Single-Owner Collections

A Chinese famille rose café-au-lait ground porcelain ginger jar, Qianlong period, of stout ovoid form, painted with four quatrelobed floral panels between eight foliate roundels, all reserved against a café-au-lait ground, height 22cm.

A Chinese famille rose export porcelain soup tureen base, Qianlong period, the exterior painted with a red capped crane and flowers within a fenced garden, flanked by a pair of moulded mask handles, length 35cm (one handle repaired and hairline crack to body), together with a Chinese export armorial porcelain oval soup tureen base, Qianlong period, each side painted and gilt with a coat of arms, length 32.5cm (chips to handles and star crack to base).

A pair of Chinese famille rose export porcelain soup plates, Yongzheng period, each centre painted and gilt with a pair of Buddhistic lions playing with a brocade ball above a gilt and iron red cub, framed by a turquoise, pink, iron red and gilt flower and diaper rim, diameter 21cm (one with small hairline to rim).

A pair of Chinese famille verte porcelain saucer dishes, Kangxi period, each centre painted with a flower basket within a trellis rim, divided by four flower vignettes, underglaze blue artemisia leaf mark and double ring to bases, diameter 21.5cm (minor rim chips/fritting).

A near pair of Chinese yellow ground porcelain ginger jars and covers, Qing dynasty, probably Kangxi period, each ovoid body and domed cover painted with a design of green lotus flowers and leafy scrolling tendrils, underglaze blue double ring to bases, height 28.5cm (one cover damaged and repaired).

A Chinese famille rose export porcelain jar and matched cover, Qianlong period, the baluster body with opposing leaf shaped panels, each filled with a deer and pine, flanked by smaller precious objects and landscape vignettes, all reserved against a pink ground filled with peonies and scrolling tendrils, the blue ground ruyi head and lappet collar filled with further peonies, unmarked, height 43cm.

A Chinese famille rose export porcelain jar, Qianlong period, the baluster body painted with opposing leaf shaped panels, each filled with deer, red capped crane and pine, flanked by smaller landscape or flower vignettes, all reserved against a pink ground filled with peonies and tendrils, beneath a blue ground ruyi head and lappet collar filled with flowers and scrolls, unmarked, height 35.5cm, with carved and pierced hardwood cover.

A Chinese famille rose export porcelain garniture of five vases, Qianlong period, comprising three baluster vases and domed covers and a pair of flared beaker vases, each piece finely enamelled with two cockerels, rocks, peonies and blossoming branches beneath a pink ground collar, heights ranging from 22.5cm to 29cm. Note: a similar garniture is illustrated by Williamson and Tuttle in 'The Book of Famille Rose', 1970, plate LIII.

A Chinese famille rose export porcelain bottle vase, Yongzheng period, the globular body enamelled with opposing cockerels perched upon a rock amidst peonies, the slightly flared neck with further peonies above a lappet collar, unmarked, height 24cm (chip to rim and crack to neck).

A pair of Chinese famille rose export porcelain plates, Yongzheng period, each enamelled with a cockerel pecking at the ground between peonies, rocks, fence, butterfly and other flowers, the rim filled with four peony sprays, diameter 23cm (one with hairline, the other with rim repair).

A set of three Chinese famille rose café-au-lait ground export porcelain plates, Qianlong period, each painted with foliate, scroll, leaf and butterfly shaped panels filled with flowers, diameter 22.5cm (hairlines).

A group of Chinese café-au-lait glazed porcelain teaware, Qianlong period, comprising a pair of fluted teabowls and saucers, height of teabowl 4.5cm, two globular teapots, each painted with opposing famille rose panels of birds and flowers, height 11.5cm and 12.3cm, five variously sized jars and two covers (some faults).

A Chinese famille rose export porcelain teapot and matched cover, of globular form with overhead loop handle and scroll spout, the body enamelled with opposing sprays of pink and blue peonies beneath a ruyi collar filled with scattered flowers, on pink cell and blue 'Y' diaper grounds, height 15.5cm (matched cover with repaired finial).

A Chinese famille rose export porcelain circular saucer, Yongzheng period, painted with two cockerels, peonies and rocks, diameter 12.5cm.

A set of eight Chinese famille rose export porcelain plates, Yongzheng period, each enamelled with a scroll shaped panel of two pheasants perched upon a willow tree amidst peonies, reserved against a ground of precious objects and bianco-sopra-bianco prunus and bamboo, diameter 22.5cm (minor rim chips and one with faint star crack to base).

A Chinese famille rose export porcelain wine cup and two saucers, Yongzheng period, each piece painted with a central flower basket panel and landscape vignettes against a gilt trellis ground, saucer diameter 10.5cm (both saucers with hairlines), together with a good collection of famille rose export porcelain wine cups, teabowls and saucers, Yongzheng period, variously painted with floral, figural and animal decoration (some faults).

A set of eighteen Chinese famille rose export porcelain octagonal plates, Yongzheng period, each painted with a cockerel and two chicks pecking about a blossoming branch, rocks and peonies, the rim filled with pink trellis panels and scattered flowers, width 21cm (some faults).

A near pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain ginger jars, Kangxi period, each stout ovoid body painted with opposing panels of precious objects, reserved against a prunus and cracked ice ground, underglaze blue double ring to base of one, heights 16.5cm.

A Chinese blue and white porcelain ginger jar, Kangxi period, of stout ovoid form, painted with three panels of precious objects, reserved against a prunus and cracked ice ground, underglaze blue double ring to base, height 18.5cm.