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Click here to subscribeChinese Canton porcelain famille rose design cabaret tea for two set with two cups and saucers, teapot, sucrier and cover, another associated miniature teapot on an indented tray. Unmarked, 19th Century. (B.P. 21% + VAT) Very grubby, tiny teapot has chips to its rim and to the inner rim of its cover. Overall some wear with age.
Chinese terracotta Yixing style melon shaped teapot, unmarked. Together with a pair of oriental porcelain yellow ground baluster shaped vases decorated in enamels with fantastic birds amongst foliage. 18cm high approx. (3) (B.P. 21% + VAT) Small chip to under side of cover of teapot. Otherwise no obvious damage
TRADE CATALOGUES, ETC: 1- Massey-Mainwaring Collection 1904. Robinson & Fisher, 1904. 4to. bound in cloth with original wrappers, ill; 2- Cohn, A M: George Cruikshank: a Catalogue Raisonné. Bookman’s Journal, 1924, Limited edn. No. 118 of 500. vg; 3- W. N. Froy & Sons Ltd Merchants and Manufacturers Illustrated Pocket Trade Price List for the Trade Only. Oct. 1st, 1927. Original wrappers; 4- Post Office Telephone Directory: Essex, East Suffolk & East Herts. Sept. 1939. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers; VG; 5- McLaren, J H: Traction engines, Traction wagons, Steam road rollers, etc. Leeds, catalogue no. 32, nd, (1914) into. dated. 4to. fully illustrated. Original wrapper; VG; 6- Gulland, W: Chinese Porcelain, 2 vols. 1898 & 1902. Original cloth; rubbed and with cuts; inner hinges cracked; Plus one other. (8)
A Chinese porcelain Imari ginger jar, 19th century, in the Kangxi style, painted in underglaze blue, overglaze red and gilt with blossoming trees, double ring mark to base, with a pierced wooden cover, 24cm highCondition report: Chips to base. Surface wear and scratches. Rubbing to paint and gilt. Pitting and firing imperfections. General wear.Please view additional images
A group of Chinese porcelain, comprising: a celadon vase, of pear-shaped form on a circular foot, under a crackled glaze, 18.7cm high, a jun ware incenser burner, of globular form on three S-shaped feet, 7.4cm high, and a saucer, of shaped square form, under a crackled glaze, 8cm long (3)Condition report: Vase - rim and foot rim grounded. Censer - no obvious faults.Saucer - rim grounded.
A transfer decorated porcelain custard cup, early 19th century, of 'comma' shape, decorated in the chinoiserie style, 5.5cm high, a tea canister and a Chinese dish, painted in enamels with females and a deer (3)Condition report: Small chips to custard cup, chips to foot of canister. General wear to all pieces.
A Chinese porcelain vase or stick stand, late 19th/early 20th century, painted in enamels, the body with panels decorated with peacocks among peonies and blossoms, within further flora and foliage, raised on a white ground, within key fret and lappet borders, 25cm diameter, 61cm highCondition report: Chips to foot rim and base, rubbing and paint and gilt surface wear, scratches and small chips to enamel. General wear commensurate with age and use.
A 20th Century Chinese Republic period antique porcelain table screen tile panel plaque by Wang Bu hand decorated in blue and white depicting two fisherman with nets by tree. Features the seal of Wang Bu to lower right corner. Measures: 33cm x 25cm. Some wear to edges but no visible cracks or repair.
A Chinese coffee cup with plain loop handle. Painted in the London Workshop of James Giles with a bouquet including a rose and with other sprigs under a brown line rim and with a large rose to the inside c.1760, 6.5cm. See; The Stephen Hanscombe Collection, James Giles and his contemporary decorators for an in depth look at Giles flower painting on Chinese porcelain. Good clean condition. No chips, cracks or repairs.
A collection of Chinese famille rose and blue and white porcelainVariously painted with blue and enamelled in colours, all about 23cm diameter; together with four similar bowls, two tea cups and an 18th century blanc de chine flaring cup with relief moulding, 11.5cm wide, (qty)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A group of Chinese porcelain vessels of Qing Dynastycomprising a 'Nanking Cargo' blue and brown tea bowl and saucer, part of lot 5246; and six various Chinese tea bowls (a lot);a famille rose Nonyaware circular tureen and cover for the Straits Chinese market, 20cm diameter;a blue and white lobed square box and cover with a coiling dragon, Qianlong seal mark; on a wood stand, 14cm square;a blue and white bourdaloue; on a wood stand, 21.5cm long (10).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Mid-18th Century Chinese Fan with Carved Export Monture, Qing Dynasty, the guards carved in sections on a minute scale, mainly with flowers. The gorge is carved in bands of different designs in geometric fashion. The double paper leaf, découpé, is painted with very naturalistic flowers in good colour, to include sunflowers, pansies, roses and daisies, poppies, ranunculi, and a passionflower, with butterflies arriving from the left. The verso is painted in a similar fashion with moths, heartsease, honeysuckle and soft fruits. Bears a previous auction label dated 21st October 1970. Guard length approx. 10.5 inches or 26.5cm. Together with Another Ivory Fan With Chinese Export Monture, Qing Dynasty, figures and buildings on the guards and a very stylised and geometric design in bands and columns, a central oval with entwined initials. The light cream leaf is painted with pink roses, grapevines with fruit, and swags of flowers of the hedgerow. The upper leaf sections are embroidered with tiny silver sequins. The verso is plain. Guard length approx. 11 inches or 28cm; and A Third 18th Century Ivory Fan, with birds and flowers carved to the upper guards, the gorge with regular carved and pierced design formed by seven shaped and pierced bands. The double leaf features an outdoor gathering in Chinoiserie style, a meeting of generations, with an elderly man at rest, holding a large fixed fan and perhaps a scroll, watching a younger man contemplating a board game, seated at a low table with stylised porcelain flower vase. To the right, perhaps his wife, with two young children, the lady with fixed fan in hand. To the far right, a crane partaking of the orange fruits of a bush on rocky outcrop. The verso is painted with a simple gnarled tree with several colourful blooms. Guard length approx. 11.25 inches or 28.5cm (3) . The first fan upper guard is slightly warped. Losses and tears to some of the découpage. The second fan has 4 major splits to the leaf, all holding, some by virtue of some restoration seen on the verso. The third fan lacks the tip of the upper guard. Fan three has a crisp leaf but some repairs to the bottom left corner. The upper guard is fitted with an old white metal repair plate at the shoulder. Above that, another break is holding with glue. The upper section of the lower guard has an un-repaired break.
A Good Early to Mid-18th Century Chinese Painted Ivory Folding Fan, Qing Dynasty, the simple monture with mother-of-pearl tips to the guards, each etched with a slender bird, with the addition of mother of pearl thumb guards. The remaining guards, and the gorge sticks, are painted in red, gold and green, in the fashion of Imari porcelain. The double paper leaf is painted with men at work, one carrying his wares or delivering luggage, by means of a pole balanced across his shoulder. A seated figure with fixed fan observes. To the right a large bird to the foreground is of disproportionate size. The verso is plain, save for a floral sketch. Guard length approx. 10.75 inches or 27.5cm. Together with Another Chinese Ivory Fan, of a similar period, the guards carved with flowers and leaves within an upper panel, above and below which the fan is painted in red. The gorge is carved and pierced in bands, some with a lattice, others with circles or shapes, divided by painted bands of designs in red. The cream leaf is simply painted with a central oval, in silver, enclosing a spray of pink roses and smaller yellow and blue flowers. Guard length approx. 11 inches or 28cm (2). First fan, the monture is sound with indications of white MOP thumb guards having originally been present. Both fans in good used condition
Nigel Wood, Chinese Glazes, Gardners Books, 1999. ISBN: 0-7136-3837-0 Ann Paludan (Yale Historical Pub.), The Chinese Spirit Road: Classical tradition of Stone Tomb Statuary. Yale University Press. 1991. ISBN: 0-300-04597-2 Jenny F So and Emma C Bunker, Traders and Raiders: on China's Northern Frontier, University of Washington Press, 1995. ISBN: 0-295-97473-7 Rosemary E Scott, Chinese Jades, Percival David Foundation. 1997. ISBN: 0-7286-0273-3 Carol Michaelson, Gilded Dragons, Art Media Resources Ltd. 2000. ISBN: 0-7141-1489-8 S J Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain from Prehistory to the Present. British Museum Publications Ltd. 1995. ISBN: 0-7141-1470-7 Xu Huping and Zhou Mei, Celadon Wares of the Six Dynasties Gems of Collections in Nanjing Museum. Shanghai China Classics Publishing House. 1999. ISBN: 7-5325-2566-X Peng Shifan, Dated Qingbai Wares of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Ching Leng Foundation. 1995. ISBN: 962-7502-45-6 Janet Baker, Seeking Immortality Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection. ISBN: 957-562-018-6 Chinese Ceramics Selected articles from Orientations 1982-1998 Song Ceramics, Toba Museum of Art, Museum of Oriental Ceramics Osaka, Hagi Uragami Museum, Asahi Shimbun. Shaanxi History Museum. Shaanxi History MuseumProvenance: The Professor Conrad Harris Collection
Rawson Jessica, Chinese Jade: from the Neolithic to the Qing. Art Media Resources Ltd. 1995. ISBN: 0-71411469-3 Lin Yutang, Imperial Peking. Elek Publishing. 1974 Craig Cluna, The Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades: An Introduction. University of Sussex. ISBN: 0-9532113-0-4 Zhejiang Sheng Bo Wu Guan, Zhejiang Chronological Porcelain. Wen Wu Publishing. 2000. ISBN: 7-5010-1217-2 Li Zhiyan, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain Traditional Chinese Arts and Culture. Foreign Languages Press. 1997. ISBN: 7-119-01167-7 Editorial Committee, Shaanxi History Museum. Shaanxi History Museum Robert E Harris, Power and Virtue: the Horse in Chinese Art. China Institute Gallery. 1997. ISBN: 0-9654270-1-3 Rosemary Scott, Imperial Taste Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation. Chronicle Books. 1989. ISBN: 0-87701-612-7 Robert D Mowry Eugene Farrell Nicole Rousmaniere, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics 400-1400. Publications Department, Harvard University Art Museums. 1997. ISBN: 0-91672-488-3 British Library, Chinese Printmaking Today: Woodblock Printing in China 1980-2000, The British Library. 2004. ISBN: 0-7123-4823-9 Six Dynasty CultureProvenance: The Professor Conrad Harris Collection
Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Percival David Foundation. 2002. ISBN: 0-7286-0339-X Lin Ying, Celestial Horses: The Apogee of Chinese Art and Civilisation, Foreign Languages Press. 2002. ISBN: 7-119-02999-1 Ann Paludan, Chinese Tomb Figurines, Oxford University Press. 1994. ISBN: 0-19-585817-4 William Watson, The Genius of China: an Exhibition of Finds of the PRC Held at the Royal Academy Lond 1973-74, Times Newspapers Ltd. 1973. ISBN: 0-7230-0107-3 Guo Ligu & Bo Wuyuan, Special Exhibition of Horse Paintings (Hua ma ming pin te zhan tu lu), Min Guo. 1990. ISBN: 957-562-018-6 Hugo Munsterberg, The Arts of China, Charles E Tuttle Company. 1989. ISBN: 0-8048-1624-7 Kentucky Horse Park, Imperial China The Art of the Horse in Chinese History, Kentucky Horse Park. 2000. ISBN: 1-56469-071-7 Michelle Morgan, 100 Treasures - The Museum of East Asian Art, The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath. 2000. ISBN: 1-89773-411-5 Albert E Dien, The Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the PRC, Thames and Hudson. 1987. ISBN: 0-500-27465-7 Robert Kleiner, Chinese Snuff Bottle, Oxford University Press. 1984. ISBN: 0-19-585756-9 Treasures from the Underground Palaces Treasures from Northern Song Pagodas, Dingzhou, Hebei Province, China, Idemitsu Museum of Arts Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Heaven and Earth Seen Withing Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, University Press of Mississippi. 2001. ISBN: 0-89494-077-5 Ancient Chinese Jade Gallery, Shanghai MuseumProvenance: The Professor Conrad Harris Collection
Ye Shuwang, Gems of the Hemudu Culture, Wenwu Publishing, 2002. ISBN: 7-5010-1352-7 Regina Krahl, Dawn of the Yellow Earth Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyingtang Collection, Art Media Resources Ltd. 2000. ISBN: 0-9654270-3-X Gu Jianxiang, Painted Pottery: Gems of Collection in Nanjing Museum, Shanghai Ancient Book Publishing. 1999. ISBN: 9-787-53252-562-1 Simon Kwan, Chinese Neolithic Pottery, The Muwen Tang Collection. 2005. ISBN: 988-97206-4-7 Duan Qing Bo, Ancient Chinese Pottery, Hubei Fine Arts. 2000. ISBN: 7-5394-0968-1 Transitory and Timeless: Ancient Chinese Pottery, The Chinese Porcelain Company. 2005 Zhang Lihua, Gansu Painted Potteries, Chongqing Publishing House. 2003. ISBN: 7-5366-6020-0 Zhao Guangtian, Gansu Painted Potteries, Yi Shu Jia Publishing. 2000. ISBN: 957-8273-61-4Provenance: The Professor Conrad Harris Collection
New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show, Arts of Pacific Asia New Arts of Pacific Asia Show, Arts of Pacific Asia The International Asian Art Fair, Asian Art Fair, 2004 The International Asian Art Fair, Asian Art Fair, 2003 Ben Janssens Oriental Art, Treasures from China's Golden Age 500-1000AD Baur Geneva, Collections Baur Geneva Bulletin 63. 2001 1er Salon International D'Art Asiatique. October 2001 Ikutaro Itoh, Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Collection, the Yomiuri Shimbun, Osaka, 1998 The International Ceramics Fair & Seminar London. 2001 Selected Chinese Art from the Oriental Museum,Durham, Phillips Auctioneers. 2000 Eldon Worrall, Precious Vessels 2000 years of Chinese Pottery, Merseyside County Council/Museum, 1980 Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Museum Shanghai Museum Ancient Chinese Ceramics Gallery, Shanghai Museum Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, The Chinese Porcelain Co. Jades of the Qijia and Related Northwestern Cultures, Throckmorton Fine Art Ancient Chinese Tomb Sculpture, JJ Lally & Co. 2004 Chinese Archaic Bronzes, Sculpture & Works of Art, JJ Lally & Co. 1992Provenance: The Professor Conrad Harris Collection
the vessels formed with curved cylindrical openings and small curved handles at the wide waists, both tapering down to pointed feet. Heights: 28.5/27.5cm Compare to a small amphora with similar rounded shoulders excavated in 1975 from a Banpo site in Jiangzhai, Lintong county, Shaanxi province, now in the Shaanxi History Museum. See The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1: Neolithic Period, Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Arts Publishing, 2000, no. 17, pp. 66 and 252. See also, a small amphora excavated from Banpo village, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, now in the British Museum, as illustrated in Sheila Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London: British Museum, 1991, 13, fig.1. Provenance: The Professor Conrad Harris Collection
A late 18th century Worcester porcelain 'Bat' pattern teapot, tea caddy and cover, and lidded jug, each having pseudo Chinese marks to base (3).Condition report: The teapot, two firing cracks to lid below the finial.Jug with tiny chip to finial and a flake to the edge of the lid.Caddy has a tiny flake on the rim near the lid, just a couple of glazed firing flaws to the foot.
A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN PUNCH BOWL, ENAMELLED WITH A 'MANDARIN' PATTERN, C1780, 28CM DIAM, A CHINESE IMARI BOWL, 18TH C AND A CHINESE RICE PAPER PAINTING, 19TH C, FRAMED 'Mandarin' bowl broken in two and stapled, also with two minor hairline cracks. Imari bowl broken and re-stuck, also with chip on rim. Rice paper painting with localised loss and separation, in later English gold painted frame
GROUP OF ENGLISH PORCELAIN TEA WARES 18TH CENTURY to include a Worcester 'Rock Strata Island' tea bowl and saucer; a Caughley 'Fisherman and Cormorant' tea bowl and saucer with gilt details; a Caughley 'Mother and Child' pattern tea bowl and saucer; a Lowestoft Chinese flower tea bowl and saucer; a Caughley 'Pagoda' pattern tea bowl and saucer with gilt details; an unknown tea bowl and saucer decorated with flower sprigs; a Liverpool tea bowl; a 'Fisherman and Cormorant' tea bowl; and a 'Two Temples' coffee cup with gilt details(Various sizes)
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