Kangxi-Yongzheng period

A Chinese porcelain large armorial dish. Kangxi-Yongzheng, Circa 1720-30. Photo Marchant painted in the centre with the arms of Thomas Pitt of Blandford, Baron Londonderry, with those of his wife Lady Frances Ridgeway in pretence above a banderol inscribed with the motto AMITIE, the rim with the stork crest beneath a baron`s coronet between fronds, within four oval panels alternating with gold and iron-red floral sprays, the underside with lingzhi mark within a double circle in underglaze-blue. 13 5/8 inches, 34.6cm... [Lire la suite]

A good doucai porcelain bowl with prunus blossoms. Underglaze blue Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi-Yongzheng period. photo Nagel Auctions Property from a South German private collection purchased in 1982, from the German Asian Art dealer Anne Roselt, Cologne Exhibited and published: Exhibition Catalogue of Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hongkong: Ching Polychrome Porcelain, 5.2-6.3, 1977, Cat.no. 49 The theme of blossoms floating on water can be seen on a bowl in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo taoci... [Lire la suite]