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Click here to subscribe‡A French porcelain vase painted with Chinese figures within a temple setting, late 19th century, of shouldered cylindrical form, and with gilt line rims, 62 cm high ‡ Indicates that the lot is being sold whilst subject to temporary importation and that VAT is due at the reduced rate (5%). Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
‡ A French timepiece in the Chinese taste, final quarter 19th century, the eight-day back wound movement with dual plane duplex escapement, regulated by sprung monometallic balance, with two tone gilt highlighted Roman numeral cartouche painted porcelain dial; The gilt circular timepiece above a turquoise glazed ceramic elephant, possibly English, in the manner of examples by the Royal Worcester company, with lambrequin hung saddle, on a rectangular gilt metal and onyx base, 37 cm high; with two matched gilt metal mounted ceramic French twin light figural candelabra in the Chinese taste, final quarter 19th century, the openwork arms held aloft by ceramic hounds perched atop arched and rectangular bases, on scrolling ceramic feet, 34.5 cm high CATALOGUE NOTES: The movement of the current lot employs a very unusual form of two-plane duplex escapement. The ‘two-plane’ layout can be compared to those devised by R.E.D. for use in their-drum-shaped travelling timepieces as illustrated in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development plates VIII/29-30 (pages 213-14) whilst the twin-escape wheel arrangement has its roots in an arrangement devised in the early 18th century by Jean-Baptiste Dutertre as illustrated in Reid, Thomas A TREATISE ON CLOCK AND WATCHMAKING plate IX, no. 48. ‡ Indicates that the lot is being sold whilst subject to temporary importation and that VAT is due at the reduced rate (5%). Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
Thirty nine Chinese porcelain tiles mid 18th century, decorated after London delftware with monochrome vases of flowers, the corners with simple sprig designs, some wear, 12.5cm. (39) Cf. Jonathan Horne, English Tin-Glazed Tiles, p.63 pls.346 and 347 for the London originals and for a short discussion of the Chinese porcelain copies.
A group of English porcelain teawares 2nd half 18th century, including a Worcester teapot and replacement cover painted in polychrome enamels with Chinese figures in a garden setting, a Chelsea plate painted with a butterfly beside fruit, a Worcester teacup in the Dalhousie pattern, a moulded Liverpool coffee cup, a teabowl and saucer painted with back to back roses, a famille rose saucer with a vase of flowers, and a Bow blue and white bowl painted with a small pagoda on a jetty, some faults, 21.5cm max. (10)
A rare Chinese Batavian European-decorated teabowl and saucer Kangxi 1662-1722, decorated in underglaze blue with flower sprays, the underside glazed brown, with later wheel-engraved decoration in Saxony or Bohemia, of small figures at various pursuits between leafy branches, 11.6cm. (2) Cf. Helen Espir, European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain, p.59, pl.12 for a similar example.
A London-decorated Chinese porcelain teapot stand Qianlong 1736-95, the fluted hexagonal form painted perhaps in the atelier of James Giles with exotic birds standing beside leafy branches, 13.3cm. Illustrated: Stephen Hanscombe, The Early James Giles and his Contemporary London Decorators, no.98.
A European-decorated Chinese teapot and cover Qianlong 1736-95, the globular body painted in the London atelier of James Giles with sprays of European flowers, and a similarly decorated Chinese porcelain jug and cover, 17.8cm max. (4) Illustrated: Stephen Hanscombe, The Early James Giles and his Contemporary London Decorators, no 49.
Two Chinese porcelain plates and a saucer 18th/early 19th century, one decorated in famille verte enamels with a version of the Two Quail pattern, the saucer similarly decorated with a different version, the other plate with later enamelled decoration to simulate the tobacco leaf design, 23cm max. (3)
Two large English porcelain blue and white sauceboats c.1770, the larger Derby printed with Chinese fisherman in landscape vignettes reserved on a pineapple-moulded ground within cell diaper borders, the other Bow and painted with peony branches within floral moulded panels, minor faults, 24.5cm max. (2)
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