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A Chinese pottery ginger jar and cover, on a carved hardwood base, 27.5 cm high, a pair of similar vases, other ceramics, silver plate and items (2 boxes) Condition report Report by GH The large turquoise ginger jar and cover are in good condition with occasional small glaze blemishes but no cracks or obvious restoration. The pair of turquoise coloured vases are also in good condition with a small amount of possible restoration to one of the rims but overall good. The small blue and white ginger jar is in good condition with no cracks or repairs Floral vase has one small rim chip and a large re-glued rim chip approx. 3 cm wide. The height of the larger ginger jar is 26 cm, and that is excluding the stand. The height of the pair of turquoise vases excluding the stands, are 23.5 cm. The height of the blue and white ginger jar is 13 cm. Floral vase is 20 cm high
A large Chinese famille verte plate 18th/19th century Vividly decorated in translucent enamels with a scene of officials with attendants and soldiers in a landscape. Encircled by a motif of Endless Knot and flowers around the rim. D 30 cm CONDITION REPORT: No damage or restoration some wear to the gilding on the edge of plate ,bright intact enamelling.
CHINESE PORCELAIN UNDERGLAZE BLUE DECORATED PLATE OR SHALLOW DISH decorated to the centre with figures in a garden and with Diaper border, having reserve floral panels, scenic designs to the reverse with jade 'bell' mark to the base within a double concentric circle in Kangxi style. 27cm diameter. * CONDITION REPORT: Chips and frits in various places around the rim together with long hair crack.
CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE UNDERGLAZE DECORATED PLATE OR SHALLOW DISH overall decorated with prunus blossom to the border and central field and having bamboo swags to the exterior. Six character Cheng Hua underglaze blue character mark to base within two blue concentric circles. 31.5cm across. * CONDITION REPORT: Evident minor frits around the edge rim otherwise no damage or restoration.
CHINESE PORCELAIN UNDERGLAZE BLUE DECORATED PLATE OR SHALLOW DISH having an indented rim and being painted with a repeating panel of moral studies around a central study of a bird amidst foliage, with insects. Reverse decorated with flower sprays and having six underglaze blue character marks within concentric circle to base. 27cm diameter. CONDITION REPORT: Some minor rim frits evident, no other serious damage or restoration noted.
CHINESE PORCELAIN POLYCHROME DECORATED PLATE in Ming style, having indented rim and decorated in overglaze red and turquoise enamels with figures and foliate designs. Reverse decorated with foliate band and having four character mark within single circle to base. 23cm diameter. * CONDITION REPORT: Many flaws in glazes generally, but not obviously restored or damaged.
A CHINESE PLATE KANGXI 1662-1722 Enamelled in England c.1760-70 in the Imari manner in iron-red and gilt with three ogee-petal panels reserved on a diamond diaper ground, alternating with a gilt figure of a European man holding a bundle on the end of a stick, the border with red and gilt floral detailing, 22.6cm. Provenance: the Helen Espir Collection, no.459. Purchased from Geoffrey Waters.
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE SMALL ARMORIAL PLATE, KANGXI 1662-1722 Made for the Dutch market, painted with a single pheasant perched on rocks beneath large peony blooms, the rim with the arms of Pelgrans encircled by alternating shell motifs and foliate roundels, the base with a twin fish mark, 20.8cm. Provenance: from the collection of Anthony Du Boulay. Cf. D Howard and S Ayers, China for the West, p.82, where another plate of this design is illustrated, and where it is noted this service was made for Jacob Pelgrans, a Director of the Dutch East India Company who lived in Bengal from 1702-8, and died in Batavia in 1713. 清康熙 青花錦上添花碟 來源:Anthony Du Boulay收藏
A CHINESE ARMORIAL DISH LATE 18TH CENTURY Painted with the arms of Chadwick within a spearhead border, inscribed to the reverse 'Canton in China, 24th Jan. 1791', and a famille rose plate painted with an allegory of Earth after Albani, 25.3cm. (2) Provenance: the property of the late Anthony Hobson, The Glebe House, Whitsbury, Hampshire.
A large Chinese Kangxi-style blue and white charger, 19th century or later A large Chinese Kangxi-style blue and white charger, 19th century or later, painted with a lady leaning on a table with the man seated before her, an attendant looks on, all enclosed within a terrace, verson painted with two mountain ranges, 37.5cm diam. For a plate with a similar design see, Gugong Museum; Chen Runmin ed: Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghuaci (Qing Dynasty Blue-and-White Porcelain from the Shunzhi and Kangxi Reigns). Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Qingdai Ciqi Lei Xuan Di Yi Juan. Beijing, 2005, No 90, Page 160-161. 十九世纪或更晚 康熙风格青花大盘
An interesting famille rose Plate, 18th and 20th century, painted in the centre with a shepherd, shepherdess and sheep in a landscape, encircled by a paper weight torque, the rim with peaches and roses, minor wear, chipped, restored, 23cm (2)The decoration of this plate is atypical of Chinese enamelling, particularly the trees and the handling of the faces. The peaches are, again, not like those of the Chinese at this date, Yongzheng. However, the overall handling is extremely good and may be that of the Milanese Forger, fl. Italy, 1960s to c.1975.粉彩牧羊图盘
A 19th century Chinese Canton celadon plate painted in enamels with a central court scene within a border of butterflies, birds and floral sprays, with gilt heightened rim, diameter 29.5cm (af). CONDITION REPORT: The plate has been broken in half and reglued, also a crack visible closer to the rim area, also some old chips covered with new layer of glaze to underneath after restoration.
A FINE GOLD OPEN-FACED KEY-WIND POCKET WATCH, probably Swiss, second half of the 18th century, the white enamel dial with inner Roman numerals and outer Arabic seconds chapter, with gilt hands and centre-sweep seconds hand, the fusee movement with filigree and engraved cock plate, the interior back cover inscribed "The Emperor Watch, Loot from the Summer Palace of the Emperor of China, Pekin, October 1860, Frank W. Cheney", the interior of the inner case with a coronet mark and numbered 10824, the dial 5cm diameter, the watch 8cm high overall Provenance: Almost certainly taken from the Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) in 1860 by Sergeant William Murphy (1833-1885) of the (King's) 1st Dragoon Guards and acquired from him shortly after by Frank Woodbridge Cheney (1832-1909), and thence by descent. F. W. Cheney was descended from the pioneering American clockmaker Benjamin Cheney. In 1855 he was made a director of the historic Cheney Brothers Silk Company, co-founded by his father. Frank later became the firm's general manager and under his guidance it became an international leader in the silk manufacturing business. Between 1859 and 1861 F.W. Cheney was sent by the company to buy raw silk in the Orient and to study the Chinese silk industry. It was during this period that he acquired what the Cheney family have always referred to as 'The Emperor Watch'. This period in his life is recorded in 'Frank Woodbridge Cheney: Two Years in China and Japan' by Antoinette Cheney Crocker, 1970. On page 13 the author specifically refers to Cheney acquiring the watch from soldiers involved in action at the Summer Palace in 1860. The vendor's family have understood by tradition that the soldier in question was a British Cavalry Sergeant called William Murphy. K J Asplin's 'China Medal Roll 1856-60', 2004 vol. 2 only includes one person who could possibly fit that description - Sergeant William Murphy (1833-1885) of the (King's) 1st Dragoon Guards. This unit was heavily involved in the action in Peking in 1860 and in the lamentable sacking of the Summer Palace. For an account of Murphy's life and military career see the Journal of the Orders and Medals Society of America, vol. 60, no. 3, May-June 2009. Interestingly, a hand-written family note about the watch, states that it was given to Cheney by 'his sergeant'. It seems clear from this that Cheney was well-acquainted with Murphy. Given the dangerous conditions in China at the time, it may well be that the British army provided some protection to the American businessman during his activity there. After returning to the United States in 1861, F.W. Cheney became a lieutenant colonel of the 16th Connecticut Volunteers. In September 1862 he led his men in the Battle of Antietam, the first battle of the American Civil War and the bloodiest single-day battle in US history. He was severely wounded in combat and following his recovery he returned to the family silk business. Chinese Imperial taste for European watches, particularly by the Qianlong Emperor, is well-documented. Given the 18th century date of this watch it seems likely that it entered the Palace complex during Qianlong's reign.
Wang Bu (1896-1968), a blue and white vase, painted with Su Tungpo (1037-1101), the Song dynasty writer, statesman and gastronome inspecting an inkstone while a boy attendant looks on, signature and two seals, the base seal mark 'Yuan Wen Wu Gao Zhi Zhai' (Studio where I can appreciate my faults), 20.5cm (8 in) high For an illustration of this subject on a plaque dated 1939, see Kwan 'Chinese Porcelainof the Republic Period' , plate 87
A mid 19th century turquoise blue ground spitoon, the flared neck above a bun shped body and short foot painted with lotus scrolling amongst gilt shou characters and bats, a pink and yellow ruyi band on the shoulders, four character mark 'Hall for the Cultivation of Virtue', 9cm (3.5 in) high For a similar shape bearing a Tongzhi mark see Van Oort 'Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries', plate 54
Alexander (William). The Costume of China, 1st edition, London: William Miller, 1805, half-title, additional sepia aquatint title, 48 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates (some with Whatman watermark dated 1797), bound without subscriber's list, small ink mark to plate of Mandarin's Travelling Boat, occasional spotting and light offsetting mostly to text, contemporary half calf gilt, green morocco title label to spine, joints cracked , rubbed, 4to Abbey Travel, 534. Alexander travelled to China as draughtsman with Lord Macartney's Embassy to the Emperor in 1792-4. 'Alexander is best remembered for his work on China in a period in which the Chinese style greatly influenced the decorative arts in Britain' (DNB). (1)
A group of Chinese blue and white porcelain, 18th century, including a double-walled reticulated tea kettle of compressed globe form, 15cm high; a lotus form bowl decorated with alternating flower and landscape panels, 16cm dia.; and a tea plate decorated with a dragon chasing a pearl, 16cm dia. (3)
A Chinese blue and white dish, Jiajing six character mark but 18th century, of plain circular shape and decorated with horsemen meeting monks on a rocky pass, diaper and panel border to the rim, 27cm dia., together with a soup plate, Qianlong, decorated with a mountain landscape, 22cm dia., and a dinner plate with fenced garden, 23cm dia. (3)
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