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Lot 512
A JAPANESE HIRADO PORCELAIN NETSUKE OF A KARAKO LATE EDO / MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY the Chinese boy lying on his belly and smiling whilst holding his head in his hands, wearing blue and hazelnut-brown garments, the himotoshi holes to the side 6.3cm Provenance Formerly the collection of Sir Sydney Richard Wells, 1st Baronet, D.L., M.P. for Bedford (1879-1957) of Felmersham Grange, Bedfordshire, and thence by descent.
Lot 98
A group of four Chinese porcelain vasesEach converted to a table lamp, including a Kangxi porcelain Yen Yen vase (reduced), two yellow ground baluster vases decorated with martial scenes and a turquoise ground vase decorated with figures in a landscape, the largest vase, 30cm tall (4)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 509
Mel Crawford (Canadian, B. 1925) "China Scenes" Signed lower left. Original Mixed Media painting on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood First Day Cover for the U.N. 20c China Flags of the U.N. Series stamp issued September 23, 1983. Stretching from the snowy-white peaks of Tibet, across the wide Central Plains of the Gobi Desert and concluding at the shores of the Pacific Ocean, the People's Republic of China is an expansive nation...in fact, the third largest in the world. It is also a country of proud heritage, and...with a written history that stretches over three thousand years into the past...it ranks as the world's oldest surviving civilization. It is this ancestry which is recalled in what some people term the world's greatest architectural achievement -- the Great Wall. Completed about 200 b.c. to protect China, the Wall lies like a fossilized dragon slithering across two thousand miles over the peaks and gorges of China's vast terrain. In Chinese custom, another dragon is kept very much alive -- the mythical dragon of the Chinese New Year, which is an ancient symbol of power, fertility and well-being. The nation's crowded, narrow streets are alive with the activity of daily trade. In fact, ever since the times of Marco Polo, China has been active in international trade and famous for her spices, teas, silk and porcelain. Although modern China has changed tremendously, the life of the peasant has changed little over the centuries. Farmers still plant crops the same way their ancestors did, using buffalo to ready the flooded rice paddies. China is also world-renowned as the only remaining natural refuge for the lovable Panda. A nation proud of its ancient heritage, China has grown to become a respected world power. Image Size: 14.25 x 12.25 in. Overall Size: 17.25 x 15 in. Unframed. (B08040)
Lot 481
CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN BOWL AND COVER, Kangxi, of deep U-shape painted with elegant maidens ('lange leizen') in conversation and playing Go beside palm tree and ornamental rock, the shallow domed cover painted with five boys at play, artemesia leaf mark, 10.5cm diam. x 12cm high Provenance: private collection, consigned via our Cardiff office Condition Report: cover with small rim chip, bowl with small glaze blister.
Lot 484
CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN 'SCHOLARS AND LANDSCAPE' JAR, Kangxi, of ovoid form, painted with a broad continuous frieze depicting two figures in an extensive mountainous landscape with river and pavilions, cloud collar to the shoulder, base with double circle, later pierced hardwood cover, 22cm high, 25cm with cover Provenance: private collection, consigned via our Cardiff office Condition Report: small firing crack extending to small hairline, tiny footring nibbles.
Lot 486
CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN '100 ANTIQUES' HAWTHORN JAR, 19th Century, painted in the Kangxi style with three cusped panels of Chinese antiques and precious objects, reserved on a cracked ice and prunus blossom ground, base with double circle, later shou-character pierced hardwood cover, 20.5cms high, 22cms with covers Provenance: private collection, consigned via our Cardiff office Condition Report: body crack and iron oxide glaze blister, cover cracked.
Lot 487
CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN '100 ANTIQUES' HAWTHORN JAR, 19th Century, painted in the Kangxi style with three quatrefoil panels of Chinese antiques and precious objects, reserved on a cracked ice and prunus blossom ground, base with double circle, later shou-character pierced hardwood cover, 19.8cms high, 21.5cms with cover Provenance: private collection, consigned via our Cardiff office Condition Report: surface scratches.
Lot 488
GROUP OF CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN HAWTHORN JARS, Qing Dynasty and later, all decorated with prunus blossom on a cracked ice ground, one probably Kangxi period with later wood cover, all around 17cms high (5) Provenance: private collection, consigned via our Cardiff office Condition Report: jar with cover has foot ring chip, others good condition.
Lot 489
CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN 'DRAGON & PHOENIX' LANTERN JAR AND COVER, 19th Century, painted with four roundels of dragons and phoenixes chasing flaming pearls, divided by winged dragons amid scrollwork and between cloud collar and and lappet borders, short foliate neck and foot, flat cover painted with winged dragon and ruyi scepter handle, base with 4-character Kangxi mark, 27cms high Provenance: private collection, consigned via our Cardiff office Condition Report: minute chip to inside rim. a few small iron oxide bleeds into glaze
Lot 490
CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN BALUSTER VASE, 19th Century, painted with alternate panels of river landscapes and with songbirds in flowering shrubs, between key fret, cloud-collar and lappet borders, tall neck with stiff leaves, later carved wood cover, 39cms high, 46cms with cover Provenance: private collection, consigned via our Cardiff office Condition Report: large crack to body, a few tiny iron oxide bleeds, later cover which lacks knop.
Lot 491
CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN 'LOTUS' JAR, Kangxi, of slender ovoid form, painted with continuous frieze of densely scrolling lotus, beneath diaper collar, short tapering neck, base with 6-character Chenghua mark in a double circle, gold wax Duveen seal, 16cms high Provenance: J. M. Duveen & Sons, Liverpool; private collection, consigned via our Cardiff office Auctioneer's Note: Legendary Dutch dealer Joseph Duveen set up shop in Hull in 1866, followed by Liverpool, and eventually as his empire grew, in London, Paris and finally New York, where his dealership was patronised by the millionaire elite of American society. His canny marketing ensured that the collecting of antique blue and white delft, Chinese Kangxi porcelain and Old master paintings became extremely fashionable, and he dominated the art market around the turn of the 19th Century. Cf. Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time, by S. N. Behrman, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1952 and J. H. Duveen, The Rise of the House of Duveen, London, Longmans, 1957. Condition Report: hairline cracks to neck.
Lot 492
TWO CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN VASES, 18th/19th Century, comprising a Kangxi period slender ovoid vase painted with three cusped panels of cross-hatched shrubs (lacks cover), 14.5cms high; and a 19th Century bottle vase, painted in the Kangxi style with four Bodhi leaf-shaped panels of scrolling foliage, beneath keyfret and cloud-collar, stiff leaves with florets to the tapering neck, base with double circle, 21cms high (2) Provenance: private collection, consigned via our Cardiff office Condition Report: ovoid vase with very small interior rim chip, fritting around the foot collar, no cover; bottle vase with some minute glaze blisters and iron oxide bleeds.
Lot 494
PAIR CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN '100 ANTIQUES' HAWTHORN JARDINIERES, 19th Century, painted in the Kangxi style with cusped panels of Chinese antiques, and precious objects, reserved on a cracked ice and prunus blossom ground, bases pierced for drainage, 15.5cms high x 23.5cms diam. (2) Provenance: private collection, consigned via our Cardiff office. Condition Report: one with rim chip, the other with firing crack to base and small rim chip
Lot 495
PAIR CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE PORCELAIN PLATES, Kangxi, centres decorated with golden pheasants on rockwork with large peonies, butterfly above, lotus and prunus border, indented rims, base with square seal character in a double circle, 27cms diam. (2) Provenance: Deceased estate, South Wales. Condition Report: rims fritted, small chips, glaze worn in cavetto
Lot 1216
18th century Chinese blue and white porcelain plate, of octagonal form decorated with a riverside scene with pagodas, fence, and trees, within lattice and key fret detailed border, D22.5cm, together with a late 18th/early 19th century blue and white cream boat of English shape, H8.5cm, and an early 19th century Chinese blue and white coffee cup, H6cm, both decorated in riverside scenes
Lot 276
A pair of 18th century Chinese porcelain plates, painted in underglaze blue and iron red with tree peony sprouting from a fence, within a diaper border, each 24cm diameter, together with a Chinese blue and white porcelain jardiniere, painted with a dragon, 17cm high (3)Condition report: Jardiniere has been drilled through the base and is quite marked from having had a plant inside, dirty with wear to the rim. Both plates are chipped and worn, one is pinned across the centre, the other has two cracks through the body.
Lot 406
A pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain table lamps and shades, converted from vases, of pierced cylindrical shape, painted with figures and having pagoda shades (2)60cm high overallCondition report: Dirty. One has a crack running down one side. The other has a restored section to one side, which is not done very well, so easy to see. Both the shades are stained.
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