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: ‘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: 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.

An ivory Netsuke - A mutton-fat jade Carving of a Buddhistic lion - A Japanese ivory Figure of a samurai - A Group of Japanese ivory Figures and Carvings - A Qajar lacquered Bowl

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

An ivory Netsuke - A mutton-fat jade Carving of a Buddhistic lion - A Japanese ivory Figure of a samurai - A Group of Japanese ivory Figures and Carvings - A Qajar lacquered Bowl

A mutton-fat jade Carving of a Buddhistic lion and cub, both biting the brocade ribbon attached to a ball, wood stand, cased
An Indian painted wood Carving of an ele unit, circa 1900, with driver seated on its back, possibly lacking howdah.
A Chinese carved wood Group of a boy on buffalo, Guangxu; and two Carvings of seated Buddhas
An am hors ware Group of an Arab riding a camel, early 20th Century, modelled in Royal Dux style and decorated in typical `shot’ enamels, restored, impressed mark Amphora Austria’
A Set of four Chinese leaf Paintings, 19th Century, each finely painted with a conclave of Buddhistic monks, Iohan and deities, mounted, framed and glazed.
A Qajar lacquered Bowl, 19th Century, of hemispherical form, decorated inside and out with a formal floral design.
Six Canton export watercolour Paintings on rice paper, 19th Century, each depicting a Chinese man-o’-war or river boat, framed and glazed, various sizes
A Pair of Chinese export watercolour Paintings on rice paper, 19th Century, each framed with a courtesan and two attendants,
ramed and glazed
A Japanese overmantel  Mirror, circa 1900, of rectangular outline, the upper half mounted with a painted frieze of three bin,
A part lacquered and marquetry inlaid Kodanso, Meiji, with incised chequer ground simulating basketweave, the sliding front inlaid with a fair and man motifs, the case and three drawers hung with gilt-bronze handles,
one side detached; a small Cabinet; and a Headrest
Eight Japanese ivory on lacquer Panels, Meiji, comprising: three Pairs, one decorated with a sage and his acolyte, the others with figures or flowers, various sizes
A Chinese soapstone Figure of Guan Jiaqing Daoguang, standing on a pierced gnarled rock, her robes caught in a breeze, a small vase in one hand, finely incised features.
A Japanese wood theatre Mask, 19th Century, carved as a frowning ng villain with furrowed features, all covered in red, 26cm.
A Japanese ivory Figure of a samurai, 19th Century, a small dog attracting his attention with a document.
A Chinese reverse glass Paintin 19th Century, depicting a family, distressed, gilt, frame.
Ando: A Japanese cloisonne Vase, Meiji, decorated with a boat approaching a shore with mountains behind and a Pair of smaller turquoise ground ovoid Vases, decorated with chrysanthemum Chinese School: A Group
of Paintings on silk, comprising: a Study of ducks, egrets beneath lotus flowers, and a Study of flowers under plantain leaves, all framed and glazed, various sizes
An ivory okimono Group, Meiji, three travellers, one on horseback signed; a stag antler Netsuke of a sennin, 18th Century, in his hands a large gourd and a plantain leaf, and a stag antler Netsuke of Fururokuyu, 19th
Century, in contorted pose, head tilted to one side.
A Group of Japanese ivory Figures and Carvings, Meiji: a man and woman eating, a man with a bowl, an oni with a bowl, a man in a shell, a duck and a man crouching.
A Japanese eight-fold Screen, mounted in a single Trame, painted with cranes by a shore.
A Group of Japanese sword Fittings, 19th Century, comprising: iron Tsuba cast and inlaid with figures and gardens, matching Fuchi and nine Menuki and similar Fittings.
A Japanese cloisonn6 Bowl, circa 1880, of flared form, the underside enamelled with ducks on a pond over applied bamboo feet.
A Canton export ivory cribbage Board, 19th Century, with arched end, the pierced telling panels framing figure panels recessed in a foliate ground.
A cloisonne Vase, Meiji, of ovoid form, the black ground finely decorated with yellow flowerheads and buds, 15.7cm.
Two Chinese cloisonne Bowls, Guangxu, one of low discoidal form, the other of punch bowl form, both decorated with yellow dragons in a black ground.
A Collection of Chinese cloisonne, circa 1900, comprising: a Pair of Candlesticks, 23.5cm.; 91/4in., a Pair of pear-form Vases, dented, a Box, a circular Box, a small Dish, a match Case, three Bowls, a Vase and a wood
Stand
A Pair of Japanese bronze censer Vases, Meiji, each with everted pan tops over reliefs of chrysanthemums, socketed into a similarly encrusted base, damage to foot.
A Pair of Japanese bronze bottle Vases, 19th Century, in Chinese 17th Century style, each cast with a dragon rising to the onion mouthed neck.
A Japanese bronze gong Figure, Meiji, hand thrust into the air to support a gong with inscribed rim, a scarf billowing about the bare-chested figure, on socketed stand, gong perhaps added.Japanese lacquered
Cabinet-on Stand, Meiji of traditional form, a pair of cupboard doors under upturned ends enclosing inner compartments and drawers over a galleried base, inlaid ivory detail, minor damage;
A Chinese archaistic bronze Vessel, Jue, Qing Dynasty, of typical ShanglZhou form with horn-shaped mouth, mask and tongue handle over the taotie moulded body upon tapering triangular blade feet, traces of gilt inlay, foot repair.
An ivory Netsuke, 19th Century, a shi-shi hatching out of a ball, apparently stuck, unsigned