A pair of Chinese famille rose tea bowls decorated with children. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with children.
A large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with flowers. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with flowers.
A pair of famille rose tea bowls and saucers decorated with Chinese ladies and their sons. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with an interior domestic scene, which represents two Chinese ladies playing musical instruments, as the cithare qin, and their sons. Behind the group are standing the Hundred Antiquities, bai gu. They represent decorative attributes of a luxurious and cultured lifestyle. It is one of the ideals of the confucian society, and a […]
A Chinese famille rose-noire “cockerel” plate. Yongzheng period
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette, at the centre with a cockerel perched on blue pierced rockwork beside tree peony and butterflies within a flower-head panel reserved on a black ground with scrolling peony.
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates decorated with figures. Yongzheng period
Of polylobed form, and decorated in the famille rose palette, with Chinese ladies in a garden. The border in eight divisions is beautifully enamelled with peonies and others flowers.
A Chinese famille rose-noire dish decorated with figures. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a lady holding the hand of a boy. Behind him is another lad, and on the left is a fisherman in a green coat. In the background, there is a butterfly and a spray of large peonies. The border, in eight divisions, is enameled with peonies and other […]
A Chinese blue and white tea bowl & saucer from the Ca Mau wreck. Yongzheng period
Decorated in underglaze blue and white with Chinese figures.
A Chinese famille rose octagonal dish decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Enamelled in the famille rose palette at the center with two ladies on a terrace and in a building holding a lotus and a fan, and a peony, within a lappet band at the well and a composite flower and a fruit band at the border including prunus, chrysanthemum, pomegranate and finger citrus.
A rare and large Chinese famille rose tea bowl and saucer, from the Martin Hurst Collection and published in The Book of Famille Rose
Of unusual large size, decorated in the famille rose palette, with two huntsmen wearing yellow hats, one with a yellow coat and the other with a rose coat. The servant wears a pale-green coat and breeches of rose color. The border is of black diaper work with a formal gold floral ornament.
A Chinese famille rose black-ground teapot decorated with a landscape. Yongzheng period
Of pear shape with loop handle and straight spout decorated with panels containing landscape.