A Chinese famille rose tea bowl and saucer with figures. Late Yongzheng / early Qianlong
The figural scene depicts a young woman seated on an extravagant silk carpet leaning on a yellow barrel-form stool turned on its side as she looks expectingly at her small square cup while a male attendant kneels beside her to serve her tea. Behind the seated woman, a female attendant holds a long-handled oval fan […]
A large famille rose charger decorated with mandarin ducks and the eight Daoist Immortals. Yongzheng
Richly painted in the famille rose palette, the centre of the charger is decorated with two mandarin ducks surrounded by lotus enclosed by a fers-de-lance ; on the rim are the eight Daoist Immortals in choppy coastal seas.
A Chinese famille rose “Romance of the Western Chamber” plate. Yongzheng
Richly decorated in the famille rose palette, the scene, running to the border of each plate, depicted a Chinese man on his horse fording a river while his heavily laden servant wades behind him.
A pair of Dutch decorated armorial plates (De Walé with Ankeveen in pretence). Yongzheng period
Decorated in the arms of De Wale with Ankeveen in presence within yellow and red scrolling foliage, beneath a crown, all suspended by a tasseled rope held by two blue herons, all above rope-tied red and green flowering branches and scattered insects.
A Chinese famille rose teabowl and saucer decorated with diapers. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with diapers and a basket a flowers.
A rare Chinese shell-shaped ewer and basin reproduced in Octave du Sartel. Yongzheng
Following a silver form and probably painted with a unique decoration, the ewer features a high scroll painted with rouge-de-fer scrolls and a turquoise blue ground of clouds. The sides are adorned with brown and white bands decorated with gilt clouds and sprays of flowers, with the basin similarly decorated.
A famille rose fluted tea bowl and saucer decorated with a European lady. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose enamels with a European figure in a long robe picked out in sepia and with gilt highlights, reclining on a day-bed, the convex fluted sides with flowering stems extending across panels of different diaper patterns.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with the Xi Xiang ji. Yongzheng
The plate decorated in the famille rose palette, with a central panel with four figures in a luxury setting. On the rim are painted flowers and butterflies.
A Chinese armorial set for the French market (Bouczo du Rongouët). Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with sprays of peonies, the plate bearing the arms of the Bouczo du Rongouët family, d’azur à trois besants d’or, mis en bande et cotoyés de deux cotices de même.
A Chinese armorial charger for the English market (Jones). Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the coat of arms of Jones of Monmouth to the center, Sable a stag stating or ; the crest on the rim, A stag trippant or.