Posts Tagged ‘gilding’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

A Japanese Satsuma Vase - A Satsuma octagonal Jar - A Pair of Arita Vases - An Imari Jar and Cover - A Japanese Imari Basket

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

A Japanese Satsuma Vase - A Satsuma octagonal Jar - A Pair of Arita Vases -  An Imari Jar and Cover - A Japanese Imari Basket
A Japanese Satsuma Vase, Meiji, of stout ovoid form, the blue ground reserved with panels of bijin in a house and a garden, scattered gilt brocade and leaves in between.
A [...]

Antique French Pottery

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

France
From the mid-17th century various East India Companies had been bringing Far Eastern pottery into Europe in increasing quantities. In consequence, there was little incentive for potters of other countries to spend time and money trying to produce a similar type of pottery. It was eventually left to a few French potters, already engaged in [...]