Tea-caddy. Provenance: China. Dating: Late Kangxi period (1662-1722) early Yongzheng period (1723-1735), c.1720-1730. Tea-caddy of square form with canted corners and a glazed base. Four flat feet at the corners. A flat shoulder and a short upright neck. Mounted with a unmarked silver neck and cover. Chinese Imari, decorated in underglaze blue, iron-red and gold.
Decorated with different flowering plants like; peony, aster, banana and cherry growing from pierced rockwork and a table with flower ...click for details
Salt. Provenance: China. Dating: Kangxi period (1662-1722). Salt of circular and square waisted form on a open base. The inside glazed, the lower square part tapering to the waist, the spreading top with a recessed centre, the rim extending downwards. Decorated in underglaze blue. The circular concave top moulded and decorated with a chain-pattern around a central flower-head, round the neck a border of lotus leaves and on the sides panels filled with flowering plants and leaves. Modelled after ...click for details
Stem cup. Provenance: China. Dating: Late 17th century, c.1680-1690 Stem cup on a high splayed foot with a broad, flat footring and a recessed glazed base. Wide cup with flaring rim. Decorated in underglaze blue. Decorated with peony flower heads and scrolls of leaves on the cup. Round the foot two concentric bands, the waist and rim each with one concentric band.
D.S. Howard states in his "The Choice of the Private Trader. The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from th ...click for details
Tea-caddy. Provenance: China. Dating: Late Kangxi period (1662-1722) early Yongzheng period (1723-1735), c.1720-1730. Tea-caddy of square form with canted corners and a glazed base. Four flat feet at the corners. A flat shoulder and a short upright neck. Mounted with a unmarked silver neck and cover. Chinese Imari, decorated in underglaze blue, iron-red and gold. Decorated with different flowering plants like; peony, aster, banana and cherry growing from pierced rockwork and a table with flower b ...click for details
Tea-caddy. Provenance: China. Dating: Late Kangxi period (1662-1722) early Yongzheng period (1723-1735), c.1720-1730. Tea-caddy of square form with canted corners and a glazed base. Four flat feet at the corners. A flat shoulder and a short upright neck. Mounted with a unmarked silver neck and cover. Chinese Imari, decorated in underglaze blue, iron-red and gold. Decorated with different flowering plants like; peony, aster, banana and cherry growing from pierced rockwork and a table with flower b ...click for details
Teapot. Provenance: China. Dating: Late Kangxi period (1662-1722) early Yongzheng period (1723-1735), c.1720-1730. Teapot of globular shape on a footring with a glazed base. Straight spout with a curved C-shaped handle. The inlaying flat cover with round knob. Chinese Imari, decorated in underglaze blue, iron-red and gold. On the body two panels filled with flowering plants growing from pierced rockwork. On each side of the panels a single flowering plant. On the spout and handle stylised clouds ...click for details
Dish. Provenance: China. Dating: Wanli period (1573-1620). Dish on a footring with a glazed base and a flattened rim, decorated in underglaze blue. According to M. Rinaldi in her book; Kraak porcelain. A moment in the history of trade, London 1989, p.96, this dish can be classified as a Border VII.3 dish. Borders in this group show a great variety in their decorative motifs. The most common bears the sunflower motif alternating with large and simply drawn symbols. Dishes with similar border were ...click for details
Baluster vase. Provenance: China. Dating: Kangxi period (1662-1722), c.1700. Baluster vase on footring with a glazed base. Decorated in underglaze blue. Florally decorated with, so-called, criss-cross hatching lines technique. The criss-cross hatching lines are not a Chinese way of painting on porcelain and may have been influenced by the Dutch. This technique was short-lived for it mostly occurs on blue-and-white export wares around 1700. It occurs on teacups and saucers, beakers and small jars ...click for details
Dish. Provenance: China. Dating: Kangxi period (1736-1795) - Yongzheng period (1723-1735), c.1710-1730. Dish on footring with a flattened rim. Imari decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze iron-red and gold. The rim in underglaze brown. The rim is decorated with rocks, zig-zag lines, flowers and leaves. The zig-zag lines represent a thunderbolt, seen on Delft faience of the first quarter of the 18th century and based on Japanese patterns. The cavetto is decorated with a band of srollwork and ...click for details
Saucer. Provenance: China. Dating: Qianlong period (1736-1795), c.1750. Saucer on footring, moulded form and spreading side with a foliated rim. Polychrome "famille rose" decorated in various overglaze enamels. In the centre a decoration of a flowering peony, round the centre ten moulded lotus-leaf shaped panels containing various, panel overlapping, flowering peony, chrysanthemum and prunus plants. The reverse is undecorated. Dimensions: Height: 18 mm (0.75 inch), Diameter: 115 mm (4. ...click for details
