A Chinese blue and white dish decorated with a peacock. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in underglaze blue, with honey-brown edge, flowers on the rim, cell-diaper band at the well, and a central scene of pheasant perched on rockwork amongst flowers.
A Chinese armorial plate for the Dutch market. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in polychrome enamels, on the outer rim of the plate there is a narrow band of flowerheads and leaves enamelled in rouge de fer, blue, yellow, black, and gold. On the rim there are two large lotus sprays together with various Chinese symbolic figures, such as a jar and a small landscape with a […]
A pair of Chinese famille rose petal-shaped plates decorated with flowers. Yongzheng period.
Of lotus petal-shaped form and decorated in the famille rose enamels, with peonies and lotus.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with pheasants. Yongzheng period.
A famille rose plate with a central scene of two pheasants on a blue rock with tree peony, the rim brightly enamelled with fruiting vine.
A rare Chinese famille rose dish decorated with figures. Yongzheng period.
A rare famille rose dish, decorated with figures, the scene represent probably an episode from the Romance of the Western Chamber.
A very large Chinese famille rose dish decorated with a lady and her sons. Yongzheng period.
The design of this large yongzheng dish depicts the ideals of a Chinese mother with her sons in a cultured setting. In the center is standing a beautiful lady in an interior domestic scene, elegantly dressed. She is surrounded by three small boys ; the first one behind her, the second cling on her back and the […]
A pair of Chinese famille rose plates with figures. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels including yellow, the scene runs to the border and is entirely without European influence. A Chinese man on his horse fording a river while his heavily laden servant wades behind him. The enamels are particularly rich.
A Chinese plate decorated in famille rose enamels with a sage in a landscape. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, the centre with a scene depicting a sage crossing a footbridge leading from the rocky shore of a lake to a walled garden on an islet in the water, all within a leaf-shaped panel outlined in gilding, the everted rim encircled by an intricate pink-ground border incorporating different flowers.
A Chinese famille rose “quail” dish. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels, the center with two quails amongst peonies and rocks, the rim with a cell-diaper on the rim.
A set of three Chinese plates decorated with birds. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with birds and peonies.