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Click here to subscribeA BLUE AND WHITE DEEP BOWLKangxiDecorated with rectangular panels, to one side with a pair of jays and butterflies amidst rocks issuing flowers and bamboo, to the other with a single butterfly above flowering branches of peony and chrysanthemum. 22.5cm (8 7/8in) diam.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE FIGURAL DISHKangxi six-character mark and of the periodThe centre painted with a scholar talking with a eunuch, the flaring rim with four cartouches each enclosing the same dignitary at leisure. 20.7cm (8 1/8in) diam.Footnotes:Provenance: Geoffrey Waters (label).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE TEAPOT AND ASSOCIATED COVERKangxiThe domed cover with acorn-shaped finial painted with flowers issuing from rocks, the globular teapot with plain loop handle and straight spout, decorated with scholars in a garden to one side and a lady on a terrace to the other. 18cm (7 1/8in) high (2).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE MONTEITHKangxi, c. 1700-1715The crenelated rim dressed in a café-au-lait glaze, the exterior decorated with alternating panels of mythical beasts and exotic birds in flowering gardens, on a reverse-decorated ground of trailing lotus and chrysanthemum sprays, the interior decorated with precious objects and dishes of auspicious fruits. 31.7cm (12 1/2in) diam.Footnotes:This rare form in Chinese porcelain derives from British silver examples, which originated circa 1680. The scalloped rims held wine glass bases, so the bowls could cool in the ice. The bowls were named after an eccentric Scot, Lord Monteith, who was remarked for wearing a scalloped coat which the bowl's rim resembled.See a similar example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession number 564-1907.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
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER JARS AND COVERSKangxiEach painted with a scrolling lotus design between a band of lotus bulbs at the foot and an upright lappet border to the short neck, the domed cover terminating with a blue knop finial.52cm (20 1/2in) high (4).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TWO BLUE AND WHITE GINGER JARS AND COVERSKangxiEach with a globular body, similarly decorated with alternating lotus flowers and peonies between double bands of foliate lappets reserved with lotus sprays, the cover with further peonies within a border of pendent foliate lappets. Each: 28cm (11in) high (4).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE 'DUCKS' BOWLChenghua six-character mark, KangxiThe deep rounded sided rising from a short tapering foot to an everted rim, painted around the exterior with a pair of mandarin ducks swimming in a lotus pond. 11.5cm (4 1/2in) diam.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BAMBOO 'HORSE' BRUSH RESTKangxi, signed Shi AnThe naturally curving upper surface inscribed and signed Shi An above a roundel carved in shallow relief with a single horse in a rocky landscape beneath over-hanging pine branches. 23.8cm (9 3/8in) longFootnotes:Provenance: Dr. J W H Grice (1891-1976) collection, (label no. 37).This wrist rest is thought to have been illustrated in Dr. Grice's article Chinese Bamboo Carving published in Country Life magazine in 1954.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A PAIR OF KANGXI-REVIVAL BLUE AND WHITE JARS19th centuryOf baluster form with cylindrical necks, decorated with two large central panels of landscapes and precious objects respectively, and spaced by smaller similarly decorated shaped panels. The largest: 35cm (14 3/4in) high (2).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
AN ASSOCIATED PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASESLate Qing DynastyEach painted in the Kangxi style, the first with a scholar reclining under a pine tree beside a lady attendant, the other with a beautiful lady and boy attendant in a fenced garden, each with leaf-shaped mark to base. Each 20cm (7 9/8in) high (2).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A GROUP OF THREE COPPER-RED-GLAZED WARESKangxi to 19th centuryComprising: a langyao pear-shaped bottle, the base covered in a creamy, crackled glaze; a miniature copper red bottle, the base with bluish white glaze; and a circular plate, the base with an underglaze-blue double-circle. The langyao bottle: 16.5cm (6 1/2in) high (3).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A SMALL APPLE-GREEN 'LANGYAO' JAR AND A TEADUST-GLAZED SQUARE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, HUQing Dynasty, the green langyao jar KangxiThe jar of ovoid shape terminating in a lipped rim, covered overall in a crackled, apple-green copper glaze, the interior, rim and base left white; the other with mock-embossed animal mask-and-loop handles, covered overall in a dark, teadust glaze. The jar: 12cm (4 3/4in) high (2).Footnotes:A similar apple-green jar to the one in the present lot was sold at Bonhams, London, 11 May 2021, lot 198; another was sold at Christie's, New York, 19 March 2015, lot 406.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
A GROUP OF FOUR FLAMBÉ AND SANG-DE-BOEUF SMALL VESSELS18th/19th centuryComprising: a red-glazed globular brush washer; a sang-de-boeuf brush washer with a compressed globular body and everted rim, apocryphal Xuande six-character reign mark; a small flambé jar; and a purple glazed small Meiping vase with an apocryphal Kangxi four-character seal mark. The tallest: 9.3cm (3 5/8in) high (4).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ROULEAU VASE Of Kangxi style, probably 19th Century or later Decorated with figures around a table and further figures in at various activities 46cm high Condition: Minor firing bubbles and imperfections around the neck and the shoulder, glaze loss to neck, small chips to rim
A FAMILLE VERTE BALUSTER PORCELAIN VASE Of Kangxi style Decorated with warrior landscape scene, bears a six character Kangxi mark to the base 46cm high Condition: For a condition report or further images, please contact the saleroom via hello@hotlotz.com Provenance: Stokholms Auctionsverk, Sweden, 15 May 2021
A collection of Chinese blue and white, comprising: a ginger jar and cover, of ovoid form, painted with birds and chrysanthemums, four-character Kangxi mark, 26cm high, another, with blossoming prunus against a blue ground, 11.5cm high, a vase, the pear-shaped form rising from a circular foot, with boys in shaped panels, 23cm high, a teacup and saucer, with dragons chasing a flaming pearl, cup 10.5cm long, saucer 13.8cm diameter, another saucer, painted with a temple, 12.6cm diameter, and a Yixing teapot, of rectangular form, moulded with inscriptions, seal marks to base, handle and interior cover, 14cm long (10)Condition report: Ginger jars - both with surface scratches.Teacup - Handle restored with cracks, chips to the rim with a long hairline crackMatching saucer - chips to the rim with crack, hairline cracks to foot rim, surface scratches.Smaller saucer - chips to rim and foot rim, surface scratches.Vase - crack around the base of body.Teapot - cover with small chips, surface scratches.
A CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE JOSS-STICK HOLDER, KANGXI PERIOD, in the form of a seated Buddhist lion, wearing bells and tassel on his collar, his left paw resting on a brocade ball, the hair work and tail well defined, sitting on a rectangular plinth with tubular holder. 26.5cm high Provenance: S. Marchant & Son, London (a copy of the invoice is available)CONDITION REPORTSmall firing cracks on plinth, no obvious damage or losses
A RARE CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE MODEL OF A GUANYIN SEATED ON THE BACK OF A STANDING ELEPHANT, KANGXI PERIOD, modelled holding a scroll in her left hand, the animal's head turned back to the right, the hemispherical base with floral motif, Marchant London label. 21.8cm high Provenance: S. Marchant & Son, London (a copy of the invoice is available)CONDITION REPORTIn good condition
A CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE LIBATION CUP, KANGXI PERIOD, decorated to each side with kylins beneath a dragon in the clouds, on a hardwood stand. 13.5cm wide Provenance: Richard Marchant Limited, London (a copy of the invoice is available)CONDITION REPORTNo chips, cracks or restoration. In very good condition.
A good pair of Kangxi-style Chinese porcelain bottle vases (19th century); hand-decorated in famille verte enamels with floral sprigs upon a waisted neck and above a dogtooth-style border with enamelled peony within Moorish-style palmettes, four further similarly decorated palmettes above the circular foot, blue-painted six-character mark with concentric circles to the underside (one vase with 10cm hairline emanating from lip down towards neck) (each approx. 35cm) Condition Report: The vases have come privately and both appear to be in good honest original condition except for one of the vases with an approx. 7/8 cm hairline emanating from the top of the lip going down into the neck visible from inside and outside. The colours are good. The underside of the circular feet are discoloured as expected and commensurate with age. Some minor bubbling of glaze.
Delft - a jug of globular form, circa 1680, after the Chinese/Japanese original, painted with figures in a garden (20cm); and a double gourd vase based on a Kangxi original (21cm) (2)Condition Report: The double gourd vase has an old restoration to the neck and a large chunk of the neck missing and not with the vase. The neck has been broken away from the main body and put back on some time ago. The jug itself has some glazing away and has been in many pieces and put back together. The lip at the tip of the jug has been restored quite badly.
Two Dutch Delftware plates, 18th c, painted in Kangxi style in blue with a basket of flowers and insects in panelled diaper cavetto, three flowers and three insects to the border, 22cm diam One slightly chipped, the other with some typical flaking of the glaze around the rim, not cracked or significantly chipped, no restoration
A Chinese blue and white 'nine' dragon bottle vase, Jiaqing mark and period (1796-11820), the rounded sides rising from a short straight foot, to a tapering cylindrical neck, painted with six dragons chasing a flaming pearl amongst trailing clouds and flame scrolls, with three dragons emerging from swirling waves, with a thin band of ruyi below the rim and a thin band of key-fret at the foot, the six character seal mark in underglaze-blue 30.5cm high.Provenance: English private collection since the 1880s. Condition Report: There is a 5cm by 8cm semi-circular section of the rim that has been broken and re-glued. There is also a long arcing crack running from near to the foot across the body, approx 27cmFootnote:The design of nine dragons painted amongst trailing clouds, flame scrolls and swirling waves derives from imperial designs of the earlier Qianlong period (1736-1795). Please see a large baluster vase in the Palace Museum, which is included in The Complete Collection of Treasures in the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), no 36, Hong Kong, 1985, p. 132, pl. 118; and an underglaze-blue and iron-red piping vase in the Palace Museum, included in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p.327, p. 8. For a similar vase (restored), sold at auction, please see Bonhams London, 16 May, 2013, lot 97 and for a double gourd example in a very similar design, please see Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 10 April 2008, Splendours of the Qing Court, lot 2831. A Jiaqing vase of globular form with a similar design is in the National Palace Museum Taipei, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1981, pl 93; and one sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong 02 May1995, lot 86.A BLUE AND WHITE ’NINE DRAGON’ BOTTLE VASE, JIAQING MARK AND PERIOD (1796-11820)the rounded sides rising from a short straight foot, to a tapering cylindrical neck, painted with six dragons chasing a flaming pearl amongst trailing clouds and flame scrolls, with three dragons emerging from swirling waves, with a thin band of ruyi below the rim and a thin band of key-fret at the foot, the six character seal mark in underglaze-blue30.5cm high£10,000-15,000Provenance: English private collection since the 1880s. Condition Report: There is a 5cm by 8cm semi-circular section of the rim that has been broken and re-glued. There is also a long arcing crack running from near to the foot across the body (please add in cm the length of this crack)FootnoteThe design of nine dragons painted amongst trailing clouds, flame scrolls and swirling waves derives from imperial designs of the earlier Qianlong period (1736-1795). Please see a large baluster vase in the Palace Museum, which is included in The Complete Collection of Treasures in the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), no 36, Hong Kong, 1985, p. 132, pl. 118; and an underglaze-blue and iron-red piping vase in the Palace Museum, included in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p.327, p. 8. For a similar vase (restored), sold at auction, please see Bonhams London, 16 May, 2013, lot 97 and for a double gourd example in a very similar design, please see Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 10 April 2008, Splendours of the Qing Court, lot 2831. A Jiaqing vase of globular form with a similar design is in the National Palace Museum Taipei, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1981, pl 93; and one sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong 02 May1995, lot 86.https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20579/lot/97/ https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2008/splendours-of-the-qing-court-hk0285/lot.2831.html
A large Chinese famille jaune porcelain inverted baluster vase, painted with ferocious dragons, flaming pearls and scrolls in tones of green, ochre and black, on a yellow ground, flared rim with diapers and precious objects, the base with waves and a foaming sea, 58cm high, six-character Kangxi reign marks within concentric circles but later, 19th century
A circa 1900 Chinese blue and white baluster shaped vase decorated with four toed dragons chasing a flaming pearl amongst clouds, raised on a circular foot, bearing four character faux Kangxi mark to base, 18.5 cm high, together with another circa 1900 Chinese blue and white baluster shaped vase decorated with birds and butterflies amongst blossoming foliage, bearing four character faux Kangxi mark to base, the cover with dog of Fo finial, 22 cm high CONDITION REPORTS First vase mentioned has firing faults, some dirt and general wear and tear and a hairline crack running down the body almost the whole way. Other vase - a third of the rim has been broken and is missing. There are a couple of bruises to the glaze. Firing faults. General wear and tear and both in need of a clean. See images for further details.
Two late 18th / early 19th Century Chinese famille rose plates with relief scrollwork centrefield decorated with vase of blossoming flowers and fruit, within a floral decorated border, 23 cm diameter and 22.2 cm diameter, a 19th Century Chinese blue and white plate decorated with panels of flowers in the Kangxi style, bears blue concentric circles mark to base, 22.2 cm diameter, a celadon glazed famille rose plate, 18.5 cm diameter, a Japan style bowl decorated with panels of phoenix and script on an oxide red and gold dotted ground, 21 cm diameter, a famille noir bird amongst prunus blossom decorated ginger jar and cover, 20 cm high, two Chinese famille rose polychrome decorated ginger jars and covers, 13 cm high, together with various other bowls, three hexagonal tealight holders, sake pot, etc (23 pieces total) CONDITION REPORTS Black ginger jar only - lid has been broken and badly restored. Significant scratches to the jar itself and in need of a good clean. General wear and tear conducive with age and use to include surface scratches as well as firiing faults, etc. See images for more details.
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