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A LARGE ‘BIRDS WORSHIPPING THE PHOENIX’ CLOISONNÉ BASIN, MING DYNASTY 明代大型《百鳥朝鳳》掐絲琺瑯盆Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價China, 16th to early 17th century. The interior exquisitely decorated in bright enamels with a majestic phoenix standing proudly on one leg, surrounded by adoring birds including a crane beside a tree, a peacock in flight amid colorful clouds, mandarin ducks in a pond, and pheasants perched on bamboo stalks, all encircled by red-ground foliate and white-ground lappet bands. The cavetto with a band of alternating lotus blossoms and the Eight Treasures (babao) below a diapered floral band, the everted rim with a band of chrysanthemum flowerheads and scrolling vines above a ruyi-head border, all against a dark blue ground.Provenance: Sotheby's London, 2 November 2022, lot 291. A private collector, acquired from the above. A copy of the invoice from Sotheby's London, dated 8 November 2022 and stating a purchase price of GBP 8,190 or approx. EUR 10,000 (converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing) accompanies this lot. Condition: Good condition with some old wear and expected manufacturing irregularities, including pitting to the enamel, the cavetto with small losses to enamel and associated old fills, minute dents, light wear to gilt. Weight: 1,960 g Dimensions: Diameter 37.5 cmPhoenixes surrounded by various birds, including cranes, mandarin ducks, and pheasants, are a common motif in Chinese culture. Phoenixes are regarded as the king of the birds, as they represent power, virtue, and grace. The present lot is a rare example of such a depiction on a cloisonné basin. Literature comparison: Compare a related cloisonné phoenix basin, dated to the late Ming dynasty, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels 1, Beijing, 2011, no. 170. Two Ming dynasty cloisonné enamel basins decorated with phoenixes from the 15th and 16th centuries are illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, The Asia Society Galleries, USA, 1989, pls. 19 and 63.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Christie’s Paris, 9 June 2021, lot 166 Price: EUR 17,500 or approx. EUR 19,000 adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: A cloisonné enamel ‘phoenix’ basin, China, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th centuryExpert remark: Compare the closely related form, enamels, decorative bands, and phoenixes. Note the slightly smaller size (35 cm). Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2018, lot 653 Price: HKD 175,000 or approx. EUR 22,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: A cloisonné enamel ‘carp’ basin, Ming dynasty, Wanli periodExpert remark: Compare the closely related form, enamels, and decorative bands. Note the slightly smaller size (35.5 cm) and different subject. Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Christie’s Paris, 10 December 2020, lot 6 Price: EUR 56,250 or approx. EUR 61,500 adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: A large cloisonné enamel basin, China, 17th centuryExpert remark: Compare the closely related form, enamels, and decorative bands. Note the significantly larger size (53.5 cm) and different subject.明代大型《百鳥朝鳳》掐絲琺瑯盆中國,十六至十七世紀初。盆折沿,弧腹,平足。明豔精美的琺瑯,盆中開光描繪一隻威風凜凜的鳳凰單腿站立,周圍環繞著可愛的鳥兒,包括樹旁的鶴,彩雲中飛翔的孔雀,池塘中的鴛鴦,竹上的雉鷄;盆内壁可見纏枝蓮紋帶與八寶紋帶。 來源:倫敦古玩交易。 品相:狀況良好,有一些磨損和製造不規則,包括琺瑯點蝕和凹陷、鎏金有些缺損和相對應的修補、鎏金輕微磨損。 重量:1,960 克 尺寸:直徑37.5 厘米
A FAMILLE ROSE 'NINE PEACHES' JARDINIÈRE, GUANGXU MARK AND PROBABLY OF THE PERIOD 光緒款粉彩九桃花缸,或爲光緒時期Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價China, probably 1875-1908, or early in the Republic period (before 1930). Of rectangular form, the slightly flaring sides supported on four short bracket feet and finely painted with the spreading branches of a peach tree bearing nine fruits, five pink and white blossoms, and lingzhi mushrooms. The slender leaves decorated in two shades of green, one side with two iron-red bats, and the rim with iron-red flowerheads borne on scrolling vines. The base with an iron-red six-character mark da Qing Guangxu nianzhi and probably of the period.Provenance: English trade.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and manufacturing irregularities. The interior with distinct areas of calcification indicating extended use as a water basin. The wood stand is slightly warped and shows a fine, naturally grown patina with faint age cracks.Weight: 574 g (excl. stand) and 734 g (incl. stand)Dimensions: Length 19.5 cm With a fitted and finely carved hardwood stand, possibly Hongmu, dating from the late Qing dynasty or early Republic period. (2)Peaches are perhaps China’s most auspicious fruit, having a long tradition as omens of longevity and harbingers of happiness, and flowering peach branches are believed to ward off evil. In the Shi Jing [Classic of Poetry], the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, edited by Confucius (551-479 BC), the peach is used as a metaphor for thriving marriage and family. The poet Tao Qian (365-427) tells of a fisherman who, when following the source of a stream in a peach orchard – 'Peach Blossom Spring' – through a crevice in a rock, discovered a paradisiacal world. A peach orchard is also the setting for the oath of brotherhood sworn by the three main protagonists of the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of whom, the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) general Guan Yu, was deified and worshipped as Emperor Guan or God of War for near two millennia. The ‘peaches of immortality’, which are said to grow in the garden of Xi Wangmu, the Queen Mother of the West, flower only once every three thousand years, take three thousand years to bear fruit and another three thousand years to ripen, and are then offered in a banquet to the immortals. Dongfang Shuo, a witty and clever Han dynasty scholar, who became the hero of many legends, is reported to have stolen peaches of immortality and thus to have become immortal. And the same feat is told of the mischievous Monkey King Sun Wukong, hero of the novel Journey to the West, who subsequently was recruited by Guanyin (Bodhisattva of Compassion) to accompany the Tang dynasty (618-907) monk Xuanzang on his trip to India to obtain Buddhist sutras.Auction result comparison: Type: RelatedAuction: Sotheby’s New York, 24 June 2020, lot 801Price: USD 30,000 or approx. EUR 32,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: A Large Famille-Rose 'Nine Peaches' Circular Box and Cover, Republic PeriodExpert remark: Compare the related subject. Note the apocryphal Guangxu mark and dating to the Republic period.
A SET OF TWELVE JADE AND GILT-BRONZE ‘AUSPICIOUS BEASTS’ BELT PLAQUES, LIAO DYNASTY 遼代一組十二件鎏金銅神獸紋玉腰帶牌Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價China, c. 10th-12th century. Each jade belt plaque is carved in high relief with an animal or mythical beast, depicting a dragon, qilin, phoenixes, lion, tiger, bear, and cranes, and set within a bronze fitting. Each jade plaque and bronze fitting is pierced with a slit. The smoothly polished jades are of a celadon tone with russet inclusions. The bronze fittings are covered in a fine, naturally grown patina with malachite and cuprite encrustations.Provenance: From an old private collection in Vienna, Austria. Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Wear, traces of use, small losses, minor nicks here and there, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations.Scientific Analysis Report: An examination of the bronze components of the present lot was conducted by the Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum für Archäometrie using energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis, micro energy dispersive X-Ray fluorescence analysis, and lead test analysis. These tests found that the bronze fitting of the largest belt plaque was made from a tin-lead-bronze alloy in which no modern components of any kind could be detected. Conversely, it was also found that the sample contains trace elements that are typical of ancient metal alloys. The report concludes that the tests found absolutely no evidence of modern manufacture of the present lot. A copy of the examination report, no. 16-024, dated 25 February 2016, accompanies this lot.Weight: 747 g (total) Dimensions: Size 8.5 x 4.2 cm (the largest) and 4 x 3 cm (the smallest) With a silk storage box. (13)Khotan in the Tarim basin had rich jade stores during the Tang dynasty. The jade was fashioned into ornaments such as women’s comb tops and decorative plaques for belts worn by senior officials. The use of such plaques had its origin in the Tang dynasty, when the emperor presented jade-decorated belts to the nobility and senior members of the government as part of their official costume. The jade plaques in this set are carved in high relief with images of animals and mythical beasts.Literature comparison: Compare a related set of ten decorative belt plaques, dated to the Tang dynasty, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1992.165.22a–j. Compare a related group of three gilt-bronze mounted jade belt fittings, two with similar slits as found on the present lot, dated to the Liao dynasty, in the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, record number BATEA : 451. Compare a related celadon jade plaque carved with a crane, dated to the Western Liao dynasty (of the Qara Khitai based in Central Asia who were originally refugees from the Liao dynasty), circa 12th-13th century, in the British Museum, registration number 1880.3611.Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2023, lot 319 Estimate: HKD 600,000 or approx. EUR 69,000 converted at the time of writing Description: A set of eleven white jade ‘musicians and dancers’ belt plaques, Tang dynasty Expert remark: Compare the related forms and manner of carving with similar high relief. Note that the lot comprises eleven white jade belt plaques (the largest 5.2 cm long), dated to the Tang dynasty.
A RARE WHITE MARBLE CARVING OF A PHALLUS, WESTERN HAN DYNASTY 西漢漢白玉玉勢 Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價China, 206 BC-8 AD. The realistically carved elongated phallus is decorated with rings along the shaft and with a cross-hatched decorative band at the base. The base has a domed recess inside that is pierced horizontally for suspension. This recess has a second aperture that extends to the tip of the phallus.Provenance: Bonhams, Hong Kong, December 16th, 2022, lot 351. Note that Bonham’s experts originally dated this lot to the Tang dynasty.Condition: Good condition commensurate with age. Signs of wear, weathering, and erosion. Minor nicks and losses. Soil encrustations overall, issuing from an extended period of burial. These encrustations cannot be easily removed, and they have left distinct marks to the mineral. The stone with natural inclusions and fissures, some of which have developed into hairline cracks. Fine, naturally grown golden-brown patina overall.Weight: 431.7 g Dimensions: Length 18.9 cm Expert’s note: Similar to the few known phallus sculptures from ancient China, the heavy encrustation from extensive burial is evidence of its (eventual) use as a grave good. The elaborate carving with great attention to detail and the two apertures, one for suspension and one for added realism, suggest the elite status of the person with which this was buried. Phallic objects carved from stone, or cast from metal or terracotta, are common subjects of any major ancient culture. Throughout time, the phallus was seen as an emblem of life and procreation. Not only did it have the power to induce fertility, but it also had an equally important role as an auspicious emblem which would ward off diseases. The practice of castration and the employment of court eunuchs, likely established in China during the Sui dynasty, added a secondary role of model phalli: the restoration of manhood after death (court eunuchs would be buried with their detached genitalia). However, this multifaceted subject remains somewhat of a taboo, which has contributed to relatively scarce publications about ancient Chinese erotic sculpture.Phalluses of various materials, believed to be associated with fertility rites, have been made in various prehistoric cultures in the Yellow River basin. Later in the Shang dynasty, when pictographic language emerged, the character zu (ancestor) closely resembled the male sexual organ, indicating the significance of the male role in ancient Chinese ancestry.Literature comparison: Compare two similar bronze phallus excavated from a tomb in the Dayun Mountain, Xuyi, Jiangsu, dated to the Western Han dynasty, in the Nanjin Museum, included in the exhibition Tomb Treasures: New Discoveries from China’s Han Dynasty, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 17 February-28 May 2017. Compare two bronze V-shaped double-phalli, excavated in the tomb of Prince Zhongshan (Liu Sheng), dated to the Han dynasty, published in Mancheng Han mu Fajue Baogao (Excavation Report of the Han Dynasty tomb at Mancheng), Beijing, 1980, vol. 1, pp. 100. The former was unearthed together with a pair of matching stone pebbles, illustrated ibid., vol. 2, pl. LXI, fig. 2.Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29 April 2022, lot 3670 Estimate: HKD 140,000 or approx. EUR 16,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: A bronze phallus, Han dynasty Expert remark: Note the similar wrinkle-like rings at the top of the shaft. Note the size (17.2 cm).
2 WW2 era RAF tin storage trunks, both named to 130759 F/Lt E.S.Parkes R.A.F, plus a scarce WW2 era portable canvas wash basin, in two sizes (for officers and other ranks, with one marked 1942 Waring & Gillows), the expanding box wood frame and its canvas cover, plus the original canvas bucket (dated 1943) for decanting water into the basins. Also included is a leather strap and name tag (named to F/Lt Parkes) to secure the trunk lids, and a pair of WW2 F/Lt greatcoat epaulettes. Condition: service and age related wear to most pieces. The trunks show some corrosion and paint loss, but are solidly constructed. The canvas wash basins are a little stained and mildewed, but remain free of holes. The epaulettes are in good condition.
A white and brown decorative teapot molded to imitate a shop cart with a mini tea set, basin, plate, and vase in Old Country Roses pattern with gilt trims. The lid is molded as the cloth top of the cart. Royal Albert backstamp. Artist: Paul CardewIssued: 1996Dimensions: 6"L x 2.75"W x 3.75"HManufacturer: Royal AlbertCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.
A FINE BRONZE AND ORMOLU MOUNTED MARBLE FIGURAL CERCLE TOURNANTS 'PENDULE AUX TROIS GRACES' THE CASE CAST IN THE MANNER OF ETIENNE-MAURICE FALCONNET, PARIS, LATE 19th CENTURYThe horizontal circular eight-day two train bell striking movement with platform lever escapement regulated by sprung split bimetallic balance mounted on the movement front plate, the 7.75 inch rotating annular chapter ring applied with twelve rectangular Roman numeral cartouche panels with gilt fleur-de-lys half hour markers beneath Arabic five minute annotations and dot minute markers to upper margin, reading against a single steel arrow-shaped hand fixed to the lower rim of the annular ring aperture, the sculptural case with stylised gilt pineapple cast finial to the circular stepped ogee superstructure supported above the chapter ring via four slender uprights, over hemispherical basin decorated with cast drapery supported on a generous patinated bronze sculptural upright cast as three semi clad Classical female figures standing on a disc inscribed FALCONNET, the circular base formed as a squat fluted white marble pedestal set on a gilt band cast with Vitruvian bands supported by four rectangular rosette panel decorated projecting panel feet with cavetto skirts, the front applied with an engraved brass plaque inscribed A Monsieur Louis GODCHAUX, SOC. A'ME BELGICA, SOC. A'ME LEONARD BIERMANS, SOC. A'ME ETABLISSEMENTS BREPOLS, MESSIEURS MESMAEKERS FRERES, SOC. A'ME LA TURNHOUTOISE, SOC. A'ME ETABLISSEMENT ANTOINE VAN GENECHETEN, RECONNAISSANTS.103cm (40.5ins) high, 37cm (14.5ins) diameter at the base. Provenance:Louis Godchaux, Belgium, thence by direct family descent to the present owner. The form of the current lot was inspired by models created by Etienne-Maurice Falconnet (1716-91) which included a large white marble group created for the Comte Isaac de Comondo in around 1770, now housed at the Louvre. An anonymous small timepiece of closely related design and dated to around 1780 is illustrated in Brusa, Guiseppe L'ARTE DELL, OROLOGERIA IN EUROPA plates 614-15; whilst an essentially identical timepiece was sold at Rossini, Rue Drouot, Paris, 24th June 2021 (Lot 265) for £12,855.
A German silver beaker, maker's mark mis-struck, post 1886 .800 standard, wrythen rocaille embossed and monogrammed to the rococo cartouche, 7.5cm (3in) high; a twin handled sugar basin by George Wish Ltd, Sheffield 1912; a pepperette and three small spoons, 198g (6.35 oz) gross; and five plated items (10)
A George IV Scottish silver cream jug and sugar basin by Charles Bendy, Edinburgh 1822, with leaf-capped scroll handles, flower and scroll chased rims, gadrooned compressed bodies centred by reserves, on pedestal bases, the interiors gilt, engraved with a crest, a motto Manent Optima Coelo and initials TM, the basin 21.5cm (8 1/2in) across handles, 771g (24.8 oz)The crest and motto for Miller.
A matched silver three piece tea service, the tea pot by Hawksworth, Eyre & Co. Ltd, London 1903, the sugar basin by Thomas Bradbury & Sons Ltd, Sheffield 1904 and the cream jug by George Nathan & Ridley Hayes, Chester 1904, oblong, the tea pot with an ebonised harp handle and lobed finial, half gadrooned, 25cm (9 3/4in) long; and an apostle sugar tongs, Sheffield 1898, 797g (25.6 oz) gross (4)
A collection of Continental silver small items, mostly late 19th or early 20th century, comprising: a Continental miniature tripod table box, import marked for London 1901, 5cm (2in) high; a Norwegian cornucopia novelty pepperette by Magnus Aase, Bergen, .830 standard, engraved Park Avenue Hotel, Gothenberg; a Dutch miniature wash jug and basin, pseudo marks, Dutch sword mark for .833 standard; a German oval box by Johann S. Kurz & Co., circa 1900, French weevil import mark for .800; a Portuguese gilt filigree box, maker's mark not traced, Porto post 1938 .833 standard; a Kingdom of the Two Sicilies miniature cup, no maker's mark, assayer Paolo De Blasio, Naples 1832-35 .834 standard; a Spanish oval box. post 1934 .915 standard; a compressed circular box embossed with an elephant, unmarked, probably Indian; and a zarf-like filigree and cut-glass cup, of recent manufacture, 6cm (2 3/8in) high, loaded, 183g (5.9 oz) gross weighable (10)
A Victorian silver tea pot by Charles Stuart Harris, London 1886, compressed circular with an ebonised loop handle, a dome centred cover, a shell and gadrooned rim, a three-quarter fluted body, on four foliate bracket feet, 25cm (9 3/4in) long; and a provincial twin handled sugar basin conforming, perhaps John Robertson II, Newcastle perhaps 1823 (worn marks), 1131g (36.35 oz) gross (2)
(Travel.) Samuel Baker: 'The Albert N'Yanza Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources', L, Macmillan, 1872, new edition, maps, plates and ills. as per list, lacks FFEP, original cloth gilt; plus Murray's 'Handbook for Traveller's in India Burma and Ceylon', 1924, 11th edition, numerous folding maps and plans, orig. cloth gilt worn (2)
An early 20th century continental, believed Czech, enamel painted wall sink basin. The basin with blue rim & white bowl fading into teal. Featuring a floral display to the back, with two wall hanging holes. A.f, with some noticeable rust damage; suited for reclamation use as a planter or similar. Measures approx. 18cm tall, 34cm long, 24cm deep.
A large Chinese famille rose porcelain vase, 19th century, of globular form with a slender column neck, decorated with alternating panels of birds amongst foliage and figural scenes,40cm high,together with a similar famille rose basin,19th century, with conforming decoration,48cm diameter14cm high (2)Condition ReportVase) Cracked and restored to the upper part of the neck. Nibbles and wear around the foot rim. Firing flaws visible. Surface wear and scratching.Basin) Cracked and restored, with evidence of previous rivet repairs. Nibbles and wear around the foot rim. Firing flaws visible. Surface wear and scratching.Both with significant condition issues.Please see the additional images.
An Edwardian silver sugar basin - Walker & Hall, Sheffield 1909, of circular urn form with twin scroll handles and flared foot, 9.2 cm high; together with two similar silver sauce boats, Sheffield 1928 and Birmingham 1939, boat form with cut card rims and hoof feet, one with flying scroll handle, the other a plain scroll handle, the larger with repairs to rim, 14.75 cm long, 360.5g.
An early 19th Century Irish mahogany Washstand, by Williams & Gibton stamped on the centre drawer and with the number 10543, the two part high arched back above a two tier bowed front, the upper tier with a cut out basin aperture and three mock drawers, the lower shelf with two mock and one frieze drawer raised on three square legs, the front legs slightly splayed, all united by a shaped stretcher, 125cms x 89cms (49" x 35"). (1)
A collection of various china wares to include Royal Copenhagen onion pattern tea service comprising pot, sugar basin and cover, cream jug, seven cups, six saucers, seven plates and sandwich plate together with a set of six gilt decorated yellow banded Coalport coffee cans and saucers, two Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester shell decorated cabinet plates (both cracked in half and repaired) and a Berlin circular shallow dish with floral spray decoration 32 cm diameter CONDITION REPORTS Royal Copenhagen only - all pieces are filthy and in need of a good clean. Otherwise general wear and tear to include some knife marks, rubbing, particularly to the saucers. See images for examples.
Collection of various silverto include: a matching sugar basin and milk jug, bearing marks for Sheffield, 1930, 531g approx overall, a cased set of six silver and enamel teaspoons, a set of four Georgian silver spoons, bearing marks for Richard Britton, London, 1829, 17.5cm overall, 155g approx overall, silver pedestal dish, silver mustard pots with blue glass liners etc At present, there is no condition report prepared for this lot, this in no way indicates a good condition, please contact the saleroom for a condition report.
Vintage Carlton Ware pink 'Buttercup' flower design breakfast set comprising; small teapot, sugar bowl, milk jug, two cups and saucers and a marmalade dish. Together with a Royal Paragon Art Deco style tulip design breakfast set to include: teapot, water jug, sugar basin, milk jug and a trio, marked replica of a service made for the Queen. (2) (B.P. 21% + VAT) Carlton ware has crazing in places. Paragon jug is chipped. Otherwise no obvious damage.

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