A famille rose sugar caster and cover decorated with flowers. Qianlong
Of a tall baluster shape on a wide, spreading foot, surmounted by a hight domed lid with a bud-shaped finial, this sugar caster is deco- rated in famille rose enamels with sprays of flowers.
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.
A very large and rare Chinese famille rose dish for the New Spain / Mexican market
A Chinese export famille rose porcelain dish decorated in vibrant enamels depicting two double-headed eagles flanked by a wide as- sortment of flowers made for the Mexico market. Two floral arrange- ments are potted in large footed bowls decorated in vertical stripes that mirror the color schemes of the wings of each eagle. A large […]
A famille rose plate « Earth » plate. Qianlong
Enameled in bright colors with a European mythological scene derived from Albani’s ‘Earth’, the center with three female and one male figure, variously robed and unrobed, riding a chariot pulled by lions with six putti dispersed before them, a large leafy tree to one side and a river landscape in the background, the rim with […]
A rare blue and white armorial plate for the Irish market. Qianlong
Centrally painted, with the coat of arms of Metge, Argent three fleur-de-lis proper, two and one, quartering Lyon, Argent a lion rampant azure within a double tressure flory counter flory (this is for the Lyon – Bowes-Lyon – family, Earls of Strathmore), with the figure of Justice, standing on a column inscribed with the initias […]
A famille rose Buddhistic lion Cadogan ewer
Amusingly modelled as Buddhistic lion holding a large brocade ball, the beast with blue body, green mane and iron-red handle emerging from its back, the brocade ball decorated with pink panels on a yellow ground, applied with a short iron-red spout. The lion is standing on a wooden base.
A grisaille « Les pèlerins de l’isle de Cythère » plate. Qianlong
After the engraving “Les pèlerins de l’isle de Cythere » (1708), by Bernard Picart (1673-1733), painted en grisaille, gilt and iron red, the central roundel depicting a heart-decorated ‘Cupid’ (‘Eros’) holding a staff and torch guiding a pilgrim couple travelling by boat to the Greek Isle of Cythere. The couple is sharing a cup of wine. There are three boats and […]
A large yellow diaper “The Doctors Visit to the Emperor” dish. Qianlong
Boldly enameled in colors at the center with the well-known scene after Cornelis Pronk depicting three somewhat ‘chinoiserie’ figures in long robes seated at a low table bearing a large blue and white lobed-rim dish possibly of ‘kraak’ inspiration, a fourth figure gesturing beneath a fine flowering branch and a peacock perched on a fence […]
A famille rose ‘Pronk Dame au Parasol’ dish. Qianlong
Painted in bright enamels with a an elegant lady standing under a parasol held by an attendant, the lady holding out a hand to four separate species of marsh birds, three walking on the bank before them, and a fourth, partially submerged with only tail feathers visible, feeding in the marsh behind, the four species […]
Unrecorded Chinese armorial tea set for the French market (Boudin de Tromelin). Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with garlands of flowers and the coat of arms of the Boudin de Tromelin, de sable à une épée d’argent mise en pal, la pointe en haut, surmontée de deux étoiles d’or.