M4191

A Chinese porcelain famille verte plate painted in the centre with a boy holding a continuous branch of flowering peony in blue, aubergine and iron-red enamel, encircled by a floral band in the cavetto and a wide lappet floral band on the rim, the underside with four precious objects, pearl, lozenge, music stones and chime, all in green enamel, tied with an iron red ribbon, the base with a lozenge mark in underglaze blue in a double ring.

10 5/8 inches, 27 cm diameter.

Kangxi 1662-1722.

Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai, square form bowl with chamfered foliate corners, painted on each side with different scenes from the Romance of The Western Chamber; Zhang Sheng climbing the wall to visit Cui Yingying while her maid Hong Niang interrupts; Zhang Sheng seated at a table giving a letter to Hong Niang to deliver; the lovers meeting under the new moon and stars on a date arranged by Hong Niang who peeps through the window; and Zhang Sheng talking to Hong Niang with his male servant listening behind a screen decorated with a sun above waves, all between prunus and bamboo branches, the interior painted in the well with a scholar seated on a carpet between a stack of tied books and a wrapped qin, beneath a band of lotus flowerhead and butterfly reserved on a green diaper ground.

7 3/8 inches, 18.8 cm diameter.

The base with a vessel mark within a double ring in underglaze blue.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

Wood stand.

A pair of ‘Chinese-taste’ famille verte table-screens of rectangular form with chamfered corners, one side with a figure standing on a river bank within a mountainous river landscape scene containing buildings and pine trees, the reverse with books, vessels and a vase with flowers, one with a hanging lantern, the other with a standing bird on a perch, all surrounded by a raised border containing four panels of enclosed chrysanthemums on a diaper ground.

Kangxi, 1662-1722, circa 1690.

7 inches, 17.8cm high.

With wood stands.