R9573

A Chinese export armorial porcelain octagonal sauce tureen and cover with indented corners, with boars head handles surmounted with a bud form finial, the arms of Bouchier painted on each side between bianco sopra bianco different flower heads and famille rose flower heads on the facets, the cover with spear head border.
Qianlong circa 1760
7 1/8 inches, 18.2 cm handle to handle.

condition: Finial stem restored

• The arms are described by David S Howard in Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Vol. 1, no. p. 15.
• It’s amusing to note there appears to be an incised cross on the underside.

£2,850

A pair of Chinese porcelain famille rose octagonal plates each painted in the centre with a seated lady with high-piled hair and long flowing robes holding a fan in her left hand, looking down at two standing boys, one holding a book, a stool at her feet, a large vase behind her and a square table at her side with a bowl of finger citrons, a vase with coral branches, fern and lingzhi, beside tied books, all within a border of eight quatrefoil panels enclosing different flowering plants, all on a rich enamel pink ground, the undersides glazed white.
8 inches, 20.3 cm.
Yongzheng/early Qianlong circa 1730/40.

Condition: perfect.

£7,800

Pair of Chinese imperial porcelain bowls of almost conical form, each painted on the exterior in fencai, famille rose enamels with butterflies in flight amongst flowering daisy and camellia above grass, the interiors glazed white, the rims with traces of original gilding.
6 1/8 inches, 15.5 cm diameter.
The bases with six-character marks of Tongzhi in underglaze blue and of the period, 1862-1874.

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