M4310

Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai teapot and cover, the body of lobed baluster form on three low feet, the C-shaped handle and the curved spout have flat sides, the low-domed lobed cover with floral knop, painted in green and yellow enamels and iron-red with two wide panels, one enclosing two ducks swimming amongst lotus, the other with pheasant on rockwork amongst peony blooms, two other smaller panels either side of the spout and handle containing different flowering plants emerging from rockwork.

10.8 cm, 4 1/4 inches high; 14.6 cm, 5 3/4 inches wide handle to spout.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

A Chinese famille jeune biscuit porcelain figure of the immortal Dongfang Shuo holding a fruiting peach branch in his right hand, his hair in two knots on either side of his head and with a long beard, wearing long yellow robes decorated all over in flowering blossom sprays, standing on a green rectangular base.

28.3cm high.

Kangxi, 1662-1722. 

Wood stand.

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.