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Lot 334
A RARE JAPANESE KO-KUTANI DISH C.1670 Decorated in red and black enamels with details picked out in gilt, the well painted with a central medallion containing two rabbits beneath flowering peonies, with two butterflies fluttering above, the rim decorated with five lobed panels of flowers on a diaper ground, the rim with old kintsugi gold lacquer restoration, 20.9cm. Provenance: from the collection of Soame Jenyns (1904-1976), Assistant Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum (1931-1967). Jenyns published many books on Chinese and Japanese ceramics which are now considered references. Cf. J Ayers, O Impey, J V G Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, p.121 for a box and cover with similar style decoration in red, black and gilt.
Lot 369
A SMALL JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE FOOD DISH, MUKOZUKE C.1670 The surface moulded and shaped as a paulownia leaf, decorated with prunus flowers floating on a stream in white reserved on a blue swastika-diaper ground, the reverse left undecorated and raised on a short foot, 10.5cm. Cf. G Lang, The Wrestling Boys, An exhibition of Chinese and Japanese ceramics from the 16th to the 18th century in the collection at Burghley House, p. 13 no.12, for a mukozuke dish from the same set and currently on display at Burghley House. Also, see J Ayers, O Impey, J V G Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, p.95 no.34, for the same dish. According to the authors, this type was very popular in Japan for the tea ceremony and identical pieces have been found at the Cho-kichi-dani kiln in Nangawara, Arita.
Lot 101
A CHINESE HUANGHUALI BOX WITH INSET PORCELAIN PLAQUES 18TH CENTURY Each facet with a rectangular blue and white plaque painted with houses, pagodas, and figures on boats in a mountainous watery landscape, the box with a hinged cover and moveable metal handles to two sides, the interior with a lift-out tray divided into six sections, 18cm x 31cm x 22cm. (2) Provenance: formerly in the collection of Supercargo Peter Fenger (1688-1737), who made many trips to China, where he bought this box. In this photograph taken in 1935, the box can be seen on the table between his descendants Anna and Frederik Hjort. The box was known in the family as the Fengerske box. Cf. J Wirgin, Fran Kina til Europa, colour pl.242, for a similar box with blue and white river landscape panels where it is called 'teskrin' and dated c.1700. Literature: Frederik Hjort, Mit livs begivenheder, 1935, p.279.十八世紀 黃花梨嵌青花山水紋盒來源：Peter Fenger（1688-1737）舊藏。Fenger先生生前經營貨物航運生意，并多次往返中國，在此期間他購入此盒。照片拍攝於於1945年，照片中為他的後人Anna及Frederik Hjort。
Lot 102
A PAIR OF SMALL CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE EGGSHELL PORCELAIN VASES REPUBLIC PERIOD Each painted in enamels with two cartouches enclosing blossoming branches and a bird of prey perched on rocks beneath a pine tree, all against a ground of auspicious emblems and scrolling lotus decorated en grisaille, with four character Qianlong marks to the bases, 13.8cm. (2) Provenance: purchased from Shanghai Art House, Singapore, 30th December 1968; a copy of the invoice is available.民國 粉彩開光梅花紋瓶 一對來源：1968年12月30日購於新加坡鴻霖公司（附發票複印件）。
Lot 103
A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND EGGSHELL PORCELAIN VASES REPUBLIC PERIOD Each painted with two large panels, one depicting a bird of prey perched on rockwork, the other with a dog painted in the style of Giuseppe Castiglione, all reserved on a lotus-decorated ground, with four character Qianlong marks to the bases, each with a wood stand, 27cm. (4) Provenance: purchased from Shanghai Art House, Singapore, 30th December 1968; a copy of the invoice is available.民國 粉彩黃地開光花鳥紋瓶 一對 來源：1968年12月30日購於新加坡鴻霖公司（附發票複印件）。
Lot 106
A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE IRON-RED GROUND VASE JIAQING 1796-1820 Decorated with four butterflies and four cartouches containing scenes of boys in a garden painted in coloured enamels, with scrolling gilt floral and foliate designs against the vibrant red ground, the interior and base turquoise, a label for the Max Robertson Collection No.A-224-B to the base, together with a bronze stand, 20cm. (2) Max Robertson (1915-2009) was a sports commentator, presenter, author and collector. He was famous as the voice of Wimbledon and covered major news events including the coronation of Elizabeth II. Robertson also presented the antiques programme Going for a Song. Despite selling his collection of mostly Transitional Chinese porcelain at Sotheby's in 1964, Robertson continued to collect and was a client of Bluett's mainly between 1961 and 1970. Most of his possessions were sold at Sotheby's in 2000. Provenance: Max Robertson; and then the collection of the Littman family.清嘉慶 粉彩珊瑚紅地吉慶如意百子圖瓶來源：Littman家族舊藏。Max Robertson收藏。
Lot 119
A CHINESE CELADON MEIPING KANGXI 1662-1722 With a short waisted neck and a gently flaring foot, the body carved with three scrolling peony flowerheads amidst stylised clouds, with a border of incised decoration to the shoulder, all above a broad band of pendant leaves, the base with a paper label for C T Loo, 22cm. Provenance: Frank Caro (successor to C T Loo), New York, acquired from Roger Keverne Ltd, London, on 1st October 2007.Cf. The Langsdorf Collection of Qing Dynasty Porcelain, collection no.266.4818; see also W B Honey, Guide to the Later Chinese Porcelain Periods of K'ang Hsi, Yung Cheng, and Ch'ien Lung, pl.5 for a similar vase in the Salting Collection; see also Monochrome Porcelain: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, p.190, no.172 for another related piece.清康熙 青釉纏枝牡丹紋梅瓶
Lot 135
A RARE CHINESE UNDERGLAZE RED 'DRAGON' BOWL 1ST HALF 16TH CENTURY The gently flared body decorated with two scaly dragons chasing flaming pearls of wisdom against an incised wave ground, the centre with a slight recess and painted with two further dragons in pursuit of sacred jewels, with simple red bands to the rim and tapering foot, the slightly convex base with a six character Xuande mark and labels for R H R Palmer, The Oriental Ceramic Society 1950 Exhibition, and F O S & M M Dobell, 21cm. Provenance: Bluett & Sons, 29th September 1944, purchased by R H R Palmer for £30, collection no.584; sold at Sotheby's London, 27th November 1962, lot 21, and again on 24th March 1964, lot 86, purchased by Bluett & Sons for £220 on behalf of F O S and M M Dobell, no.48, and thence by descent. Exhibited: The Oriental Ceramic Society Ming Polychrome Exhibition, 1950, no.133. Illustrated: S Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, 1953, pl.49A, and p.55, where this bowl is discussed. Also illustrated in The Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol.20, pl.24, and p.49 where it is discussed.. Cf. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, museum accession no.C.27-1978 for an almost identical bowl dated to the Ming dynasty donated by Dr Sydney Smith; see also the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, object no.B60P1220 for another Ming bowl of the same design from the Avery Brundage Collection; another identical bowl sold at Christie's London, 21st March 1966, lot 68 to Sydney L Moss, it sold again at Christie's New York, 16th September 2010, lot 1405, ex Dr William L Corbin Collection, and at Beijing Poly in 2013, lot 1435, where it was catalogued as Ming. THE PALMER DRAGON BOWL This rare, elegantly shaped bowl is striking for is lively painting of striding dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst anhua waves and above rocks. The designs were first incised, then the dragons were applied with copper colorant and, finally, the bowl was covered with a colourless glaze. The anhua designs are only faintly visible, shadowed by the deep red of the dragons, pearls and flames. The dating of these bowls has been long debated and remains controversial, with opinions differing between a mid Ming and Kangxi attribution. Two smaller bowls, with similar dragons and Kangxi marks but no anhua decoration are in the British Museum, one in the Percival David Collection, the other donated in 1926 by C T Loo. Another smaller bowl, with a typical Lang Tingji (Governor of Jiangxi province, 1705-1712) Kangxi mark, is in the Shanghai Museum. However the larger Xuande marked bowls, such as this Palmer/Dobell piece, differ in several important aspects from the Kangxi examples. All have gentle flared rims, with a single line drawn to the inside edge, central design (usually inward facing double dragons, chasing pearls), and a recessed base. The Kangxi pieces have straighter rims with plain, undecorated interiors, and no base recess. Elements of the dragon designs, such as the elbow hair, and body and tail fins, are executed differently on the Xuande mark pieces when compared to the Kangxi examples. The foot is wide, the inside base is convex and, where the glaze meets the biscuit, the edges have burnt a strong orange. The Kangxi pieces have a narrower foot, the inside bases are usually flat, and the burning to the glaze edges are less pronounced. The Xuande mark was first copied in the Chenghua period and is seen again in the Zhengde period. The style and calligraphic strokes used, size and spacing of the Xuande mark on this bowl is very similar to that seen Imperial Zhengde pieces such as those in the Gugong Museum, Beijing. See for examples ‘Mingdai Hongzhi Zhengde Yuyao Cigi. Jingdezhen Yuyao Yizhi Chutu Yu Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Chuanshi Ciqi Dubiai’ - ‘Imperial Porcelain from the Reign of Hongzhi and Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty. A Comparison of Porcelain from the Imperial Kiln Site at Jingdezhen and the Imperial Collection of the Palace Museum’, Beijing, 2017, vol.2, catalogue numbers 222/223 and 248/249, together with a partiality reconstructed dish with incised dragon amongst waves in green and red glaze, excavated at the Imperial kiln site, Zhushan, in 2014, catalogue numbers 271. The drawing of the mark is very different to that seen on Kangxi period Xuande copies. For examples see two Kangxi period monochrome stem bowls, both with very well written Xuande marks, along with a Kangxi period bowl copying Xuande lotus scrolls in underglazed red, with an apocryphal Xuande mark, all in the Shanghai Museum. Prior to the Dobell Collection, this bowl belonged to a highly important English collector of Chinese art: R H R Palmer (1898-1970), chairmen of Huntley and Palmers who started collecting in 1924, and along with his wife built an outstanding collection consisting Ming and Qing porcelain, jade, ivory and lacquer. 十六世紀 釉里紅趕珠龍紋碗《大明宣德年製》青花楷書款來源：1944年9月29日由R H R Palmer以£30的價格購於Bluett & Son，收藏編號584。蘇富比倫敦1962年11月27日·編號21, 1964年3月24日·編號86 由Bluett & Son代F O S 及M M Dobell以£220，編號48。
Lot 141
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE AND UNDERGLAZE-RED 'DRAGON AND TIGER' TIANQIUPING QIANLONG 1736-95 With an ovoid body and a tall cylindrical neck, painted with a tiger crouching on his forepaws with a curling tail, the feline looks up at a red dragon emerging from clouds and wisps of fire, all in a mountainous landscape with two pine trees near the water's edge, 37cm. Provenance: from the collection of W W Winkworth Esq., then purchased from Sotheby's London on 12th December 1972, lot 113, and later purchased from Bluett & Sons Ltd. on 25th June 1973 for £2.950. Cf. M Butler, M Medley and S Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, p.198, no.138 for a blue and white and underglaze red vase with the same subject matter..清乾隆 青花釉里紅龍虎紋天球瓶來源：W W Winkworth Esq先生舊藏，購於倫敦蘇富比1972年12月12日·編號113。1973年6月25日以£2,950的價格購於Bluett & Son Ltd.。
Lot 144
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE KANGXI 1662-1722 Depicting a figure bearing a hu tablet as he kneels before a seated dignitary, with his attendants spread throughout the pavilion, the reverse painted with swirling clouds and banana trees, with bands of ruyi-heads, key fret and other geometric patterns to the cylindrical neck and galleried rim, 44cm. Provenance: previously an English private collection, London, acquired in the 1980s. Cf. R Chen, Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghua Ci (Qing Dynasty Shunzhi and Kangxi Blue and White Porcelain), p.454, no.292 for a related vase in the collection of the Palace Museum.清康熙 青花人物故事紋棒槌瓶來源：英國倫敦私人收藏，購於1980年代。
Lot 98
A MASSIVE CHINESE PORCELAIN STAND YONGZHENG 1723-35 Raised on a flared foot and richly decorated to the well with leaping carp, crustaceans, lotus and crashing waves, the rim with dense bands of flowerheads, scrolling motifs and stylised conch shells in shaped panels, the outside painted with large bowls of pomegranates and finger citrons raised on flowering branches, alternating with roundels enclosing formal fans and flowers, the centre of the well left unglazed, possibly to be used as a jug stand, 57cm dia.清雍正 粉彩多子多福盤
Lot 533
A 19th century Chinese famille verte porcelain vase and cover of baluster form with tapered upstanding neck, the domed cover with bun finial and outset rim, decorated in enamels with two large reserves, one with a pheasant on flowering branches above rockwork, the other with flowers issuing from geometric rockwork, plus two smaller circular floral reserves, on a blue-green scale ground, over lappet and diaper borders, 14¬in. (36.2cm.) high, damage to neck and cover.
Lot 566
A Chinese blue and white porcelain leaf shaped dishQianlong period, painted with a lake scene with pagodas and figures on a bridge, within Fitzhugh style border, 7½in. (19cm.) long; together with an Oriental crackle glazed stoneware ovoid jar, possibly Korean, with buff tinted glaze and painted leaves and concentric bands, 3½in. (9cm.) high. (2)*Condition: - Dish: Tiny glaze frit to one end. Otherwise very good with no other faults.- Jar: Chip to base rim (from during the making), two small 1cm. firing flaws to rim and tiny glaze frit to rim. No other faults.
Lot 575
Two Chinese porcelain famille rose dishesthe first circular, with iron red Daoguang six character mark (1821-50) and of the period, decorated with chrysanthemums and peonies, the central roundel decorated with pomegranate, 5 7/8in. (15cm.) diameter; the second with underglaze blue seal mark to base, decorated with a trio of bats above double roundels amidst floral decoration, the center with pomegranate, a double concentric line on upper face and reverse rim, another above foot to base, 5 7/8in. (15cm.) diameter. (2)*Condition: the shaped dish with slight rubbing/wear to central decoration, gilt rubbing to rim, the other good.
Lot 347
A 19th century Staffordshire arbour group depicting a marriage ceremony, inscribed 'The New Marriage Act, John Frill and Ann Boke, aged 21, That is Right says the Parson, Amen says the clerk', 15.5 cm high to/w a small glass vessel finely engraved with birds, flowers and foliage, 5.8 cm high, ground pontil; an early 19th century pearlware blue and white transfer printed plate decorated with oriental buildings and fallow deer, 24 cm diam.; an early Spode blue and white transfer print Caramanian Series reticulated plate - The Necropolis Cemetery of Cacomo, 19.3 cm diam.; a pearlware plate decorated with a boy on a buffalo, 18.5 cm diam.; Two early Coalport Imari plates, 21.5 cm diam.; a Victorian copper lustre jug decorated to one side with a clock dial and to the other side with a stag, 20 cm high; a French Darte Freres porcelain floral decorated pot and cover; a Bohemian ruby glass vase; cranberry glass flour dredger with silver top; faceted salt cellar with EP mounts; a cranberry small vase with frilled rim, 11 cm high and two ironstone vases of Chinese octagonal form, 14 cm high (15)Staffordshire marriage group - Good condition for age, crazing to baseGlass vessel - Small rim cip, wear to basePearlware plate with oriental buildings - Crazed and discoloured mainly to the undersidePearlware plate with boy on buffalow - Chip to underside of rimImari plates - gilt rims rubbedFrench porcelain pot and cover - rim broken and re-gluedIronstone vases - rim of one broken and re-glued
Lot 429
A Chinese porcelain ritual vessel, decorated in underglaze blue, yellow, green and aubergine with panels depicting confronting dragons and mountainous river landscapes, 29 cm high, late Qing Dynasty or laterOverall extensively damaged. Damage includes two broken legs - some pieces present, large chip to rim amd hairline cracks
Lot 430
A Chinese biscuit porcelain brush pot, bitong, Qing dynasty in the style of Wang Bing Rong, the cylindrical lime-green glazed reticulated body intricately carved with figures and pavillion interior within a rocky landscape setting, the base with drilled (possibly Daoguang) seal mark, 13 cm h x 12 cm diam.base centre drilled with 1.5cm (approx) diameter hole spurring two outward hairline cracks - see images
Lot 448
A Chinese porcelain small bowl, decorated with foliate designs and stylised bats on a mottled brown glaze with turquoise enamelled highlights, marks of Xuande, though not of the period, 9.8 cm diam (cracked and chipped) to/w a small famille rose porcelain vase, a small blue and white foliate-painted bowl, an onion-shaped inverted stoneware vase of archaic form with oxidised clear glaze, 11.5 cm high, an onion-shaped vase with mottled 'egg and spinach' glaze, 25 cm, a turquoise-glazed earthenware vase, 20.5 cm high and a blue glazed flask entwined with a dragon, 21 cm (7)Monochrome dragon vase - Cracked and re-glued neck. Spout broken and re-glued. Small chip at base
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