A very fine Chinese famille rose « cockerel » teapot. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with the classic image of a cockerel amongst rockwork and flowering branches of peony and carnation flowers. Diapered borders on the neck and the cover.
A Chinese famille rose figural cup. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette, with an elegant lady with a fan seated a fine table with what appears to be an unfurled scroll that she has been contemplating, her attention diverted by what we assume to be her small son who is carrying a ruyi scepter, his presence dwarfed by being sandwiched between […]
A rare and fine Dutch-decorated mythological saucer dish. Yongzheng / Qianlong
A Chinese porcelain dish, with a glaze porcelain carved with scrolling foliage, and decorated in Holland after the engraving of Bernard Picard (1673-1732) for Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1732) and depicting Demeter (Ceres) relinquishing her dragons to Triptolemus.
A Chinese black-ground tea bowl. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette with cartouches of peonies on the black ground.
A Chinese famille rose plate decorated with goldfishes. Yongzheng
Decorated in the famille rose palette with goldfishes painted in red, pink or grey amongst seaweed ; the border with fers-de-lance.
A Chinese famille rose wall vase. Yongzheng / Qianlong
Decorated in the famille rose palette and modelled as a pique-fleurs with scalloped sides, the wavy rim decorated with lappet-shaped whorl-pattern borders enriched with peonies above two similar horizontal bands, the inner rim and back pierced with apertures.
A Chinese famille rose coffee pot. Yongzheng
Of pear shape with long curving spout and hight curved handle, the body and cover with applied moulded lotus stems and leaves, and painted with cockerels among peonies in riche famille rose enamels.
A chinese tea bowl and saucer. Yongzheng
Of polylobed form, and decorated with a boy herding three goats next to a prunus.
Exceptional part tea set decorated with Kronborg Castle for the Danish market. Yongzheng
A topographical Chinese export porcelain teapot and cup and saucer depicting numerous Danish merchant ships moored offshore Kronborg Castle in Denmark—a scene copied directly from an engraving by Johann August Corvinus from a series of six prints published c. 1718 titled “Vorstellung Der Remarqabelsten Prospecten in Denemarken,” depicting six of the most remarkable scenes in […]
A Chinese famille rose domed cover decorated with flowers. Yongzheng / Qianlong period
Bell-shaped domed cover with a small rim and mushroom-shaped finial on top. The decoration painted in famille rose enamels and gilding, with several different diapers and treillis patterned bands on the outside, the central design prunus and peonies.