Dish. Provenance: China. Dating: Wanli period (1573-1620) c.1615-1630. Small dish on a footring with a glazed base an everted lip and a foliated edge, decorated in underglaze blue. According to M. Rinaldi in her book; Kraak porcelain. A moment in history of trade, London 1989, p.109, this dish can be classified as a border VIII dish. In Border VIII dishes rims are always straight with a slightly flared and foliated edge. The panels on the gently curved cavetto are transformed into round or drop ...click for details
Teacup and saucer. Provenance: China. Dating: Qianlong period (1736-1795), c.1750. A thinly potted teacup and saucer on footring and with a spreading side and rim. Polychrome decorated in "bianco sopra bianco" and other overglaze enamel colours, iron-red and black. Bianco sopra bianco, (Italian: "white on white"), is a technique of porcelain decoration using white glaze in floral or scroll designs on a near white, pale gray or blue ground. (source; Britannica Company). On the ...click for details
Object 2010675
Tea Caddy
Provenance: China
Dating: Late Yongzheng period (1723-1735) - early Qianlong period (1736-1795), c.1730-1740
A tea caddy of ovoid form with a domed lid, a pointed knob, on a footring with a glazed base. Polychrome decorated in famille rose with various other enamels and iron-red.
Round the middle a trellis pattern border and round the neck a continuous decoration of pomegranates with flowerings branches and leaves. The cover is decorated with a flo ...click for details
Bowl. Provenance: China. The Diana Cargo sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 6-7 March 1995. Dating: Jiaqing period (1796-1820), 1817. Mark: A seal mark on the base, underglaze blue. Bowl with steep rounded sides and slightly flaring rim, decorated in underglaze blue. The exterior wall is decorated with writhing young dragons, "chilong" and flames. This bowl has the original "Christie's Diana Cargo March 1995" sale label and lot number 1026/36 as proof of provenance. It is on ...click for details
Saucer. Provenance: China. Dating: Qianlong period (1736-1795). Saucer on footring with a glazed base and a straight rim. Imari decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze iron-red and gold. Overall decorated, in the foreground a fenced pond with two swimming fish near a flowering lotus plant. Behind the fence flowering chrysanthemum and peony plants and in the background mountains and a pagoda, On the exterior wall two sprays of flowering branches. Dimensions: Height: 18 mm (0.71 inch), Diameter ...click for details
Klapmuts (Bowl). Provenance: China. Dating: Wanli period (1573-1620). Klapmuts (Bowl) on a footring with a glazed base a flattened rim and foliated edge, decorated in underglaze blue.
According to M. Rinaldi in her book; Kraak porcelain. A moment in history of trade, London 1989, p.129, this Klapmuts can be classified as a group V klapmuts. In these klapmutsen the rim is divided into four large and four narrow panels in the most typical Kraak style The four large and slightly triangular panel ...click for details
Small cup. Provenance: China. Vung Tau Cargo sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 7 and 8 April 1992.
Dating: Kangxi period (1662-1722), 1690. A Fujian, blanc de Chine, small (tea)cup on a low footring with spreading sides and a flaring rim. Undecorated. The cup has the original Christie's "Vung Tau Cargo" sale lot label showing it has been one of 48 small cups sold in lot 509. On the inner wall the remains of the 2nd auction label that also had the lot number 509 and quantity number ...click for details
Saucer. Provenance: China. Dating: Qianlong period (1736-1795). Saucer on footring with a glazed base and a straight rim. Imari decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze iron-red and gold. Overall decorated with a pagoda and two running horses behind a fence with rocks and flowering plants. The reverse is undecorated. Dimensions: Height: 19 mm (0.75 inch), Diameter: 110 mm (4.33 inch), Diameter of footring: 59 mm (2.32 inch). Condition: A firing flaw to the exterior wall, two short hairlines wi ...click for details
Beaker vase. Provenance: China. Dating: Qianlong period (1736-1795). A beaker vase on a footring with a glazed base of waisted cylindrical shape. With a flaring rim and a spreading lower part. Imari decorated in underglaze blue, iron-red and gold. Decorated with a flowering chrysanthemum plant growing from pierced rockwork with two pheasants one on the ground and one on top of the pierced rockwork. This beaker vase was once part of a garniture which mostly consisted of three covered oviform-shap ...click for details
Saucer. Provenance: China. The Nanking Cargo sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 28 April - 2 May 1986. Dating: Qianlong (1736-1795), 1751. This saucer on a footring with a straight rim was part of the The Nanking Cargo auction held by Christie's in Amsterdam in 1986. Decorated in underglaze blue with the "Blue Pine" pattern, small size. The saucer has the original Christie's The Nanking Cargo sale label showing this saucer has to been part of lot 5580. It is one saucer of 24 sim ...click for details
