1723

A Chinese porcelain famille rose square vase. Early Yongzheng, circa 1723. Courtesy Marchant decorated with tapering panels each with a different bird, including a bird of paradise, all perched amongst flowering branches of magnolia, peony, camellia, winter prunus, tree peony and prunus within a black enamel frame with chamfered corners, beneath faceted panels with stylized pink flowerheads on a yellow ground reserved on a pink flowerhead diaper ground and beneath grisaille landscape panels on the gently flaring neck, the... [Lire la suite]

A very rare Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723. photo Bonhams Painted in iron-red camaieu, probably by J.G. Höroldt, with chinoiserie figures flanked by bushes and flowers with insects and birds overhead, within concentric double-line borders, the well of the teabowl with a circular landscape scene after a Chinese original depicting a fisherman, the saucer: 12.7cm diam.; the teabowl: 4.5cm high, incised / inside footrim of teabowl and x to saucer (2) Sold for £24,000 Provenance: The Property of a Lady, Christie's... [Lire la suite]

A very rare Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723. photo Bonhams Painted in iron-red camaieu, probably by J.G. Höroldt, with chinoiserie figures flanked by bushes and flowers with insects and birds overhead, within concentric double-line borders, the well of the teabowl with a circular landscape scene after a Chinese original depicting a fisherman, the saucer: 12.7cm diam.; the teabowl: 4.5cm high, incised / inside footrim of teabowl and x to saucer (2) - Sold for £24,000 Provenance: The Property of a Lady, Christie's... [Lire la suite]