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.
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 […]