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Click here to subscribeA Mixed Lot Of Of Oddments And Collectibles To include mid century plated ovoid vase, miniature amphora form vase in planished metal, white metal goblet, modern oriental seal, painted ceramic Chinese horse figure, silver tone tin, metal polar bear figure and stylised bird figure. Along with a miniature travel clock, vintage boxed cufflinks, Queen Victoria coin brooch and silver filigree clip.
A Chinese silk depicting a junk and smaller vessels at sea, 57cm x 52cm, seal mark lower left, oak frame 812cm x 87cm.Condition: Minor browning to sky, no signs of damage to silk, overall good colour and condition, minor damage to outer edges of oak frame and to corner of gilded border as pictured.
A LARGE CHINESE SOAPSTONE ‘SCHOLARS’ SEAL, REPUBLIC PERIOD, 1912 – 1949 carved as a mountainous outcrop, the front depicting three scholars at the edge of a bridge beneath a gnarled pine tree above an incised four-character mark, the base carved with a shaped cartouche containing script, loose hardwood stand, minor scratches and wear 15cm high including base (2)
Manner of Kawanabe Kyosaio (1831-1889) Woman seated astride crane with attendants, signature and seal mark, pen ink and watercolour on silk, 20cm x 23cm (unframed) - Soame Jenyns Collection Condition Report & Further Details This lot comes from the collection of Soame Jenyns (1904- 1976) and is being sold by order of the executors of his younger son, the late John Jenyns. Soame Jenyns was Assistant Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at The British Museum from 1931-1967. He published several books including: "A Background to Chinese Painting" published 1935, "Chinese Archaic Jades in the British Museum" 1951, "Ming Pottery & Porcelain" 1953 etc.Some spotting to the left hand side beneath crane and along bottom.Some staining particularly to the edge.
LATE 20TH CENTURY CHINESE YI XING TEA POT, of rectangular form and in black, decorated with one hundred Fu characters (happiness), text reading Made in Yi Xing New Village, maker Chen Guoliang, seal mark present, another artist's seal to base (Zhao Yu'e), cyclical date Jen Shen (1992), 12.5cm high; 16cm wide; along with a 20 th century Chinese Yi Xing tea pot, with moulded decoration to one side in Fu character (happiness), maker Zhao Li Hua, 11cm high, 15cm wide (2)
REPUBLIC PERIOD CHINESE YI XING TEA POT, decorated to one side with a portrait bust of Mao in a sunburst with inscription Hua Ren Min Gong He Guo Wan (Chinese People's Republic), and to the other side with three inscriptions (Serving for the People, copy of Mao's signature and proclamation date 1.10.1949), maker Xu Xie Bao, seal mark to base, 13cm high, 15.5cm wide
Two Chinese famille rose porcelain teapots with printed seal mark to bases together with a similar covered bowl CONDITION REPORT Some damages as shown in photos.Wire handle is missing and lug for fixing, has been broken off one side, small chips around the rim of the teapot and cover. The other tea pot has wear to gilding otherwise in good condition. Bowl and cover has chip to rim of the bowl cover, ok but worn gilding.
A pair of mid 20th Century Chinese poem bowls, decorated storks in a landscape and with script, four character Qianlong seal mark beneath, dated 1948, 10cm diameter/see illustration Condition Report: Generally good condition. A few minor flaws within glaze, perhaps a tiny glaze flake to one foot rim,
A Chinese blue and white vase: of baluster form with waisted slender neck and ruyi handles, painted with scrolling peony, lingzhi sprays and foliage between ruyi-head and lappet borders at the rim and foot, six-character Qianlong seal mark, bears a fragment of a collector's paper label, 27 cm high [tiny flat chip to one ruyi handle terminal].Please note there will be no online bidding for this lot. If you wish to bid on this lot youwill be required to pay a deposit of £5000, (electronic transfer only ) which will enable you to bid by telephone, in person, or by absentee bidding (Unsuccessful bidders deposits will be refunded).All requests for bidding and all cleared funds for deposits must be received by12 noon on Tuesday 29th January 2019* Provenance. An English private collection by descent through the Blackett/Adnams family. The vase was acquired by Annie Madeline Glover b.1885 [daughter of Annie Adnams b.1857] who arrived in Shanghai to teach in September 1910. She married accountant James Arthur Burke-Scott there in 1912, had a son in 1913 and was widowed in 1918. Subsequently she and her son Pat moved back to this country in 1922 on the P&O steamship 'Egypt', eventually settling in Bloomfield Park, Bath from where the vase was passed on to the present owner.
Two Chinese jade seals: of rounded octagonal form, one carved with chilong, the other with a buddhistic lion dog, both with four-character seals which read 'Xiu Genyao yin' [Seal of Xiu Genyao] and 'Li Shimin yin' [Seal of Li Shimin'], the stone of yellowish celadon colour with grey, russet and cream inclusions, 5 x 2 cm. and 5 x 2.5 cm.
MAI TRUNG THU (VIETNAMESE-FRENCH 1906-1980) Portrait of a Woman with Fan, 1956 ink and gouache on silk laid on board 19.5 x 11 cm (7 5/8 x 4 3/8 in.) signed, stamped with artist's seal and dated in Chinese lower right LOT NOTESAlong with Vu Cao Dam and Le Pho, Mai Trung Thu is one of the pillars of Vietnamese modernism of the 20th Century. Born in An Durong, Thu was one of the graduates of the first entering class of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l`Indochine in Hanoi. Like Vu Cao Dam and Le Pho, Thu emigrated to Paris in 1937, where he would develop a successful art career. The present work, Portrait of a Woman with Fan, displays Mai Thu's delicate and sinuous draftsmanship, muted palette, and sensous subject matter, for which he was so well known.
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