R10017/8

A pair of Chinese porcelain famille rose two-handled ice buckets of fluted form with foliate rims, painted on each side with a tied bouquet of peony, camellia, chrysanthemum, rose and pink, amongst smaller flowers and foliage on a flower spray ground, the handles decorated with iron-red and gilt highly stylised dragons, the everted foot rim with iron-red, gilt and puce prunus flower heads, the foliate rim with original gilding.

5 7/8 inches, 15 cm high, 7 ½ inches, 19 cm handle to handle.

Qianlong 1736-1795.

A large pair of Chinese watercolours on paper, finely painted with figures approaching a temple and a man carrying two large baskets in a landscape scene with large trees, the other with a river scene, with a vessel with two figures pointing at a gentleman and child crossing a bridge, with a fisherman's' boat in mid stream, the river bordered by trees with houses and a figure at a window, framed and glazed.

Total measurement, 27 3/4 inches, 70.5 cm long by 23 3/8 inches, 59.5 cm high.

First half of the 19th Century.

Blue and white moulded leaf shape dish on three bracket feet painted in the reverse technique in the form of a single leaf with central spine from which everted striped lines emit, painted with stylised water drops beneath a serrated edge.

7 3/4 inches, 19.6 cm diameter.

Tianqi, 1621-1627.