A Chinese plate decorated in famille rose enamels with figures. Yongzheng period.
Painted in the famille rose palette, with three figures in garden with a phoenix. Peonies and landscape on the rim. The phoenix is the motif for the empress of China and is displayed in the crown and her clothing.
A Chinese famille rose “Romance of the Western Chamber” plate. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with a scene from Xixiang Ji, the Romance of the Western Chamber.
A Chinese pair of famille rose plates decorated with children on a boat and dormouses. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, to the center with children on a boat. On the rim, branches of peonies with dormouses.
A Chinese plate decorated in the famille rose palette. Yongzheng period. Chenghua mark.
The center with a lobed panel containing flowering stems, within a yellow diaper surround edged with further lobed panels.
A Chinese blue & white plate decorated with Hsi Wang Mu. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in inderglazed blue, with the finely painted figure of Hsi Wang Mu, Queen Mother of the West, Royal Lady of the West, with a deer.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with goldfishes. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels with carps.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with a butterfly. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in famille rose enamels, with a butterfly and peonies.
A Chinese famille rose-verte plate painted with flowers and auspicious objects. Yongzheng period.
Richly enameled in the famille rose-verte palette, with a butterfly foraging pink and red peonies, green rocks ; the rim decorated with ribbon-tied auspicious objects.
A Chinese famille rose teapot with a moulded decoration. Yongzheng period.
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with deers, birds, cranes and cockerels and a moulded and applied decoration.
A famille rose teapot decorated with lady. Late Yongzheng period.
Well painted in the famille rose palette, with a lady gazing out from a palace window, holding a small dog in her left hand and a flower spray in her right hand, within a floral scroll en grisaille and gilding.