Antique Pottery

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: 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 Chinese blue and white Dish - A Chinese ‘famille-verte’ Dish, Kangxi - A wood Netsuke - A Chinese blue and white saucer Dish, Kangxi - A Chinese blue and white Jar

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

A Chinese blue and white Dish - A Chinese ‘famille-verte’ Dish, Kangxi - A wood Netsuke - A Chinese blue and white saucer Dish, Kangxi - A Chinese blue and white Jar

A Set of three provincial Chinese blue and white saucer Dishes, 18th Century, each boldly painted with a dragon amongst clouds, its hind quarters trailing over the underside, crack, repair Compagnie-des-Indes deep Dish, Qianlong, of European silver form, pencilled with European rose sprays under a hatched border bearing flower sprays inside the iron-oxideedged rim
A Batavianware ‘famille-rose’ Punch Bowl, the cafe-au-laic ground reserved with barbed panels of peony, cracks, 25cm.; 9314in.; and an Imari Bowl, Meiji, the interior painted with ho-o birds ‘famille-rose’ Bowl, mark and period of Yongzheng, the exterior finely enamelled on one side with feathery peony, the other side with a spotted yellow butterfly, two small sprays within, very small chip to rim, six character mark in
underglaze-blue, wood stand
A large Chinese baluster punch Jug and Cover, Qianlong, painted in underglazeblue and enamels with figures in a continuous Lakeland scene, scroll spout, repair to rim, replacement metal handle Pair of Chinese
blanc-de-Chine lion joss-stick Holders, 18th Century, each Buddhistic beast sitting on a cube base, a brocade ball under its left paw, both bases cracked
A Chinese blue and white Jar, Wanli, of stout shouldered ovoid form, the sides painted in underglaze-blue with a Ion -tailed
‘d perched on a rock in a garden of peony, the shoulder panelled with stylised chrysanthemum in a wan-diaper ground
A ‘Compagnie-des-Indes’ Basket and Stand, Qianlong, with trellis pierced sides framing a river scene within brocade and trellis borders, handles repaired, hair-crack in stand
A Pair of Chinese Imari Pots and Covers, Kangxi, each of cylindrical form, painted with hibiscus sprays, both cracked
Three ‘famille-rose’ Teapots, Qianlong and later, enamelled with figures and flowers, one repaired
A Chinese ‘Mandarin’ palette Punch Bowl, Qianlong, the Y-diaper ground reserved with two figure scenes between panels containing birds in branches, a complex brocade and butterfly border within, hair-cracks,  A
‘Compagnie-des-Indes’ blue and white tureen Stand, Qianlong, painted with a willow in a garden before peaks under a cavetto and rim of complex and panelled brocade, chips
Two `famille-rose’ Plates, Yongzheng/ Qianlong, one painted with a pheasant framed by a panelled pink cavetto and four flower
Trays on the rim, 22cm.; 8314in., the other with flowers within an octagonal frame with panelled turquoise trellis border, hair-crack
A Chinese blue and white saucer Dish, Kangxi, a central fan panel framed by four flower and vase groups under a complex border incorporating further fans and scrolls separated by scattered flowers .
A Chinese blue and white Dish, Kangxi, two tiers of flower lappets radiating to a barbed rim from a lotus medallion centre against a trellis ground, two hair-cracks
A Chinese blue and white food Jar, Kangxi, the cylindrical sides filled with two broad antique and landscape panels, rim repair wood cover
A Pair of ‘Compagnie-des-Indes’ Sauceboats, Qianlong, painted in underglazeblue with lake scenes, brown dressed shaped rim, handle crack, other glued,
A ‘Compagnie-des-Indes’ oval Tureen and Cover, Qianlong, painted with expansive lake scenes under a cover surmounted by a pomegranate finial, handles damaged
A Chinese blue and white Ewer, Kangxi,painted in near Transitional style with two scholars seated beneath a willow, body and handle crack
A Chinese ‘famille-verte’ Dish, Kangxi, pencilled in underglaze-blue with two bands of linezhi fungus radiating from and between a medallion centre and trellis borders
A Chinese exportware Bowl and Spoon, for the Persian market, jiaqing, each piece decorated wit simple gilt interweaving ribbon borders centred by green flowerheads about an Arabic inscription clobbered Chinese Jar,
Kangxi and later, the barrel body painted with figure medallions in a reeled band later enamelled with dragons on a green ground between iron-red borders incorporating underglazeblue flower sprays, 20cm.; 8in., Manhao of Chenghua, wood cover and stand
A blanc-de-Chine Ewer, 18th Century, of hexagonal double-gourd form, moulded with recessed panels of auspicious objects against a wave ground; and a blanc-de-Chine Guanyin Group
A Chinese ‘famille-rose’ cylindrical Tankard, Qianlong, painted in Mandarin palette with a scene of three figures on a terrace
A `famille-verte’ wine Pot, Kangxi, of rectangular form, with raised roundels filled with plants and antiques, repairs to upright yoke handle,  ; and an Imari clobbered blue and white Teapot and Cover  A
`Compagnie-des-Indes’ Mug, Qianlong, of barrel form, painted with panels of European roses in puce and purple in scroll frames under scale borders hung with flowers, minor chips to rim interior.
A similar Mug, Qianlong, with entwined double-strap handle and beaded borders, chip
A wood Netsuke, 18th Century, simply carved as a lotus leaf, of dark colour

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