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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.;
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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.
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Antique American Pottery
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Early American Potters
The first American colonists could ill afford, or have any use for, decorative tablewares. Just as 17th century English potters catered primarily for the farming community, so in 18th century America the potters were producing `redware’ or ’stoneware’ vessels for cooking or storage, but when the occasion arose, they too were able to apply their skills to fashion more decorative items. Plates or platters, various sized bowls, some suitable for tea drinking, and a wide range of jugs and pitchers, were made more attractive with brushed, ’splashed’ or trailed clay slips of contrasting colours. New England archeologists have found evidence of a wide range of wares, which has enabled the collector readily to distinguish between pottery made in America from that imported from England. Porringers in the form of a large shallow cup with a single `steadying” handle, were used at the table for multiple foods, together with mugs of tall cylindrical form.
Towards the middle of the 18th century, the American potters, many of whom had migrated from Staffordshire, became aware of the dangers of using glazes with a high lead content. As a result there was an increased manufacture of salt-glazed stoneware, of a type which had much in common with the early German Rhenish vessels, rather than the fine white body of mid-18th century Staffordshire. There was little encouragement for the American potter to try to improve upon the quality of these humble wares, for from the last quarter of the 18th century masses of white earthenware was being exported from England at a price American craftsmen could not possibly match, despite efforts to produce both tin-glazed and cream-coloured earthenware.
Due to the importation of Chinese pottery, the demand for the more expensive and vulnerable English blue-and-white soft-paste was very low. However, many wares such as Nankin China mugs and salt cellars went to America by way of England, as there was no direct trading taking place between America and China before the American Revolution.
Attempts have been made by many researchers to find proof of the type of pottery said to have been made by the Savannah potter Andrew Duche, who, according to William Stephens, Secretary to the Colony of Georgia, was making ‘translucent’ wares as early as 1741. This would pre-date any documented English pottery. South Carolina also appears to have attracted potters from England. In 1770 John Bartlam was advertising the opening of ‘A China Manufactory and Pottery’ to be staffed by ‘the properhands’ from England. A contemporary pottery in the same area was also advertising for fine clays, which were probably required for the manufacture of crearnware.
The most important finds concerning 18th century American ceramics were made at Philadelphia, where excavated fragments identify at least 20 examples of the soft-paste pottery made by Gouse Bonnin and George Morris. These identified pieces include baskets, sauce-boats, cups and saucers, sweetmeat dishes and covered jars. They are decorated in underglaze-blue, having a great deal in common with English potterys made at Bow, Derby and Worcester. It was a pity that this venture only lasted from 1770-72.