Famille Verte

Chinese imperial porcelain famille verte birthday dish, pan, with flat everted lipped rim, painted in the centre with Lady Magu standing holding a scroll looking back at her attendant with a large peach, beside a tethered mythical deer drawing a wheeled square jardinière supporting a fruiting lingzhi group, encircled by twenty iron-red flowerheads on a hexagonal diaper ground between four-character medallions, wan shou wu jiang, “endless longevity”.

Chinese imperial porcelain famille verte month cup, hua shen bei, thinly potted with gently flared rim on a short foot, painted with orchids amongst long green leaves growing from rockwork with branches and grass, the reverse with a ten-character couplet and square seal in underglaze blue.

A large and impressive Chinese porcelain famille rose-verte charger, painted with a scene from the “Dream of the Red Chamber” with Lin Daiyu being introduced to her new tutor Jia Yucun by her father Lin Ruhai, within an elaborately decorated pavilion with draped curtains and tables with various ornaments and flowers, the foreground set with pierced garden rocks and flowering shrubs all beneath a prunus tree amongst iron-red, gilt, yellow and blue clouds, all within a gilt and iron-iron floral and diaper border amongst four leaf-shaped panels depicting elegant reclining ladies, the underside glazed white.

A Chinese porcelain famille verte ewer and cover, decorated on either side with a descending dragon grasping the flaming pearl above a band of waves and rockwork, the tall, slender neck flanked by a handle and spout decorated with two confronting dragons which meet at the join, the mouth and foot decorated with scrolling bands, the cover with flames surmounted by a finial with an iron-red flower, the base glazed white.

A Chinese porcelain famille verte large saucer dish decorated with a scene from The Generals of the Yang Family, depicting Mu Guiying accepting the role of commander offered to her by her grandmother-in-law She Taijun, with Wang Qiang looking over in disapproval, all set in a pavilion scene amongst rock work and trees, the border of alternating floral and diaper ground amongst medallions of auspicious objects, the base glazed white.

Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai, sleeve vase, painted with boys amongst scrolling leaves and flowers, divided with an underglaze blue ground.

A Chinese porcelain wucai baluster vase and cover, painted with seven standing ladies in a fenced garden scene, three playing musical instruments including; drums, music stone and cymbals, with a central dancing lady, her hands beneath her long sleeves, whilst three other ladies look on, all amongst rock work, a large banana plant, pine, flowers and foliage, beneath a crackled ice band at the shoulder, the neck with iron-red, camellia and rose flower sprays; the cover with two boys playing amongst rock work and plants, the unglazed base with Chinese ink characters, and two further characters on the inside of the cover.

Chinese famille verte large biscuit porcelain seated figure of an empress, wearing elaborately decorated robes with shou characters amongst flowering lotus on scrolling branches of leaves, each character supported as a bloom on an even, bright yellow glaze, her hands clasped under a ceremonial cloth with a central phoenix bird representing the empress and supporting a fruiting peach group with leaves, her moulded neck collar in relief with aubergine leaves and her elaborate head dress with high relief birds.

A Chinese famille verte, sancai biscuit model of a reclining figure of Li Bai leaning on his wine jar, his yellow dappled robes covering his hands under his sleeves and chin with his crossed over legs revealing his green dappled pantaloons, the wine jar also covered in a green glaze with dark glaze to his beard, hair, eyes, eyebrows and shoes, the unglazed flat base revealing the biscuit body.

Chinese porcelain famille verte biscuit teapot and cover in the form of bamboo branches in yellow, aubergine, lime green and sea green with birds and branches including camellia, aster, prunus, bamboo, lingzhi and fruit, between naturalistic bamboo handle and spout, the yellow ground flower-shape drop-in cover with bamboo knop and bamboo sprays.

A very rare pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte bottle vases, decorated over the entire surface with five blue chilong dragons, four on the body and one in high relief on a seed-green ground, with prunus flower heads in iron red, yellow, aubergine and green, the foot with a scroll band.

"May Your Happiness Reach Up To The Tips of Your Eyebrows"

Pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain scroll-weights, zhizhen, each in the form of a standing phoenix bird beside an aubergine rockwork grotto and a high-relief flowering plant unglazed in the biscuit with an elaborate green leaf, the birds with detailed relief hairwork to their necks and inside feather work to their wings, all on a green and clear-glazed ground on the rectangular base, the underside revealing muslin marks from the firing.

Pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain joss-stick holders, modelled as seated smiling boys, each with their left knee slightly raised and holding the joss-stick holder in their left hand, one wearing a yellow jacket and green pantaloons, the other wearing a green jacket and yellow pantaloons, the faces covered in a clear glaze, their hairwork heightened in deep aubergine.

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.

Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain joss-stick holder or water-dropper in the form of a standing boy holding a lingzhi branch to his right shoulder dressed in a green jacket and yellow skirt, his hair heightened in aubergine with clear glaze head, chest, arms and feet, all on a raised biscuit lotus-form stand.

Chinese famille verte, sancai, biscuit porcelain joss-stick holder modelled in the form of Budai seated beside a child holding a necklace above his raised right knee, their faces and his protruding stomach covered in a clear glaze all on a rug form base, the underside unglazed.

Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain brush rest, bige, modelled as a curved five peak mountain moulded on the front with a fish rising among waves, the reverse with a qilin amongst plants, ingot and a coin, all on a green ground with aubergine and yellow glaze, the edge highlighted in yellow, the unglazed biscuit base slightly concave.