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 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...
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...
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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
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 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 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...
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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 high shouldered cylindrical form finely painted and decorated with the inscription:...
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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...
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 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...
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...
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
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...
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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
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...
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
Modelled as a crouching lion with head raised and a trumpet-shaped aperture to the back, covered overall in an olive-green glaze....
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Boldly painted in underglaze blue, the flared sides decorated on the exterior with four finely delineated large fish swimming between exquisite sprays of lotus flowers and leaves above a basal collar...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of circular form, decorated in underglaze blue, painted on the central cavetto with a large pot decorated in various patterns, and filled with budding and blossoming chrysanthemum and a scroll,...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of circular form, decorated in underglaze blue with on the central cavetto a large pot decorated in various patterns, with protruding roots, and filled with budding and blossoming peony and...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of circular form, decorated in underglaze blue with in the centre ducks-in-a-pond motif, the birds finely painted with the their wings and feathers well-delineated, large branches of detailed lotus...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of shouldered baluster form, rising from a waisted foot to a short inverted neck, boldly painted in vibrant shades of underglaze blue; a rare continuous design around the centre of two fearsome Fo...
Porcelain & Ceramics
The mythical creature modeled four-square, the body painted in shades of underglaze blue with foliate scrolls and flames, the neck with a collar suspending a bell, a curled tail to the rear, the cover...
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
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...
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Of octagonal form, richly decorated in bright overglaze enamels highlighted with gilding, the centre with two finely enamelled pheasants, one, its wings outstretched, hovering above a lotus tree, the...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Of squat stem shape with slightly flaring foot, following a European metal form, the bowl painted with a broad band of peony blooms around the sand perforations, an incised blue line at the rim and on...
