The Chinese Art of Monochrome

A CHINESE COPPER RED-GLAZED VASE. Qing Dynasty. The globular body supported on a tapering foot, and rising to a slightly spreading cylindrical nec...

A SMALL CHINESE COPPER RED AND OLIVE GREEN-GLAZED VASE, GU. Qing Dynasty. The high flared foot rounded slightly towards the base, with a compresse...

A CHINESE COPPER RED-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE. Qing Dynasty. The rounded body rising to a waisted neck with everted rim, covered in a brilliant red glaz...

A CHINESE COPPER RED AND OLIVE GREEN-GLAZED JAR. Qing Dynasty. The rounded sides rising to wide shoulders and a slightly everted rim above a narro...

A CHINESE COPPER RED-GLAZED JAR AND COVER. Qing Dynasty. Swelling to rounded shoulders from a waisted lower body to a narrow short neck, the domed...

A CHINESE COPPER-RED SPLASHED VASE. Qing Dynasty. The globular body rising from a narrow foot with a short waisted neck and everted rim, the pale ...

A CHINESE COPPER RED AND OLIVE GREEN-GLAZED WASHER. Qing Dynasty. The compressed globular body that tapers to the concave base and rises to a curv...

A CHINESE COPPER RED-GLAZED VASE, MEIPING. Qing Dynasty. The tapering body rising from a splayed foot to rounded shoulders, sweeping up to a short...

THREE CHINESE COPPER RED-GLAZED SCHOLAR'S DESK ITEMS. Qing Dynasty. Comprising: a zhadao with a globular body and a high trumpet neck, covered in ...

A SMALL CHINESE COPPER RED-GLAZED JAR AND COVER. Qing Dynasty. Of globular form with a narrow rim, surmounted by a small domed cover, covered in a...

A PAIR OF CHINESE COPPER RED-GLAZED VASES. Qing Dynasty. The pair shaped body supported on a slightly tapered foot and rising to a trumpet neck, e...

A CHINESE FLAMBÉ-GLAZED BAMBOO-NECKED BOTTLE VASE. Qing Dynasty. The globular body rising from a straight foot to a tall neck with everted waisted...

A LARGE CHINESE COPPER ALLOY HANDWARMER AND COVER. Qing Dynasty. The globular body rising from a flat base rounded shoulders and a lipped mouth ri...

A PAIR OF CHINESE BRONZE INCENSE BURNERS. Each of archaistic gui form, the compressed body supported on a splayed foot, set with plain loop handle...

THREE CHINESE BRONZE BOXES. Qing Dynasty. Comprising: a circular box and cover the top inscribed with a poem, 9cm diameter, 225g, together with tw...

A CHINESE CELADON-GLAZED TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER. Ming Dynasty. The compressed circular body carved to the exterior with lotus flower heads and smal...

A CHINESE CRACKLE-GLAZE 'BLOSSOM' JARDINIERE. Qing Dynasty, 18th Century. Formed as a blossom with stems, petals and branched moulded to the exter...

A CHINESE PEACH-BLOOM GLAZED WASHER. Qing Dynasty. With low rounded sides incurved at the mouth and supported on a low tapering foot, the exterior...

A CHINESE CLARE-DE-LUNE WASHER. The compressed circular body decorated with a pale blue glaze and raised on a straight foot, the underside glazed ...

A LARGE CHINESE IMPERIAL YELLOW SILK DAMASK 'DRAGON' PANEL. Qing Dynasty. Woven with alternate rows of downward facing and upward facing five claw...

A MASSIVE CHINESE SPINACH JADE 'DRAGON' VASE AND COVER. The tapered cylindrical body carved with panels of archaistic scrolls and taotie masks, wi...

A CHINESE BLUE-GLAZED JAR. Qing Dynasty. The ovoid body and a short waisted neck decorated with an even powder-blue glaze, the interior and unders...

A LARGE CHINESE LEMON YELLOW-GLAZED VASE. The tapered body rising to a short waisted neck set with two bovine head handles to the shoulder, all de...

A LARGE CHINESE COPPER RED-GLAZE VASE. Qing Dynasty. With a cylindrical body and a rounded shoulder, all coated with a red glaze with brown inclus...

A CHINESE YELLOW-GLAZED BOWL. Ming Dynasty, six character Hongzhi mark and possibly of the period. With steep rounded sides rising from a tapered ...

A CHINESE CRACKLE-GLAZED BOWL. Qing Dynasty. The low, thickly potted body with an everted rim decorated with a buff glaze crisscrossed with fine b...

A CHINESE POWDER-BLUE BOWL. Qing Dynasty, six character Kangxi mark and possibly of the period. The deep body rising from a straight foot to a fla...

A CHINESE COPPER RED-GLAZED TRIPOD WATER POT. Qing Dynasty. The globular body supported on short conical tripod feet with a wide inverted rim just...

A CHINESE GREEN-GLAZED BOWL. The rounded body raised on a circular foot decorated to the exterior with bright green glaze and celadon glaze to the...

A CHINESE WHITE-GLAZED ANHUA-DECORATED DRAGON VASE, MEIPING. The tapered body decorated with dragons pursuing sacred pearls above waves crashing a...

λ A CHINESE CARVED ZITAN WOOD 'LOTUS POD' CRICKET BOX. Qing Dynasty. With deeply rounded lobed into five sections to form a foliate rim around the...

A CHINESE LEMON YELLOW-GLAZED WATERPOT. Qing Dynasty. The ovoid body raised on a circular foot rising to a narrow rim, all decorated with an even ...

A CHINESE ROBIN'S EGG-GLAZED BRUSHPOT, BITONG. With a cylindrical body decorated with a mottled blue and turquoise glaze and a six character Kangx...

A CHINESE FLAMBÉ-GLAZED WASHER. Qing Dynasty, 18th / 19th Century The splayed foot spreading rising to rounded shoulders below a waisted neck and ...

THREE CHINESE MONOCHROME-GLAZED VASES. Qing Dynasty. Comprising a clair-de-lune vase with a steep shoulder and a six character Yongzheng mark, a r...

A CHINESE BROWN-GLAZED STEM BOWL. Qing Dynasty. The rounded bowl supported on a splayed and pedestal base, the exterior covered in an even brown g...

A PAIR OF SMALL CHINESE CLARE-DE-LUNE GLAZED CUPS. Qing Dynasty, six character Yongzheng mark and possibly of the period. Each with a tall body an...

A CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON YEN YEN VASE. Ming Dynasty. The tapered body incised with freely designed flowers and foliage, the foot with a band of ...

A MASSIVE CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON 'PEACOCK' CHARGER. Ming Dynasty. Incised to the centre with a bird among large blossoms and foliage, the cavett...

A CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON CHARGER. Ming Dynasty. With a plain face and a recessed rim, all coated with an olive-green glaze with crackles, 31.5cm...

A PAIR OF CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON VASES. Ming Dynasty. Each with an ovoid body carved with geometric patterns, a band of banana leaves to the wid...

A CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON-GLAZED VASE. Ming Dynasty. The cylindrical body with a tall neck rising to a flared rim framed with two fish-shaped han...

A CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON-GLAZED 'SCHOLARS AND POETS' BOWL. Ming Dynasty. Moulded to the centre with the important historical figures Li Bai read...

A CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON 'DRAGON' VASE. The ovoid body moulded with two scaly beasts among clouds in pursuit of sacred pearls, the shoulder with...

A CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON-GLAZED YEN YEN VASE. Ming Dynasty. With an ovoid body and a tall flared neck carved with large flower heads and foliage...

A PAIR OF CHINESE YELLOW GLAZED HOUNDS. Qing Dynasty, 19th Century. Each seated in mirror image with the head turned back the mouth open and tongu...

A PAIR OF CHINESE BLANC-DE-CHINE JOSS STICK HOLDERS. Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period. Each seated on its haunches, wearing a collar suspending bells a...

A PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE SPINACH-GREEN HORSES. Each skillfully carved from a massive block of rich and even green colour, shown standing four-squar...