A Chinese famille rose wine cooler decorated with shells and rocaille scrolls. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with shells and rocaille scrolls in different shades of pink with gold highlights.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a “bois simulé” ground border. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette and painted with colourful flower-sprays at the centre below a border of four peaches dividing leaf-shaped panels painted with flowers, reserved on an unusual sepia and grisaille bois simulé ground.
A Chinese famille rose teapot depicting the Judgment of Pâris. Qianlong period.
Of globular form, painted on either side with Paris seated wearing a puce robe, with a small dog beside him, and offering a green object to Aphrodite who is flanked by Hera and Athena, and with Cupid looking on, Hera and Aphrodite only covered by either a shawl or a fan, Athena dressed in long […]
A Chinese famille rose dish decorated with ships. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with ships.
A very large Chinese en grisaille armorial platter 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 […]
A Chinese famille rose square teapot decorated with mandarins. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with mandarins, with molded bamboo handle and spout.
A Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » plate. 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 large Chinese famille rose “La Dame au Parasol” fluted dish after Cornelis Pronk. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with scalloped rim, painted with the famous scene of a lady standing before waterbirds as her attendant shades her with a parasol, the fluted border with pendant swags of ribbon-tied objects and peony.
A very fine and large Chinese famille rose “landscape” dish. Qianlong period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a mountainous river landscape with figures, parrots, pavilions and pagoda, nestled amongst trees and rocks. The rim is decorated with sprays of flowers.
A large Chinese famille rose armorial dish for the Belgian market (Jacobus-Gerardus de Knyff). Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose enamels, gilt and silvered, with the arms of Knyff.