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Click here to subscribeGroup of Chinese Porcelain Desk Accessories, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), incl. famille rose lotus-form brush washer, h. 2 1/4 in., dia. 3 1/2 in., stand, overall h. 3 1/2 in.; blue and white barrel-form incense stick holder, h. 3 1/4 in.; and blue and white covered pot, h. 1 3/4 in. Provenance: The Sturm Collection
An armorial tea bowl and saucer and another famille rose, the first bearing the arms of the Dutch Bertrand family, inscribed and dated 1783, the second with vignettes and a scene of five figures gathered around an iron red tiger (4) Literature: For a commentary and an illustration of a similar armorial dated 1733, see Kroes 'Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market', page 165
Twelve Chinese porcelain snuff bottles and stoppers, comprising: a famille noire cylindrical bottle with a seated horseman and attendant, 6.6cm high excluding hardstone stopper, with stopper 7.5cm high; another with cockerels; another with a monkey in a tree and a deer; a blue and white bottle with panels of figures and others the largest the blue and white bottle measuring 8.6cm without hardstone stopper and including stopper, 9.7cm (12) Provenance: Property of a Lady, purchased in the 1970's.PLEASE NOTE: This lot has 11 snuff bottles and not 12 as catalogued. It is sold without the snuff bottle photographed fifth from the left in the catalogue image
A Chinese blue and white Kraak porcelain deep dish, late Ming dynasty, thinly moulded with a fluted edge to the canted rim and painted with opposing reserves of flowers and auspicious emblems that surround a central roundel of a vase of flowers, the reverse also painted with alternating reserves, 36.7cm wide
A Chinese Dehua figure of Quanyin, Qing Dynasty, seated wearing flowing robes and pearls, with Geoffrey Waters label, 13.7cm high; two Chinese provincial porcelain blue and white ointment pots and covers, 4.5cm and 4cm wide, one with wood stand and a Qingbai type model of a dog, recumbent and with pale green glaze, 5cm long, wood stand (4) Provenance: Property of a Lady, purchased in the 1970's.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white 'shou' dish, painted with a central character surrounded by two bands of smaller characters, the reverse also with two bands of characters, apocryphal Yongzheng six character mark within double circle, perhaps 19th century, 13.5cm diameter and a Chinese porcelain aubergine glazed dish, the interior with plain glaze and the underside rim incised with scrolling flowers and foliage, apocryphal Yongzheng six character mark within double circle , probably19th or 20th century, 15.5cm diameter (2) ???????????
A large pair of Chinese Daya Zhai style yellow ground grisaille-decorated vases and covers , painted with fruiting and flowering branches including wisteria and peony, with long tailed birds perched in the branches, with turquoise and blue key-fret borders, iron-red details, painted with Chinese Daya Zhai characters and an oval panel bearing two opposing dragons and inscribed, ???? (spring throughout heaven and earth - all one family), the bases with Yong Qng Chang Chun four character marks in iron red, possibly Republican Period or later and after Guangxu originals, 62cm high (2) These vases are based on original 1870s designs associated with the Dowager Empress Cixi. The mark Daya Zhai refers to 'Studio of the Greater Odes', which has never been physically identified. The original Daya Zhai porcelain was intended to furnish a restored Yuanming Yuan (Old Summer Palace) after its destruction in 1860. However, owing to soaring costs, as well as a difficult social and political climate in 1870's China, the restoration did not proceed and the original porcelain was then stockpiled in the Forbidden City. ??? ????????????
Chinese Reference Books: Lacquer Wares of the Qing Dynasty, The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace Museum , 2006; Selected Porcelain of the Flourishing Qing Dynasty at the Palace Museum , Forbidden City Publishing House, 1994; Jan Chapman, The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China , 1999; Christopher Randal, Personal Selection of Fine Jade Carvings from The Yushantang Collection of Nick Troubetzkoy , 2015 and Chinese Cloisonné , no. 6 (5) ???????????( 5?)
A Chinese yellow-ground 'dragon' censer, with iron-red confronting dragons and flaming pearl to each side , Dauguang Shen de Tang Zhi mark in iron-red within square double lined border, the wood cover with a white jade 'boy' finial, blue enamel border, supported on four feet, the porcelain censer 9cm wide x 8cm high, fitted wood stand Provenance: Mr. Ko who worked for the Chinese Postal Service from 1904-1947 and then by direct family descent. ???????? ????:?????????????(?????)? 1904-1947???????? .
A miniature Chinese porcelain vase, Qing dynasty, late 19th century, painted with a Buddhist lion in brown with turquoise eyes, 5.5cm high Provenance: Acquired in Peking 1923 by Mr. Ko who worked for the Chinese Postal Service from 1904-1947 . ? 19???? ????? ????:?????????????(?????)? 1904-1947????????
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