A Chinese famille rose teapot with a moulded decoration. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with deers, birds, cranes and cockerels and a moulded and applied decoration.
A Chinese semi-eggshell famille rose ruby-back dish. Yongzheng period.
With semi-eggshell body, enamelled to the interior in the famille rose palette with floral sprays.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a vase and a basket of flowers and fruits. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a vase and a basket of flowers and fruits.
A Chinese famille rose molded and reticulated “brocade ball” teapot. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the teapot molded on each side with two convex reticulated and gilt roundels encircled by petal lappets and green diaper, on another diaper ground. The whole is flanked by two Buddhist lions which form the handle and the spout. The cover is surmounted by a cockerel-form finial.
A Chinese famille rose bowl with an applied decoration. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with sprays of peonies and an applied decoration of squirrels running in vine branches.
A Chinese export famille rose and silvered armorial plate for the Belgian market (Bistrate of Anvers). Yongzheng period.
The center enameled and silvered with the arms of la Bistrate accollée with those of Proli between greyhound supporters and below a helmet, coronet and crest, surrounded by a trellis-patters in the well, the arms repeated individually around the everted rim between a du Paquier style design of linked feathers, strapwork, shells and hanging drapery.
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with crabs. Yongzheng period
Decorated in the famille rose palette, this plate depicts two crabs holding a peonies between them.
A large Chinese famille rose baluster vase decorated with butterflies and flowers. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with butterflies and flowers.
A pair of large Chinese imari dishes depicting a scene from The Romance of the Western Chamber. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the traditional imari palette, with a scene from Act III of The Romance of the Western Chamber (Xi Xiang Ji) by the Yuan Dynasty playwright Wang Shifu (c.1260-1336), with Cui Yingying awaiting the arrival of Zhang Sheng. On the rim, a blue treillis and four reserves with Chinese boys.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period
Brightly decorated in the famille rose palette, with a man on a horse and a lady in a chariot accompanied by attendants within sepia “fish-roe” and floral lappets.