A large Chinese famille rose “faux bois” dish. Yongzheng/Qianlong period (ca. 1730-1750)
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a central medallion with a spray of peonies, with an iron red-brown ground in the front and the back, imitating a wood-grain pattern.
An unusual Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a Chinese landscape. Late Yongzheng/Early Qianlong period
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a Chinese landscape, including a pagoda, the rim with an unusual border having reserves of landscapes en grisaille.
A Chinese armorial plate for the Dutch market with the coat of arms of Jan Albert Sichterman. Yongzheng period
Decorated in rouge-de-fer and gold with brown, green, purple and blue. On the rim, there is a spiraling scroll border with bamboo, two groups of flowering plants and a gate, two Chinese pavilions or pagodas and above a coat of arms repeated. At the cavetto, there is a honeycomb diaper border with four reserves filled […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with peonies and phoenix. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with blossoming peony and a long-tailed phoenix.
A Chinese famille rose barber’s bowl. Yongzheng period.
Decorated the famille rose enamels and iron-red, in the center with an unrolled scroll showing a scene with a basket of flowers and a ruyi scepter, against boughs of prunus and peonies, a cell pattern rim set with four panels containing Chinese figures.
A large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with birds and flowers. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with birds and flowers.
A Chinese “en grisaille” and gilt marriage plate for the Dutch market. Yongzheng period.
Finely and delicately decorated with an allegorical marriage scene in a grand architectural setting, below an arch inscribed SEMPER AMOR PRO TE FIRMISSIMUS ATQUE FIDELIS, the columns on either side surmounted by small coats-of-arms of Nicolas Geelvinck and Johanna Graafland, Neptune and sea-nymphs emerging from reeds to watch the scene in the foreground, the well with […]
A large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with a pheasant. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a pheasant.
A Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with a boy astride a water buffalo. Yongzheng period.
Of globular form, with the concave fluted moulded panels on the cover matched on the base, which has applied aquatic plants. Decorated in famille rose enamels, with a boy on a water buffalo in a landscape, with flowers and rockwork above the fluting.
A very fine Chinese famille rose “cockerel” plate. Yongzheng period.
Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette with a cockerel perched on pierced promontory rockwork among flowering branches of peony, surrounded at the well with a sea-green trellis-pattern band reserved with floral vignettes, the rim with four flower sprays.