Porcelain & Ceramics
Chinese famille rose fluted barber's bowl, Qianlong (1736-95), decorated with peony and lotus sprays with insects, diameter: 12 11/16in., 32.2cm; condition: heavy fritting and short firing crack to...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Chinese famille rose ginger jar and cover, Qianlong (1736-95), decorated with branches of flowering peony, chrysanthemum and cherry blossom, height: 9 7/8in., 25.2cm; condition: cover broken into a...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Chinese blue and white plate, Kangxi (1662-1722), with foliate rim, decorated to the central roundel with two warriors on horseback engaged in combat within a cliffy landscape, with an overhanging...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Pair of Chinese octagonal famille rose plates, Qianlong (1736-95), decorated to the centre with a leaf-shaped cartouche containing a scroll with gnarled branches, peony, prunus and a perching bird,...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Pair of Chinese famille verte plates, Kangxi (1662-1722), c.1720, decorated to the central roundel with a small landscape scene with a hut, surrounded by a geometric floral band with three floral...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of oval shape, with raised moulded lotus petal shaped decoration around the base, large shell shaped handles at each end, and a domed cover finished with a finial in the shape of a mythological beast;...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of circular form with foliate rim and moulded sides, decorated in bright famille verte enamels and overglaze blue, a large flower basket with arch handle and ribbon to the centre filled with various...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of octagonal section and unusually large size, the lower part with four finely painted panels, one with a figure in opera costume, his attendant carrying a qin, beside a pavillion framed by trees and...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of triple gourd form decorated in vibrant shades of underglaze blue, raised on a short straight foot, the slender cylindrical neck rising to everted, trumpet-shaped mouth rim; the lower gourd...
Porcelain & Ceramics
The hexagonal body with three interior compartments, moulded to each end with a mask head, the body decorated blooming flowers within petal-like borders, the cover decorated similarly, featuring also...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of spirally fluting baluster form, the moulded body decorated in underglaze blue and famille verte enamels vibrantly painted with many blossoms including lotus, chrysanthemum, prunus and others amidst...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of elegant globular form, raised on a short slightly everted foot, the slender neck rising to a flared rim, with a raised collar around the centre of the neck; painted in bright shades of underglaze...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of triple gourd form decorated in vibrant shades of underglaze blue, raised on a short straight foot, the slender cylindrical neck rising to everted, trumpet-shaped mouth rim; the lower gourd...
Porcelain & Ceramics
The lid embossed and painted with a trophy of the chase, showing a powder flask, hunting horn, dead hare and a bandoliere inscribed: 'A la chasse amoureuse', the base with flower sprays reserved on a...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of round form with foliate rim, decorated in shades of underglaze blue, the well painted in sprays of chrysanthemum, lotus, prunus and peony, set within a border of eight lotus petal panels, each...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of barrel shape with a moulded, rounded and slightly everted short foot, decorated on the body with four large gently moulded cartouches painted with scenes of flowering and budding branches issuing...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Circular, of European silver form with scalloped edges, the interior of the bowl of the salt moulded with spiral panels each containing a flower, alternating between two types of flowers, each on a...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of round shape, deep bowl and foliate edge, finely painted in vibrant blue, the centre decorated with a bird perched on stylised rockwork another bird hovering above and a butterfly in flight, issuing...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Modelled in the shape of a carp leaping from lively cresting waves, two further small fish swimming alongside, set with a slender loop handle and spout, expressively glazed on the biscuit in splashes...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of round form and deep bowl with a flattened foliate rim, painted in shades of underglaze blue, the central medallion decorated with auspicious objects including a double gourd and ruyi-heads, all...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of square form with chamfered corners, painted around the exterior with a continuous scene of two European gentlemen, one seated on a rock underneath a tree, dressed in pink short robes, green knee...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of square section with tapering sides with a flat base and a short, flared neck, each of the four corners with decorative flanges reaching midway down the sides from the squared shoulder, enameled in...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of square form with chamfered corners, a double scrolling foliate border painted in black on light green on the inside rim, and an octagonal panel decorated with European gentlemen in a woodland...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of round form decorated in famille rose enamels with a large central roundel depicting a scene set in a mountainous and rocky landscape with two scholars dressed in long robes conversing at a table...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Set in a wood-framed and metal-clasped box with four large rectangular panels on the long sides, the interior and the top of the cover and two square panels on the narrow sides, the panels decorated...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of round form decorated in famille rose enamels with a large central roundel depicting a scene set in a rocky landscape of Shoulao holding his emblem, the peach, in his hand and carrying a ruyi-stick...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Brightly painted in the centre with a cockerel and chicken mating near a surprised Chinese maiden in a walled garden amongst flowering tree‑peony, the border decorated with peach, pomegranate and...
Porcelain & Ceramics
With lotus petal shaped rim, painted in the center with a medallion enclosing a large feathery lotus bloom surrounded by smaller flowerheads, all in shades of pink, brown, green, blue and white...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of oval form, with c-shaped handle, straight spout and low domed cover finished with a bud finial, the body boldly painted in shades of overglaze blue with large well-drawn flowering branches,...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of circular form with foliate rim, decorated in underglaze blue, the centre with two deer in a wooded landscape standing in the shade of an old pine tree with gnarled trunk, surrounded by stylised...
