Chinese Export

A fine pair of Chinese export famille-rose enamelled goose tureens and covers, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period - Sotheby's  each naturalistically modelled as a seated goose with webbed feet tucked beneath the body, the head decorated in black and pink enamel with large alert eyes and an orangey-red beak, the long curved neck of the bird forming the handle to the cover, the wings neatly folded over the back of the body and the feathers brightly decorated in black, sepia, blue and... [Lire la suite]

Six Chinese export 'Sericulture'  paintings, 19th century - Sotheby's gouache on paper; part of a larger set, each portraying one step in the production of silk, from the gathering of mulberry leaves to feed the silkworms, to the spinning of silk and weaving of the fabric, framed and glazed. Height 16 1/4  in., 41.2 cm; width 21 1/4  in., 54 cm. Estimation: 20,000 - 30,000 USD Note: The scenes of silk cultivation depicted on these paintings are based on an earlier set of twenty-three... [Lire la suite]

An important Chinese export coffee pot with Prussian coat of arms. China, around 1800 (Qing-dynasty 1644-1911). Photo Auktionshaus Stahl Porcelain with polychrome painting and gold decoration. Conical body ('lighthouse-shape') with naturalistic branch handles.The cover knob in the shape of a lychee fruit. At both sides of the wall rich decoration with large official Prussian coat of arms. The cover with 2 Prussian eagles. The rims of the spout, body and cover with gilt border. H. 24,5 cm. Estimation... [Lire la suite]

A Rare Chinese Export 'Order of the Cincinnati' Plate. Circa 1785. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2013 A hovering angel blowing her trumpet suspends the badge of the Order of the Cincinnati, within a molded scalloped rim; 9½ in. (24 cm.) diameter. Estimate $25,000 - $40,000 Provenance: With Elinor Gordon, Villanova, Pennsylvania.The Dietrich American Foundation; Christie's, Park Avenue, 21 January 1998, lot 269. Notes: From the famed service purchased by Colonel 'Light-Horse Harry' Lee for George... [Lire la suite]

A Large Pair of Chinese Export Famille Rose Jars and Covers, Qianlong Period. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2013 Each finely enameled with two roundels and two leaf-shaped panels of court beauties at leisure on a ground of blue vine growing large blooms, an elaborate lappet collar on the shoulders and the neck with grisaille landscape reserved on a pink diaper band, the covers with vignettes of small boys reserved on a matching ground, colorful Buddhist lion knops. 33 inches (84 cm) high (4). Estimate $30,000 -... [Lire la suite]

A rare Chinese Export 'VOC' armorial plate, circa 1730. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2012 With a very large coat-of-arms of the Dutch East India Company in early famille rose enamels above the V.O.C monogram, all within the inscription CONCORDIA RES PARVA CRESCUNT.1728 (sic); 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter. Estimate $20,000 - $30,000 Notes: From a tea service undoubtedly made for officials of the Dutch East India Co., its design likely based on a silver ducatoon issued in 1728 and in circulation at... [Lire la suite]

Three Chinese Export armorial dishes, circa 1720 and 1740. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2012 A plate with the arms of Pitt with Ridgeway in pretence and a pair of chargers with the arms of Vernon impaling Purnell within an unusual iron-red, black and gilt border; 11 3/8 in. (28.7 cm.) diameter, the chargers; 8¾ in. (22.3 cm.) diameter, the plate (3). Estimate $5,000 - $7,000 Notes: Thomas Pitt, son of the Governor of Fort St George, married in 1717 Lady Frances Ridgeway, daughter and co-heir of the Earl of... [Lire la suite]

A Chinese Export armorial coffee pot and cover, circa 1740. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2012 The arms of Cranmer impaling Bromfield, 9½ in (24 cm.) high (2). Estimate $3,000 - $5,000 Christie's. English Pottery and Chinese Export Art, 28 January 201, New York, Rockefeller Plaza.

A Chinese Export armorial soup tureen, cover and stand; mid 18th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2012 With the arms of Brent of Oxfordshire; 14¼ in. (36 cm.) wide, the stand (3). Estimate $4,000 - $6,000 Christie's. English Pottery and Chinese Export Art, 28 January 201, New York, Rockefeller Plaza.

A pair of Chinese Export armorial soup plates, circa 1735. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2012 With the arms, marshaled with 21 coats, of Sandilands Lord Torphichen quarterly impaling Hume Earl of Marchmont, Pepdie, Polwarth and St. Clair, all between two mottos, the Sandilands crest shown twice on the rim between finely drawn flowering boughs in blue enamel, grisaille and gilt; 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) diameter (2). Estimate $5,000 - $8,000 Notes: See D.S. Howard, op. cit., vol. I, p. 308 for a description of... [Lire la suite]