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.
A Chinese famille rose teapot decorated with a boy astride a water buffalo
Decorated in the famille rose palette and gilt, with two panels decorated with a boy astride a water buffalo, the cover decorated with two panels of peonies.
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with a basket of flowers. Yongzheng period.
Enameled with a ribbon-tied basket of fruit and flowers, the rim with cartouches of auspicious objects.
A Chinese famille rose covered bowl. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose enamels, with a central basket of peonies.
A Chinese silvered famille rose plate decorated with a lady playing a qin. Yongzheng period.
Finely enamelled to the central octafoil panel with a lady playing the qin among archaic vessels and a chest of drawers, reserved on a trellis-pattern ground encircled by a stylised lotus scroll, the rim with cartouches of flowers alternated with iron-red ground cartouches of flower scrolls, reserved on a silver-grey ground.
A large Chinese famille rose “Mandarin duck” charger. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette and gilt with two mandarin ducks, one swimming and one in flight, beside a large lotus flower, surrounded by shaped cartouches enclosing flowers and roundels.
A Chenghua marked famille rose pair of plates decorated with flowers. Very early Yongzheng period.
Very early Chinese export porcelain pair of plates decorated in opaque enamels of the famille rose palette (Fencai) with flowers, base with the four characters Chenghua reign mark in underglaze blue.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with two deers. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels, with two deers among branches of peonies.