A LARGE IRON-RED, BLUE AND WHITE 'BATS AND CLOUDS' PORCELAIN VASEChina, late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to Republic period (1912-1949). The globular body rising from a short foot to a cylindrical neck, decorated in underglaze blue and iron-red with a continuous pattern of clouds and bats. The foot with a band of stylized scrolls below a border of crashing waves. The neck with a ring of ruyi-heads and diaper patterns below the rim. Apocryphal Kangxi reign mark to the underside.Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear. Provenance: German private collection, according to the vendor acquired at Auction House Stahl, Germany, in 2013.Weight: 6977 g Dimensions: Height 45 cmAuction result comparison: Compare to a related vase dated to the 19th century at Christie's Hong Kong in The Pavilion Sale Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 2 October 2017, lot 144, sold for HKD 62,500. For another related vase dated to the 20th century see Christie's Online in Pavilion Online: Chinese Art on 21 - 28 April 2020, lot 81, sold for HKD 23,750.
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A MONUMENTAL ARITA PORCELAIN CHARGER WITH A MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPEJapan, first half of 20th centuryThis extremely large charger is beautifully painted in cobalt blue with a grand mountainous landscape with waterfalls, pagodas, birds in flight, fishermen on boats, and scholars wandering the landscape. With an associated modern wood stand.DIAMETER 97.5 cm, DEPTH 11 cmCondition: Absolutely perfect condition with only some casting flaws, kiln grit, and minor traces of use and wear.Provenance: Czech private collection, acquired in Japan.Arita ware is a broad term for Japanese porcelain made in the area around the town of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern Kyushu island. This was the area where the great majority of early Japanese porcelain, especially Japanese export porcelain, was made. In English usage "Arita ware" was traditionally used for the export wares in blue and white porcelain, mostly copying Chinese styles.
A VERY LARGE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN TEAPOT WITH COVERChina, late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to Republic period (1912-1949). The large teapot of cylindrical form with a curved spout, brass rings to the rim and to the foot and surmounted by a circular cover, the overhead metal handle rising from the shoulder, the walls finely painted in underglaze blue, depicting a lively scene of a Chinese village surrounded by its city wall and its different city gates, warriors, and everyday people. The base with a four-character manufacturing mark bao zhu li ji.Condition: Excellent condition with hardly any traces of wear. Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.Weight: 3.4 kg Dimensions: Height 22.3 cm
A CHINESE PORCELAIN 'LANDSCAPE' VASEChina, 1946. Of elegant shape, painted in polychrome enamels with a continuous river landscape depicting minuscule figures on fishing boats and houses amid craggy rockwork and pine trees. With inscribed Chinese calligraphy as well as a mark to base.Condition: Very good condition with only minor wear to enamels. Provenance: A noted German private collection, acquired at Nagel Auctions in Stuttgart, Germany on 16.6.2017, lot 728.Weight: 705 g Dimensions: Height 27.8 cm
A EUROPEAN CHINOISERIE PORCELAIN JARDINIEREFrance, late 18th to early 19th century. The deep rounded sides rising to a broad everted rim, finely painted in polychrome enamels with flower bouquets and European heraldic shields featuring animals, the empty areas filled with stylized flowers applied in white relief. The underside with a Chinese mark.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear to enamels. Provenance: German private collection. Weight: 3903 g Dimensions: Diameter 26.5 cm, Height 23.3 cm
A RARE PURPLE-SPLASHED JUN DISH, JIN DYNASTYChina, 1115-1234. Sturdily potted with shallow rounded sides and a lipped everted rim, applied overall with a pale lavender-blue glaze thinning to mushroom at the rim. The interior liberally splashed with striking purple transmuting to copper-green in some areas. The countersunk base with three distinct spur marks. The rounded foot rim glazed as well.Provenance: Old English private collection, acquired in the London trade during the 1990s and thence by descent in the same family. A noted Japanese private collection, acquired from the above.Condition: Very good condition with minor old wear and some firing flaws, the base with three spur marks, the dish warped, the interior with light surface scratches.Weight: 372.2 gDimensions: Diameter 17.1 cmWith a Japanese wood box and cover as well as a custom-made silk brocade pouch and padding. (3)Literature comparison: Compare two closely related dishes, one of slightly larger size, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in A Panorama of Ceramics in the National Palace Museum: Chun Ware, Taipei, 1999, pl. 56 and 57. For further related dishes with similar purple splashes, see two in the Palace Museum, Beijing, one from the Qing Court collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pls. 226 and 230, and one in the Sir Percival David collection in the British Museum, London, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 17.Auction result comparison: Compare a closely related but slightly larger (20.8 cm diameter) dish, also dated to the Jin dynasty and with very similar purple-splashed glaze with areas of copper-green, at Sotheby's London in Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 10 November 2010, lot 182, sold for GBP 121,250.5% or 13% VAT will be added to the hammer price additional to the buyer's premium - only for buyers within the EU. 金代罕見鈞窯紫斑圓盤 中國, 1115-1234年。侈口，折沿，周壁極淺，平底，淺圈足。全器滿釉支燒，外底留有圓點狀支痕三枚，底心畫一圓圈。通體罩施天藍色釉，釉面揮灑自如的紫紅色斑紋，局部呈現銅綠色。釉質均勻，釉表開細紋片，底緣及口部沿邊皆成米黃色。 來源：英國私人老收藏，購於1990年代倫敦，保存在同一家族至今。日本知名私人收藏，購於上述收藏。 品相：品相極好，輕微老磨損，一些燒製缺陷，盤子翹曲，內部表面有輕微劃痕。 重量：372.2 克 尺寸：直徑17.1 厘米 日本木盒，内置保護用的絲質内墊。 (3) 拍賣結果比較：一件同樣為金代但稍大 (直徑20.8 厘米) 圓盤，相似紫斑局部呈綠色見倫敦蘇富比Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 2010年11月10日 lot 182, 售價GBP 121,250。
AN IRON-RED AND GILT-DECORATED PORCELAIN CANDLESTICKChina, late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). The domed base supporting a sprawling dish tray which holds a tapered cylinder with a smaller dish tray resting on its top, designed to carry the candle. Overall decorated in iron-red with two sinuously coiled dragons, chasing the magical pearl amid clouds and flames, the edges and dragons with gilt lining, the foot rim and dish rim with a band of crashing waves. This lot is accompanied by a beautiful antique candle carved with a similar design.The present lot would have originally served as a part of a garniture set for ritual or ancestral altars. The most popular set was the five-piece wugong, which besides two candlesticks also included a censer and two gu vases.Condition: Good condition with minor wear and firing flaws as well as remnants of filling material between the joints. The candle with minor losses. Provenance: The Dons family, Erik Dons (1915-2002) and Cecilie Margrethe Dons (1925-), Oslo.Weight: 2830 g (the candlestick), 361 g (the candle) Dimensions: Height 39 cmAuction comparison: For a candlestick with similar decoration see Bonhams Hong Kong, in Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 2 June 2016, lot 6, sold for HK$ 3,040,000.Literature comparison: Compare to a related candlestick, but with different decoration in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, accession number 21.175.20.
A FINE ENAMELED PORCELAIN 'LANDSCAPE' VASE, ATTRIBUTED TO ZHANG ZHITANGAttributed to Zhang Zhitang (1893-1971). The baluster vase finely painted in bright enamels with a continuous landscape of lofty peaks towering around a broad river, trees, and houses, followed by an inscription reading 'In the autumn of Wuzi year (1948) in Xinjiang River, signed Zhang Zhitang', and a seal `Zhitang'. With maker's mark in overglaze iron-red reading Yitao Zhai.Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear and minimal firing flaws. Provenance: German private collection.Weight: 945.1 cmDimensions: Height 29.5 cmAuction result comparison: Compare a pair of related vases attributed to Zhang Zhitang at Christie's London in Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Textiles on 13 May 2011, lot 1272, sold for GBP 12,500. Another vase attributed to the artist was sold at Bonhams San Francisco in Asian decorative Arts on 13 March 2012, lot 3457, sold for USD 1,500.
A BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' SCENT BOX AND COVERChina, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). The rectangular porcelain box decorated in underglaze blue with a reticulated lid depicting two coiled dragons playing with the magic pearl, decorated with flowers and ornamental designs. The lid with irregular piercings that allow the emittance of scent. The sides also decorated with dragons and magic pearls, below a stylized lingzhi band. On the underside an apocryphal six-character Wanli reign mark.Provenance: A notable private collector in Kensington, London, United Kingdom.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, firing flaws, and few tiny chips.Weight: 4420 gDimensions: Height 11 cm, Length 28.5 cm, Width 18.3 cmAuction result comparison: Compare a related but smaller (23.9 cm long) blue and white rectangular box and cover with Wanli mark and of the period, depicting two dragons playing with a magic pearl, at Christie's Hong Kong in Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 1 December 2010, lot 3115, sold for HKD 980,000.5% or 13% VAT will be added to the hammer price additional to the buyer's premium - only for buyers within the EU.
A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE OCTAGONAL PORCELAIN VASEChina, late 19th to early 20th century. Potted with eight facets, the globular body rising from a straight foot to a long neck and tiered mouth. The body finely enameled on each facet with a unique tree, including pomegranate, prunus, peach, mulberry, and finger citron. The neck neatly painted in bright enamels with lotus on continuous scrolling chrysanthemums and a band of ruyi heads, all against a yellow-enameled ground. The foot with a key-fret band and the rim gilt. Apocryphal Qianlong mark to the underside.Condition: Very good condition with minor old wear to enamels and firing irregularities. Provenance: French private collection.Weight: 5798 g Dimensions: Height 44.5 cmAuction comparison: Compare an almost identical octagonal vase at Sotheby's in Chinese and Japanese Works of Art (part2), lot 431.
A 19th century Chinese export famille rose porcelain plate of shaped circular form, decorated with floral design, 9in. (22.8cm.) diameter; together with a Chinese famille rose octagonal footed bowl, character seal mark to base; and a Japanese Imari armorial bowl, 9¾in. (24.8cm.) diameter. (3)
A Chinese porcelain famille verte crackle glaze vase early 20th century, baluster form with slightly flared foot, enamelled with a farmer ploughing in a mountainous landscape, 9in. (22.8cm.) high; together with a famille verte crackle glaze deep bowl, of bun form, painted with warriors on horseback in a mountainous landscape, seal mark to base, 6¼in. (15.9cm.) high. (2)
A small collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelain comprising a Chinese export Imari tea bowl, hairline; a Yixing teapot with diaperwork band, kylin finial and handle and beast mask spout, 3½in. (8.8cm.) high, finial chipped; a matched pair of Japanese Imari bowls; and a Japanese Kutani teapot. (5)
A Chinese porcelain black ground famille rose fish bowl, second half 20th century, painted in polychrome enamels with pheasants amidst abundant blooms in a garden, the interior painted with fish amidst water weed, 19½in. (49.5cm.) diameter, 16in. (40.5cm.) high. * Good condition with no faults.
A Chinese porcelain black ground large baluster vase, second half 20th century, painted in famille rose enamels with birds and insects amidst flowering aquatic plants, Qianlong seal mark to base but later, 24½in. (62.25cm.) high; together with a similar jar of ovoid form, painted with birds and butterflies amidst flowers in a rocky garden, 11½in. (29.2cm.) high, lacks cover. (2)
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