M4331

A fine and rare pair of Chinese export porcelain famille rose groups of lovers, each depicting a kneeling gentleman wearing a chilong dragon-medallion robe holding a conical square cup and smiling at a lady standing at his side with her arm over his shoulder, each figure with detailed head dress, the lady with elaborate striped robes and ruyi head yellow-ground shawl.

8 1/2 inches, 21cm long.

Qianlong, 1736-1795.

Pair of famille rose large dishes, each brightly enamelled with a central scene of two horses gambolling, one a piebald in iron-red with gilt and white enamel speckles and one in pink and ruby enamel, beneath a large willow tree amongst rockwork, lingzhi fungus and flowers, encircled in the cavetto by cash and lozenge reserves on green and pink-diaper grounds with gilt flower heads, the flat everted rim with four flower sprays of peony, prunus, daisy, chrysanthemum and bamboo beneath an iron-red scroll band at the rim.

14 inches, 35.6 cm diameter.

Early Qianlong, circa 1740.

A Chinese porcelain famille verte dish with flat everted rim and foliate edge, painted in the centre with a qilin looking up at a phoenix bird in flight, amongst flowering peony with pine tree, lingzhi and rockwork, beneath clouds and the moon, encircled by a shaped wide band divided into eight panels, painted with fabulous creatures including, speckled feline, Buddhist lion, qilin and phoenix, deer and crane, between chrysanthemum, lotus, peony and camellia, the rim with butterfly reserves on a flower head diaper ground.

14 ½ inches, 36.8 cm diameter.

The underside with artemisia leaf within a double ring, Kangxi, 1662-1722.