A Chinese Encre de Chine teapot decorated with a water buffalo. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in Encre de Chine with a water buffalo among a rocky landscape.
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.
An unusual Chinese famille rose lotus “tea dish” decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
Decorated with serrated rims applied with moulded stalks and leaves, painted with Chinese figures.
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.