A Chinese armorial plate for Giulio Visconti, Viceroy of Naples. Yongzheng period

Painted in the center with the magnificent arms of Visconti and Cusani, both of Milan, within a demi-ruyi-head border around the well and a cell diaper border around the cavetto, the rim with two sprays of fans and peonies and two sprays of iris and fungi, all alternating with four shaded rose hibiscus blossoms within […]

A very fine Chinese famille rose spittoon. Yongzheng

Of globular form, with a highly everted trumpet-shaped mouth and a curved strap handle, attached to a relatively small body set on a low foot. It is decorated in overglaze enamels of the famille rose palette with branches of flowers and a duck.

A Chinese armorial plate for the English market. Yongzheng

The arms are of Carr (and Kerr), Gules on a chevron argent three mullets of the fiels, impaling Bigge, Ermine on a fess engrailed between  three martlets sable – as many annulets or. The crest is of Carr, A stag’s head cooped proper.