A very rare and large Chinese famille rose armorial oblong dish for the Spanish Market (José Raón y Gutiérrez, Governor of the Philippines). Qianlong period
Enamelled in the famille rose palette and gilt with a central coat-of-arms for Raón y Guttiérrez, quarterly: 1. or, a gallows, in chief an arm holding a knife argent;2. azure, a tree with a wolf sable against the trunk; 3. or, four bends or and over-all a knife argent;4. azure, a tower argent between two […]
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with flowers. Qianlong period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels with flowers.
A large Chinese iron-red mancerina. Qianlong period
Of silver form, decorated in iron-red enamelling.
A Chinese famille rose goblet decorated with mandarins. Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose enamels with Chinese figures.
A very rare Chinese armorial plate for the Spanish market (Pedro Manuel de Arandia, Governor of the Philippines). Qianlong period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with shell-and-scroll border on the rim, spearheads in the well, and in the centre the coat-of-arms of Pedro de Arandia y Santiesteban, tierced per pale. 1. Per fess: a. sable, a lion or within a bordure gules with eight saltorels sable, Santiesteban; b. gules, a swan argent between four […]
A set of three Chinese « Madame de Pompadour » polychrome 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 Chinese en grisaille armorial plate 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 en grisaille and gilt “Le pêcheur” plate. Qianlong period.
Decorated en grisaille at the centre with a fishing scene, a young man standing barefoot on a river-bank holding his rod, beside two large fishing baskets below a tree-trunk with birds in flight overhead, the border with four different landscape vignettes decorated primarily in gilt with details en grisaille and iron-red, interspersed with gilt florettes, […]
A Chinese “en grisaille” plate decorated with a mythological subject. Qianlong period
Of scalloped form, decorated en grisaille and in gold, with a central scene of an armed warrior standing over a resting companion and looking toward a winged figure who aims an arrow from a dove-driven chariot amongst clouds in which is also seated a scantily-draped female.
A massive Chinese famille rose “pseudo-tobacco leaf” wine pot. Qianlong period.
Of globular form, brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette and gilt, with flat covers and flower head finials, enamelled on one side with a pair of mandarin crested ducks, one swimming on a pond and the other on a large upturned lotus leaf beside a large stylised peony head, the other side with rococo leaves, […]