Tea caddy. Provenance: China. Dating: Late Kangxi period (1662-1722) or early Yongzheng (1723-1735) c.1700-1730. Tea caddy of rectangular form with canted corners on a flat unglazed base. Imari decorated in iron-red, gold and underglaze blue. Fitted with a replaced mahogany cover. On all sides and the flat shoulders decorated with various flowering plants. Round the foot, shoulder and neck a meander pattern border. Dimensions: Height (including the cover): 114 mm (4.48 inch), Wide: 90 mm (3.54 i ...click for details
Saucer. Provenance: China. Dating: Qianlong period (1736-1795), c.1750. A marvellous saucer on footring with spreading sides and a spreading rim. Polychrome decorated in various overglaze enamels, iron-red and gold. Decorated in the centre with a roundel filled with a flower basket with hanging tassels. On the interior wall three scalloped cartouches with a flower spray. The central representation surrounded by iron-red flower scrolls on a gold ground. The reverse is undecorated. Dimensions: Hei ...click for details
Miniature teapot. Provenance: China. Dating: Late Kangxi period (1662-1722) early Yongzheng period (1723-1735). A small / miniature teapot with a domed cover on footring. Curved handle, straight spout and a glazed base. Decorated in underglaze-blue. Decorated with flowering aster growing from rockwork with flying insects. Dimensions: Height: 55 mm (2.17 inch), Diameter ear to spout: 79 mm (3.11 inch), Diameter of mouthrim: 28 mm (1.10 inch). Diameter of footring: 28 mm (1.10 inch). Condition: A ...click for details
Deep beaker. Provenance: China. Dating: Kangxi period (1662-1722), c.1700. Mark: Artemisia leaf mark, underglaze blue. Deep beaker, splayed foot, knopped domed base, a flat knob between the foot and the elongated upright body with a slightly spreading mouthrim. Decorated in underglaze blue 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 fo ...click for details
Large dish. Provenance: China. Dating: Qianlong period (1736-1795), c.1780. Large dish on footring with a glazed base and scalloped flat rim. Polychrome decorated in various overglaze enamels, iron-red and gold. Decorated with "German flowers". This decoration was closely copied by the Chinese porcelain painter from a Meissen or other factory example, round the rim a spear-head border. The reverse is undecorated. For a similar decorated basket with saucer see; "Chinese export porc ...click for details
Saucer. Provenance: China. Dating: Qianlong period (1736-1795), c.1750
A thinly potted saucer on footring with a spreading side and rim. Polychrome "famille rose" decorated in various overglaze enamels. An overall decoration of two dogs playing in a fenced garden under a flowering peony tree growing from rockwork. The reverse is undecorated.
Dimensions: Height: 19 mm (0.75 inch), Diameter: 108 mm (4.25 inch), Diameter of footring: 65 mm (2.56 inch). Condition A hairline, two frits an ...click for details
Teapot. Provenance: China. Dating: Kangxi period (1662-1722). Teapot with a domed cover and knob and a ribbed body and cover, straight spout and a C-shaped handle on a footring with a glazed base. Imari decorated in iron-red, gold and underglaze blue. On one side decorated with flowering chrysanthemum plants growing from pierced rockwork, on the reverse side flowering peony plants also growing from pierced rockwork. Round the neck and top of the cover a border with lotus shaped panels in relief ...click for details
Dish. Provenance: China. Dating: Wanli period (1573-1622), c.1615-1630. Small dish on footring with a glazed base an everted lip and foliated edge. Decorated in underglaze blue. According to M. Rinaldi in her book; Kraak porcelain. A moment in the 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
Dish. Provenance: China. Dating: Wanli period (1573-1622), c.1615-1630. Small dish on footring with a glazed base an everted lip and foliated edge. Decorated in underglaze blue. According to M. Rinaldi in her book; Kraak porcelain. A moment in the 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
Dish. Provenance: China. Dating: Late Kangxi period (1662-1722) or Yongzheng period (1723-1735), c.1725-1740. Large dish on footring with a flattened rim and a glazed base. Imari decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze iron-red and gold. In the centre a decoration of flowering lotus plants behind a fence. On the interior rim three sprays of flowering chrysanthemum. The reverse is undecorated. Dimensions: Height: 37 mm (1.46 inch), Diameter: 323 mm (12.72 inch), Diameter of footring: 180 mm (7 ...click for details
