A Chinese famille rose tea bowl and saucer with figures. Late Yongzheng / early Qianlong
The figural scene depicts a young woman seated on an extravagant silk carpet leaning on a yellow barrel-form stool turned on its side as she looks expectingly at her small square cup while a male attendant kneels beside her to serve her tea. Behind the seated woman, a female attendant holds a long-handled oval fan […]
A Chinese famille rose “doctor’s consultation” plate. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette with seven figures in a landscape, the border with floral sprays interspersed with insects and butterflies.
A Chinese “The fowler” plate from the Hervouet Collection. Qianlong
The plate after a French silver form and decorated in the famille rose palette, features with a central reserve depicting two Europeans interacting on a terrace beneath the shadow of a tree. The gentleman, carrying a sword at his waist, holds a bird in his left hand and he approaches the other man who is […]
A Chinese famille rose « landscape” plate. Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette in the Chinese taste with a central richly detailed mountainous landscape within a foliate gilded cavetto and an elegant scrollwork rim border
A Chinese armorial cup for the French market (Cossé-Brissac / Mancini-Mazarini). Qianlong
The cup decorated in the famille rose palette with a garland of flowers and the coat of the duc de Brissac, De sable à trois fasces d’or denchées par le bas, and Mancini-Mazarini, Ecartelé: aux 1 et 4 d’azur, à la hache d’armes d’argent, au milieu d’un faisceau d’or, lié d’argent, posé en pal, une […]
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with the “Three Heroes of the Wind and Dust”. Qianlong
The charger is decorated in the famille rose palette, with four figures in a landscape under a tree. The rim with sprays of flowers.
A large and rare Chinese armorial plate for the Spanish market (Navia-Osorio for the Palace of Anleo). Qianlong
The plate decorated with flowers and insects, with on the rim the coat of arms of a Spanish family. In the center, a simple bouquet of chrysanthemums and daisies with small flowers and tied at the stems with a very fine ocher ribbon. Around the bouquet are painted several little birds, curiously the same size […]
A Chinese camaïeu carmin “Le pêcheur” plate. Qianlong period
Decorated in camaïeu carmin 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 a Du Pasquier style border.
A Chinese camaïeu carmin “card players” plate. Qianlong
Finely enameled at the center with two figures seated at a table playing cards watched by another seated figure and a fourth standing holding a pipe, to their right a further seated figure holds his wine goblet in one hand and his other arm embracing the waist of the serving wench, in the foreground cockerels, […]
A rare grisaille dish with a European subject “L’eau”. Qianlong
This dish is decorated en grisaille with a cartouche depicting a man fondling a lady while a second one looks on. The scene takes place in a wooded landscape. Both women are holdings fishing rods.