A Chinese en grisaille “L’Amour et le badinage” teapot and cover. Qianlong period
Of globular form and decorated en grisaille with a scene depicting a courting couple beneath a tree and an amorous couple behind them. A polychrome border of flowers.
A Chinese famille rose mancerina decorated with flowers. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with sprays of flowers, with a large saucer modeled in the shape of a shell with moulded ribbed and fluted sections, lobed edges and a foliate rim, the circular cup holder with pierced oblong slots at the sides and a foliate rim.
A Chinese famille rose “Rockefeller” bowl (Palace ware). Late Qianlong/early Jiaqing period
Decorated in the “Rockefeller Pattern”, with a Mandarin scene – each one always unique – a diapered border, with a band of finely detailed gilded scrollwork with landscape reserves.
Three Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » plates. 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 pair of Chinese famille rose plates decorated with shells and rocaille scrolls. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the center with flowers, the shaped rim painted with shells and rocaille scrolls in different shades of pink with gold highlights.
A Chinese en grisaille tea bowl and saucer decorated with a “bathing scene”. Qianlong period
Decorated with a grisaille European subject semi-eggshell tea bowl and saucer, the saucer painted with a ‘bathing scene’ with a nude lady stepping into a bath with boy attendant pouring water into a bath, within a decorative border at the cavetto with alternating circular and foliate panels painted in puce enamel, all on a gilt decorative […]
A rare Chinese famille rose tureen stand decorated with a dragon-fish. Qianlong period
Of shaped oval form, decorated in the famille rose palette and iron-red with foliated gilt rims, and painted with a leaping dragon-fish in iron-red and gilt in pursuit of a flaming pearl above billowing and crested white and pink enamelled waves, between ruyi-shaped clouds, the flat everted rim with pink flowerheads dispersed between gilt precious objects […]
A pair of very large Chinese reticulated famille rose dishes decorated with mandarins. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, a cartouche to the center with Chinese lady and two children.
A Chinese famille rose mythological plate. Qianlong period.
Enamelled in the famille rose palette, with Hermes with a beauty, possibly Venus, below a tree, two lovebirds beside them, flower sprays at the rim.
A pair of Chinese en grisaille armorial plates for the English market (Birkbeck). Qianlong period
Of octagonal form and decorated en grisaille and gilt with a central coat of arms, the dexter of Birkbeck, Argent a fess cherry or and azure between three lions heads gules (with an unusual crest), on a count’s coronet a demi lion rampant holding between the paws a cross pattée. The motto PATIENTIA VINCIT. The […]