A pair of Chinese famille rose plates with two boys “back to back”. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the two little boys “back to back” in a central medallion.
Two Chinese armorial domed covers for the English market (Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol). Yongzheng period
Very heavily potted, of domed shape with moulded lip and large ball finial on pedestal. The outside finely painted with bands of rouge-de-fer and gold, and a crest among famille verte sprays, the crest of Talbot On a cap of maintenance gules, turned up ermine, a lion statant, and in the famille rose palette inside the cover.
A Chinese famille rose tea bowl. Yongzheng
Decorated with diapers and a gilt ground on the rim.
A Chinese famille rose pot-pourri jar. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with court ladies in garden pavilions, the border with blooms, on a short pedestal foot, the cover with pointed button knop, pierced to emit scent.
A Chinese silvered famille rose plate. Yongzheng period.
Finely enamelled to the central octafoil panel with a lady playing the qin among archaic vessels and a chest of drawers, reserved on a trellis-pattern ground encircled by a stylised lotus scroll, the rim with cartouches of flowers alternated with iron-red ground cartouches of flower scrolls, reserved on a silver-grey ground
A Chinese “en grisaille” and gilt tea bowl and saucer. Yongzheng period
Decorated en grisaille and gilt, with a bird and two butterflies.
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates decorated with two cockerels. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with two cockerels perched on a pierced rock.
A large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with “The Hundred Antiquities”. Yongzheng period
Decorated with vibrant enamels, with “The Hundred Antiquities” and peonies.
A Chinese famille rose “goldfish” bowl. Yongzheng period
Decorated to the exterior and to the interior with iron-red and gilt or en grisaille goldfish swimming amongst gilt water-weed.
A Chinese famille rose « Madame de Pompadour » dish. 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.