M4045

Pair of Chinese porcelain famille rose, fencai, square tapered vases and stands, painted on the facets with eight different scenes, comprised of a General in conversation with two dignitaries at a city wall, three ladies beside a table, a young couple with a child, and a lady and gentleman walking beside a fence, the other vase with two smiling men dancing, holding fans meeting a young figure with a sword tied to his back, a monk seated on a mat beside a lady and attendant, a scholar in landscape with attendant and boy and a couple on either side of a long table, all beneath the sloping shoulders, with pink flowerheads and leaves on a lemon yellow ground, beneath butterflies on the neck and a crenulated band on the flat square rim, the stands decorated with a turquoise and yellow enamelled ground with stylised flowers and a triangular iron-red diaper on the flat rim.

12 ⅞ inches, 32.8 cm total height.

Yongzheng, 1723-1735.

Pair of Chinese porcelain famille rose tobacco leaf tea pots and covers, brightly enamelled with the yellow, turquoise and pink enamel leaves together with underglaze blue leaves.

6 inches, 15.3 cm high, 7 ¾ inches/other 8 inches, 19.7 cm handle to spout.

Qianlong 1736-1795.

A pair of  Chinese export porcelain famille rose octagonal plates painted in the centre with a stag running away from two chasing white hounds with black markings, beside a large tree amongst bushes, within an iron red border of petals with gilt scroll edging, the everted rim with eight panels enclosing alternating branches of roses and other flowers with white enamel flowering and fruiting branches, divided by grisaille octagonal diaper, the undersides plain.

8 1/2 inches, 21.6 cm diameter.

Qianlong, 1736-1795.