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Click here to subscribeA Chinese Porcelain Hexagonal Baluster Jar, Yuan, painted in underglaze blue with a broad band of scrolling lotus with scroll and lappet borders, 7.5cm high; and A Chinese Porcelain Baluster Jar, painted in underglaze blue with the IHS symbol within a sun burst circular cartouche, 12cm high (2)
A Chinese Underglaze Red Porcelain Snuff Bottle, Qing Dynasty (1750-1850), of slightly tapered cylindrical form with upswept neck, painted with an extensive mountainous pagoda landscape, blue lines to the rims, bearing four character mark of Qianlong, 8.6cm high; and Two Others, of similar shape, one painted in underglaze blue with a dragon chasing the cosmic pearl, the other a warrior, vase and bats, 7cm and 7.5cm high respectively (3)
A Chinese Turquoise Glazed Porcelain Snuff Bottle, late Qing Dynasty, 19th century, naturalistically fashioned as a chilli pepper, with bone stopper, 6.4cm; Three Others Similar, modelled as a Buddha`s finger citron, and two as corn cobs, 8cm and 7.4cm long respectively; Three Other Blue and Celadon Glazed Two-Handled Examples, 19th century, moulded with precious Buddhistic motifs and Lakeland scenes, the tallest 7.4cm (7)
A rare Chinese famille rose Dutch decorated dish, c.1730. Richly enamelled with a scene of the crucifixion after an engraving by Bolswert of the painting Le Coup de Lance by Rubens, the reverse with a red/brown glaze, old restoration, 25.7cm. Cf. H Espir, European Decoration of Oriental Porcelain 1700-1830, p.198 for another example.
A large Chinese blue and white porcelain brush pot or bitong, c.1640. Painted with a horse and groom approaching a terrace scene with a lady seated at a table adjusting a flower in her hair while looking in a mirror before a standing warrior, whose horse is drinking from a trough, all within anhua borders, a large rim chip and hair cracks, 19.1cm.
A Chinese famille rose U-shaped cup, six character Qianlong mark. Painted with a boy in a garden with a large chicken, between blue rockwork and flowers, the reverse with seven rows of calligraphy, 8.2cm wide, together with a rose quartz model of a recumbent lion dog, 11cm. (2) Cf. Allen, Introduction to later Chinese porcelain, p.164 for similar examples.
EARLY 19TH CENTURY CHINESE PORCELAIN ARMORIAL DISH, decorated with a central panel of stork and terrapin near gnarled tree, within a diaper boarder with reserved flower and insect panels, the broad rim with relief moulded dragons amongst foliage decoration, shield armorial, and foliate rim. Reverse painted with trailing flowers. Unmarked. 14" Diameter.
A COLLECTION OF CHINESE 17TH CENTURY BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN Europe saw three periods of `Chinamania` between the 17th and 20th centuries. The first in the early 17th with the kraak wares, the second with chinoiserie from the mid-18th century until the early 19th, , and again when the aesthetes went china crazy in the last decades of the century. Collectors vied for the best pieces - almost invariably Kangxi (1662-1722) blue and white, the best of sapphire-blue tone driving up prices only to see the craze vanish as quickly as it had begun. One devotee was the American painter James MacNeil Whistler who illustrated some of the pieces in the collection of Sir Henry Thompson (1878). One of the present lots no.145 is closely akin to no.203 in that Catalogue. Although modest, this offering is typical of a forgotten era. A double-gourd Vase, c.1640, trekked and washed with a literatus reading in a garden, a boy approaching, the upper bulb with stiff leaves, rim frits, 20.5cm A vase of similar form and decoration and the same size was raised by Captain Hatcher from the junk dated 1643, see The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes,1988, pl. 61.
A Chinese Bronze Vase, probably Jiajing (1522-66), the well-cast elongated pear body with lotus between elephant head handles above swags of pearls and on three elephant head feet, the whole set with cabochons, most missing, 19.5cm Some of the stones may be emeralds, but the majority were probably smoky quartz. Similarly caparisoned elephants, which are of Buddhist significance, were frequent in the late Ming, taking the form of incense burners and porcelain kendhi. For a one of the former, see Chinese and Japanese Bronzes, A.D. 1100-1900, Michael Goedhuis, 1989, no 17.
An 18th century Chinese export porcelain Imari mug with a similar Mandarin style mug both of bell shape form with a loop handle with a ju-i terminal, the Imari mug with two panels of flowering peony on a ground of cell work and lotus blooms below a border of floral spray panels and diaper design, the handle decorated with a lotus spray, the Mandarin mug with a court figure scene design panel and two smaller panels of floral sprays on a ground of floral sprays in underglaze blue with a similar stylized floral border, the handle decorated with a lotus spray. Both Qianlong period (1736-1795) the first c1750 and the second c1780." Both Ht 14cm Condition: Good condition; imari mug with minute frit chip to handle, mandarin mug with small chip to rim View on auctionatrium.com
Chinese Famille Rose bullet shape teapot with silver lid, Yongzheng mark and possibly of the period of typical near ball like form with a loop handle and curved spout, decorated in Famille Rose enamels with a typical design of flowering peony, the base with a repeating geometric design in blue, yellow and pink enamels, the top with a grisaille diaper design on a pink ground interrupted with four panels comprising a coiled stylised dragon in blue enamel, the base with a four character mark of the Yongzheng period (1723 – 1735), the original porcelain lid replaced with a later pierced silver cover which uses the dragon motif from the teapot itself. Export teaware pieces are not normally marked. The paste of the foot and style of decoration here would certainly be consistent with a Yongzheng dating, but the piece might have been made some years later with a retrospective mark. Ht 9cm (pot), 11.3cm (max) Condition: Original lid missing, spout probably slightly reduced and with a small chip, faint wear to grisaille enamelling. View on auctionatrium.com
A Chinese porcelain apple shaped Brushwasher `pingguo zun`, Kangxi period (1662-1722), of stoutly potted globular shape with an inset rim decorated in famille verte enamels with three prancing figures within a typical rocky landscape. The `pingguo zun`, an apple shaped water jar, was a known scholars desk ornament form in China. See Stephen W. Bushell - Oriental Ceramic Art (1899) who writes "Two favorite designs, for example, of the little water-bottles intended to be used with the writer`s pallet [sic] are the p`ing-kuo tsun [pingguo zun] or apple jar, which is molded as an exact facsimile in size and shape of the fruit, and its fellow, the shih-liu tsun [shiliu zun] or pomegranate jar. I have seen these two shapes only in China."" 8cm high, 10.5cm diameter In good condition with some very slight abrasions to the rim surface where the brush was used to remove water. View on auctionatrium.com
A fine Chinese blue and white bottle Vase decorated with figures, Kangxi period (1662-1722), of mallet shape form, the body of ovoid globular form with a cylindrical neck slightly flaring at the top, the decoration in brilliant cobalt underglaze blue, with a continuous scene of court figures in a rocky landscape with a plantain tree and rocks, the neck with stylized t’ao-t’ieh masks between diaper bands, the base with two concentric circles, Footnote: The form of this piece, the paste of the foot rim, the brilliance of the blue and the quality of the brushwork with detailed shading effects suggest a dating early in the Kangxi period. For the ta’o t’ieh masks combined with diaper work design see exhibit 72 in the exhibition held by S.Marchant & Son ‘Chinese Blue and White – Wan Li to K’ang Hsi’, London 1980 and for the shading effects compare no 132 in ‘Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection’ by Butler, Medley and Little – Art Services International 1990." 30.5cm high. A tiny chip to the exterior of the foot; the surface of the vase with extremely light scratching in a few areas. View on auctionatrium.com
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