A Chinese Export Porcelain gilt and puce « Batavia » plate. Qianlong
Decorated with natives, Eastern merchants, the god Mercury and a lion before a flag monogrammed V.O.C for the Dutch East India Company, the foreground inscribed ‘BATAVIA’.
The Hervouët ‘Dutch Whaling Scene’ plate. Qianlong
Painted to the centre in overglaze enamels, including bright shades of iron-red, turquoise, blue, yellow and brown, picked out in black and hightlighted in gilt. It shows a lively whale-hunting scene in an artic region, depicting three Dutch vessels sailing amid icebergs on a rough sea, one behind an iceberg at far right, one in […]
A famille rose « the Sleeping Beauty » teapot. Qianlong
This seldom European motif depicted on Chinese porcelain illustrates a courteous subject that stems from the literary theme “the Sleeping Beauty” well known at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. In a central panel, a man wearing a tricorn takes advantage of the slumber of a young woman to […]
An exceptional ‘lighthouse-shaped’ Pronk coffee pot. Qianlong
Of tall conical shape with high domed pointed cover and bud finial above a collar, the tapering octagonal spout and strap handle at right angles. The decoration, especially designed in Europe, of turquoise green scales divided by a broad white area decorated with butterflies and insects above a shaped black band with famille rose flowers, […]
A Chinese group of a lady standing beside jardinière of coral. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, this group depicts a lady standing beside a clump of rocks supporting a jardinière of coral. Her dress is embellished with large floral motifs and archaic dragons in iron-red. The skirt is decorated with an iron-red panel depicting a translucent green landscape motif. Her hair pulled back in a small […]
A Chinese armorial charger for the Dutch market (De Famars and Vriesen)
A large Chinese export famille rose dish bearing the arms of De Famars and Vriesen accollé for the Dutch market. The dexter coat of arms of De Famars is quarterly: 1st and 4th, on a black background seven gold fleurs-de-lis; 2nd and 3rd, on a white background a black rising eagle. The sinister coat of […]
Large Chinese export wine cooler for the French market (Farcy de Cuillé). Qianlong
The form after a European silver model, with the coat-of-arms of Jacques-Annibal-Gabriel de Farcy de Cuillé (1724-1795), known as Marquis de Cuillé, sable, a wolf passant argent, armed and languid gules, in chief a crescent of the last. Mantling of président of Parlement. Flowers sprays in famille rose enamels and en grisaille.
Two Imari fountains forming a pair. Qianlong
A polychrome figure of the Daoist immortal Li Tieguai. Qianlong
This sculpture depicts the standing figure of the Daoist Immortal Li Tieguai, decorated in famille rose and famille noire enamels. He is wearing an open black robe. His pink trousers have a contrasting yellow border, bare feet showing. The right foot is placed on his pink crutch and in his left hand he holds small […]
A Chinese famille rose pompadour rounded tureen. Qianlong
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette, to the interior with a peony medallion encircled at the rim by floral sprays and seed pods flanking cartouches alternately enclosing a fish or an eagle.