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  • Mug, Qianlong, glazed Vase, Qing Dynasty, Impair Dish, Meiji Period, Pair of Satsuma Vases, Meiji Period

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    Mug, Qianlong, glazed Vase, Qing Dynasty, Impair Dish, Meiji Period, Pair of Satsuma Vases, Meiji Period

    A ‘family-rose’ export ware Mug, Qianlong, cylindrical with dragon handle, painted in mandarin colours with a scene of figures framed within a ‘Y’-diaper ground, minor rim

    hairlines, 13cm.;

    A Pair of ‘family-rose’ cylinder Vases, Guangxu, each pink ground filled with green tendrils and reserved with yellow-framed figure panels, hair-crack, 35.5cm.; 14in.

    A Pair of enamelled crackleware
    Vases, Guangxu, each of broad true baluster
    form enamelled with scenes of hunting parties
    under applied ‘bronzed’ mask and ring
    handles, minor chips, 48cm.; 18in., Chenghua.

    A blue and white ovoid Jar,Kanji,
    the ‘cracked ice’ ground reserved with three
    quatrefoil panels of Precious Objects, rim
    repair, 21.5cm.; 8in., wood stand and cover.

    A Chinese blue and white octagonal Meat Plate, Qianlong, of canted form, painted with a landscape between four flower sprays, rim repair, 37.5cm.;

    A lavender glazed Vase, Qing Dynasty, of attenuated hexagonal form covered in a well-graded glaze, 33.5cm.;  incised four-character mark.

    A Chinese export ware Teapot and Cover, painted with landscape under complex brocade borders, 13cm.;

    A Satsuma Bowl, Meiji Period, finely enamelled and gilt with chrysanthemum between brocaded roundels and key-fret borders, butterflies within, chip, 11.1cm.;

    A Japanese earthenware Wine Pot, Meiji, of wide flared form, on three short feet, the concave sides enamelled with basin panels, small chip, 12cm.;

    A Satsuma Koro and Wine or Teapot, Meiji, damage to leg, lacking covers .

    An hexagonal Botde and Stopper, Meiji, enamelled with kidney panels under a brocade shoulder, 10.3cm.;

    An Hirado monogram Ewer and Cover, tail arched over its back to form the handle, the carapace picked out with flowers, cover repaired, 17.8cm.;

    An Impair Vase, Meiji Period, probably Fukagawa, each complex brocade ground reserved with oval garden panels, 30cm.;

    A Pair of Kutani Vases, Meiji Period, each iron-red ground brocaded in gilding and filled with panels of birds, a cat catching a butterfly underneath, applied mask and ring

    handles, 31cm.;

    An Impair Dish, Meiji Period,
    enamelled with a complex brocade of
    overlapping scrolls and fans over hexagon
    fragments filled with garden flowers and
    dragons, 45.5cm.;

    A Fukagawa Vase, Meiji Period, the ovoid body finely enamelled with colourful flowers between brocade borders, 26cm.;

    A Pair of Impair Vases, Meiji Period, each of hexagonal ovoid form, the blue ground reserved with garden panels framed by brocade elements, restoration to one, 24.5cm.;

    A Pair of Satsuma Vases, Meiji Period,
    each of pear form, applied with a pair of dragon handles crouching over intricately enamelled scenes of samurai, rim repair to one, 24.2cm.;

    A Set of five Impair Dishes, Meiji Period, each of lozenge outline, filled with a bird framed by brocade, two damaged, 29.5cm.;

    A Kinkozan Satsuma Jarlet and Cover, Meiji Period, enamelled with begin and with a performance between lappet borders, rubbed signature, 8.7cm.;

  • 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: 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 Pair of Canton Vases and Covers - A large Canton ‘famille-rose’ Vase - A Samson Punch Bowl - A Chinese celadon Vase, Qing Dynasty

    Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

    A Pair of Canton Vases and Covers - A large Canton ‘famille-rose’ Vase - A Samson Punch Bowl - A Chinese celadon Vase, Qing Dynasty

    A Samson `Compagnie-des-Indes’ Ewer and Basin, late 19th Century, based on a Portuguese silver and a Chinese exportporcelain original, the ribbed ewer and shell-form basin enamelled with Oriental flowers, ewer
    and basin repaired
    A Pair of Canton Vases and Covers, mid-19th Century, each ovoid body intricately enamelled with figure panels under a waisted neck scattered with flower baskets and Precious Objects, lotus flower finials;  A Chinese ‘famille-rose’ Vase, Guangxu, painted with a scene of figures in a garden between an octagonal foot and a galleried rim, six character mark of Kangxi
    A Chinese ‘famille-verte’ ovoid Jar, Guangxu, painted with a scene of children playing games in a garden supervised by maidens, mark of Kangxi in underglaze-blue
    A Canton ‘famille-rose’ Basin,
    Jiaqing/Daoguang, a central female portrait Mon framed by the Eight Immortals and Shoulao, repaired., wood frame
    A provincial Chinese porcelain Bowl, perhaps Swatow, painted with an underglaze- blue lion medallion framed by red and green formal lotus scrolls, birds alternating with flowers on the exterior
    A Canton celadon ground bottle Vase, Daoguang, painted with kylin and Buddhistic lions amongst Precious Objects and scattered flowers, neck repaired
    A large `famille-rose’ Vase, 2nd half 19th Century, of bottle form, the blue enamel ground filled with colourful formal lotus and reserved with barbed panels of figures in landscapes under a show medallioned shoulder

    encompassed by a band of bats amongst colourful clouds, beneath a waisted neck applied with iron-red mask and ring handles under an overhanging rim with petalled edge, crack in base, minor rubbing, red script
    mark of Qianlong, on white enamel square wood stand
    A’famille-verte’ baluster Vase, mid-19th Century, the exaggerated body enamelled with full-length figures of the Eight Immortals carrying their respective attributes between fine borders of ‘cracked ice’ whorls, flames, ruyi and stiff leaf lappets, small chip to foot
    A large Canton ‘famille-rose’ Vase, Daoguang/Yongzhi, the celadon ground painted with expansive figure panels under gilt Buddhistic lions and dragons under a turn-over rim with petalled edge .
    Set of three Chinese blue and white exportware Teabowls and six Saucers, Jigging; and seven other Chinese Teabowls and nine Saucers
    A Pair of Chinese `famille-rose’ octagonal Cups and Saucers, Qianlong; and a `famille-rose’ Saucer, YongzhenglQianlong
    Eight Chinese `famille-rose’ Teabowls and ten Saucers, Qianlong/Jiaqing, various designs
    A Chinese ‘famille-rose’ Teabowl and two Saucers, Qianlong; and nine Japanese Teabowls/Wine Cups and a Saucer
    A Chinese ’sang-de-boeuf’ Vase, 19th Century, of stout true baluster form, covered in a dark ox-blood glaze, rim repair
    A Canton ‘famille-rose’ Bowl and Cover, Jiaqing/Daoguang, painted with a continuous scene of figures with rickshaws, gilt lychee finial, handles broken, edge chipped
    A Canton ‘famille-rose’ leaf moulded Service, mid-19th Century, of lotus and artemisia leaf form, veined in gilding and enamelled with scattered flowers and insects on a celadon ground, comprising: seven Dishes (in
    three sizes), four Bowls (in two sizes), four small Trays and another Dish, chips and repairs
    A Canton Vase, 19th Century, T of tall mallet form, painted in enamels an with deer grazing under pine trees inhabited by monkeys against a green washed ground
    A Pair of ‘Canton’ Vases, 20th Century, of mallet form, with green Buddhistic lion handles over painted scenes of the Eight Immortals
    A Chinese flambe Dish, 18thtearly 19th Century, of shallow form with inturned rim, the ox-blood glaze splashed and streaked in mottled blue
    A Samson `armorial’ Punch Bowl, late 19th/20th Century, painted in ‘Coqagnie- des-Indes’ style, 25cm.; 9314in.; and three Chinese teaware Bowls
    A Chinese `famille-rose’ Bowl, Qianlong, the ‘chicken-skin’ ground reserved with panels of flowers and shells, a puce scale border within, cracked
    A Canton `famille-rose’ Chamber-Pot, 19th Century, panelled with bird and figure groups, 27.5cm.; 103/4in.; and a Canton `famille-rose’ Basin, repaired
    A good Canton oval Dish, Jigging/ Daoguang, finely painted with three dignitaries seated at separate tables in a columned loggia, servants in attendance, all within a border of green flushed white flowers in a pale-blue ground
    A Chinese celadon Vase, Qing Dynasty, of pleated bi-conical form, base repair
    A Chinese Bowl, Qing Dynasty, painted inside and out with five deer amongst rocks, the crags pierced by translucent rice grain openings, chip, mark of Qianlong
    A later enamelled late Ming Meipin mark and period of Wanli, enamelled `famille-verte’ palette with phoenix flying between elongated lappet and ruyi borders, replacement silver mouth and silver plug-in base, six
    character mark incised  on shoulder

  • A Japanese lacquer Box and Cover - A Pair of Japanese bronze Vases - A Chinese grisaille landscape Panel, Guangxu - A Chinese bronze Group, Qing Dynasty

    Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

    A Japanese lacquer Box and Cover - A Pair of Japanese bronze Vases - A Chinese grisaille landscape Panel, Guangxu - A Chinese bronze Group, Qing Dynasty

    A Japanese bronze Censer, Meiji, in the form of-a standing elephant, on its back a two-tier pagoda.
    A Chinese bronze tripod Censer and Cover, 17th Century, on lion mask and paw feet, the bombe sides cast with shrews amongst grape vine between lappets and arched long handles, a third dragon with pearl in claw
    encompassing the domed cover, pierced with the meandering curls of its tail.
    A ‘Japanese bronze trumpet beaker Vase, Meiji, of octagonal section, cast and applied with a bird standing under bamboo, bottom loose.
    A Japanese Vase, Meiji, of ,teardrop’ form, with cinquefoil mouth, the body moulded with a pair of swimming carp.
    A Eagle, Meiji, perched with wings spread upon a rock washed by waves.
    A Japanese cloisonne spherical Koro and Cover, Meiji, on three short feet, the red ground decorated with a dragon beneath ho-o in a blue border, damage.
    A Group of Japanese and Chinese cloisonne wares, Meiji, comprising: a polyhedral Koro and Cover, three circular Boxes and Covers, two rectangular Boxes with hinged Covers, a cylindrical Box and Cover, a Beaker and a Goblet and Cover
    A Pair of Japanese bronze Vases, Meji each club-form body cast with flowers under openwork handles on the archaically banded, knopped and galleried trumpet neck.
    A Japanese bronze pricket candlestick Figure of a crane, 19th Century, head and neck curved back with a lotus stem in its beak, standing on the back of a bearded turtle (minogame).
    A small Group of Cloisonne, various dates, comprising: a Chinese small footed Censer and Cover, Qing Dynasty, a Box and Cover and a cigarette Case.
    Three iron Tsuba, 18th/19th Century, two pierced with dragons and pearls, the third relief cast with the same.
    A Chinese bronze Group, Qing Dynasty, cast as a young boy hugging a recumbent dog.
    A Japanese silvered bronze Group, 19th Century, sennin seated amongst rocks with a tiger by his side.
    A bamboo libation Cup, Qing Dynasty, of rhinoceros horn form, the sides deeply carved with gnarled pine branches bearing broad  clusters of leaves against the gnarled wood of the main trunk, , re’ ood of a rich nut
    brown tone with polished highlights;
    A Set of three Japanese shibayama bezeek gaming Counters, Meiji, the ivory flip tabs inlaid with birds and insects, one inlay missing, 9.2cm.;
    A Canton export lacquer games Box and five inner Boxes and Covers, late 18th/early 19th Century, of plain rectangular form, each initialled B in gilding, chipped; and a Collection of mother-of-pearl fish Counters
    A Group of nine Chinese hardwood Stands.
    A Chinese soapstone Carving of a Deity, 19th Century, seated to one side and holding a vase, the clothes finely detailed with incised ornament.
    A Chinese soapstone censer Figure of Liuhai, 19th Century, seated in partly jewelled’ clothes, a three-legged frog in his lap, his mouth pierced for release of fumes; and a small soapstone Carving
    Two Chinese rose quartz Carvings of a hare and a bird; three hardstone Fruits; two jade Dishes; a cornelian Carving of a boy with a kylin; and two amethyst Carvings
    A lacquer Box and Cover, 18th Century, of shallow rectangular form, the brown ground applied with a deer in relief running out of deep grass painted in gold lacquer, cracks, repair to cover.Japanese lacquered Box and
    Cover, Edo, of rectangular form, the sides and cover decorated with figures in houses seen between parted cloud borders, cover glued;
    A Chinese jade libation Cup, of octagonal form with two arched dragons grasping the rim to form handles, chip.
    A scholar’s huang huali writing Tray, Guangxu, of square outline with reeded sides, one fitted with a pair of counter levered sliding drawers.
    A silver wire inlaid wood Brushpot, Bidong, Guangxu, of feintly waisted cylinder form, inlaid with three rows of three archaistic characters and with wheel of auspicious characters, minor inlay damage and blister, Eight
    Chinese/Korean brass furniture Padlocks and Keys, circa 1900, various sizes (8) 1674 A Group of Chinese Writing Wares, various dates, comprising: aeen glazed twin fish water Dropper, shell-shaped water Coupe, a
    Yixing brush Washer, a seal Box and Cover, a carved ‘clair de lune’ Bottle and a small bronze Spoon
    A Chinese grisaille landscape Panel, Guangxu, painted with figures fishing about a rocky shore, detailed in rouge-de-fer, wood frame.
    Chinese School, 19th Century: a handscroll landscape, paper and silk.
    S. Ema. ‘Plum Rain’, early 20th Century, gouache on fine sand paper, framed, signature and painted seal mark, Kyoto
    A Chinese silk embroidered informal Jacket, early 20th Century, of deep purple colour with broad black ruyi borders incorporating ‘cut-out’ flower sprays backed in colourful foliage, the broad sleeves embroidered with bird panels in a gold file ground between green and pink stripes;
    A Japanese lacquer Box and Cover, 18th Century, with two drawers and an internal press, the black sides gilt with flowers on a bank, the cover with a peacock and hen perched on a crag beside a torrent, minor chips to
    edges.
    An ivory Netsuke of a woman and bull, 19th Century, the woman taken aback by the phallic form of a scarf accidentally caught in the beast’s horns


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