A Chinese famille rose plate “Sanniang teaches her son”. Yongzheng / Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette, depicting three Chinese ladies and two boys (one holding a scroll), in a cultured and luxurious lifestyle.
A rare, very fine and massive shell-shaped “dragon” ewer and basin. Yongzheng
Following a silver form, probably painted with a unique decoration, the ewer with a hight scroll painted with irregular grisaille spots on a light blue ground, the sides painted predominantly in rouge-de-fer and gilding with blue, yellow and grisaille, with a large dragon amid clouds, below a border of pendent stiff leaves and above a […]
A very fine famille rose “Madame de Pompadour” sugar pot. Yongzheng / Qianlong
Enameled with two eagles and two fish within feathery foliage below lotus seed pods, lychee, peony and other fruiting and flowering stems.
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 diaper at the well with four cartouches comprising buddhist attributs; on the rim 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 Chinese famille rose / noire tea bowl and saucer. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose / noire palette, with cartouches of peonies.
A famille rose “Chinese figures” tureen for Philibert Orry, contrôleur général des finances. Yongzheng
The terrine oval shaped and decorated in the famille rose palette, with wading birds on the body, handles in the shape of Chinese figures, fruit terraces on the cover, and the lid in the shape of an artichoke .
A very large Chinese famille rose and “encre-de-chine” charger. Yongzheng/Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette and grisaille (encre-de-chine), a Chinese landscape to the center, including a pagoda, the rim with an unusual border having reserves of landscapes in grisaille.
A famille rose “brocade ball” teapot. Yongheng
Each side of the teapot is molded with two convex reticulated and gilt roundels encircled by petal lappets on a diaper ground, and the whole is flanked by two Buddhist lions which form the handle and the spout. The cover bears a cockerel-form finial.
A massive Chinese famille rose goldfishes charger. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette with goldfishes painted in red, pink or grey amongst seaweed ; the border with grapevine.