Antique Chinese Porcelain Jiajing/Wanli Ming Swatow Large Plate, 16/17th Century

A very nicely potted and painted kraak plate of a desirable cobalt blue! Stunning piece with beautiful and typical landscape scene. Visible is a grasshopper on a rock Moulded in the ...

A Japanese Kakiemon-style bird, quail and Three friends of winter dish. Painted by by a Dutch painter to decorate a Chinese porcelain blank. The scene and quality of paintting is amazing. Three Friends of Winter These are pine, Prunus mume and bamboo. Both the pine and the bamboo remain green throughout the winter, while the early blossoms of the Prunus mume are harbingers of spring. In China the combination of the positive characteristics attributed to each motif represented the ideal character of the Confucian scholar They became a subject in Japanese painting in the 15th century, and are also found on kakiemon porcelain...

A large XVII Century Kangxi Chinese porcelain plate, hand painted with gold leaf highlights. In good condition, just nibbling to the edges.

This antique Chinese export porcelain dish was hand-painted in the mid-18th century in the Qianlong Era. It features a blossoming plum tree adorned with orange, blue, and gold flower...