We found 31343 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 31343 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
31343 item(s)/page
Lot 26
A Chinese Imari chocolate pot, 18th century, the globular body rising to a cylindrical neck with a funnel spout, flanked by an S-shaped handle, mounted with a silver cover engraved with duck-hunting on boats, stamped HGA, 15cm high清十八世纪 伊万里式花卉纹巧克力壶The cover is dented, bent and worn. Ill-fitting to the rim. Gilt worn to the rims, spout and body. Foot rim chipped. A small chip to rim from the metal cover.
Lot 92
A Chinese silver tea set,c.1900, comprising: a teapot and cover, a sugar bowl and cover, and a milk jug, all of globular form, decorated with magpies among blossoming prunus trees, the covers, the handles and spout simulating bamboo, incised marks 'Jiaozhou, Chengde',teapot 15.5cm high to top of finial, 548.4gsugar bowl 18cm long, 407.2gmilk jug 7.8m high, 203.2g (5)清约1900年 银制喜上眉梢纹茶具组Surface scratches and dents. Base of sugar bowl and milk jug soldered. Teapot with spout repaired and a split to spout. Some decoration loose and with losses. Teapot 17.6ozt / 548.4g.Sugar bowl 13ozt / 407.2g.Milk jug 6.5ozt / 203.2g.
Lot 150
MUGHAL STYLE PALE CELADON JADE HANDLED BOWL QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 清 青白玉雕痕都斯坦式花葉紋雙柄碗 the delicate body intricately carved in low relief on the exterior with a band of acanthus leaf, the tip rising from the rim and curling to form a pair of bud-form handles, the deep round body supported on an intricate rosette foot, further encircled by a band of acanthus leaves, the stone of even and translucent pale celadon colour with light occasional cloud inclusions(16cm wide)Provenance: Kimmerghame, Duns, the Estate of the Late Major General Sir John Swinton K.C.V.O., O.B.E., D.L. (1925-2018) Major General Sir John Swinton began his military career in 1944 with the Scots Guards, rising in rank to Major General in 1976. He was also Brigadier of the Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) in 1977, and retired from Army life in 1979. With his strong military background, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Berwickshire in 1980 and Lord Lieutenant from 1989 to 2000. A high point of his tenure was escorting the Stone of Scone back to Scotland in 1996. The Swinton family history and ownership of land in Berwickshire can be traced to the early part of the 12th century, when Ernulf de Swinton received one of the first private charters recorded in Scotland which confirmed his property from David I of Scotland (1084-1153). This is one of two original charters of David I kept in the cartulary of Durham; both are to Ernulf and also refer to Ernulf’s father (Udard), grandfather (Liulf) and great-grandfather (Eadulf) as holding the land before him. This would make Eadulf the first landowner of Scotland whose ownership could be proved, and means that the Swinton family would by this hypothesis be one of only three (the two others being the Arden and Berkeley families) that could trace its unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest, making it one of the oldest landed families in Britain. Kimmerghame itself was the site of an earlier house, the home of Sir Andrew Home in the 1730s. The lands and estate of Kimmerghame came into the ownership of the family of Swinton in 1776 when Archibald Swinton of Manderston married Henrietta Campbell of Blythswood in Glasgow. This older house was demolished and rebuilt in the early 1850s, the architect being the celebrated David Bryce, who employed some materials from the older house. Bryce’s Scots Baronial house was substantially damaged by fire in 1938 and only partially rebuilt. The family still retains Kimmerghame and its contents. Captain Archibald Swinton (1731-1804) went to India in the service of the East India Company as a surgeon. He reached Madras in 1752 and took part in the campaigns being waged between the French and English Companies for supremacy in the south. He also took part in an expedition 1756-57 to Negrais in Burma. He reached eastern India for the first time in 1759 when he arrived at Ganjam in Orissa and from there went on to Calcutta. He also transferred from being a surgeon to an ensignship in the Company’s Bengal army. When Archibald Swinton left the Company’s service at the end of 1765, he took with him a letter from the Emperor to King George III asking for help to reseat him on the throne of his ancestors, since Clive would not do so unilaterally; Swinton took a munshi with him in case the answer should be written in Persian. So ‘Captain Swinton, bringing with him the Munshy (sic) (and including in his baggage the large Indian jars, the Indian pictures, Chinese pictures painted on glass, numberless ivory, silver and crystal handled arms, jewels, Persian books, etc. etc.), sailed from India …’ The important group of Indian paintings and other works of art are now in the care of the National Museum of Scotland having been accepted by the nation in lieu of inheritance tax. The Swinton family have had strong connections with the Army and the legal profession. Part of their impressive collection was sold at our saleroom in Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings and Works of Art sale on 23 Feb 2022.
Lot 151
MUGHAL-STYLE WHITE JADE 'CHRYSANTHEMUM' BOWL QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 清 白玉雕痕都斯坦式菊紋碗 elegantly carved with steep and gently flaring plain sides, supported on a medallion of a blossoming chrysanthemum, the thin polished stone of even and translucent white colour with light occasional cloud inclusions(12cm diameter)Provenance: Kimmerghame, Duns, the Estate of the Late Major General Sir John Swinton K.C.V.O., O.B.E., D.L. (1925-2018) Major General Sir John Swinton began his military career in 1944 with the Scots Guards, rising in rank to Major General in 1976. He was also Brigadier of the Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) in 1977, and retired from Army life in 1979. With his strong military background, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Berwickshire in 1980 and Lord Lieutenant from 1989 to 2000. A high point of his tenure was escorting the Stone of Scone back to Scotland in 1996. The Swinton family history and ownership of land in Berwickshire can be traced to the early part of the 12th century, when Ernulf de Swinton received one of the first private charters recorded in Scotland which confirmed his property from David I of Scotland (1084-1153). This is one of two original charters of David I kept in the cartulary of Durham; both are to Ernulf and also refer to Ernulf’s father (Udard), grandfather (Liulf) and great-grandfather (Eadulf) as holding the land before him. This would make Eadulf the first landowner of Scotland whose ownership could be proved, and means that the Swinton family would by this hypothesis be one of only three (the two others being the Arden and Berkeley families) that could trace its unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest, making it one of the oldest landed families in Britain. Kimmerghame itself was the site of an earlier house, the home of Sir Andrew Home in the 1730s. The lands and estate of Kimmerghame came into the ownership of the family of Swinton in 1776 when Archibald Swinton of Manderston married Henrietta Campbell of Blythswood in Glasgow. This older house was demolished and rebuilt in the early 1850s, the architect being the celebrated David Bryce, who employed some materials from the older house. Bryce’s Scots Baronial house was substantially damaged by fire in 1938 and only partially rebuilt. The family still retains Kimmerghame and its contents. Captain Archibald Swinton (1731-1804) went to India in the service of the East India Company as a surgeon. He reached Madras in 1752 and took part in the campaigns being waged between the French and English Companies for supremacy in the south. He also took part in an expedition 1756-57 to Negrais in Burma. He reached eastern India for the first time in 1759 when he arrived at Ganjam in Orissa and from there went on to Calcutta. He also transferred from being a surgeon to an ensignship in the Company’s Bengal army. When Archibald Swinton left the Company’s service at the end of 1765, he took with him a letter from the Emperor to King George III asking for help to reseat him on the throne of his ancestors, since Clive would not do so unilaterally; Swinton took a munshi with him in case the answer should be written in Persian. So ‘Captain Swinton, bringing with him the Munshy (sic) (and including in his baggage the large Indian jars, the Indian pictures, Chinese pictures painted on glass, numberless ivory, silver and crystal handled arms, jewels, Persian books, etc. etc.), sailed from India …’ The important group of Indian paintings and other works of art are now in the care of the National Museum of Scotland having been accepted by the nation in lieu of inheritance tax. The Swinton family have had strong connections with the Army and the legal profession. Part of their impressive collection was sold at our saleroom in Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings and Works of Art sale on 23 Feb 2022.
Lot 152
OX-BLOOD-GLAZED LANGYAO MEIPING VASE QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY 清 紅釉郎窯小梅瓶 the high shouldered baluster body rising from a spreading foot to a waisted neck and terminating to a flared rim, covered overall with a rich red glaze thinning on the mouth, the foot suffused with hints of blue and lavender colours, a network of fine crackle throughout, the base with an ivory white glaze with a fine network of crackle, with a carved wooden lid(13cm high)Provenance: Kimmerghame, Duns, the Estate of the Late Major General Sir John Swinton K.C.V.O., O.B.E., D.L. (1925-2018) Major General Sir John Swinton began his military career in 1944 with the Scots Guards, rising in rank to Major General in 1976. He was also Brigadier of the Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) in 1977, and retired from Army life in 1979. With his strong military background, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Berwickshire in 1980 and Lord Lieutenant from 1989 to 2000. A high point of his tenure was escorting the Stone of Scone back to Scotland in 1996. The Swinton family history and ownership of land in Berwickshire can be traced to the early part of the 12th century, when Ernulf de Swinton received one of the first private charters recorded in Scotland which confirmed his property from David I of Scotland (1084-1153). This is one of two original charters of David I kept in the cartulary of Durham; both are to Ernulf and also refer to Ernulf’s father (Udard), grandfather (Liulf) and great-grandfather (Eadulf) as holding the land before him. This would make Eadulf the first landowner of Scotland whose ownership could be proved, and means that the Swinton family would by this hypothesis be one of only three (the two others being the Arden and Berkeley families) that could trace its unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest, making it one of the oldest landed families in Britain. Kimmerghame itself was the site of an earlier house, the home of Sir Andrew Home in the 1730s. The lands and estate of Kimmerghame came into the ownership of the family of Swinton in 1776 when Archibald Swinton of Manderston married Henrietta Campbell of Blythswood in Glasgow. This older house was demolished and rebuilt in the early 1850s, the architect being the celebrated David Bryce, who employed some materials from the older house. Bryce’s Scots Baronial house was substantially damaged by fire in 1938 and only partially rebuilt. The family still retains Kimmerghame and its contents. Captain Archibald Swinton (1731-1804) went to India in the service of the East India Company as a surgeon. He reached Madras in 1752 and took part in the campaigns being waged between the French and English Companies for supremacy in the south. He also took part in an expedition 1756-57 to Negrais in Burma. He reached eastern India for the first time in 1759 when he arrived at Ganjam in Orissa and from there went on to Calcutta. He also transferred from being a surgeon to an ensignship in the Company’s Bengal army. When Archibald Swinton left the Company’s service at the end of 1765, he took with him a letter from the Emperor to King George III asking for help to reseat him on the throne of his ancestors, since Clive would not do so unilaterally; Swinton took a munshi with him in case the answer should be written in Persian. So ‘Captain Swinton, bringing with him the Munshy (sic) (and including in his baggage the large Indian jars, the Indian pictures, Chinese pictures painted on glass, numberless ivory, silver and crystal handled arms, jewels, Persian books, etc. etc.), sailed from India …’ The important group of Indian paintings and other works of art are now in the care of the National Museum of Scotland having been accepted by the nation in lieu of inheritance tax. The Swinton family have had strong connections with the Army and the legal profession. Part of their impressive collection was sold at our saleroom in Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings and Works of Art sale on 23 Feb 2022.Note: a slightly larger (17.8 cm high) red-glazed vase similar in the Meiping shape and ox-blood colour, dated to the Kangxi period, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number: 14.40.70
Lot 153
TURQUOISE-GLAZED HANDLED VASE QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 清 孔雀綠釉獸耳瓶 rising from a short foot to globular body, waisted neck and wide flared mouth, two makara heads with water emerging from mouth flanking the neck forming a pair of loop handles, covered overall and save for the base with a translucent bright turquoise crackled glaze, the base covered in a thin layer of transparent glaze and revealing the greyish-white body(28cm high)Provenance: Kimmerghame, Duns, the Estate of the Late Major General Sir John Swinton K.C.V.O., O.B.E., D.L. (1925-2018) Major General Sir John Swinton began his military career in 1944 with the Scots Guards, rising in rank to Major General in 1976. He was also Brigadier of the Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) in 1977, and retired from Army life in 1979. With his strong military background, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Berwickshire in 1980 and Lord Lieutenant from 1989 to 2000. A high point of his tenure was escorting the Stone of Scone back to Scotland in 1996. The Swinton family history and ownership of land in Berwickshire can be traced to the early part of the 12th century, when Ernulf de Swinton received one of the first private charters recorded in Scotland which confirmed his property from David I of Scotland (1084-1153). This is one of two original charters of David I kept in the cartulary of Durham; both are to Ernulf and also refer to Ernulf’s father (Udard), grandfather (Liulf) and great-grandfather (Eadulf) as holding the land before him. This would make Eadulf the first landowner of Scotland whose ownership could be proved, and means that the Swinton family would by this hypothesis be one of only three (the two others being the Arden and Berkeley families) that could trace its unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest, making it one of the oldest landed families in Britain. Kimmerghame itself was the site of an earlier house, the home of Sir Andrew Home in the 1730s. The lands and estate of Kimmerghame came into the ownership of the family of Swinton in 1776 when Archibald Swinton of Manderston married Henrietta Campbell of Blythswood in Glasgow. This older house was demolished and rebuilt in the early 1850s, the architect being the celebrated David Bryce, who employed some materials from the older house. Bryce’s Scots Baronial house was substantially damaged by fire in 1938 and only partially rebuilt. The family still retains Kimmerghame and its contents. Captain Archibald Swinton (1731-1804) went to India in the service of the East India Company as a surgeon. He reached Madras in 1752 and took part in the campaigns being waged between the French and English Companies for supremacy in the south. He also took part in an expedition 1756-57 to Negrais in Burma. He reached eastern India for the first time in 1759 when he arrived at Ganjam in Orissa and from there went on to Calcutta. He also transferred from being a surgeon to an ensignship in the Company’s Bengal army. When Archibald Swinton left the Company’s service at the end of 1765, he took with him a letter from the Emperor to King George III asking for help to reseat him on the throne of his ancestors, since Clive would not do so unilaterally; Swinton took a munshi with him in case the answer should be written in Persian. So ‘Captain Swinton, bringing with him the Munshy (sic) (and including in his baggage the large Indian jars, the Indian pictures, Chinese pictures painted on glass, numberless ivory, silver and crystal handled arms, jewels, Persian books, etc. etc.), sailed from India …’ The important group of Indian paintings and other works of art are now in the care of the National Museum of Scotland having been accepted by the nation in lieu of inheritance tax. The Swinton family have had strong connections with the Army and the legal profession. Part of their impressive collection was sold at our saleroom in Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings and Works of Art sale on 23 Feb 2022.Note: a comparable handled vase, dated to the Kangxi period, was sold at Christie's South Kensington, 5 May 2014, lot 615
Lot 154
SANG-DE-BOEUF BOTTLE VASE QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY 清 紅釉天球瓶 sturdily potted from a recessed foot rising to a bulbous body and straight long neck, applied overall with a thick red glaze thinning on the mouth rim revealing the creamy body, the base covered in an ivory white glaze with a network of fine crackle(39cm high)Provenance: Kimmerghame, Duns, the Estate of the Late Major General Sir John Swinton K.C.V.O., O.B.E., D.L. (1925-2018) Major General Sir John Swinton began his military career in 1944 with the Scots Guards, rising in rank to Major General in 1976. He was also Brigadier of the Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) in 1977, and retired from Army life in 1979. With his strong military background, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Berwickshire in 1980 and Lord Lieutenant from 1989 to 2000. A high point of his tenure was escorting the Stone of Scone back to Scotland in 1996. The Swinton family history and ownership of land in Berwickshire can be traced to the early part of the 12th century, when Ernulf de Swinton received one of the first private charters recorded in Scotland which confirmed his property from David I of Scotland (1084-1153). This is one of two original charters of David I kept in the cartulary of Durham; both are to Ernulf and also refer to Ernulf’s father (Udard), grandfather (Liulf) and great-grandfather (Eadulf) as holding the land before him. This would make Eadulf the first landowner of Scotland whose ownership could be proved, and means that the Swinton family would by this hypothesis be one of only three (the two others being the Arden and Berkeley families) that could trace its unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest, making it one of the oldest landed families in Britain. Kimmerghame itself was the site of an earlier house, the home of Sir Andrew Home in the 1730s. The lands and estate of Kimmerghame came into the ownership of the family of Swinton in 1776 when Archibald Swinton of Manderston married Henrietta Campbell of Blythswood in Glasgow. This older house was demolished and rebuilt in the early 1850s, the architect being the celebrated David Bryce, who employed some materials from the older house. Bryce’s Scots Baronial house was substantially damaged by fire in 1938 and only partially rebuilt. The family still retains Kimmerghame and its contents. Captain Archibald Swinton (1731-1804) went to India in the service of the East India Company as a surgeon. He reached Madras in 1752 and took part in the campaigns being waged between the French and English Companies for supremacy in the south. He also took part in an expedition 1756-57 to Negrais in Burma. He reached eastern India for the first time in 1759 when he arrived at Ganjam in Orissa and from there went on to Calcutta. He also transferred from being a surgeon to an ensignship in the Company’s Bengal army. When Archibald Swinton left the Company’s service at the end of 1765, he took with him a letter from the Emperor to King George III asking for help to reseat him on the throne of his ancestors, since Clive would not do so unilaterally; Swinton took a munshi with him in case the answer should be written in Persian. So ‘Captain Swinton, bringing with him the Munshy (sic) (and including in his baggage the large Indian jars, the Indian pictures, Chinese pictures painted on glass, numberless ivory, silver and crystal handled arms, jewels, Persian books, etc. etc.), sailed from India …’ The important group of Indian paintings and other works of art are now in the care of the National Museum of Scotland having been accepted by the nation in lieu of inheritance tax. The Swinton family have had strong connections with the Army and the legal profession. Part of their impressive collection was sold at our saleroom in Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings and Works of Art sale on 23 Feb 2022.
Lot 155
BLUE AND WHITE AND UNDERGLAZED-RED BOTTLE VASE 20TH CENTURY 二十世紀 青花釉裏紅三多紋膽瓶 the globular body supported on a slightly flared foot, rising to a long straight neck, painted with fruits borne on foliage underneath bands of ruyi, key-fret, and plantain leaves on the neck(37cm high)Provenance: Kimmerghame, Duns, the Estate of the Late Major General Sir John Swinton K.C.V.O., O.B.E., D.L. (1925-2018) Major General Sir John Swinton began his military career in 1944 with the Scots Guards, rising in rank to Major General in 1976. He was also Brigadier of the Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) in 1977, and retired from Army life in 1979. With his strong military background, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Berwickshire in 1980 and Lord Lieutenant from 1989 to 2000. A high point of his tenure was escorting the Stone of Scone back to Scotland in 1996. The Swinton family history and ownership of land in Berwickshire can be traced to the early part of the 12th century, when Ernulf de Swinton received one of the first private charters recorded in Scotland which confirmed his property from David I of Scotland (1084-1153). This is one of two original charters of David I kept in the cartulary of Durham; both are to Ernulf and also refer to Ernulf’s father (Udard), grandfather (Liulf) and great-grandfather (Eadulf) as holding the land before him. This would make Eadulf the first landowner of Scotland whose ownership could be proved, and means that the Swinton family would by this hypothesis be one of only three (the two others being the Arden and Berkeley families) that could trace its unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest, making it one of the oldest landed families in Britain. Kimmerghame itself was the site of an earlier house, the home of Sir Andrew Home in the 1730s. The lands and estate of Kimmerghame came into the ownership of the family of Swinton in 1776 when Archibald Swinton of Manderston married Henrietta Campbell of Blythswood in Glasgow. This older house was demolished and rebuilt in the early 1850s, the architect being the celebrated David Bryce, who employed some materials from the older house. Bryce’s Scots Baronial house was substantially damaged by fire in 1938 and only partially rebuilt. The family still retains Kimmerghame and its contents. Captain Archibald Swinton (1731-1804) went to India in the service of the East India Company as a surgeon. He reached Madras in 1752 and took part in the campaigns being waged between the French and English Companies for supremacy in the south. He also took part in an expedition 1756-57 to Negrais in Burma. He reached eastern India for the first time in 1759 when he arrived at Ganjam in Orissa and from there went on to Calcutta. He also transferred from being a surgeon to an ensignship in the Company’s Bengal army. When Archibald Swinton left the Company’s service at the end of 1765, he took with him a letter from the Emperor to King George III asking for help to reseat him on the throne of his ancestors, since Clive would not do so unilaterally; Swinton took a munshi with him in case the answer should be written in Persian. So ‘Captain Swinton, bringing with him the Munshy (sic) (and including in his baggage the large Indian jars, the Indian pictures, Chinese pictures painted on glass, numberless ivory, silver and crystal handled arms, jewels, Persian books, etc. etc.), sailed from India …’ The important group of Indian paintings and other works of art are now in the care of the National Museum of Scotland having been accepted by the nation in lieu of inheritance tax. The Swinton family have had strong connections with the Army and the legal profession. Part of their impressive collection was sold at our saleroom in Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings and Works of Art sale on 23 Feb 2022.
Lot 156
PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'COVERT EIGHT IMMORTALS' PLATES QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY 清 粉彩暗八仙紋盤（一對） each painted to the central medallion with attributes of Eight Daoist Immortals, including a double-gourd, sword, plantain fan, fish drum, flute, castanets, basket of flowers, and lotus, all borne on ribbons, resting on a large leaf issuing out luscious peonies, all beneath floral and auspicious emblem panels against a pink diaper and swirling ground band(32cm diameter each)Provenance: Kimmerghame, Duns, the Estate of the Late Major General Sir John Swinton K.C.V.O., O.B.E., D.L. (1925-2018) Major General Sir John Swinton began his military career in 1944 with the Scots Guards, rising in rank to Major General in 1976. He was also Brigadier of the Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) in 1977, and retired from Army life in 1979. With his strong military background, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Berwickshire in 1980 and Lord Lieutenant from 1989 to 2000. A high point of his tenure was escorting the Stone of Scone back to Scotland in 1996. The Swinton family history and ownership of land in Berwickshire can be traced to the early part of the 12th century, when Ernulf de Swinton received one of the first private charters recorded in Scotland which confirmed his property from David I of Scotland (1084-1153). This is one of two original charters of David I kept in the cartulary of Durham; both are to Ernulf and also refer to Ernulf’s father (Udard), grandfather (Liulf) and great-grandfather (Eadulf) as holding the land before him. This would make Eadulf the first landowner of Scotland whose ownership could be proved, and means that the Swinton family would by this hypothesis be one of only three (the two others being the Arden and Berkeley families) that could trace its unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest, making it one of the oldest landed families in Britain. Kimmerghame itself was the site of an earlier house, the home of Sir Andrew Home in the 1730s. The lands and estate of Kimmerghame came into the ownership of the family of Swinton in 1776 when Archibald Swinton of Manderston married Henrietta Campbell of Blythswood in Glasgow. This older house was demolished and rebuilt in the early 1850s, the architect being the celebrated David Bryce, who employed some materials from the older house. Bryce’s Scots Baronial house was substantially damaged by fire in 1938 and only partially rebuilt. The family still retains Kimmerghame and its contents. Captain Archibald Swinton (1731-1804) went to India in the service of the East India Company as a surgeon. He reached Madras in 1752 and took part in the campaigns being waged between the French and English Companies for supremacy in the south. He also took part in an expedition 1756-57 to Negrais in Burma. He reached eastern India for the first time in 1759 when he arrived at Ganjam in Orissa and from there went on to Calcutta. He also transferred from being a surgeon to an ensignship in the Company’s Bengal army. When Archibald Swinton left the Company’s service at the end of 1765, he took with him a letter from the Emperor to King George III asking for help to reseat him on the throne of his ancestors, since Clive would not do so unilaterally; Swinton took a munshi with him in case the answer should be written in Persian. So ‘Captain Swinton, bringing with him the Munshy (sic) (and including in his baggage the large Indian jars, the Indian pictures, Chinese pictures painted on glass, numberless ivory, silver and crystal handled arms, jewels, Persian books, etc. etc.), sailed from India …’ The important group of Indian paintings and other works of art are now in the care of the National Museum of Scotland having been accepted by the nation in lieu of inheritance tax. The Swinton family have had strong connections with the Army and the legal profession. Part of their impressive collection was sold at our saleroom in Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings and Works of Art sale on 23 Feb 2022.
Lot 157
TWO FAMILLE VERTE GINGER JARS AND COVERS QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 清 綠彩荷塘清趣圖蓋罐（兩件） each similarly painted with a continuous lotus pond scene, with wooden stands(heights: 17.5cm and 19.5cm)Provenance: Kimmerghame, Duns, the Estate of the Late Major General Sir John Swinton K.C.V.O., O.B.E., D.L. (1925-2018) Major General Sir John Swinton began his military career in 1944 with the Scots Guards, rising in rank to Major General in 1976. He was also Brigadier of the Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) in 1977, and retired from Army life in 1979. With his strong military background, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Berwickshire in 1980 and Lord Lieutenant from 1989 to 2000. A high point of his tenure was escorting the Stone of Scone back to Scotland in 1996. The Swinton family history and ownership of land in Berwickshire can be traced to the early part of the 12th century, when Ernulf de Swinton received one of the first private charters recorded in Scotland which confirmed his property from David I of Scotland (1084-1153). This is one of two original charters of David I kept in the cartulary of Durham; both are to Ernulf and also refer to Ernulf’s father (Udard), grandfather (Liulf) and great-grandfather (Eadulf) as holding the land before him. This would make Eadulf the first landowner of Scotland whose ownership could be proved, and means that the Swinton family would by this hypothesis be one of only three (the two others being the Arden and Berkeley families) that could trace its unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest, making it one of the oldest landed families in Britain. Kimmerghame itself was the site of an earlier house, the home of Sir Andrew Home in the 1730s. The lands and estate of Kimmerghame came into the ownership of the family of Swinton in 1776 when Archibald Swinton of Manderston married Henrietta Campbell of Blythswood in Glasgow. This older house was demolished and rebuilt in the early 1850s, the architect being the celebrated David Bryce, who employed some materials from the older house. Bryce’s Scots Baronial house was substantially damaged by fire in 1938 and only partially rebuilt. The family still retains Kimmerghame and its contents. Captain Archibald Swinton (1731-1804) went to India in the service of the East India Company as a surgeon. He reached Madras in 1752 and took part in the campaigns being waged between the French and English Companies for supremacy in the south. He also took part in an expedition 1756-57 to Negrais in Burma. He reached eastern India for the first time in 1759 when he arrived at Ganjam in Orissa and from there went on to Calcutta. He also transferred from being a surgeon to an ensignship in the Company’s Bengal army. When Archibald Swinton left the Company’s service at the end of 1765, he took with him a letter from the Emperor to King George III asking for help to reseat him on the throne of his ancestors, since Clive would not do so unilaterally; Swinton took a munshi with him in case the answer should be written in Persian. So ‘Captain Swinton, bringing with him the Munshy (sic) (and including in his baggage the large Indian jars, the Indian pictures, Chinese pictures painted on glass, numberless ivory, silver and crystal handled arms, jewels, Persian books, etc. etc.), sailed from India …’ The important group of Indian paintings and other works of art are now in the care of the National Museum of Scotland having been accepted by the nation in lieu of inheritance tax. The Swinton family have had strong connections with the Army and the legal profession. Part of their impressive collection was sold at our saleroom in Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings and Works of Art sale on 23 Feb 2022.
Lot 158
FAMILLE ROSE 'LOTUS POND AND MANDARIN DUCKS' GINGER JAR QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 清 粉彩荷塘鴛鴦紋罐帶木蓋 of ovoid form, painted to one side with a pair of Mandarin ducks in a lotus pond with large foliage and florals, the reverse with a butterfly, with a carved wooden lid(22cm high)Provenance: Kimmerghame, Duns, the Estate of the Late Major General Sir John Swinton K.C.V.O., O.B.E., D.L. (1925-2018) Major General Sir John Swinton began his military career in 1944 with the Scots Guards, rising in rank to Major General in 1976. He was also Brigadier of the Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) in 1977, and retired from Army life in 1979. With his strong military background, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Berwickshire in 1980 and Lord Lieutenant from 1989 to 2000. A high point of his tenure was escorting the Stone of Scone back to Scotland in 1996. The Swinton family history and ownership of land in Berwickshire can be traced to the early part of the 12th century, when Ernulf de Swinton received one of the first private charters recorded in Scotland which confirmed his property from David I of Scotland (1084-1153). This is one of two original charters of David I kept in the cartulary of Durham; both are to Ernulf and also refer to Ernulf’s father (Udard), grandfather (Liulf) and great-grandfather (Eadulf) as holding the land before him. This would make Eadulf the first landowner of Scotland whose ownership could be proved, and means that the Swinton family would by this hypothesis be one of only three (the two others being the Arden and Berkeley families) that could trace its unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest, making it one of the oldest landed families in Britain. Kimmerghame itself was the site of an earlier house, the home of Sir Andrew Home in the 1730s. The lands and estate of Kimmerghame came into the ownership of the family of Swinton in 1776 when Archibald Swinton of Manderston married Henrietta Campbell of Blythswood in Glasgow. This older house was demolished and rebuilt in the early 1850s, the architect being the celebrated David Bryce, who employed some materials from the older house. Bryce’s Scots Baronial house was substantially damaged by fire in 1938 and only partially rebuilt. The family still retains Kimmerghame and its contents. Captain Archibald Swinton (1731-1804) went to India in the service of the East India Company as a surgeon. He reached Madras in 1752 and took part in the campaigns being waged between the French and English Companies for supremacy in the south. He also took part in an expedition 1756-57 to Negrais in Burma. He reached eastern India for the first time in 1759 when he arrived at Ganjam in Orissa and from there went on to Calcutta. He also transferred from being a surgeon to an ensignship in the Company’s Bengal army. When Archibald Swinton left the Company’s service at the end of 1765, he took with him a letter from the Emperor to King George III asking for help to reseat him on the throne of his ancestors, since Clive would not do so unilaterally; Swinton took a munshi with him in case the answer should be written in Persian. So ‘Captain Swinton, bringing with him the Munshy (sic) (and including in his baggage the large Indian jars, the Indian pictures, Chinese pictures painted on glass, numberless ivory, silver and crystal handled arms, jewels, Persian books, etc. etc.), sailed from India …’ The important group of Indian paintings and other works of art are now in the care of the National Museum of Scotland having been accepted by the nation in lieu of inheritance tax. The Swinton family have had strong connections with the Army and the legal profession. Part of their impressive collection was sold at our saleroom in Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings and Works of Art sale on 23 Feb 2022.
Lot 36
CHINESE EXPORT SILVER TANKARD QING DYNASTY, CHENG JI, CANTON, CIRCA1850-60 清 澄記款 外銷銀閣樓人物紋把杯 the 'double-skinned' cylindrical vessel tapering up with exterior repoussé in relief with a continuous scene of scholars at leisure amongst trees, rockwork and pavilions, a sinuous dragon-form handle set to one side, with engraved initials ‘MCSS’ in a shield-form cartouche, the base with a two-character maker's mark '澄記 (Cheng Ji)' in Chinese(12.5cm wide; 280g)Provenance: Private Scottish collection, StirlingNote: Cheng Ji 澄記 was an artisan operating in Canton (Guangzhou) from early to mid-19th century. It only produced tankards and stemmed goblets and is known to have made on a regular basis for the two Canton retail merchants HOACHING (何金) and the mark that is still generally known as “GOTHIC K”. With thanks to Adrien von Ferscht, a Chinese export silver specialist, for the dating and footnote on this lot.
Lot 37
CASED CHINESE EXPORT SILVER THREE-PIECE TEA SERVICE WITH SUGAR TONGS LATE QING TO REPUBLIC PERIOD, 清末民初 「慎昌」、「90」、「CL」款 外銷銀竹林舞蝶圖海棠形茶具一組四件（帶原盒）comprising: a teapot, a handled milk jug, a twin-handled sugar bowl, and a pair of sugar tongs, all vessels of quatrefoil form elegantly carved with bamboo grooves visited by butterflies, except the tongs, all marked '慎昌 (Shen Chang)', '90' and a retail mark 'CL' for Cheong Lam (林昌 [Cheng Lin]), in a cloth-lined original fitted wooden case(Teapot: 15cm high, 579g; milk jug: 12cm high, 224g; sugar bowl: 11cm high, 229g; sugar tongs: 11.7cm long, 43g)Provenance: Private Scottish collection, has been in the family for over 100 yearsNote: the retail mark is "CL" for CHEONG LAM/C.L. 林昌 [CHENG LIN]; a Canton retailer. With thanks to Adrien von Ferscht, a Chinese export silver specialist, for the footnote on this lot.
Lot 38
CHINESE EXPORT SILVER 'BAMBOO' TANKARD QING DYNASTY, LEE CHING, CANTON AND SHANGHAI, CIRCA 清 「泉」、「LC」款 外銷銀石竹紋把杯 the tapered cylindrical body elegantly incised with a dense bamboo groove issuing from low piles of rocks visited by insects, a shield-form cartouche on the centre, plain handle with bands set to the reverse, 'double-skinned' interior gilded, the base marked 'LC' and '泉 (Quan)'(9.5cm high; 166g)Provenance: Private collection, Scottish Highlands
Lot 39
CHINESE EXPORT SILVER THREE-PIECE TEA SERVICE AND A COFFEE POT LATE QING DYNASTY, WANG HING 90 清末 「Wang Hing」、「90」、「大吉」錘印款 外銷銀八角人物花卉圖茶具一組三件 及 咖啡壺一件 （共四件） comprising: a three-piece tea service including a teapot, milk jug, and sugar jar, and a tall coffee pot; each of octagonal form, the side panel applied with dragons in clouds, goldfish in watergrass, scholars gathering in garden setting, birds in bamboo grove, attached with one or two sinuous five-clawed dragon handles, each piece marked on the base with 'Wang Hing 90 Taikut' mark in square(Tea pot: 23cm, 677g; sugar jar: 18cm wide, 316g; milk jug: 12.5cm wide, 206g; coffee pot: 23.5cm wide, 799g)Provenance: Private English collection, London; acquired by Mary Josephine Anderson, née Noble (1888-1964) who was born in Hong Kong, thence by descent. Her father George E. Noble (1846-1901) joined the newly founded Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) when he was 19 and rose to the top position of Chief Manager until illness necessitated his early retirement.Note: Taikut (大吉) was the name of a silver workshop located in Canton, active during the late Qing period. There is also the mark of Wang Hing which was a well-known craft shop, based in Hong Kong, 10 Queen's Road Central, famous for specialising in gold and silver. According to Adrien von Frescht, "The Taikut mark appears on its own as well as in conjunction with the Wang Hing mark. This implies that Taikut was both a manufacturing workshop and a retail silversmith. It is perhaps revealing that the Wang Hing/Tai Kut combined mark is actually created by a single punch, indicating this was some form of working partnership and a regularly used one." See Chinese Export Silver 1785-1940, The Definitive Collectors' Guide, University of Glasgow. Scottish Centre for China Research, 2015
Lot 3420
India, zilveren sprenkelaar en China, set van tien theelepels en paar zoutvaatjes, 19e/20e eeuw, de sprenkelaar met florale motieven (defecten), de theelepels met drakengrepen en de zoutvaten gemodelleerd als lotus, gemerkt met Chinese karaktermerken [13] h. 17,5 cm (sprenkelaar)/ diam. 5,5 cm (zoutvaten) India, silver sprinkler and China, set of ten teaspoons and a pair of salts, 19th/ 20th century, the sprinkler with floral motifs (damages), the teaspoons with dragon handles and the salts modelled as lotus, marked with Chinese characters
Lot 116
A group of collectables to include a Chinese crackleware blue and white vase and cover, 27cm high; a pair of silver sugar tongs with claw ends, 50 grams; a Japanese blue ground vase with relief decoration, 33cm high; a pair of blush ivory Chinese style vases with bird and floral decoration, 31cm high; a blue and white Davenport oval platter, 49cm wide; a cut glass goblet commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Queen's Coronation; a quantity of silver plated wares including napkin rings, sugar tongs, candlesticks, flatware and trays, and further itemsCrackleware vase with multiple chips and repairs; silver items a little tarnished
Lot 114
KOMA KORYU LINEAGEA Gold-and-Black-Lacquer Inro-Kake (Display Stand for Inro) Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), mid/late 19th centuryFormed of two hinged sections, each comprising a lower panel resting on a horizontal crosspiece cut with two low feet and supporting four uprights and three further crosspieces, each middle crosspiece cut with six openings for cords suspending inro to create an elegant display; all components except the lower panels covered in gold and silver hiramaki-e lacquer in shippo-tsunagi (linked-cash) patterns, the lower panels decorated with four discrete scenes: Mount Fuji and a pine tree; children playing with kites; a crane flying up from a stream; and a waterscape, all executed in gold, silver, and coloured hiramaki-e, with liberal applications of gold hirame, on a black roiro ground, the kite and crane scenes accompanied by, respectively, Japanese and Chinese poems in gold hiramaki-e; the hinges, corners, and foot reinforcements all of silver nanako chiselled with karakusa ('Chinese grass') arabesques; the liners to the cord opening plain silver; signed at lower left Koma Koryu saku; with a lacquered wood storage box inscribed Tansu tsuki inro-gake (Inro stand with a chest of drawers). 44.7cm x 134.5cm (17 5/8in x 53in), unfolded. (2).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 135
SIX TSUBA (SWORD GUARDS)Edo period (1615-1868), 17th to 19th centuryThe first mokkogata, iron, gold, and copper, with a Chinese sage fishing on a river bank; the second oval, iron and gold, with a dragon crawling through from one side to the other; the third irregular, iron, gold, copper and silver, with a deer and torii arch, with signature Otsuryuken Gyonen Rokujugo; the fourth mokkogata, shakudo nanako, gold, and copper, with shishi (Chinese mythical lions) and peonies; the fifth oval, the ryohitsu breaking through the perimeter of the plate, iron, with brass-inlaid foliage in Heianjo-zogan style; the last shibuichi and gold, with a dragon with sword concealed in its tail, and clouds, the kogai hitsu plugged with gilt nekogaki, signed Toryuken Mitsutoshi. The smallest: 6.1cm (2 3/8in) high; the largest: 7.1cm (1 13/16in) high. (6).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 138
SIX TSUBA (SWORD GUARDS)Edo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryAll of brass or sentoku (brass alloy) except the third and inlaid with gold, silver, shakudo, shibuichi or brass; the first aorigata, with a family of monkeys, the father getting his hand nipped by a crab, signed Ichiryu Toshimitsu (Haynes 10450); the second rectangular with sumikiri corners, chiselled with Yoritomo and his comrades hiding in a tree and two doves flying away, the reverse with mountains, pines, and military banners, signed Katsuyasu eru; the third irregular rectangular with sumikiri corners, with a badger sitting by a tea kettle, the reverse with its rustic dwelling by moonlight, signed Higashidaishita Shinobigaoka no hotori ni oite kore o saku Toryo, with a seal; the fourth pierced and chiselled in relief with a Chinese scholar reading by the light of the moon, with signature Hamano Noriyuki; the fifth rounded rectangular with three masks: Okame, oni, and tengu, with signature Iwamoto Konkan; the last octagonal, with Shoki the Demon-Queller confronted by a flying demon on one side, the other side with clouds and moon, signed Toshimasa. The smallest: 7cm (2¾in) high; the largest: 9.6cm (3¾in) high. (6).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 142
SIX KOZUKA (KNIFE HANDLES)Edo period (1615-1868), 17th to 19th centuryThe first brass and gold, with a cicada on the trunk of a tree, the reverse with a Chinese poem on the same subject, signed Ryuchiken Teruyuki; the second shakudo and gold, modelled as a bamboo culm with a rooster in relief; the third shakudo, shibuichi, and gold, with ants crawling on a piece of rotten wood joined by a butterfly dovetail, signed Haruchika (wood tomobako storage box with an attestation by Amiya Soemon dated 1950); the fourth shibuichi ishimeji, shakudo, gold, and silver, modelled in shishiaibori with a bear in a cave, signed Shozui with a kao (wood storage box); the fifth shakudo nanako, with a dragon and tiger, the reverse gold nekogaki, with signatures Teijo saku and Mitsutaka and a kao (origami [certificate] with the signature of Goto Mitsutada bearing a date of 1729; wood tomobako storage box with an attestation by Sato Kanzan dated 1972); the last brass, copper, shakudo, gold, and copper with a crab; the remaining kozuka each with a plain wood storage box. (14).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 146
SEVEN FUCHI-GASHIRA (HILT COLLARS AND POMMELS)Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th centuryThe first in Mino Goto style, shakudo and gold, deeply chiselled with choji (cloves) and karakusa ('Chinese grasses') arabesques, unsigned; the second shibuichi and gold, with waves and spray, with signature Teruhide and a kao; the third shakudo, copper, and gold, with anchors, ropes, and waves, unsigned; the fourth shakudo, with rustic dwellings and flowering prunus, unsigned; the fifth copper, gold, and silver, with kikusui (chrysanthemum and water) motifs, with signature Ikkin and a kao; the sixth gold, shibuichi, and shakudo, with an okina (old man) mask, dancer's suehiro fan, origami cranes and kadomatsu (decorative pine sprigs), signed Yoshioka Inabanosuke saku; the last iron and gold, chiselled with pine trees, signed Zengyokuenju ni oite Yoshi [...]; four with a plain wood storage box. (18).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 147
EIGHT FUCHI-GASHIRA (HILT COLLARS AND POMMELS)Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th centuryThe first shakudo, chiselled in katakiribori technique with shishi (Chinese mythical lions) and peonies, signed Sofu Kanenori no tanmen o narrate horare, Nishimura-shi no motome ni yotte nari Chishiki Kaneteru (Chishiki Kaneteru made this at the request of Mr Nishimura, carved in imitation of a tsuba by my great-grandfather Kanenori [Haynes 02523]); the second an unassociated set, copper, gold, and shakudo, the kashira with a spiny lobster, the fuchi with ho-o birds and dragon, signed Reibokudo Masaoki (Haynes 04423) with a kao; the third shibuichi, gold, and copper, with dragon, tiger, and bamboo, signed Tsuchiya Terufusa motomeni ojite utsusu [...] Kagemasa saku (Made by Kagemasa [...] copying from Tsuchiya Terufusa [Terutsugu, Haynes 09654]); the fourth shibuichi and silver, chiselled in katakiribori technique with tigers, bamboo, and rocks, signed Kano Nuinosuke ga Nagamine (Nagamine, [after a] painting by Kano Nuinosuke); the fifth shibuichi and flat inlay of silver and shakudo with crows, moon, and withered branch after the famous haiku by Basho Kare-eda ni karasu no tomaritaru, with signature and seal Rinsendo Mitsumasa; the sixth shakudo and gold, with geese descending at Katata, signed Hachijuo Arichika; the seventh copper, carved in high relief with dragons and waves, signed Tohi no ju Miyazaki Jitokusai with a kao (Miyazaki Jitokusai of eastern Hizen Province, probably Haynes 02077); the last copper and gold, carved in high relief with shishi and peonies, signed Yasui Takanaga with a kao. (16).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 206
OTA TOSHIRO (1869-1940)A Pair of Cloisonné-Enamel Tall Baluster Vases Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryFinely worked in silver wire on a speckled dark brown ground, the body with large slate grey and seafoam green panels enclosing bird-and-flower scenes, the large panels separated by smaller blue lobed panels enclosing butterflies on a karakusa ('Chinese grasses') ground and black and amber aventurine-flecked ground shields enclosing stylised dragons and ho-o birds; the neck with speckled pale-pink lobed panels with floral arabesques and bisected by a brown geometric band, the foot decorated with dense karakusa on a speckled yellow and brown ground; each vase signed on the base with two impressed characters Ota within a koro-shaped seal. Each vase: 38.7cm (15¼in) high. (2).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 231
A CLOISONNÉ-ENAMEL KORO (INCENSE BURNER) AND COVERMeiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryWorked in silver wire of varying gauge, the body decorated with a band of five-clawed dragons above tumultuous waters, the shoulder with a band of bats between roundels enclosing the auspicious character Ju (longevity), the oval reticulated cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a brass finial in the form of a seated shishi (Chinese mythical lion) with one paw resting on a ball, the underside bearing the single character Ju within a circle of linked bats; unsigned. 13cm x 11.5cm (5 1/8in x 4½in. (2).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 233
HAYASHI TANIGORO OF NAGOYAA Cloisonné-Enamel Hexagonal Slender Vase Probably Taisho era (1912-1926), early 20th centuryFinely worked in silver wire of varying gauge with all-over design, rendered in quasi-Chinese style, of a profusion of overlapping green and brown branches of flowering white prunus on a dark blue ground, the neck and foot with a repeated lappet border enclosing foliate motifs, the neck and foot applied with a silver rim; signed on the base with a silver seal Hayashi Tani. 37cm (14½in) high.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 29
A GOLD-LACQUER FOUR-CASE INROKajikawa lineage, Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th centuryThe black ground with togidashi maki-e, decorated in gold and silver takamaki-e depicting a herd of wild horses by a hilly riverside, the interior black ground decorated with stylised peonies and karakusa ('Chinese grasses') in gold hiramaki-e; signed Kajikawa saku with a pot seal Ei. 7.7cm (3in) high.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 38
A GOLD-LACQUER FOUR-CASE INROBy Koma Koryu, Edo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryThe kinji ground decorated in gold, silver, and slightly coloured takamaki-e depicting Fugen Bosatsu (Samantabhadra) seated on an elephant reading a scroll, and Monju Bosatsu (Manjusri) seated on a shishi (Chinese mythical lion) holding a reishi fungus, the interior of nashiji; signed Koma Koryu saku (Made by Koma Koryu). 9.2cm (3 5/8in) high.Footnotes:Provenance:The inro: sold in these Rooms, 11 May 2010, lot 253.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 79
SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891)A Lacquer Four-Case Inro with Antique Mirror Designs Meiji era (1868–1912), circa 1870–1890With four interlocking cases and cover, of standard lenticular cross-section with straight sides, rounded corners, curved top and base, and integrated cord-runners, the roiro lacquer ground decorated in black maki-e with a continuous ground of ken-katabami mon (heraldic crests of swordblades combined with flowers of wood sorrel, Oxalis corniculata), an antique mirror on each side executed in chado-nuri takamaki-e, one of the mirrors eight-lobed with a dragon design, its carrying cord in red lacquer extending to the other side and terminating in a tassel, the other nine-lobed with a design of two ho-o birds alternating with paulownia crests, the compartments and risers gold nashiji, the shoulders and rims brightish gold fundame; the ojime of carnelian, signed in subori to the left of the handle of the smaller mirror Zeshin, 7.6cm × 4.8cm × 1.6cm (3in × 1 7/8in × 5/8in); lacquered wood manju netsuke decorated in gold, silver, and red hiramaki-e with two ho-o birds, 3.5cm × 2cm (1⅜in × ¾in); with a fitted wood storage box. (2).Footnotes:Provenance:Misumi Collection.Sold in these Rooms, 10 November 2015, lot 6.A Royal Collection.Exhibited and Published:Nezu Museum, Shibata Zeshin no shikko, urushi-e, kaiga (Shibata Zeshin: From Lacquer Arts to Painting), exh. cat., Tokyo, 2012, cat. no.94.In 1875, Zeshin paid a visit to Nara where he was able to examine items stored in the Shosoin, the eighth-century Imperial treasure house in the precincts of the Todaiji Temple (Joe Earle and Tadaomi Goke, Meiji no Takara, Treasures of Imperial Japan, Masterpieces by Shibata Zeshin [in the Khalili Collection], London, Kibo Foundation, 1996, p.46, quoting Umezawa Ryushin's 1927 biography of Zeshin). Objects from the Shosoin, until then almost inaccessible to anyone outside the imperial court, subsequently played an increasing influential role in Japanese art from early in the Meiji era. Zeshin was no exception to this trend and it is likely that the mirrors depicted on this inro were loosely modelled on originals stored in the Shosoin, either Chinese Tang-dynasty examples or Japanese copies of around the same date. He lavished typically meticulous craftsmanship both on the mirrors and on the dense background pattern of mon (crests). Takao Yo notes that although chado-nuri, used here for the mirrors, is listed as a separate technique in Sawaguchi Goichi's monumental study of Japanese lacquer, Nihon shikko no kenkyu (1933), in Zeshin's time it would simply have been regarded as a variant of seido-nuri. Chado-nuri differs from seido-nuri in that it contains bengara (red iron oxide) in addition to orpiment (arsenic sulphide), producing an effect that, as Takao comments, is ideally suited to imitating the surface of antique bronze (Takao Yo, 'Shibata Zeshin no shikko giho: Kawari-nuri giho o chushin ni (Shibata Zeshin's Lacquer Techniques, Centred on the Kawarinuri Technique)', Ishikawa-ken Wajima Shitsugei Bijutsukan kiyo (Bulletin of the Wajima Museum of Lacquer), 6, 2011, figs.14, 15).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 200
GROUP OF CHINESE SILVER AND OTHER MIXED METAL ITEMS 19/20TH CENTURY. Eleven items to include a circular box and cover decorated with dragon, makers marks to base, a Chinese silver cup with W.O maker mark to base and others. Cup 6.5cm height. (11)All in good general condition without signs of damage or repair.
Lot 103
A RARE SILVER-GILT AND BLUE ENAMEL 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' BOX AND COVERLate 19th century, stamped marks of Hui Yuan, Jiujiang, circa 1875-1895Of circular form, the top of the flat cover decorated in relief with the 'Eight Immortals', each holding their various attributes set in a garden scene, encircled by a band of leafy grapevines to the border and the straight sides, the straight sides of the box further decorated in relief with a continuous scene of the immortals gathering in a garden landscape, the base stamped with three seal marks reading Wenyin, Huiyuan, and Jiujiang. 16.4cm (6 3/8in) diam. (2).Footnotes:十九世紀晚期，約1875-1895年 銀鎏金鏨胎填藍琺瑯八仙祝壽圖蓋盒 「紋銀」、「匯源」、「九江」款The semi-translucent blue enamel on the present box is referred to as basse-taille, or guangfalang, a technique that was introduced to Guangdong enamel workshops in the 18th century, and used primarily during the Qianlong period. One of a pair of basins decorated in this technique, with gold and silver foil and transparent blue enamel on a copper body, which was sent as tribute from Guangzhou to Beijing, is illustrated by Chuimei Ho and Bennet Bronson in Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong, London and New York, 2004, p.263, fig.341. Another example of a silver-gilt and blue enamel tripod incense burner, Qianlong mark and period, is in the Tai'an Museum, Shangdong, illustrated in Zhongguo jinyin boli falangqi quanji: 5: falangqi vol.1, Heibei, 2001, no.239.According to the research by Adrien von Ferscht, Hui Yuan is identified as one of the four silversmiths in Jiujing, who created quality silver for the export market in the West as well as to affluent Chinese and foreign residents during the late 19th to the early 20th century, see Adrien von Ferscht, Chinese Export Silver 1785-1940, Catalogue of Makers' Marks, Glasgow, 2013, pp.8, 12 and 21.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 112
A LARGE SILVER TRIPOD BOWLWang Hing stamped mark, circa 1900The bowl exquisitely decorated with shaped panels containing birds and flowers such as peacocks and peony, the foliate rim with a band of blossoming flowers borne on gnarled branches, applied with a pair of elaborate winged-dragon handles, all supported on three dragon-shaped feet. 35.5cm (14in) diam. Footnotes:約1900年 銀製花鳥紋雙龍柄三足大盌「WH」、「求記」、「90」錘印款WH is the maker's mark for Wang Hing, who was a well-known silversmith, based in Hong Kong at 10 Queen's Road Central, famous for specialising in gold and silver during the late Qing dynasty to the Republican period. Wang Hing's wares were considered to be of very high quality and he once supplied silver articles for Tiffany & Co.; see The Silver Age: Origins and Trade of Chinese Export Silver, Hong Kong, 2017, p.212.See also a related large Chinese export silver trophy bowl, Wang Hing mark, late Qing dynasty, which was sold at Bonhams London, 8 November 2018, lot 272.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 85
A LARGE DOCUMENTARY BRONZE FIGURE OF ZHENWUMing DynastyThe Daoist deity cast seated, wearing over his armour long flowing robes adorned at the hems with foliate scrolls, with a writhing dragon around his rotund belly, his hands held in auspicious mudras, the bearded face with eyes downcast, the finely-incised hair flowing long at the back framed by a celestial scarf, the reverse with inscription. 48.7cm (19 1/4in) high.Footnotes:明 銅真武大帝像Provenance: Dr Walter Rieder (1890-1986)Dr Walter Rieder (1890-1986) served in the Swiss East Asia Mission (SOAM) in Qingdao, Shandong Province, between October 1930 and December 1951. The mission specialised in educational, literary and philanthropic work and Dr Rieder was in fact, not a theologian or missionary, but a teacher of mathematics, physics and science to high school students attached to the SOAM. His guiding principles were 'Creating understanding between different cultures' and 'Building bridges between East and West'. While in Qingdao, Dr Rieder collected a wide variety of Chinese art. The objects in the collection thus offer a unique window into the type of antiques that were on the market in Qingdao in the second quarter of the 20th century. As well as demonstrating his passion for Chinese art, his collection also reveals the personal friendships Dr Rieder forged with local artists, some of whom he knew from his teaching activities. Dr Rieder had a scholarly approach to studying his collection. Alongside many of his objects, meticulous notes can sometimes be found detailing his art historical commentaries. The collection was hence Dr Rieder's gateway to the history and culture of China. Objects from the collection were exhibited at the Kunsthaus in Interlaken, Switzerland in 2006 and 2018.來源：Walter Rieder博士（1890-1986）舊藏1930年10月至1951年12月間，Walter Rieder博士（1890-1986）於山東青島的瑞士東亞使團 (SOAM) 任職。該組織專注於教育、文學和慈善工作，但Rieder博士並非作為傳教士，而是作為一名教師，教授高中數學、物理及科學科目，並以促進'文化間交流理解'和'搭建東西方文化的橋樑'為己任。在其旅居青島期間，Rieder博士大量收藏了各類中國藝術品。通過本次拍賣所呈現的拍品，我們得以一窺二十世紀後半葉的青島古董市場。Rieder博士的藏品不僅展示了他對中國藝術的熱情，還反應了其任教期間與當地的文人逸士建立的個人友誼。 Rieder博士還對其藏品進行了學術研究，並對很多物品留下了詳細筆記。也因為此，這些藏品也成為了Rieder博士了解中國歷史和文化的門戶。本次上拍的拍品曾於2006年與2018年於瑞士因特拉肯的美術館展出。The Palace treasury or Neicheng yunku (內承運庫) was set up during the Ming dynasty and in charge of gold, silver and various other treasures. The inscription on the reverse reads: '內承運庫信官馬元自己鑄造金身供養', which may be translated as, 'The Palace Treasury official Ma Yuan commissioned this himself as an offering'.The cult of the Daoist god Zhenwu may have originated during the Warring States period or Han dynasty, when he was referred to as Xuanwu (Dark Warrior). By the early Northern Song period, the deity was transformed into the anthropomorphic god known as the 'perfected warrior'. However, it was in the early Ming dynasty that Zhenwu's status was elevated to its highest influence and popularity. Compare with a related bronze figure of Zhenwu, 15th/16th century, illustrated by S.Little, Taoism and the Arts of China, Chicago, 2000, no.104.See also a related large bronze figure of Zhenwu, 16th/17th century, which was sold at Bonhams London, 11 May 2021, lot 171.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 335
Full title: A Chinese jade belt buckle mounted as a table lighter in silver by Gump & Co, Qing and 20th C.Description:L.: 23 cmThe absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Please contact us to let us know which lots are of interest, so we can make the requested reports for you.Once complete, they will be published on our website.High resolution pictures are already available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Lot 347
Full title: A pair of Chinese silver-lined coconut wine cups, MingDescription:Dia.: 5 cm - H.: 4,5 cmThe absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Please contact us to let us know which lots are of interest, so we can make the requested reports for you.Once complete, they will be published on our website.High resolution pictures are already available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Lot 378
Full title: A Chinese ram-shaped silver-inlaid bronze 'xizun' vessel, MingDescription:L.: 37,5 cm - H.: 30 cmÊ The lid on the vessel is a modern cast.Ê Provenance:- J.T.Tai & Company, New York, prior to 1992 (J. T. Tai passed away in 1992). (see added scans)- Sotheby's, New York, March 22, 2011, lot 225. (link available on our website rm-auctions.com)- Mentioned on The City Review. (link available on our website rm-auctions.com)- With James Naylor, Shibui Art Gallery, as visible on this Youtube video (1:24). (link available on our website rm-auctions.com)- Acquired by a Belgian private collector.Ê Ref.:- Sotheby's, New York, March 15, 2017, lot 565, for a tapir-shaped vessel also dated Ming. (link available on our website rm-auctions.com)- Sotheby's, Hong Kong, April 8, 2013, lot 171, for another tapir-shaped vessel also dated Ming. (link available on our website rm-auctions.com)- Christie's, New York, Sep. 19, 2014, lot 1039, for a double-ram vessel, dated 14/17th C. (link available on our website rm-auctions.com)The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Please contact us to let us know which lots are of interest, so we can make the requested reports for you.Once complete, they will be published on our website.High resolution pictures are already available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Lot 406
Full title: A Chinese silver-inlaid bronze censer, Xuande mark, QianlongDescription:L.: 14,5 cm - H.: 9,5 cmÊ Weight: 906 gramsThe absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Please contact us to let us know which lots are of interest, so we can make the requested reports for you.Once complete, they will be published on our website.High resolution pictures are already available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Lot 892
Full title: A Chinese blue and white silver-mounted tea caddy, KangxiDescription:H.: 25 cm (incl. the silver mount)The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Please contact us to let us know which lots are of interest, so we can make the requested reports for you.Once complete, they will be published on our website.High resolution pictures are already available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Lot 963
Full title: An Armenian enamelled silver cup and saucer, 18th C.Description:Dia.: 17 cm (the saucer) Dia.: 9,5 cm - H.: 5 cm (the cup)ÊRef.:- Christie's, London, April 21, 2016, lot 198, for a similar set. (link available on rm-auctions.com)- 'Armenian Patrons for Chinese Commodities. Trade Networks and Cultural Exchange across Asia', George Manginis, Benaki Museum, where the author writes: 'There is a cup in the Musee Armenien de France which can be safely associated with a known patriarch (catholicos) of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is decorated with a coat of arms crowned by an Armenian-style belfry. It is surrounded by two putti seemingly half-submerged in a baptismal font. Two anthropomorphic angels act as supporters and step on an eagle with outstretched wings. The monogram within the coat of arms consists of the letters GhKS / KThK separated by a bishop"s crozier with a cross on top; they are the abbreviated form of (Gh[ou]k[a]s K[a]th[oghi]k[os]). The eagle is the emblem of the Armenian Catholicate.Ê The set was commissioned for the Catholicos Ghoukas I Karnetsi (1722-1799). Born in Karin, present-day Erzurum in Anatolia, Ghoukas became bishop of this town before rising to the highest rank in the Armenian Apostolic Church in 1780 and moving to Etchmiadzin (Vagharshapat), also within the Ottoman Empire. He was a patron of the arts and during his tenure the Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin was decorated with wall paintings by Hovnatan Hovnatanian (approximately 1730-1801), member of a prominent family of Armenian painters. Ghoukas was the head of the Armenian community, or millet, in the Ottoman Empire. He was responsible for fellow Armenians in both spiritual and secular domains. The status of his countrymen within the Empire varied at that time, but the more affluent and sophisticated among them were able to commission exotic trinkets and indulge in extravagant fashions, for example Chinese export art.Ê Furthermore, for most of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman trade in imported luxury goods was controlled by wealthy Armenians in Constantinople and other cities, and Chinese porcelain was particularly important among these goods. It is also possible that the porcelain bowl, as well as the silver ones, were ordered for Ghoukas by the Madras Armenian community, which could also have commissioned the Beglarian enamels through their East India Company connections.'The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Please contact us to let us know which lots are of interest, so we can make the requested reports for you.Once complete, they will be published on our website.High resolution pictures are already available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Lot 14
A CHINESE COIN-SET SILVER ASHTRAY, UNMARKED, MID 20TH CENTURY hammer finished circular, set with a Dragon Silver dollar coin, apparently An-Hwei Province, 1898, 9.6cm; together with another Chinese silver ashtray, unmarked, early 20th century, cut cornered square, with two dragons amid cloud scrolls and pierced bamboo rim, 8.5cm wide (2)
Loading...-
31343 item(s)/page