A Chinese armorial “pot à jus” for the Swedish market (Count Gustav Tessin, Swedish Ambassador to Paris, Prime Minister of Sweden). Qianlong period
Decorated to the centre with the coat-of-arms of Count Gustav Tessin, Ambassador to Paris, Prime Minister of Sweden, connoisseur of the arts and a frieze of shells.
A Chinese blue and white rocaille tureen stand. Qianlong period
Modelled in rococo style after a Höchst faience original and decorated with sprays of European flowers.
A Chinese famille rose sauce tureen decorated with shells and rocaille scrolls. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the center with flowers, the shaped rim of the stand and the cover painted with shells and rocaille scrolls with gold highlights, with pink and green pomegranate knop and rabbit-head handles.
A Chinese famille rose “double peacock” sauce tureen. Qianlong period
Oviform, decorated in the famille rose palette wth 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.
A pair of Chinese famille rose tobacco leaf plates. Qianlong period
Of barbed and lobed outline, enameled with the classic pattern in vivid famille rose colors, underglaze blue and gilt, a very large passion flower in pink and yellow shown against the leaves.
A large Chinese Dutch decorated dish after the “La Dame au Parasol” pattern. Qianlong period.
A Chinese Dutch-decorated (Amsterdams Bont) large dish, originally with a band of floral anhua decoration, between narrow hatched borders of underglaze blue, later-enamelled with a central medallion after the well know model of “La Dame au Parasol”, and four panels of flowers and ladies on the cavetto.
A Chinese polychrome and gilt “The Fisherman” plate. Qianlong period
Decorated with a Dutch fisherman before traps and a tree trunk, the border gilt and grisaille enameled lattice-work with four reserve panels of Chinese-style gilt, grisaille, and iron-red mountains.
A pair of Chinese Export biscuit hares. Late Qianlong period
Each seated on its haunches, with its head turned on the right for the first, on the left for the second, with the ears pricked up and holding a lingzhi-branch in the snout, the branch and a shell attached to the back, and decorated with caramel marking on the biscuit, the body incised to imitate […]
A Chinese famille rose “Madame de Pompadour” pot-pourri. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette.
A Chinese armorial teapot for the English market (Norris). Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the coat of arms of Norris.