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Click here to subscribeA Shelley pixie see-saw mug designed by Mabel Lucie Atwell, with printed verse 'See-Saw, See -Saw, Away to Banbury town...', two Royal Crown Derby Imari paperweights in the form of a beetle and a ladybird, each with gold button, a miniature Royal Doulton 'The Jester' H3335, 9.5cm high, a Lalique angel fish, three Roman style glass jugs and two glass birdsQty: 10
A large Meiji period Japanese Satsuma pottery charger with lobed rim, heavily decorated and gilded with panels depicting various scenes of Japanese men and women, various flowers and Greek key design to rim, signed to base, 32cm diam, (af), together with a large Imari charger, decorated with panels of cranes amidst trees and central floral and foliate design, possibly Yamatoku impressed marks to base, 37cm diam (2)
A CHINESE IMARI AND FAMILLE ROSE PLATE FROM THE COLLECTION OF WILLIAM BECKFORD 18TH CENTURY Brightly decorated with floral designs and a flowering branch in the Imari palette, with a bird and butterfly picked out in pink, green and blue enamels amidst the blossoms, the reverse with an inscription reading 'the collection of William Beckford Esq', the base with a label for the Fonthill Heirlooms, no.825, 22.5cm. Provenance: formerly the collection of William Beckford (1760-1844); and then the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) and thence by descent to Lord Margadale of Islay, at Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire.
A 17th century provincial Chinese blue and white bowl, late Ming dynasty, painted with a primitive floral and foliate design in underglaze blue, 15 cm diameter to/w an 18th century Chinese Imari bowl with base metal rim, painted in the typical palette with a garden landscape featuring blossoming flowers and stylised rockwork, 20 cm diameter (2) The blue ans white bowl has a 1 cm rim chip, the Imari bowl has a large hairline crack and smaller hairline
Two 18th century Chinese export blue and white tureen stands, Qing dynasty, 31 cm and 25 cm, painted in underglaze blue with idyllic landscapes, Qianlong (1736-95) period , to/w a smaller Qianlong period blue and white export leaf shaped dish with similar pagoda landscape design, 20 cm and an Imari saucer with four-character mark, 12 cm diameter Both stands damages showing repair work, one with stapled repair, the leaf dish has a 1 cm chip
An early 19th century Spode china part tea service, painted and gilded in the Imari palette with stylised floral and foliate design, comprising teapot on stand, two 18 cm dishes and a slop-bowl, to/w ten each tea cups, coffee cups and saucers, script mark 'Spode 2214' (35)All in good order, no chips or cracks or restoration,One tea cup has brown discolouration to the inside and underside
A Copeland Spode tea service in the 'Bertha' floral Imari pattern, late 19th century, comprising; a teapot and cover, ten teacups, nine saucers, a milk jug, a slop bowl, twelve side plates and a sandwich plate, each piece with maker's mark for 1875 to 1890 (Qty) (at fault)Condition reportSlop bowl has full diameter hairline crack, sandwich plate with an extensive hairline crack, five side plates with hairline cracks, three cups with hairline cracks, one saucer with a hairline crack, teapot heavily stained with repaired chip to spout
A Chinese porcelain Imari bowl, Kangxi (1661-1722), of circular form and decorated with extensive landscapes to the exterior, 15cm diameter (restored)condition report; Faint rim descending hairline crack surrounded by a small area of restoration. Otherwise, no further concerning condition issues.
A pair of Japanese Imari vases, Meiji period (1868-1912), each of small temple proportions with lobed bodies and with knopped covers, decorated extensively with floral sprays, 30cm highCondition report; Some chipping visible to the rims of the covers. No obvious restoration. General surface and decoration wear.
A JAPANESE SHOKI-IMARI DISH EDO PERIOD, C.1630-40 The well decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with a small hare prancing beneath a scrolling cloud, inscribed to the side 'Spring White Hare' in a rectangular cartouche, the design created in fukizumi with paper stencils covered in splashed ink, the outlines drawn afterwards in cobalt blue, the surface speckled with sand or grit, raised on a circular unglazed foot, 20.3cm. Provenance: formerly a Japanese private collection. See Portland Art Museum, access. no.2018.76.21 for a related Shoki-Imari dish depicting a rabbit prancing under a cloud. Also, see the British Museum, access. no.1959,0418.1 for a dish with the moon and rabbit. Cf. R S Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, pl.6B, where the British Museum dish is discussed. This dish is an example of early porcelain produced at the Tengudani kiln in Arita. The original design was Chinese; the hare is often represented pounding the elixir of life.
A SMALL JAPANESE IMARI TEA BOWL EDO PERIOD, 17TH/18TH CENTURY The body decorated in iron red, green and black enamels, the exterior painted with a small leaping tiger, with flowering prunus to the side and bamboo issuing from banded hedges, the interior with a band of chevrons underneath the rim and a central flowerhead to the well, 7.4cm. PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.
A JAPANESE ARITA BOTTLE VASE EDO PERIOD, 17TH OR 18TH CENTURY Possibly Ko-Imari, the bulbous body with a tall neck, decorated in red, green, orange and black enamels with a flowering prunus tree with symmetrical blooms, the reverse with a large butterfly, the footrim with a later mount, 25.5cm. Provenance: formerly the collection of Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Dingwall (1869-1946).
A LARGE JAPANESE IMARI CHARGER EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY Typically decorated in underglaze blue, gilt, red and orange enamels, the well painted with pavilions by the water, with flowering prunus, irises and maple trees around them, a bridge connecting the islands and with a temple nestled amongst mountains visible in the distance, the cavetto with alternating panels of further buildings and stylised peonies, the rim with a band of flowerheads and scrolling tendrils; the underside with branches of chrysanthemum, prunus, peonies and dianthus, a band of reishi heads encircling the foot; a rhomboid paper collection label for 'Collection Frederic Poiret' and another numbered 347/2, 33.7cm. See Christie's, Japanese Art at the English Court, 8th-19th December 2014, lot 70, for a pair of Imari dishes from the same set and also from the collection of Frederic Poiret.
AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF JAPANESE RETICULATED IMARI DISHES EDO PERIOD, 1690-1730 The octagonal bodies decorated in underglaze blue, gilt, red, green and black enamels, each with a large shishi to the well prancing amongst peonies, the cavetto and rim with alternating panels enclosing further lion dogs, flowering prunus trees and acanthus leaves, each side with a circular medallion with brocade patterns in openwork, each 28.9cm. (2) Cf. J Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol.II, pp.666-667, nos.1618-1620 and 1621-1630 for other examples of Arita dishes with reticulated roundels. Also, see the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, access. no. C.1505-1910 for another similar octagonal dish.
A JAPANESE IMARI DISH EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY Typically decorated in underglaze blue, gilt and orange enamels, the well painted with a veranda in a garden and large prunus flowers blossoming above it; the cavetto and rim with many stylised flowers and three shaped cartouches containing birds eating the seeds of a pomegranate fruit, 33cm.
A LARGE JAPANESE IMARI FIGURE OF A BIJIN EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY The elegant figure smiles gently whilst holding the hem of her robes, her voluminous garments richly decorated in underglaze blue, gilt, red, green, purple and yellow enamels, painted with large open fans, trees, leaves and flowerheads, the paulownia leaves and tendrils reminiscent of the Imperial kiri mon, 58cm. Provenance: purchased in the early 1970s from the collection of Colonel Porter of Portnoo (Ireland), by repute. PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.
A NEAR PAIR OF JAPANESE IMARI TOKKURI EDO PERIOD, EARLY 18TH CENTURY The sake bottles with tall bulbous bodies and elongated necks, both painted in underglaze blue, gilt, green, yellow, red and purple enamels, with shaped panels enclosing ho-o birds in flight and iron-red medallions containing stylised flowerheads, on a dense ground of blossoms and scrolling tendrils, the shoulders with chrysanthemum mon and lappets, 24cm and 23cm. (2) See Sotheby's, London, Japanese Works of Art, Paintings and Screens, Wednesday 17th April 1996, lot 123, for another pair of Kenjo Imari bottles.
A SMALL COLLECTION OF JAPANESE 'BLACK SHIP' IMARI ITEMS MEIJI PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH CENTURY OR LATER Including a small square-section teacup with ships on two sides and flowers and reishi heads on a red ground on the others, the base inscribed in Chinese Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi; together with a set of six dishes with a central ship and a border of European standing figures, the bases with a fuku mark; and a pair of rectangular trays with similar decoration, 33.6cm max. (9) Provenance: formerly an American private collection. PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE,
A LARGE IMARI VASE AND COVER, PROBABLY SAMSON 19TH CENTURY The baluster body typically decorated in underglaze blue, gilt, red, green and black enamels, painted with two bijin in a luxuriant garden, the beauties wearing black robes and surrounded by a multitude of large flowering chrysanthemums, the flange and the rim of the lid with a band of stylised flowerheads and scrolling tendrils in gilt, topped by a large bulbous knop, 88cm overall. (2)
Japanese Imari plate with wavy rim decorated with a central roundel of a vase of flowers surrounded by further decorative panels, 30cm diameter. Another Japanese Imari plate, the central roundel decorated with a dragon surrounded by alternating red and blue decorative panels, 31cm diameter and another Japanese Imari plate (3)
Garniture of three Spode vases each of cylindrical form with flared rims and bead borders, decorated with flowers and fences in the Imari palette, pattern number 967, 16cm and 11cm tall a.f. (3)Condition ReportLarger vase has a crack (pictured), minor chip to base and chip to rim.One smaller vase has some minor gilt loss, the other has a crack (pictured).
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