R9922

Chinese porcelain famille verte bottle vase with tall cylindrical neck and lipped rim, painted on the body with eight lappets, enclosing open-winged butterflies amongst prunus, peony, lotus, pinks, chrysanthemum and aster on a seed-green ground and four with large chrysanthemum flower heads which suspend different stylised lanterns enclosing a horse, bird and prunus, a sage and a bird and magnolia, all on geometric iron-red cross-hatch grounds, between further pendants of precious objects and lotus bud branches, the shoulder with bands of ruyi, keyfret, diaper and lotus petals, the neck with branches of lotus flowers beneath pendant tassels and jewels and a keyfret band at the rim, the base glazed white.

16 ½ inches, 41.9 cm high.

Kangxi, circa 1690.

Wood stand.

A Chinese porcelain famille verte large plate painted in bright enamels and iron red, the centre with a standing deer in a landscape garden scene beside a pine tree, a flying crane looking down, all beneath a gilt sun, encircled by a decorative diaper border divided by four floral panels, further encircled by six flying cranes on the flat everted rim, encircled by a further continuous iron red cell band with a gilt edge, the underside with two floral sprays in iron-red.

24.4cm diameter, 3cm depth.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

Chinese famille verte, sancai, biscuit porcelain joss-stick holder, modelled as the laughing twins, He He Erxian, one standing wearing a green glazed robe holding a lotus flower left in the biscuit, the other kneeling and wearing aubergine robes holding a box, the cover left in the biscuit, all on an hexagonal raised rectangular base moulded on the front with a relief lotus flower on a cash ground between two moulded Chinese characters in relief in yellow glaze, He and He, the base unglazed.

3 ¾ inches, 9.5 cm high.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.