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Click here to subscribeA Chinese cinnabar lacquer circular box and cover, finely carved in relief, with a scene of three maidens crossing a lake, on a diaper ground, late Qing dynasty, 18cm diameter, on a hardwood stand, together with a cinnabar lacquer rectangular box and cover. (2) Provenance: Sotheby's, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain and Works of Art, 8th July 1970, lot 89.
A quantity of costume jewellery to include a white metal Chinese-style brooch with character mark to centre, a jet engraved elasticated bracelet, a 1970s enamel pendant marked to back 'EH.FInland', a jet brooch, a porcelain perfume bottle with scene of courting couple, a further porcelain perfume bottle, an egg-shaped porcelain bottle with floral design and two Limoges trinket boxes etc.
A pair of Chinese porcelain vases and one similar: each of square shouldered profile with mask and ring handles, the former decorated with two figures and a goose on a bridge and verso with fruit, seed pods, flowers and foliage, the latter with a songbird amongst chrysanthemum and verso with vases, the flanks of each with poetic texts, probably late 19th century, 23 and 22 cm high respectively, drilled and mounted as lamps.
A small Chinese porcelain dish: of petal shaped form the centre painted in blue with a circular panel containing two song birds amongst flowering cherry branches, within a narrow diaper border, the reverse painted with lotus, peony, prunus and chrysanthemum, six character mark for Wanli in concentric circles, 14 cm diameter.
A Chinese porcelain tablet or pillow and a similar wrist stand: the former of rectangular form decorated with an eagle in the branches of a pine tree and verso with a cricket on a flowering branch, the flanks bearing a spring and autumn poem by Luoyin, signed Xing Ming Rao and Zhushan and dated 1939, 17.5 cm high, the scroll shaped wrist rest decorated with crickets amongst grass and a similar poem, 9.5 cm long.
A Chinese blue and white porcelain 'surprise' cup: with flared rim and internal standing figure, possibly an Immortal, the exterior painted with insects and a large peony spray, 7.5 cm high.* Notes The essence of the surprise is that the drinker would spill the liquid owing to the concealed hole in the base.
A Chinese blue and white porcelain figure of Shou Lao, the God seated atop a recumbent deer and raised on an oval plinth painted with clouds and waves breaking against rocks, 9.25ins (23.5cm) high (Ming - Wanli Period)Provenance: Vendor's great grandfather, Charles Auffret was in the navy in the late 19th Century and travelled all over. He acquired many items on his travels, including Japan. He died in 1911 and these items have then past through his family.
A pair of Chinese "Cantonese" porcelain two-handled vases enamelled in colours with figures in an interior and standing figure within rectangular panels, on a ground decorated with scattered flowers and butterflies and with moulded Kylin pattern handles and moulded salamanders to neck, 12.25ins (31.1cm) high (one with extensive chips to neck)
A Chinese porcelain baluster-shaped vase with gilt moulded mask and ring handles, the body finely enamelled in colours with monkeys picking peaches from a tree, within wide gilt bordered neck and footrim and with three seal marks in red and four lines of Chinese script to reverse, 16.25ins (41cm) high, (with square blue overglazed seal mark to base - 20th Century)
A Chinese porcelain two-handled vase enamelled with a seated figure in a garden with attendants, and with five line script, 17ins (43.2cm) high, and a Chinese porcelain baluster-shaped vase enamelled with male figure and attendants, 18ins (45.7cm) high (both now converted to electric lamps), and with shades for same
A pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain plates, the centres decorated with a vase of flowers, within floral pattern borders, each 8.75ins (22.2cm) diameter (Kangxi period - marked with one of the eight precious things), and a blue and white dish, bowl and plain spoon from the Tek Sing cargo
A Chinese porcelain circular dish enamelled in the "Kakiemon" palette, with floral spray and birds to centre and flowering branches to border, 11ins (28cm) diameter (18th Century)Provenance: Vendor's great grandfather, Charles Auffret was in the navy in the late 19th Century and travelled all over. He acquired many items on his travels, including Japan. He died in 1911 and these items have then past through his family.
A Chinese blue and white porcelain oval two-handled tureen and cover, the whole painted with a river landscape, the lid with oval leaf pattern finial, 10.75ins (27.4cm) x 8ins (23cm) x 10.5ins (26.7cm) high (19th Century - cracked), a Spode stone china two-handled soup tureen cover and stand enamelled with exotic birds and flowering branches, with gilt decorated bud pattern finial and mask pattern handles, 11.25ins x 8ins x 8.5ins high
Six Chinese blue and white porcelain tea bowls, all variously painted with flowers in shaped panels, each 3.375ins (8.5cm) diameter x 2ins (5.1cm) high, four similarly decorated saucers, three other pieces of blue and white china and a Chinese green/brown glazed pottery bowl, 3.75ins (9.6cm) diameter x 2ins (5.1cm) high
A group of Chinese porcelain, comprising a famille verte octagonal vase with warriors, 39cm, a blanc-de-chine guanyin, 45.5cm, a famille verte rectangular vase with birds and flowers, restored, 20cm, a brush pot, the side imitate bamboo, covered in turquoise glaze, six character Qianlong mark, 16.2cm, and a Budai, 13.5cm
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