Chinese export porcelain quart mug painted in green camieux with floral sprigs, th original cross-over strap handle relaced with a cast silver one of fruiting vine design, in the manner of Paul Storr, circa 1785, the handle replaced circa 1820
CERAMICS ORIENTAL
A late 17th-century Chinese porcelain teapot and cover painted in famille-verte enamel colours with flowering shrubs, the gilt-bronze mounts South German, Augsburg or Nurembourg
A late 18th-century Chinese export armorial porcelain teabowl and saucer in the famille rose palette, with the crest of Todd, a fox courant, a goose over its back, all proper, and the family motto OPORTET VIVERE, (It behoves us to live). Note - an old word for a fox is tod
A Chinese blue-and white porcelain ovoid jar, Kangxi period, (1662-1722)
A pair of Chinese export porcelain plates of octagonal form, the centres enamelled in the famille-rose palette with peonies and other flowers in a rocky formal garden, Yongzheng period, (1722-35)
Three viewsof a late 17th-century Arita porcelain figure of a bijin, about 28cm high.
Two views of a 19th-century Chinese porcelain bowl painted in the famille verte palette with an exotic pheasant and peonies, with detail of the mark, (of the emperor Kangxi, (1662-1722)).