A Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with Lan Tsai-Ho and her attendant. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with Lan Tsai-Ho and her attendant, diaper and peonies.
A Chinese famille rose armorial teapot for the English Market (John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont). Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the arms of Perceval, Argent on a chief indented gules three crosses pattée of the field; with crest, A thistle erect leaved proper, and the motto”Sub crude candor”.
A Chinese famille rose eggshell tea bowl and saucer decorated with peonies. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with panels of peonies.
A Chinese famille rose eggshell tea bowl and saucer decorated with a mountainous landscape. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette with a mountainous landscape.
A Chinese famille rose basin painted with a turquoise ice ground. Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, a domed centre with a scroll shaped panel depicting quail feeding beneath sprays of peony growing from amongst elaborate rock work formations, surrounded by further panels in the form of fruit enclosing scenes of butterflies and insects amongst flowers, reserved on a turquoise ice ground with flowers en grisaille.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with cockerels. Yongzheng period.
Two lively cockerels in a peony garden, one perched on rocks, the rim with pink cell diaper border interrupted by three cartouches of flowers and citrus.
A pair of large Chinese famille rose dishes decorated with a basket of flowers. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a central basket of flowers.
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with peonies. Yongzheng period.
Decorated with panels of peonies, the rim with a gilded Y-diaper border, the outer rim in blue enamel.
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 Chinese famille rose plate depicting a scene from The Romance of the Western Chamber. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose 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 and her attendant Hongniang, awaiting the arrival of Zhang Sheng.