saucer dish

A Chinese Imperial porcelain wucai saucer dish.  Six-character mark of Jiajing within a double ring in underglaze blue, Kangxi, 1662-1722. Courtesy Marchant painted in the centre with two iron-red carp, one leaping from the water and the other swimming beneath, all amongst lotus leaves, flowers, arrowhead, grasses and aquatic plants, encircled by an underglaze-blue double ring, the cavetto with four further carp and a mandarin fish amongst dense aquatic plants, flowerheads and grasses, beneath an underglaze-blue double line... [Lire la suite]

A famille verte enameled porcelain saucer dish. Kangxi Period. Photo Bonhams Its shallow, curving well displaying a young mother seated in a garden as she helps her baby boy to stand on a table while he grasps a miniature ruyi scepter in his hands, the reverse undecorated.; 7 1/4in (18.5cm) diameter. Estimate: US$3,500 - 4,000 Property from Various Owners A pair of famille verte export porcelain chargers. Kangxi Period. Photo Bonhams Each displaying a wide rim flange carved in shallow relief with a flower and leaf pattern,... [Lire la suite]

Six famille verte saucer dishes. Five with Chenghua six-character marks, one with a Yongzheng six-character mark, the porcelain probably 18th century. Photo Bonhams Delicately and brightly enamelled on each plain dish, five with a single green-robed lady variously punting a leaf raft, accompanied by a mythical phoenix, riding a cloud, accompanied by a deer, and greeting a small boy, the sixth dish with two elegant ladies watching two flying butterflies. 20.5cm (8 1/8in) diam. (6). Sold for £264,000 Bonhams.... [Lire la suite]

A blue and white saucer dish. Shunzhi, circa 1660. Photo Bonhams Brightly painted in a wet blue with a large central cartouche of three tree peony blooms, below a cloud-collar band. 35cm (13¾in) diam. Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000, HKD 25,000 - 38,000 Chinese & other Asian Works of Art, 9 May 2011, Knightsbridge www.bonhams.com

A fine pair of copper-red glazed saucer dishes. Qianlong Seal Marks and Period. Photo Sotheby's each well potted with rounded sides, applied overall with a rich strawberry-red glaze fired to an even glossy finish stopping neatly below the mouthrim and just above the footrim, leaving the base glazed white and inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze blue; 15.9 cm., 6 1/2 in. Estimate 150,000—200,000 HKD. Lot Sold 187,500 HKD Sotheby's. Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, 08 Apr 11, Hong Kong www.sothebys.com

A Chinese Ming Imperial porcelain yellow glazed saucer dish. Six character mark of Jiajing within a double ring and of the period, 1522-1566. Courtesy Marchantwith flared rim, covered over all in a rich and even egg yolk yellow glaze slightly pooling on the exterior of the foot rim, the base glazed white; 6 7/8 inches, 17.5cm diameter. Price on request • Formerly in a private English collection. • Two similar dishes given by Sir. A.W. Franks, OAF.42, are illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics in the... [Lire la suite]

A Chinese porcelain famille verte saucer dish. Kangxi, circa 1680. Courtesy Marchantwith gently flaring rim, painted with fishermen seated in a boat in a mountainous river landscape scene with rockwork, viewing pavilion and a pagoda in the distance beneath iron-red clouds, migrating birds and the moon. 8 ½ inches, 21.5cm diameter. Condition: Hair crack. Price on request. • Formerly in the collection of Professor D. R. Laurence. • Sold by R. & G. McPherson Antiques, 3rd November 2005. • A larger famille verte dish of... [Lire la suite]

A Chinese porcelain blue and white saucer dish. Kangxi, circa 1680. Courtesy Marchantwith gently flaring rim, painted with two large carp swimming amongst three shrimp and aquatic plants beneath a single line in underglaze blue, the underside with four aquatic plant sprays. The base with a lingzhi fungus mark within a double ring in underglaze blue, encircled by a wide channel foot rim. 13 ¾ inches, 35.2cm diameter. Condition: Rim crack and chips restored. Pricve on request. • Formerly in the collection of Professor D. R.... [Lire la suite]

An incised aubergine-glazed saucer dish. Yongzheng mark and period. photo Sotheby's. the shallow rounded sides rising from a short straight foot to an everted rim, finely incised around the exterior with the bajixiang and covered in a rich dark aubergine glaze, the base glazed white; 11.5cm., 4 1/2 in. Estimate 6,000—8,000 GBP. Lot Sold 13,750 GBP Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. 10 Nov 10. London www.sothebys.com

A fine Imperial yellow bowl. Zhengde mark and period. photo Sotheby's. the rounded sides rising from an inclined foot to a flared rim, covered overall with an even deep yellow glaze, the base with a transparent glaze of bluish tinge; 18.2cm, 7 1/8 in. Estimate 60,000—80,000 GBP. Lot Sold 79,250 GBP PROVENANCE; Collection of Thomas English Cody (1889-1948), the great nephew of 'Buffalo Bill' Cody. NOTE: A closely related example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is published in the Monochrome Ware of the Ming... [Lire la suite]