A very fine and large Chinese armorial teapot for the French market. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the coat of arms Trublet de la Villejegu, D’azur, au chevron d’argent, chargé de trois roses de gueules, with Montigny du Timeur, D’argent, au chevron de gueules (ici d’azur), chargé de cinq coquilles d’or, accompagné en chef de deux étoiles d’azur (ici de gueules), et en pointe d’un […]
A large Chinese famille rose dish with squirrels and flowers. Early Qianlong
Decorated with underglaze blue and raised with a famille rose decoration, comprising a central panel with a large iris, and cartouche of squirrels running amongst vines or bird perched on branches of prunus.
A Chinese armorial plate for the English market (Hotham). Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the coats are of Hotham, Barry of ten argent and azure, on a canton or a Cornish though proper ; crest, A demi seaman issuing out of the water proper, holding in the dexter hand a flaming sword argent, hilt and pommel or, on the sinister arm a shield […]
A Chinese Export “Tobacco Leaf” dish. Qianlong period
Decorated in underglaze blue, polychrome enamels, and gold, with a pair of pheasants amongst leaves and flower blossoms beneath two squirrels on the branches of a vine, three prunus sprays on the revers, gold edge on the lobed rim.
A Chinese armorial plate for the French market (Fleuriot de Langle /Lasnier). Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the coat-of-arms of Fleuriot de Langle, Argent, a chevron between three roses gules, stemmed and leafed vert, and Kerouartz, Argent, a wheel between three crosscuts coupe sable, with the collar of the Knight of Saint Louis.
The Chinese Export Porcelain teapot of the Governor of Louisiana (French /American market). Qianlong
Of globular form, decorated with gilt and grisaille sprays of flowers, the arms are Billouart de Kerlerec, Or (here argent), a cross cooped azure (here or) in chief two mullets of six points azure pierced of the field , and (du) Bot, Argent (here azure), a fess gules (here or). These arms illustrate well the […]
Unusual Chinese Mythological subject cup and saucer. Early Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with Procris dying in the woods, hit by an arrow of Céphalus, the scene being based on an illustration of S. Le Clerc for Les Métamorphoses d’Ovide en rondeaux by Issac de Bensérade (1676, p. 260).
A Chinese export blue and white tureen, cover and stand. Qianlong
Lobed oval outline with stem knop and flower-bud handles.
A Chinese mythological plate “The Choice of Hercule”. Qianlong
Decorated in overglaze blue and gilt, Hercules is portrayed between the figure of Virtue, pointing upward, and that of Pleasure, pointing down.
Unusual Chinese “faux marbre” pomegranate-form tureen. Qianlong
A Chinese Export famille rose “faux marbre” pomegranate-form tureen, reserved on either side with a panel of quatrefoil panel of stylized flowers, the ends affixed with stalk and twig handles, the cover molded in hight relief with three naturalistically colored pomegranates, around a stalk finial.