A large Chinese famille verte – rose dish decorated with a « family scene ». Yongzheng
Decorated with an unusual mixed palette, with a central scene depicting a family. The father activates a grinding machine while his wife pours wheat from a sack onto a board. A bag is next to the machine to receive the flour under the watchful eyes of their son, symbol of family happiness. On the rim, a […]
A Chinese famille rose cover set as a gilt-bronze ink stand. Yongzheng period and XIXe century
The porcelain, a cover from a vase of the Yongzheng period (1723-1735), decorated in the famille rose with boys, the ink stand made by a receptacle placed to the center of the cover, the lid with a rich rococo bronze gilt, four acanthus-shaped feet.
An unrecorded Chinese armorial saucer for the French market. Yongzheng
Decorated with the coat of arms of the Fleuriot de La Saudrais, D’argent au chevron de gueules accompagné de trois quintefeuilles d’azur and Lasnier, D’azur à l’aigle éployée d’argent (ici d’or).
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.