A Chinese famille rose “Dutch folly fort” butter dish and stand. Qianlong period
Painted with a view of the Dutch folly fort on the Pearl River within a scroll border in underglaze-blue, the rim with butterflies and shaped cell-patterned panels.
An unusual pair of Chinese famille rose Pronk “Arbor” octogonal salt cellars. Qianlong period
Of octogonal form, decorated after the Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk’s design with the classic topiary garden scene, the border with cartouches of moths, butterflies, flowers and fruits.
A Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » dish. Qianlong period
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.
A very fine Chinese famille rose plate decorated with Chinese ladies and their sons. Yongzheng / early Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, depicting the ideals of Chinese mother and son, in a cultured and luxurious lifestyle.
A Chinese blue & white botanical saucer dish after Maria Sybille Merian. Qianlong period.
Decorated in underglazed blue and gold, in the highest quality for this pattern, painted at the centre with a white-bodied caterpillar crawling on the leaf of an iris, beside another with a crawling amongst the petals of an orchid, a butterfly hovering above, enclosed by an gilt floral band in the well and a broad band […]
Two Chinese famille rose “phoenix & carps” plates. Qianlong period
One decorated with a black border, the other with blue enamels on the rim.
A large figural group of a Chinese lady on a terrace with two hens. Qianlong period
Naturalistically modeled and depicting a lady with two hens on a terrace.
A pair of Chinese armorial plates for the English (Seys of Monmouth). Qianlong period
The quarterly arms are of Seys of Monmouth, Azure six plates on a chief or a demi lion rampant gules, quartering Says of Glamorgan, Sable a chevron between three spears heads embrued gules.
An unusual Chinese blue and white sauce tureen decorated with flowers. Qianlong period
Decorated in underglaze blue, with rabbit handles, the cover with a crown after a Meissen form, and decorated with a dragonfly, a pine ad peonies.
A Chinese famille rose “double peacock” sauce tureen. Qianlong period
Oviform, decorated in the famille rose palette with the well-known double peacock pattern, with asymmetrical scroll knops and rabbit-head handles, the stand decorated to match the body with peacock and peahen in a peony garden.