A massive Chinese famille rose basin with a landscape. Late Yongzheng / Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a mountainous landscape with temple, pine, rocks.
A Chinese grisaille plate “Les pèlerins de l’isle de Cythère”. Qianlong
After the engraving “Les pèlerins de l’isle de Cythere » (1708), by Bernard Picart (1673-1733), painted en grisaille, gilt and iron red, the central roundel depicting a heart-decorated ‘Cupid’ (‘Eros’) with staff and torch guiding a pilgrim couple to a travel by boat to the Greek Isle of Cythere, the couple with sharing a cup of wine, two boats […]
A Chinese armorial dish for the French market (Rosily). Qianlong
With the coat of arms of the François Joseph de Rosily (1703-1771), écartelé, aux 1 et au 4, de gueules, à deux haches d’armes adossées d’argent, au chef d’or (qui est de Lannoster) ; au 2 et 3 d’argent, à trois chevrons d’azur (qui est Gourio), bearing the Collar od the Order of Saint Louis
A Chinese famille rose bowl decorated with an elephant. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with an elephant.
A pair of blue and white La Dame au Parasol tea bowls. Qianlong
Painted with a Cornelius Pronk design of Dame au Parasol, with two figures beside two cranes.
A large Chinese « tobacco leaf » platter. Qianlong
Of scalloped leaf form, richly enamelled in the famille rose palette with an overall pattern showing the large, colorful, veined leaves trailing large blossoms and small buds and leaves, gilt highlights
A Chinese famille rose chrysanthemum teapot. Yongzheng
A Chinese export porcelain teapot, and cover decorated in the famille rose palette, and moulded as a chrysanthemum with applied branches, leaves and buds.
A Chinese Imari “La dame au parasol » oblong dish after a design of Pronk. Qianlong period
Decorated in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gilt with ‘La Dame au Parasol’ after a design by Cornelis Pronk, the central scene with a lady holding a parasol above another woman standing near waterfowl on a grassy bank, within a narrow band of flower-sprays at the well, the border with figural and bird cartouches on a honey-comb […]
A Royal Chinese Export écuelle for the French market. Qianlong
The cylindrical sides with projecting shell motif handles washed in underglaze-blue, decorated in cobalt and enamels heightened in gilding with the sides with Buddha’s hand citron or a gourd in a dish on a lotus blossom and pads or branches, the arms of France encircled by the Orders of the Holy Ghost and of Saint Michael and […]
A massive oblong dish for the English market. Qianlong
Decorated with the coat of arms of Strange d’Ellesmere accolées with Long of Waddesdon.