azure, a cross cantoned with four crescent or, within a roptwist border enclosed by scrollwork and surmounted by […]
A very large Chinese famille verte charger for the King of France, Louis XV. Circa 1722
Decorated in the famille verte palette, with the coat of arms of the King Louis XV of France, d’azur à trois fleur de lys d’or.
A large and unusual Chinese famille verte dish. Kangxi
Decorated in the famille verte palette to the interior with three buddhistic lions frolicking on rocky promontories alternating with three horses prancing on stylized circular waves, all encircling a central medallion of a carp leaping from froth-capped waves, the everted rim decorated with shaped panels of various sea creatures reserved against a iron-red and gilt floral […]
A Chinese yellow-ochre enamel on the biscuit reclined hound. Kangxi
Decorated with a yellow glaze, its head turned slightly to its left. It has flat drooping ears and a long muzzle. Its tail curls against the left haunch. The sides of the body are deeply carved to indicate the ribs. A bell hangs at its chest from a cord around the neck. Eyes are pencilled in black.
A Chinese Dehua “Romance of the three Kingdoms” group. Kangxi
Well modeled depicting a young soldier, Lü Bu, reuniting with the beautiful Daio Chan while being observed by the jealous warlord, Dong Zhuo, peering at the amorous couple from behind a floor screen, all supported on a pedestal base.
A Chinese blue and white kraak porcelain dish. Wanli period
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a foliate rim and decorated to the centre with a two mandarin ducks on a riverbank below leafy stems of lotus flowers and lotus buds and by overhanging rocks. The cavetto is further decorated with panels of stylised peach stems and precious objects.
A large Chinese blue and white covered bowl decorated with figures. Kangxi period
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a scholar and a lady in leisure a garden accompanied by her maid, carrying a tray with a jug and two cups. An old man sits in a chariot accompanied by his attendant beside an architecture and a pierced ornamental rockwork, the scene possibly inspired by the Romance of the Western Chamber.The decoration […]