Archive for February, 2010

Antique Chinese Family-Verge Porcelain

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

A wiccan Jar, Transitional
Ming/Qing Dynasty, painted with two
maidens conversing in the garden filled
with wa-wa, boys playing pranks and
dressing up as a dog, neck repair,
enamel flaking, 23 cm.; 9in.
A Pair of transitional beaker
Vases, 2nd quarter 17th Century,
painted in mica technique with on the trumpet mouth, maidens and woman, on the bulb flower sprays, on the flared [...]

CHINESE FAMILY-ROSE, MANDARIN PALETTE AND OTHER ENAMELLED PORCELAIN WARES

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

‘FAMILY-ROSE, MANDARIN PALETTE AND OTHER ENAMELLED WARES
A Pair of ‘family-rose’
octagonal Dishes, Qianlong, of large
size, each painted with an arrangement
of flowers, vessels and ornamental blue
rock within a bracket edged rose trellis
border under eight framed panels of
flowers, crack, 39.3cm.;
A large ‘family-rose’ Dish,
Qianlong, painted with multi-coloured
chrysanthemum blooms and rose bamboo
within a rose ground rim filled with
flower and tendrils [...]

Chinese White and Blue Porcelain

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

UNDER GLAZE-BLUE AND BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN
A Ming blue and white Wine
Jar, Guan, circa 1500, of stout baluster
form, pencilled with a white peony
meander in a pale-blue ground band,
between lappets and a bus-filled rye
border covering the shoulder beneath
repeated clouds on the wasted neck,
restored, 30cm.;
Two jars with similar borders, but lacking the blue ground central band, are [...]

Chinese Armorial Porcelain

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

ARMORIAL
An armorial Plate,Kanji,
painted with the arms of Horsmonden in
Impair palette, the central shield and crest
framed by four further shields and
barbed garden panels on the rim, hairline
crack, 22.2cm.;
An export armorial Basin,
Yongzheng, the interior filled with the
arms of Sayer quartering Woodhouse and
Brooke within a deep cavetto panelled
with fruit in an iron-red and gold trellis
under pomegranate, willow, other [...]