A large Chinese famille rose charger decorated with shrews . Late Yongzheng/early Qianlong period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels, with shrews on peony branches, surrounded by fruiting vine, within a dense and elaborate border.
A Chinese rouge-de-fer « Governor Duff » cup. Yongzheng period.
Finely decorated rouge-de-fer with a European couple, traditionnaly thought to be Governor Duff and his wife, standing on a garden terrace beside a hound.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a lady playing a qin. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the centre with quatrefoil panel with a seated lady playing a qin in front of a black cabinet, on her right two vases and a tree, another vase on her left side, all reserved on a grisaille swastika diaper ground with overglaze red and gold scrollwork, the floral rim […]
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels, with figures. On the rim, sprays of flowers.
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates decorated with geese. Late Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with four geese amongst rockwork and flowers. On the rim are painted sprays of peonies.
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 charger decorated with mandarin ducks and the eight Daoist Immortals. Yongzheng period.
Richly painted in rose-verte enamels, the centre with two ducks swimming among lotus enclosed by a yellow enamel spearhead line at the well. On the rim, the eight Daoist Immortals in choppy coastal seas.
A pair of Chinese famille rose cups decorated with flowers from the Martin Hurst Collection. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a panels of peonies and foliage.
A Chinese famille rose charger decorated with a hibiscus. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, at the center with a hibiscus among further flowers, surrounded by an elaborate scrolling border of peonies over an iron-red whorl-pattern ground.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with peacocks and peonies. Yongzheng period.
Painted in brilliant famille rose enamels, the central scene illustrating a pair of paons on a peony rock and gazon. The large rim with four peonies.