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Lot 144
EARLY 19th CENTURY CHINESE PORCELAIN, twenty six pieces hand decorated in rich enamels of people and figures in various settings, birds, animals, flora and insects, many interspersed with musical instruments, precious objects, others with calligraphy script, Lot includes a pair of vases (one handle missing to each), a flask (breaks with losses to collar), a tea bowl with pouring spout and cover (chipped), a bowl and cover with iron red four character mark, a further cover and non-matching smaller tea bowl, a saucer with iron red seal stamp, four stands with shaped bases (one with break and loss), a small tea bowl (chipped), a domed cover, a deep saucer (repaired break) and a small shaped example, three coffee cans and seven 12 cms diameter cups (all but two have losses and breaks to the handles) each one having a gilt decorated roundel, individually decorated with various animals (all with wear to the gilt rims, further minor chips), (Provenance: refer to Lot 178, Rogers Jones & Co Antiques & Fine Art Auction, Colwyn Bay, Tuesday, 31st October 2017)
Lot 36
A Chinese archaic bronze flask-shaped ritual wine vessel, Hu, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 5th-4th century B.C., cast in low relief with five bands of coiled interlocking dragons, surmounted by a bird-shaped cover linked by a two section chain to the curved handle, on a rope-twist foot, olive-brown patina with large patches of malachite encrustation, 36.5cm high, hole to base and loss to coverLiterature:A very similar bronze hu in the British Museum, London, accession no. 1973,0726.26 appears in Rawson, J, Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual, London/Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts of East Anglia / Burrell Collection, Glasgow, BMP, 1987. Jessica Rawson describes this as 'A tall slender flask, circular in cross-section, this hu is sharply bent to one side, seemingly in imitation of a leather bottle. Three narrow registers are packed with tiny s-shaped dragons; such decoration is typical of the sixth century but probably persisted into the fifth century BC. A bird-shaped lid, with an articulated beak, is attached by a chain to a bowed handle.'See also Zhixin Jason Sun, Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Orientations, March 2015 in which a similar assymetric hu vessel with bird-shaped cover is illustrated. The author states:An earlier hu, much more like a leather bottle, with a full body and tightly angled neck, was discovered in a tomb in Hubei Sui Xian Bajialou. It carried deeply curved chevrons. Later examples are decorated with a wide variety of motifs in several different techniques. During the Eastern Zhou ceramic, leather and lacquer shapes were rendered in bronze as bronze-casting spread geographically and as the use of bronze was extended from ritual to secular items'.
Lot 150
A Victorian ladies green Moroccan leather gladstone style toilet/vanity case by L. Leuchars & Son, 38 & 39 Piccadilly, London, initialled "M.T" to exterior and opening to reveal eight hobnail cut glass and silver mounted fitments embossed with leaf scroll ornament, by William Leuchans, London 1888-90, a similar hip flask with detachable silver cup, a sewing kit, a stud box, a comb case, a pair of curling tongs and burner, a jewellery box, a lighter, a ink bottle, a page turner, glove stretchers, a mirror, a trinket box, card holder, address book, two clothes brushes, two hairbrushes, a button hook/shoe horn, a cylindrical ivory pot and cover, two toothbrushes and a manicure set, mostly monogrammed, 16ins x 12ins x 11ins high Note: Please be aware that according to CITES Regulations, it will be necessary to acquire an export licence to export this lot of ivory outside the EU. It will NOT be possible to export this lot of ivory to the USA.
Lot 73
A Gentleman's Lot, including two Vintage Ronson Lighters, a leather and pewter hip flask imprinted with 'Roderick Dhu' (af), matching antique travel inkwell and lighter in hinged-leather cases, a spelter and ceramic inkwell in the form of a fireman's hat, and silver vesta case together with an amber and silver cigarette holder in original case.
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