Anita Gray deals in Asian and European porcelain and works of art. We have been established in Davies Street, London, for over 45 years.
Our speciality is Chinese porcelain and works of art from the 16th to the 18th century. Focussing on items made for the Imperial court, the Chinese domestic market and export markets.
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of round form, thinly and finely potted with an everted and barbed rim, the steep walls decorated in bright underglaze blue with eight panels of auspicious symbols, including the rare addition of an...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Based on Meissen originals (1735-1740), modelled as scalloped shells on three short scroll feet, with a gilt line to the rim, finely painted in the centres with elaborate armorials of the Swedish...
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Of square section, the four straight sides rising to domed shoulders, set with a short and narrow cylindrical ridged neck, decorated in shades of underglaze blue, each side painted with a fantastical...
Porcelain & Ceramics
The bulbous sides painted with a dignitary and attendants within a rectangular panel, the reverse with a second panel depicting a boat on a river before mountains and trees, the neck with Buddhist...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of round form, thinly and finely potted with an everted and barbed rim, the steep walls decorated in bright underglaze blue with six panels, three filled with precious symbols including books and a...
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...
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 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 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
Richly decorated in bright overglaze enamels highlighted with gilding, the centre with two pheasants perched upon flowering branches, the border with four cartouches containing insects and foliage...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of circular section and unusual ribbed form, decorated in famille verte enamels and formed in ridged registers of 'bamboo cane' ribs, the lowest with a band of lotus scroll beneath a band of diaper...
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
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
With bulbous bodies, pinched spout and rounded handle, painted in bright 'famille rose' enamels with two large shaped cartouches, one with a figurative scene set in a watery landscape of a group of...
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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...
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Of squat baluster form with slightly everted rim, decorated with an elaborate cartouche inscribed "Straasburg", the cartouche with floral decorations dotted and diaper patterning, the base with the...
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Of high shouldered cylindrical form finely painted and decorated with the inscription:...
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Of baluster form, painted with a large intricate cartouche, surmounted by an urn of flowers, the word Duinkerker, inscribed across, the base with the maker's mark B:L (possibly P and L conjointed)....
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Of stout, globular form, with a concave neck and mammiform spout; the decoration in imitation of Chinese export Kraak style, painted in underglaze cobalt blue, with outlines and fine details picked...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of baluster form tapering to the foot and with a short rolled neck, painted in shades of blue and outlined in black in the Chinese-style with large scaly and winged dragons of fearsome miens...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of double gourd form with "C" shaped handle and slender "S" shaped spout, boldly painted round the body with chrysanthemum and peony sprays in underglaze blue and enamels in the classic Imari palette...
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Of round form, shallow bowl and foliate edges to the flattened rim, painted in the Chinese kraak-style with a central roundel decorated with a scholar seated on a round mat next to the water, stylised...
Porcelain & Ceramics
The bodies of pear shape rising to tall slender necks, both moulded to each side with a kidney-shaped recessed panel modelled in high relief with a hen and a cockerel and the reverse with a rose in...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of pear shape with a ribbed body, short tubular neck, c-shaped handle and curved spout, painted in underglaze blue and shades of overglaze iron-red and gilding with on the body large flowers and tall...
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Heavily potted with a shallow bowl and everted rim, finely painted in underglaze blue, shades of overglaze green, iron-red, yellow, aubergine and gilding, with a decoration to the centre of the bowl...
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The decagonal lobed teapot and cover decorated in iron-red, blue, green, yellow and black enamels with a blue bird with outstretched wings perched in a branch amidst flowers and foliage, beneath a...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of shallow rounded form with a brown-edged rim, brightly enameled in blue, turquoise and red enamels and gilt, with the 'Kakiemon' pattern of two birds, one flying and one perched, surrounded by pine,...
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
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...
