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MARCHANT

Specialist in Antique Asian Art

Famille Verte & Wucai
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A Chinese porcelain famille verte vase of rouleau form, painted in a continuous landscape scene, with a young male equestrian official crossing a bridge with his attendants and arriving at a high class establishment for lady courtesans, where three are looking out of the widow, four are playing weiqi (go), a lady fixing her hair and two ladies standing and holding fans on a balcony, with different trees and rockwork, beneath the moon and clouds, the flat shoulder decorated with butterflies and daisies on a seed-green ground, beneath shou characters, trellis, ruyi heads and key fret bands on the neck and galleried rim.
A Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain model of a standing falcon on a rockwork base, with dark brown wings and beak and clear glazed body with dark brown markings, the feet and claws naturalistically carved and perched on ridged rockwork, the base unglazed.<br><br>6 5/8 inches, 16.8 cm high.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte large bottle vases with ovoid bodies, tall necks, with gently flaring rims, each decorated with large blue and yellow Buddhist lions playing with brocade balls tied with long green ribbons between two iron-red smaller Buddhist lions, their front paws on the tail of the ribbon, above a band of lappets at the foot and beneath a wide band of chrysanthemum and peony flowerheads on a continuous scrolling foliate branch, beneath ruyi heads at the shoulder, the rim with a flower-head diaper band above ruyi heads and pendant music stones.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte dishes with foliate rims, each painted in the centre with a blue enamel qilin looking up at a phoenix bird in flight, encircled in the cavetto by sixteen butterflies, the flat everted rim with four panels of birds amongst daisy, peony and other flowering plants between open-winged butterflies on a geometric ground with prunus, underglaze blue lozenge mark within a double ring.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte fluted dishes with upright foliate rims, each decorated in the centre with a pheasant standing on rockwork amongst peony and magnolia branches, encircled by a narrow band with six white crane reserves on a stylised chrysanthemum flowerhead green-speckled ground, beneath a wide band of twelve panels, with different flowering plants representing the months, beneath a band with six reserves of precious objects between flowerheads on a green-speckled ground, the underside with three iron-red flower sprays.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte and powder blue ground wine ewer with flower-shaped panel enclosing ducks in a lotus pond, the reverse with a bird perched amongst prunus with bamboo sprays and rockwork, all on a rich powder blue and gilt ground decorated with prunus and magnolia branches beneath ruyi heads and pendant tassels at the shoulder.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte standing figures of Europeans, the man wearing an elaborate wig, the curls heightened in black enamel, his pale green jacket decorated with cloud scrolls lined in blue enamel and wearing a yellow undershirt and tied cravat, holding an aubergine tricorn hat with black enamel shoes, supported behind with a mottled green and yellow rock formation, all on a thin shaped rectangular base, the lady wearing a pale yellow lace-edged short veil over her hair coiffed à la Fontanges, a pearl necklace, a lace-edged bodice and cuffs and a green dress, perfectly matching the green of the man`s trousers, draped over her iron-red and yellow-embroidered petticoat, the folds accentuated with grisaille hatching, and standing on a low base.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte baluster vase and cover, painted with “100 Boys” at various pursuits, including playing a qin, looking at a scroll, reading and playing weiqi, all in a fenced continuous scene with rockwork, banana plant and flowers, between triangular diaper bands in iron-red and underglaze blue, the neck with five precious objects tied with ribbons, the cover decorated with boys between plant sprays beneath an underglaze blue knop.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte double spouted wine pot and cover with gate-form bracket handle, the body of lobed quatrefoil form, painted with panels of chrysanthemum and peony, between lotus flowers on scrolling branches beneath precious objects on the spout, the cover with further precious objects between chrysanthemum and peony beneath an iron-red and gilt bud form finial.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte chrysanthemum-form saucer dishes, each painted with a standing lady beside rockwork, one holding a fan, the other a rabbit, encircled by eight panels of “100 antiques”, iron-red and gilt lotus, birds on branches and a powder blue ground panel with a gilt river landscape scene, the underside with flower sprays.
A Chinese porcelain large famille verte dish painted with Pan Yue “The Most Handsome Man in China” arriving in a wheeled sedan chair being pushed by his attendants with further attendants carrying his belongings, arriving at a large building enclosing thirteen watching ladies, all in a borderless river landscape scene between rocks, willow, overhanging pine and wuti, the sky with stylised clouds beneath a gilt moon.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte large two handled fish bowl, painted on both sides with branches of flowering peony amongst daisies, with chrysanthemum sprays beneath the biscuit lion mask handles, all between iron-red bands of stylised leaves and chrysanthemum flower-heads, the waist with reserves of flowers on a geometric iron-red and gilt ground with chrysanthemum flower-heads, the interior painted with forty-one carp, two shrimp and two crabs amongst aquatic plants, all beneath the flat everted lipped rim, painted with reserves of fish alternating with shrimp, all on a geometric cash diaper ground with chrysanthemum flower-heads and scrolls on the rim.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte wine cup of conical form, delicately painted with a standing scholar holding a staff beside a deer holding a single piece of lingzhi in its mouth, the reverse with a pine tree amongst rockwork.
A pair of Chinese Imperial porcelain famille verte birthday dishes, each painted with a lady and her attendant fanning a fire amongst rocks, one with the lady seated on rocks fanning the flames while her attendant stands behind her holding sticks, the other with the lady seated and the attendant fanning the flames, each surrounded with a border of flower sprays and insects beneath the flat everted rim.
A pair of Chinese Imperial porcelain famille verte birthday dishes, each painted with a standing scholar holding an iron-red staff beside his attendant holding a fan, amongst rockwork and plants, each encircled by five butterflies and iron-red magnolia blooms on the flat gently everted lipped rim.
A wucai hexagonal deep dish with indented brown washed rim, painted in the centre with a lotus pond, a heron stands beside flowering lotus, leaves and aquatic plants with a bird in flight, within a moulded panelled border of six aquatic creatures, fish, toad, terrapin, shrimp, snail and crab on different diaper grounds.
A wucai flower form dish with petal shape fluted brown wash rim painted with a flowering branch of peony with buds and leaves beside a music stone or axe head with a three-character mark xi chuang ji ``west window mark``, probably a name of a studio, within double lines of underglaze blue and a single thick line in iron red.
Wucai flower form dish with petal shape fluted brown wash rim painted with a lotus flower head, bud, pod, arrow head and leaves beneath a large circular double seal with the mark so shi ``longevity stone``, within a double ring in underglaze blue and iron red single band.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte saucer dish, painted with flowering and budding branches of peony issuing from rockwork beneath large butterflies in flight, the unusual cactus like leaves seemingly blowing in the wind, between black enamel sprays of bamboo, encircled at the rim with six branches of flowers including camellia, daisy, peony, wisteria and orchid on a hexagonal diaper ground.
Wucai flower form dish with petal shape fluted brown wash rim, painted with a fruiting branch of pomegranate with buds and leaves above a four-character sealmark you zhi qian li ``if you have ambition you can travel thousands of li`s`` within a gourd enclosed in an underglaze blue double line and an iron-red wash.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte pear shape bottle vases with slender flared necks and rim, on a tall foot rim painted with phoenix birds standing on pierced rockwork amongst flowering peony branches.
Wucai plate with flat everted rim, painted with a monkey seated on rockwork, watching a reclining deer who looks up at a bird and insects in flight, amongst rockwork, fruiting peach tree and beside lingzhi fungus, all within a band of four panels of camellia, aster, peony and prunus on a chequered ground, the rim partially covered with a pale brown wash.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte dish with flat everted rim and foliate edge, painted in the centre with a qilin looking up at a phoenix bird in flight, amongst flowering peony with pine tree, lingzhi and rockwork, beneath clouds and the moon, encircled by a shaped wide band divided into eight panels, painted with fabulous creatures including, speckled feline, Buddhist lion, qilin and phoenix, deer and crane, between chrysanthemum, lotus, peony and camellia, the rim with butterfly reserves on a flower head diaper ground.
Wucai plate with flat everted rim painted with a monkey seated on rockwork beneath a fruiting peach tree beside lingzhi fungus watching a reclining deer looking up at a bird and insects in flight, all within a band of four panels of lotus, camellia, prunus and aster on a chequered ground, the rim partially covered with a pale brown wash.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte hexagonal puzzle ewer and cover, painted on two of the facets with panels of mythological animals in a rocky landscape, the four other facets with flowering plants emerging from rockwork, all between bands of flowers, precious objects, scrolls and diaper bands, all on a pedestal foot with precious objects repeated on the cover.
Wucai quatrefoil dish painted with a standing ferry man in his boat transporting two seated conversing scholars from a rocky willow covered shore, within a wide iron-red double line band, the rim with a brown wash, one of the boats in green and yellow enamel, the others in aubergine and yellow enamel.
A Chinese porcelain ewer and cover with pear shaped body, probably made for the Middle Eastern market, painted in iron-red and gilt and moulded in relief on each side with a peach shape panel between bands of stylised chrysanthemum leaves, the panel with lotus flower head amongst scrolls and leaves between sprays of lilies in gilt and red, all beneath a narrow bulb on the waisted neck, with bands of leaves, all on a flaring foot rim, the cover of peach shape with short baluster knop, with later silver mounts.
Wucai small spill holder or incense burner of cylindrical form, gently tapering towards the foot, painted with a figure seated playing a biwa in a covered viewing pavilion on a hill beside a bamboo grove with flowering plants and rockwork, all between two underglaze blue single lines, the rim with mushikui.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte armorial saucer dish, painted in the centre with arms of Dom Luis Peregrino de Ataide, in an elaborate rococo design, supported by two torcheres each issuing from branches of leaves, with flower sprays, encircled by a wide band with bulls heads interspersed between ruyi-head flower sprays with leaves, between daisies and peonies, all beneath a brown dressed rim heightened with gilt.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte large saucer dishes each painted with two standing ladies in conversation, one holding a fan pointing up to a balcony where a seated young scholar plays a qin, his sleeping attendant seated at his side, all in a fenced garden landscape scene, one divided by a pine tree, each encircled with reserves of precious objects including tied qin, rings, scrolls, ruyi spectre, book, tied coral branch and weiqi counters and board, divided by different diaper bands.
A pair of Chinese porcelain, famille verte moulded and fluted kendis
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte large dishes, each with fluted bodies and petal shaped upright rims, painted in the centre with openwork black and aubergine enamelled bordered baskets of flowers with peony, chrysanthemum, lotus, camellia, daisy and prunus amongst other buds and leaves encircled by a border with precious object reserves on different diaper grounds, the border with twelve lappet shaped panels of different flowers each representing a month, including chrysanthemum, lotus, camellia, peony, prunus and aster beneath a flower head band at the rim, the underside with three flower sprays.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte ‘piggyback’ group