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  • An Impair Plate, Impair Vases, Meiji Period, Satsuma booted Vases, Fukagawa Imari Vase

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    An Impair Plate, Impair Vases, Meiji Period, Satsuma booted Vases, Fukagawa Imari Vase

    An Impair Plate, late I7th/early 18th Century, centred by a basket of flowers framed by flower and bird panels, 24cm.;

    A Kutani Cat, Meiji/Taisho Period, curled up asleep with brocade bow and bells on its collar, ear chip.

    A Pair of Impair Vases, Meiji Period,
    each tapering body decorated with ho-o flying
    in and out of a dense ground of leaves and
    flowers under a concave trumpet neck filled
    with brocade, 61.8cm.;

    A finely enamelled Kinkozan
    earthenware Figure of a begin, Meiji/Taisho,
    the young woman wearing a kimono
    meticulously painted with a design of
    overlapping flower carriages against a
    pale-purple ground, her obi carrying dragon
    moon in a simulated gold file woven cloud
    ground incorporating the signature, fan broken,
    head glued, 43cm.; 17in.

    A Satsuma Vase, Meiji/Taisho Period, of short ovoid form, enamelled with broad panels of samurai and potentates against and between a brocade ground.

    A Pair of Satsuma booted Vases, Meiji/Taisho Period, each blue enamelled ground decorated with samurai seen through flowering prunes’  under a brocaded neck, 31cm.;

    A Pair of Satsuma Vases,
    Meiji/Taisho Period, each tapering slender
    body lavishly gilt with panels of samurai and
    female deities between fabric moulded and
    enamelled brocade borders, 46cm.; 18in.,

    Yabu Meizan: A Satsuma hexagonal Jar, Stopper and Cover, Meiji Period, finely enamelled with flower, fan, landscape and procession scenes, glued, 13.8cm.;

    A Pair of Satsuma Vases, Meiji, of shouldered squared ovoid form, painted with figure and landscape panels within an under glaze-blue ground embellished in gilding, rubbed

    hair-crack in one, 36cm.;

    A Satsuma Bowl, Meiji Period, of
    cinquefoil outline, the deep-blue ground
    reserved on the inside with a smaller cinquefoil
    panel scene of begin with children, 21.8cm.;

    A Kinkozan Satsuma Koro, Cover and
    inner Cover, Meiji Period, with bamboo leaf
    moulded handles and bamboo borders
    training gill spruce against a deep-blue
    ground.

    Yabu Meizan: Seven Satsuma Cups, art Saucers and a Sugar Bowl, Meiji, each enamelled with different flowers or shrubs.

    An enamelled Arita Dish, 18th Century, painted in soft under glaze-blue heightened in over glaze enamels with three children jumping about a lady in a garden where an Immortal

    appears upon a cloud, framed by eight repeated figure panels radiating between repeated bird panels under a prunes  bordered rim, riveted, pseudo Chinese mark, fu gui chang chun

    (riches, honour and enduring spring), 31.2cm.;

    Yabu Meizan: A Satsuma Koro and Cover, Meiji, the low cylindrical sides painted with boats in a bay under curled-over short strap handles, the shoulder and pierced cover filled

    with millefiori, on three bracket feet, handle repair, signed Yabu Meizan, 6.5cm.;

    A Pair of Japanese turquoise glazed porcelain Tigers, 19th Century, recumbent with closed and half-open mouth, chips, paw missing, 17.8cm.;

    A Satsuma Tea Service, Meiji/Taisho period, painted with quail and other birds amongst flowering plants and shrubs, comprising: Teapot and Cover, Sugar Bowl and Cover, Jug and

    Cover, six Cups, Saucers and Plates.

    A Fukagawa Imari Vase, Meiji Period, of broad ovoid form, the flower-filled ground reserved with four barbed panels of flower baskets and landscapes, 25.5cm.;  signed in

    iron-red.

    A Fukagawa Imari Bowl, Meiji Period, the fluted interior filled with four garden panels in a deep blue ground centred by a vase of flowers, a continuous flower meander on the

    exterior, 27.8cm.; bamboo signature in under glaze-blue.

    Kinkozan: A Satsuma Vase, Meiji, of cylindrical form between waited foot and neck, the body finely decorated with three kidney-shaped panels of figures reserved against a blue

    ground and separated by moulded bamboo borders, 14.2cm.; 5Vsin., signed on body in gilding, impressed mark, Kinkozan.

    An Arita Plate, late I7th/early 18th Century, painted in inky tones of under glaze-blue with flowers on a fence framed by six radiating panels of alternating flowers, 22cm.

  • Сhinese Ceramics: ‘family-rose’ Charger, Qianlong, Figure, Ming Dynasty, Chinese armorial Punch Bowl

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    Сhinese Ceramics:  ‘family-rose’ Charger, Qianlong, Figure, Ming Dynasty, Chinese armorial Punch Bowl

    A large ‘family-rose’ Charger, Qianlong, the centre Filled with an almost pyrotechnically multi-coloured peony in a final framed by a whorl ground border
    billed with placed flowers, cracks, 42cm.;wood stand.

    A ‘family-rose’ baluster ‘wawa’ Jar, Guangxu, painted with hundreds of boys performing out-of-doors festivities, drilled, 38cm.; 15m., wood stand .
    A blue and white export Plate, Qianlong, painted with a river scene, a boat overshadowed by trees on a shore under a barbed cavetto and complex brocade on the rim, 25.8cm.

    A Pair of ‘prunes’ ‘ Jars, Guangxu, ea of ovoid form, painted with blossoming whim branches against a blue ground, 25.5cm.; low four character mark of Kanji . with a kylie and

    phoenix framed by four auspicious beasts in panels with auspicious flowers in-between, extensive riveting, 36.2cm.; 141/4in., seal mark in under glaze-blue.

    A Chinese Imari Bowl, Kanji, well painted with two orange pheasants on rocks a peony garden, two cracks, 26cm.

    A powder-blue Vase, Qianlong, of
    hexagonal mallet form, with pierced long
    handles, traces of gilt landscape and figure
    designs, 41cm.; 16in.

    A ‘Companies-des-Indies’ Tea Caddy and Cover, Qianlong, of arched rectangular form, each side painted with a tied spray of European flowers, chipped cover, 13.2cm.

    A gilt-metal mounted ‘Companies-de Indies’ Bowl, Qianlong and 19th Century, painted with figures out-of-doors between upright acanthus, cast gilt-metal handles linking rim and

    wasted foot, 28cm.

    An aubergine glazed kylie Seal Box and Cover, 19th Century, standing four-square, 6.2cm.

    A yellow glazed Ridge-tile Figure, Ming Dynasty, a sitting mythical beast with flame-

    A ‘family-rose’ Peach, 19th Century, green with a flush of rose, moulded with a leafy branch, 11cm..

    A yellow ground ‘family-rose’ Dish, 19th Century, enamelled with dragon and phoenix amongst clouds, 34cm.; 133in., six-character mark in iron-red of Qianlong, box .

    A Pair of export ware Saucers, circa
    1800, decorated with Bianca –copra - Bianca sprays
    between pencilled borders, 15.5cm.; 6Vsin.; and
    a Douay Cup, painted with a formal cloud
    design, mark of Yongzheng, wood stand .

    A blue and white Dish, Kanji,
    painted with cut flowers in a medallion centre
    rammed by two tiers of lappets containing
    further flower heads under a barbed rim,
    15.7cm.; 6in., us spray mark.

    A Chinese armorial Punch Bowl,
    Qianlong, twice charged with the full arms of
    Baron King between scattered flowers under a
    plain turquoise ribbon border incorporating
    two racially panels, restored, 35.5cm.; 14in.

    Possibly the arms of the Fifth Baron King of Ockham, his wife’s arms in pretence.

    Canton ‘family-rose’ Bowl, Daoguang, the exterior finely painted with a
    continuous scene of figures out-of-doors, the
    interior with framed panels of figures, both under mille fiery borders, 36.8cm.; 141/2in.
    Another Canton ‘family-rose’ Bowl, mid-19th Century, painted inside and out with continuous scenes of figures in the grounds about a house under a border of fruit, crack,

    36.8cm.;

    A Canton ‘family-rose’ Bowl, mid-19th Century, painted inside and out with continuous figure scenes under flower and fruit borders, 35cm.;

    A Canton ‘family-rose’ Bowl, mid-19th Century, painted inside and out with panelled scenes against a flower-strewn ground, 34cm.;

    A Garniture of five Samson armorial ‘Compagnie-des-Indes’ Vases, late 19th Century, three of baluster form with covers, two trumpet beakers, all of hexagonal section, repairs to

    covers, 12 and 16cm.;

    A ‘family-rose’ Mug, Qianlong, the cylindrical body painted with a circular medallion of a man shooting between beaded’ borders under an incurved rim, applied twin strap

    handles, 13cm.;

  • Сhinese Ceramics: Canton ‘hundred antiques’ Jardiniere, 19th Century, A carved celadon Dish, Ming Dynasty, white Bowl, Qing Dynasty, Plate, Kanji

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    Сhinese Ceramics: Canton ‘hundred antiques’ Jardiniere, 19th Century, A carved celadon Dish, Ming Dynasty, white Bowl, Qing Dynasty, Plate, Kanji

    A sang de beef Vase, 18th Century,
    of bronze hub form, a pair of applied dog-of-For masks biting rings upon a shoulder horizontally zoned by a pair of moulded lines, the characteristically streaky glaze draining

    from the rim, bevelled foot, 32.7cm.

    A Canton ‘hundred antiques’
    Jardiniere, 19th Century, of flared square
    form, on bracket feet, the celadon sides
    attractively enamelled with auspicious vessels
    and arrangements of plants amongst scattered
    medallions between key-fret and foliate
    borders, crack, 27.8cm.

    A celadon bottle Vase, Qing Dynasty, mark of Qianlong, the stout spheroid body slip-trailed with archaistic fang scroll medallions centred by a lengthy fungus, all filled in

    cobalt blue, the wasted neck similarly decorated with bats between fang moulded pierced handles, 37.5cm.; 143In, six character seal mark in under glaze-blue    .

    A carved celadon Dish, Ming Dynasty, and a tripod Censer, the first carved with a central flower, the second supported on the backs of three boys, 16 and 10cm., one boxed, one

    on wood stand (4).

    A ‘devils work’ white Bowl, Qing Dynasty, mark of Qianlong, finely pierced with dragons amongst clouds over combed Anhui’ waves, the main design filled with a wash of glaze,

    13.6cm.; 53in., seal mark in under glaze-blue, boxed.

    An nhui’ eggshell porcelain Bowl, Qing Dynasty, finely incised with dragons amongst flames, 12.7cm.; 5in., archaic mark, (a myriad ages without ending), boxed.

    A Chinese export armorial Soup Plate, Qianlong, octagonal, charged on the rim with the crest and arms

    A Group of Export ware, 18th Century:
    two blue and white Plates, a ‘family-rose’ Plate,
    two Tea bowls and a Saucer .

    A Samson armorial Bowl, late 19th
    Century, charged with a variant of the arms of
    Hamilton within under glaze-blue bands and scattered flower sprays, 30cm.; 12in., marked.
    An export ware bell-shaped Mug, Qianlong, painted in ‘family-rose’ enamels with four ladies and two boys about a table under a gilt border, 13cm.

    A ‘family-rose’ Teapot and Cover, Qianlong, enamelled with a family in a garden, serpent moulded spout, small crack, 16cm.; 6in. (2).

    A ‘family-rose’ sparrow beak Jug, Qianlong, enamelled with maidens and boys in a garden, 8.5cm.; 33in.; and a Saucer .

    A Pair of ‘family-rose’ miniature
    trumpet beaker Vases, Qianlong, each wasted
    body enamelled with a blue and yellow bird
    upon a flowering shrub, 8.2cm.

    An early Ming celadon Figure of Guan Yin, 14th/15th Century A.D., seated with a small vase in one hand, the other hand resting on her knee, her biscuit face washed in lustrous

    iron oxide, the glaze of clear sea green colour with an overall crackle, 17cm.

    A ‘family-verte’ Plate, Kanji,
    enamelled with a rider and attendant dwarfed by a scholar’s table by a fence and palace, scholar’s implements on the rim, crack, 22cm.; 83in., ding mark in under glaze-blue   .

    Two ‘family-rose’ Figures, Jiaqing,
    one of Ganging with a diminutive child,
    20.5cm.; 8Vsin.; the other of a have spirit,
    chipped, 17.8cm.; 7in.

    A blanch -de-Chine Figure of Butyl, 18l Century, the jovial god seated with a rope of beads on his knee, finely incised facial festoon 8.5cm.; 33in., impressed potter’s square

    seal mark huang haul stand (2)    .

    A transitional blue and white ’sleeve’ Vase, 2nd quarter 17th Century, well painted with a kingfisher perched above water fowl, two landing on a us pond, crack and chip,

    26.5cm..

    An attractive blue and white small Dish, early 17th Century, of saucer form, simply painted with a bird on the branch of peach tree, 10.3cm.; 4in.
    A carved celadon Jar let, early Ming Dynasty, of stout ovoid form, carved with meandering us beneath a pale sea green glaze, 10.8cm.; 4/4in.

    A sang-de-beef ‘dome of heaven’
    Vase, 18th Century, of bottle form, with a
    dark greyish-maroon glaze draining from the
    rim, chipped foot rim, 31cm.

    A Chinese ‘family-rose’ double Vase, Guangxu, painted with Immortals on a shore inspecting a scroll and smaller landscapes, reserved in a flower-strewn green ground under a pair

    of masked and loose rii handles, rim chip, 37.2cm.; seal mark Qianlong in iron-red.

  • Сhinese Ceramics: Tea bowl and Stand, Qianlong, Teapots and Covers, Qianlong, Tea wares, Qianlong

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    Сhinese Ceramics:  Tea bowl and Stand, Qianlong,  Teapots and Covers, Qianlong, Tea wares, Qianlong

    A Swatow Dish, 16th Century, of Split Pagoda’ family, enamelled in turquoise and green with five leaping carp between iron-red sprays revolving about a central medallion, chips,
    38.7cm.;
    A black ground Vase, Qing Dynasty, of lively baluster form, decorated in gilding with Buddhistic lions, rim repair, 58.5cm.; 23m.
    A blank-de-Chine Figure of Guanyin, 18th Century, seated with robes falling down to the ground to one side, in her raised right hand a small scroll, chips to fingers, 20.5cm.;
    8in.
    A blank-de-Chine Group of Guan Yin, 18th Century, seated upon a rock between two acolytes, missing vases, 22.8cm.; 9in.
    A large ‘family-rose’ Tea bowl and Stand, Qianlong, each piece painted with six radiating panels of figures alternating with flowers under a gilt vermicular border.
    A Group of export Tea wares, Qianlong, comprising: three ‘family-rose’ Tea bowls, one with Meissen-style panels of European hunters and Chinese riflemen in grisaille and
    rouge-de-far palette, and a Saucer with a central panel of three ladies and a gentleman, 15.8cm.; 6′Ain., some damage or rubbing.
    A Set of four ‘Companies-des-Indies’ Plates, Qianlong/Jialing, each painted with a pavilion ‘floating’ in a lake, 24cm.;
    Two ‘family-rose’ Punch-Bowls,
    Qianlong, one painted with puce scale borders
    over flower sprays, the other with a Chinese
    landscape, restored, 26.5 and 24cm.

    Three ‘family-rose’ Teapots and Covers, Qianlong, one in Mandarin palette, one in Impair colours and one ‘family-rose’, restoration .
    A good celadon Jar, 18th Century, the compressed ovoid body sprigged and carved with a continuous meandering stem bearing four flower heads and fleshy leaves between studded
    borders, all under a glutinous bluish glaze, 24cm.
    A Chinese ‘family-rose’ Bowl, 19th Century, of us flower form, the celadon ground painted with insects and flowers, rubbed; and a ‘family-rose’ Bowl, decorated with dogs-of-For .
    A Southern Chinese stoneware Figure of a man, 19th Century, finely modelled seated on a rock peeping into a double-gourd bottle, 14cm. 51/2in.; and a Southern Chinese stoneware
    Figure of a seated sage, 14cm.
    The companion Saucer Dish, mark and period of Dialoguing, rim repair, 24.8cm. 93 in.
    A turquoise glazed mythical Beast, 19th Century, part lion, part ram and of benevolent intent, seated and looking to its right, 19cm. 77/2m., wood stand .
    A blue and white barrel-form Garden Seat, Gangue, painted with a pair of dragons confronted across pierced pairs of cash between studs and chrysanthemum-filled ruby collars, 48.5cm.
    A blue and white tureen Stand,
    Qianlong, painted with a pair of deer in a
    Peony garden framed by a trellis, under flower
    sprays trailing from the canted and notched
    rim, 38.3cm.; 15m.
    A blue and white Meat Dish,
    Qianlong, painted with a maiden punting a
    boat framed by a hatched cavetto under a
    and scroll brocade border, 44.3cm.; 17in.
    A Group of export Tea wares, Qianlong, comprising: a Set of six Tea bowls and four Tea bowls and Slop Bowl, cracks and repair; also a Spoon Tray, Milk Jug and en suite .
    A Chinese blue and white ‘yen yen’ Vase, Kanji, painted in vivid blue with six auspicious mythical beasts upon spume fleck cracks divided between trumpet neck and baluster body, broken rim, 45.5cm.; 177.
    A Companies-des-Indies Dish, Qianlong, painted in under glaze-blue with three scattered flower and pomegranate spray under a barbed and hatched rim border, 35.3 cm.

  • A wood Netsuke, 19th Century - An ivory Netsuke - An ivory Manju - An ivory manju Netsuke

    Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

    A wood Netsuke, 19th Century - An ivory Netsuke - An ivory Manju - An ivory manju Netsuke

    Eleven ivory okimono Netsuke, 19th Century and later, various subjects
    Two ivory Netsuke, 19th Century, of traveller, one loaded with a large kettle, the other with a Daruma doll, approx.
    A miniature ivory Netsuke, 19th Century, of a monk sitting asleep.
    Three wood Netsuke, 19th Century, one of a man with toothache, another of a beast concealed in a fruit, the last of Fukurokuju with a minogame
    An ivory manju Netsuke, 19th Century, well carved in sunken relief with children riding piggy-back and playing with a top, crack, and a red lacquer Manju carved with pine
    Two ivory Netsuke, 18th Century, one of a sennin reposing upon the back of a shi-shi upon a base, the other of a lion seated to attention
    Two ivory Qjime, 19th Century, one carved with two masks, the other with a boy chasing a rabbit and hamster; and a walnut Carving of Okame with a young monkey
    An ivory Carving, of the Gods of Good Fortune, 19th Century, happily at sea in a bowl
    Ten Netsuke, various dates, two of Okame, one of two boys beating a drum, one of Hotei, one of Fukurokuju and five others
    An ivory Netsuke of Daruma, 19th Century, standing in voluminous robe, a flywhisk trailing over his shoulder, stained
    An ivory Netsuke, 19th Century, a man dancing on one leg, one hand above head
    An ivory okimono Netsuke, 19th Century, two boys chasing one another about a large snowball, inlaid hair knots, signed
    A four-case gilt lacquer Inro, 19th
    Century, decorated with birds and deer amongst rocks, cornelian ojime
    A wood Netsuke, 19th Century:
    - of a rearing horse, hair finely detailed, inlaid eyes, signed Masamichi
    - a rat amongst mushrooms in a winnowing basket, inlaid eyes, unsigned
    - small 17′ tortoise upon a large lotus pod carve with movable seeds, rubbed signature, Sessan
    - of Hanya with inlaid gilt-metal eyes and silvered metal teeth, unsigned
    - carved as a gnarled shi-shi turned round upon its hind quarters, a small bead in its open mouth, indistinct signature
    A wood Netsuke of a mokugyo bell, 19th Century, carved as a scaley fish flexed back in the attitude of biting its tail
    An ivory Netsuke, late 18th/19th Century, carved as a ‘tongue cut’ sparrow with incised wings and tail anc inlaid eyes, unsigned
    An Netsuke, 19th Century, a cluster of eight masks back-to-back, metal himatishi, unsigned
    An ivory Netsuke of a turtle, 18th Century, dozing with semi-retracted head, feet curled up beneath its body, unsigned
    An ivory Manju, 18di/early 19th Century, carved in low relief with Hotei looking out of his linen bag, unsigned
    An ivory Netsuke, 19th Century, of an eagle perched with talons locked upon a small rabbit, inlaid eyes, signed Hoichi
    An ivory Netsuke, 19th Century, a Dutchman with beard and curly hair holding onto his wind-swept hat, inlaid black buttons to his frock coat
    Two Pairs of Japanese cloisonne Vases, Meiji, one of pear form, decorated with flower sprays against a black ground, 15.5cm.; 6in., the other of barrel form and small size, decorated with mon against a red ground,
    small bruise.
    Three Japanese cloisonne Vases, Meiji, comprising: a Pair of Vases decorated in part Ginbari technique with flowers in a blue ground, and a single Vase decorated with iris against a celadon ground, stress crack.


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