A Chinese famille rose eggshell tea bowl decorated with figures. Qianlong period.
Made in eggshell porcelain and decorated in famille rose enamels and gold, the saucer with camaïeu carmin panels of landscape and foliage vignettes reserved on a scrollwork border, with a central scene of ladies and children, the tea bowl decorated en suite.
A Chinese blue and white oblong tureen decorated with a large willow. Early Qianlong period.
Of oblong shape, painted in underglaze blue, decorated with a large willow and lotus, the cover surmounted by a lion finial.
A Chinese armorial plate decorated in the famille rose palette for the English market. Qianlong period.
The coat is of Pierson (sometimes spelled Peerson or Pearson), Per fess embattled gules and azure three suns in splendour or, with the crest recorded as A parrot beaked and legged gules.
A Chinese famille rose mythological teacup and saucer. Qianlong period.
Each of ogee shape and painted with Zephyr offering a posy to Flora reclining in a glade, the scalloped and barbed rim with a flowering vine border.
A Chinese famille rose platter from the “Serviço dos Pavões”. Qianlong period.
Enamelled and gilt at the centre with a peacock and peahen perched on rockwork beside a large peony-blossom amongst various flowering branches, comprising one octafoil tray.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with The Judgment of Paris. Qianlong period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels, the centre depicting Paris wearing rose drapery, holding a staff, seated on an iron-red rock beside his recumbent hound, offering a golden apple to Venus flanked by Juno and Minerva, with Cupid seated at their feet, the rim bordered by iron-red delineated gilt shells and foliate scrolls.
A large Chinese blue and white “double herring” dish for the Dutch market. Qianlong period.
Of rectangular shape with notched corners, the centre painted with two herring placed in opposite direction, beneath a row of demi– peony-heads interlaced with scrollwork suspending from a cell-pattern band around the everted rim.
A Chinese famille rose figural group of the ‘Laughing Twins’, Hehe Erxian. Qianlong period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels, with jovial expressions, carrying a lotus sceptre and a ruyi, wearing green and yellow robes, standing side by side on a pierced rockwork base washed with a brown glaze.
A Chinese famille rose “twin peacock” dish. Qianlong period.
Enamelled in a rich famille rose palette with a peacock and a peahen standing on a grassy hillock beside blue weathered rocks growing with large pink peony, smaller flowers in gilt and colors growing alongside, all within a series of iron-red borders trailing similar blooms and interrupted by dark grey ground lappets edged in green […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with crabs. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, this plate depicts two crabs holding a peonies between them.