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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.;

  • 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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