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Click here to subscribeA CARVED AND RETICULATED BAMBOO PARFUMIERKangxiOf cylindrical form, carved and reticulated in varying depths of relief with a lady standing reading in front of a desk, all amongst gnarled pine and jagged rocks, fitted with wood terminals, wood stand. 17.5cm (6 7/8in) high (2).Footnotes:清康熙 竹雕人物圖香筒Provenance: an English private collection.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A FAMILLE VERTE 'TREASURES' BOWL, A FAMILLE VERTE TEAPOT AND COVER AND A BLUE AND WHITE EWERKangxiThe bowl with wide flaring sides, decorated to the interior with precious objects, Xuande six-character mark to the base; the ewer with petal shaped panels reserved with lotus sprays and foliage; the teapot with leafy stems of fruit and flower sprays.The ewer 17.5cm (6 7/8in) high (4).Footnotes:清康熙 五彩百寶紋盌, 五彩茶壺及青花執壺For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A LARGE GILT-DECORATED POWDER BLUE 'HUNDRED TREASURES' ROULEAU VASEKangxiThe rounded cylindrical body decorated with a continuous display of antique treasures above a lappet band, the shoulders with two floral panels. 59cm (23 1/4in) highFootnotes:清康熙 灑藍地描金博古圖棒槌瓶For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE JAR AND A COVERKangxiThe globular body painted with cusped panels variously depicting a dignitary riding a qilin accompanied by dancing boys, and boys at play in a riverside garden, between lança characters, the cover with three boys at play and fruit sprays to the sides. 23.5cm (9 1/4in) high (2).Footnotes:清康熙 青花蓋罐Provenance: according to the owner, purchased from Glerum Den Haag, Amsterdam, 22 November 1994, lot 536An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE BOWLKangxi six-character mark and of the periodWith deeply rounded sides rising from a high foot to an everted rim, delicately painted on the exterior with four cartouches of courting couples in gardens, the interior with three boys at play. 20cm (7 7/8in) diam. Footnotes:清康熙 青花盌 《大清康熙年製》款Provenance: An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BRONZE TOOL VASEKangxiThe body cast with a stag grasping a lingzhi spray and a crane grasping a fruiting peach branch, amongst pine, bamboo and rockwork, all against a stippled ground.9.5cm (3 3/4in) highFootnotes:清康熙 銅小瓶Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2011, no.23For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TWO BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL SALTSKangxiEach with six cusped panels of floral sprays on the waisted hexagonal foot rising to a rounded lip with small decorative flowers and ribboned musical stones, the central well with blossoming branches. 8cm (3 1/8in) wide. (2).Footnotes:清康熙 青花六方鹽盤 兩件Provenance: Christie's Amsterdam, 19 May 2004, lot 231Collezione G Pezzi (labels).An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE 'PRUNUS' JAR AND RELATED COVERKangxiDecorated to the body with upright and trailing branches of prunus blossom on a cracked ice ground.25.5cm (10in) high. (2).Footnotes:清康熙 青花冰梅紋罐及蓋Provenance: S. Marchant & Son, London (labels).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE AND COPPER-RED MOULDED VASESKangxiEach of stepped double-gourd form, the lower larger section with moulded lappets decorated with elegant ladies in blue and parrots in copper-red on a perch, amidst jardinières and flowers, all beneath a band of pine branches, the upper sections with bands of floral sprays. 14.7cm (5 3/4in) high. (2).Footnotes:清康熙 青花釉裏紅瓶 一對Provenance: A.C. Beeling & Zn., Hofleverancier, Leeuwarden (label).An important European private collection.The theme of parrots and ladies is an old motif perhaps originating from the famous Song dynasty courtesan Zhou Shao who compared herself to a caged parrot in a poem. The theme is reiterated in a play about courtesans by Chen Yujiao (1544-1611) titled 'Parrot Island' (Ying wu zhou), and again by the famous courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604), in a poem she wrote, titled 'The Parrot': 'All day long I watch the parrot, Pass its life in a golden cage.' See, Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism, Stanford, 1999, p. 231.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A LARGE CELADON-GLAZED TRIPLE-GOURD VASEKangxi The lower body carved with undulating leafy peony stems, the middle bulb with two striding chilong amongst lingzhi stems and cloud scrolls, the upper bulb with a ruyi lappet collar below plantain leaves, metal neck mount.40cm (15 3/4in) high.Footnotes:清康熙 青釉三節葫蘆瓶For a related triple gourd vase with Islamic-style silver mounts see Carswell, John, British Museum Press, 2000, Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain around the World, p. 117. For another complete vase see W.B. Honey, Guide to the later Chinese porcelain periods of K'ang Hsi, Yung Chêng and Ch'ien Lung, 1927, cat. no. 4.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A NEAR PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE 'BUDDHIST LION' BOTTLE VASESKangxiEach brightly decorated around the body with three animated Buddhist lions playing with beribboned brocade balls, the necks with tasselled pendants within bands of floral scroll, ruyi and geometric designs. Both approx. 29.5cm (11 5/8in) high. (2).Footnotes:清康熙 五彩佛獅紋長頸瓶 近一對For a similar vase see Li, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, no 37, p 54.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
AN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND COPPER RED CELADON-GROUND JARKangxiThe vase of ovoid shape, decorated with three large clusters of leafy peach sprays in underglaze blue and red against a celadon ground, wood cover. 17.5cm (6 7/8in) high without the cover. (2).Footnotes:清康熙 青地青花釉裏紅罐Provenance: Roger Keverne Ltd., London, 12 August 2015 (invoice)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASESKangxiEach brightly painted on the body with two rows of petal-shaped panels filled with flowering plants beneath a border of stiff lappets, the neck with a bulbous section below a border of lappets. 21cm and 21.5cm (8 1/4in and 8 1/2in) high. (2).Footnotes:清康熙 青花長頸瓶 一對Provenance: An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A MOULDED BLUE AND WHITE BARBED RIM BOWLQi yu bao ding zhi zhen six-character mark, KangxiDecorated with alternating panels of ladies in gardens and boys at play, above moulded panels of chrysanthemum sprays. 20.5cm (8 1/8in) diam.Footnotes:清康熙 青花菱口盌 《奇玉宝鼎之珍》款Provenance: An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BAMBOO 'SEVEN SAGES OF THE BAMBOO GROVE' BRUSHPOTKangxiThe exterior finely carved with a continuous scene of the seven sages with two boy attendants engaged in various scholarly pursuits all beneath a leafy canopy with bamboo stems carved at various depths beside gnarled pines and overhanging rocks. 15.5cm (6 1/8in) highFootnotes:清康熙 竹雕竹林七賢圖筆筒Provenance: an English private collection.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE 'PEONIES' BALUSTER VASEKangxiOf baluster form, the exterior painted with peonies and dense scrolling foliage below a band of upright lappets, the base painted with a double-ring in underglaze blue. 34cm (13 1/2in) highFootnotes:清康熙 青花纏枝牡丹紋將軍罐For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE LONG-NECKED DOUBLE GOURD VASEKangxi Decorated around the body with antiques and scholar's objects below pendent petal and foliate lappets to the neck. 27.4cm (10 3/4in) high.Footnotes:清康熙 青花長頸葫蘆式瓶Provenance: An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A FAMILLE VERTE QUATRELOBED BOWLKangxiDecorated to the exterior with panels of decorative planters, lotus and peony sprays, below panels of floral bouquets and further trailing flower sprays below the rim, applied with a pair of Venetian glass inspired handles.22cm (8 3/4in) wide across the handles.Footnotes:清康熙 五彩海棠式盌For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE OVOID JARShunzhi/early KangxiThe rounded sides rising to a short waisted neck, painted with a continuous scene of an official surrounded by boy attendants, before a screen depicting a river landscape, overlooking a garden of ornamental rockwork and plantain. 44cm (17 1/4in) highFootnotes:清順治/康熙早期 青花山水人物圖大罐For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED BOTTLE VASEKangxiDecorated around the body with arrow vases and tasselled double gourd pendants, the neck with linear pattern bands enclosing fret-work roundels. 29cm (11 1/2in) high.Footnotes:清康熙 青花長頸瓶Provenance: An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE SLENDER PEAR-SHAPED VASEKangxiDecorated around the body with suspended tasselled vessels and dragon pendants, alternating with floral vases set on stands, the neck with bands of ruyi motifs and plantain lappets. 27cm (10 5/8in) high.Footnotes:清康熙 青花長頸瓶Provenance: Sotheby's, 8th November 1994, lot 73 (label).An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BRONZE MINIATURE TABLE, A PEWTER TEA CADDY, TWO PEWTER CIRCULAR BOXES AND COVERS AND A LARGE PAKTONG 'TREASURES' BOX AND COVERKangxi, one inscribed 1720 and Qing DynastyThe table modelled as a scholar's desk; the caddy engraved with scenes of figures in mountainous landscapes, inscribed to the base 'Ex Dono Edvardi Acton, Elizabeth æ Cressett, MDCCXX'; the larger box engraved and gilt with a boy amongst flower sprays; the smaller with a bird amongst blossom; the Paktong box engraved to the cover with two archaic vessels, the interior copper lined.The caddy 18.5cm (7 1/4in) high. (9).Footnotes:清 錫製罐, 錫製蓋盒兩件, 白銅百寶圖蓋盒及銅袖珍書案 「天元(依)地地(依)天 天地皆從(五數)先 河水自從天上(降)」For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT BOX AND COVERKangxiThe box of square shape, resting on four low bracket feet, decorated around the body with four cloud scrolls against a diaper pattern ground, similarly applied to the cover, centred by a crane in flight. 10.5cm (4 1/8in) wide (2).Footnotes:清康熙 素三彩仙鶴雲紋方盒帶蓋Provenance: Roger Keverne Ltd., London, 20 September 2006 (invoice)Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2006, no. 46.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE PETAL-RIM SAUCER DISHKangxiDecorated to the well with flowering peonies and chrysanthemums issuing from pierced rockwork, the sides with panels of birds and butterflies amongst further flowering plants, yu mark to the base. 22.8cm (9in) wide.Footnotes:清康熙 青花花口小盤Provenance: Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder, 17th November 1997, lot 96 (label).An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A PAIR OF LAQUE BURGAUTÉ 'VIEWS OF HUANGSHAN MOUNTAIN' PANELS MOUNTED AS TABLE SCREENSKangxi The rectangular panels inlaid with mother-of-pearl to depict a steep mountain with a series of buildings and pines in the valley below and respectively inscribed Lianhua feng and Zhusha feng, mounted with a frame combining boxwood and hardwood, supported on ornately carved and pierced stands.The screens 23cm (9 1/8in) high (4).Footnotes:清康熙 黑漆嵌螺鈿「黃山」硯屏 「蓮花峰，硃砂峰」Provenance: acquired from Spink & Son Ltd., London, 10 February 1978 (according to a hand written label to the base).The two panels respectively depict the Lianhua and Zhusha mountains in the Huangshan mountain range in Anhui Provence.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE 'LANDSCAPE' BRUSH POT, BITONGWenzhang beidou mark, KangxiOf cylindrical form, the exterior painted with a continuous river landscape, a group of three scholars sitting on the riverbank looking out across a river with a boat crossing to a distant shore with overhanging pines and dwellings nestled between rocks, the base four-character mark within a small recess. 15cm (6in) high, 19cm (7 3/8) diam.Footnotes:清康熙 青花山水人物圖筆筒 《文章北斗》款The four-character commendation mark can be translated as 'Scholarship high as the Great Bear'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A PAIR OF MOULDED LOBED BLANC-DE-CHINE CUPS WITH EUROPEAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTS; AND A MOULDED LIBATION CUPKangxiThe two cups, each with lobed bodies supported on a ring foot, decorated with three branches of flowering prunus blossom, with silver-gilt mounts; the libation cup moulded in the form of a rhinoceros horn, decorated with a crane in flight and two confronting dragons emerging from clouds, a deer amongst prunus branches and rockwork. The libation cup: 14.7cm (5 3/4in) long. (3).Footnotes:清康熙 德化窯白釉模印梅花紋杯一對 及 德化窯白釉模印龍紋杯 一組三件Provenance: The libation cup: John Sparks Ltd., London, 15 October 1962 (invoice); also noted by John Sparks Ltd., London, 27 March 1961 (on approbation letter)One of the silver-gilt mounted cups: a gift from Harry Hyams to John Bodie on the occasion of his birthday, 8th August 2015.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE FOLIATE RIMMED BOWLSKangxiEach decorated to the well with two ladies and a playful boy, the rim with alternating panels of ladies in a garden and flowering plants, on geometric pattern grounds. 27.5cm (10 3/4in) diam. (2).Footnotes:清康熙 青花花口盌 一對Provenance: An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE 'BOY AND CARP' DISHESXuande six-character marks, KangxiEach with the central medallion finely decorated with a seated lady in a pavilion watching a boy playing beside a lake with a leaping carp and a phoenix amongst bamboo trees, the exterior with three similar carps above rolling waves.16.2cm (6 3/8in) diam. (2).Footnotes:清康熙 青花童子戲鯉魚圖盤 一對 《大明宣德年製》款For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A FIVE-PIECE BLUE AND WHITE GARNITUREKangxiComprising: three baluster vases and covers and two inverted baluster vases with flaring necks, all moulded, decorated with panels depicting landscape scenes and flower bouquets against a cracked ice ground, the covers and flaring necks with panels of boys in fenced gardens. 29cm (11 3/8in) high. (8).Footnotes:清康熙 青花瓶及蓋瓶 五件Provenance:Collection of Sir Henry Thompson (1820-1904) prior to 1878 (label)Christie, Manson & Woods, Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain, Formed with Great Taste and Judgement by Sir Henry Thompson, 1-2 June 1880, lots 315 and 316.Collection of Murray Marks (1840-1918), acquired from the above for 22 pounds 12 shillings and 5 pounds 10 shillings respectively.Kirtlington Park after 1922Published:Thompson and Whistler, A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain Forming the Collection of Sir Henry Thompson, London, 1878, p. 44, cat. no. 228.Sir Henry Thompson 1st Baronet, FRCS (1820-1904) was a noted surgeon whose patients included Napoleon III of France. He also turned his hand to astronomy, writing and painting. His collection of Chinese porcelain was illustrated by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), one of the most prominent artists of the Aesthetic Movement. Murray Marks (1840-1918) who acquired the set for a prodigious sum was a major dealer in Chinese porcelain selling works to Rossetti, Whistler, Frederick Leyland, Louis Huth and Sir Henry Thompson who together developed the fashion for Chinese Kangxi blue and white porcelain through depictions in their paintings. Documented Kangxi pieces from this period rarely appear on the market.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE 'DOUBLE DRAGON' DISHKangxiDecorated to the centre with an ascending and descending dragon in pursuit of the flaming pearl, on a dense ground of billowing cloud scrolls, the exterior with four precious objects encircling the channelled foot.35cm (13 3/4in) diam.Footnotes:清康熙 青花雙龍趕珠紋盤For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASEKangxiFinely painted around the body with a bird of paradise resting upon rockwork amongst blossoming prunus trees and bamboo, the reverse with two further exotic birds in flight and alighting on a branch, the flaring neck with flowering branches. 28cm (11in) high.Footnotes:清康熙 青花棒槌瓶For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLANC-DE-CHINE INSCRIBED BOWL AND A BLANC-DE-CHINE DISHKangxiComprising: a shallow bowl with a two-line inscription in running script to the well; a dish rising from a short foot to shallow rounded sides. The inscribed bowl 15.2cm (6in) diam.; the dish 19.7cm (7 3/4in) diam. (2).Footnotes:清康熙 德化窯白釉刻詩文盌及德化窯白釉素面盤 一組兩件 「玉壺懸啟緉，幾點報分明」Provenance: John Sparks Ltd., London, 15 October 1962 (invoice); the dish also noted by John Sparks Ltd., London, 27 March 1961 (on approbation letter)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL STEM CUPKangxi Each side painted with a panel containing a single stem of blossoms and leaves, the interior with a single flower in the well, modelled in the form of a European silver or glass original. 12cm (4 3/4in) highFootnotes:清康熙 青花八方高足盃Provenance: according to the owner, purchased from Glerum Den Haag, Amsterdam, 27 March 2001, lot 112An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TWO EMBROIDERED PANELS AND A PAINTINGComprising: an embroidery of a bird on a branch, amongst scattered fruiting and blossoming branches, flower baskets, a central shou emblem and seals, reputedly by Nellie Ionides (1883-1962); a blue-ground silk satin fragment woven with gold thread to depict the lower portion of a five-clawed dragon, 17th century; and a painting on silk of a parrot perched on a rock issuing chrysanthemum flowers and lingzhi fungus, all framed. The bird embroidery 81.5cm (32 1/8in) high x 104cm (41in) wide. (3).Footnotes:緞繡片及畫Provenance: The bird on a branch panel: Nellie Ionides (1883-1962) (by repute)Acquired from John Sparks Ltd circa 1991Nellie Ionides (1883-1962) was the daughter of Shell Oil magnate Sir Marcus Samuel and a noted collector of Kangxi porcelain. Members of the Oriental Ceramic Society visited Mr and Mrs Ionides' collection of Chinese porcelain in July 1947. She left Chinese porcelain to the V&A Museum, the British Museum and to the Brighton Pavilion. The embroidered panel was reputedly completed during the Second World War and gifted to John Sparks Ltd of whom Ionides was a long standing client. Its frame, typical of those used by the company, indicates the high standing in which the embroidery was regarded.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT SEATED 'GUANYIN AND CHILD' GROUPKangxiThe elegant, serene figure wearing a high cowl and flowing robes decorated with scattered flower sprays, a child resting on her lap to the right. 21cm (8 1/4in) high.Footnotes:清康熙 素三彩觀音坐像For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE 'IMMORTALS' INCENSE BURNERKangxiOf bombé form, raised on a splayed foot, decorated around the body with a continuous scene depicting a procession of the Eight Immortals towards Shoulao, seated on a rocky outcrop beside a deer, beneath a key-scroll and diamond border, wood stand. 21cm (8 1/2in) diam. (2).Footnotes:清康熙 青花群仙圖爐For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A PAIR OF GREEN AND OCHRE GLAZED MODELS OF HORSESHOE-BACK CHAIRS AND A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT MODELS OF SHOESMing Dynasty and KangxiComprising: two chairs each with horseshoe back rails and carved back splats; two pointed-toe shoes, one decorated with leafy lotus blossoms, the other with butterflies amidst flowers and foliage. The chairs 17.8cm (7in) high. (4).Footnotes:明和清康熙 素三彩圈椅一對 及 瓷胎模製花蝶紋鞋一對Provenance: The shoes: Chait Galleries, New York (labels); Roger Keverne Ltd., London, 30 October 2006 (invoice)The chairs: Roger Keverne Ltd., London, 24 December 2003 (invoice)Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: The chairs: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2003, no. 42.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS SCROLL' BOWLKangxiThe sturdily potted bowl with deep flaring sides, rising to an everted rim and resting on a channelled foot, decorated around the exterior and to the well with large lotus blooms borne on leafy undulating stems.36cm (14 1/4in) diam.Footnotes:清康熙 青花番蓮紋大盌For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED BOTTLE VASEKangxiThe body painted with two arrow vases on tables alternating with sets of pendent emblems with tassels, beneath a decorative lotus band at the shoulder and two spreading floral branches on the tapering neck. 28cm (11in) highFootnotes:清康熙 青花長頸瓶Provenance: An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SIX BLUE AND WHITE MINIATURE VASESKangxiComprising: a pair of soft paste vases decorated with scholar's objects, Chenghua marks; a quadrilobed floral vase; a pencil-drawn lotus vase, wood stand; and two 'Long Elizas' vases.The largest 10cm (4in) high (7).Footnotes:清康熙 袖珍青花瓶 六件Provenance: The smallest vase: R.H.R. Palmer (1898-1970) collection no. 466 (label).The pair: from the collection of Henry M. Knight (d. 1971)Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: The pair of vases: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2009, no.46Henry M. Knight was a discerning collector who, from 1930 until his death in 1971, assembled a major collection of Chinese ceramics and works of art, focusing mainly on Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) porcelains, buying largely from Bluett & Sons, London. Roger Bluett wrote about him: 'Henry Knight, who built up perhaps the best collection of eighteenth-century porcelains in Europe as well as magnificent early pieces, was fond of telling how it was my late father who told him to buy 'Chinese taste' porcelains. Their time would come, my father used to say, and how right he was.'For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A YELLOW-GLAZED DISHKangxiThe wide shallow rounded sides rising from a short foot to a gently flared rim, covered overall in a lustrous egg yolk yellow glaze. 24cm (9 1/2in) diam.Footnotes:清康熙 黃釉盤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 LARGE DOUCAI 'FLORAL' DISHKangxiDecorated to the centre with a bird perched on a branch amongst peonies, fruiting pomegranate branches and bamboo amongst pierced rockwork, the rim with floral cartouches on an underglaze blue geometric ground.35.5cm (14in) diam.Footnotes:清康熙 鬪彩花卉紋大盤For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE OVOID JARKangxiDecorated with birds of prey and two qilin standing on rockwork amongst turbulent waves, pierced hongmu cover. The jar 19.2cm (7 5/8in) high.Footnotes:清康熙 青花罐Provenance: Christie's, 7th November 1994, lot 27 (label).An important European private collection.Lot to be sold without reserve.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the UK, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS SCROLL' BOWLKangxi six-character mark and of the periodDecorated to the exterior with a continuous lotus scroll and foliate meander above a band of overlapping petal lappets, the interior with a similar motif in the well and at the rim, wood stand.19.3cm (7 5/8in) diam. (2).Footnotes:清康熙 青花纏枝蓮紋盌 《大清康熙年製》款Provenance: Ralf M. Chait Galleries, New York (label)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TWO BLUE AND WHITE 'BOY AND CARP' DISHESXuande and Chenghua six-character marks, KangxiEach with the central medallion finely decorated with a seated lady in a pavilion watching a boy playing beside a lake with a leaping carp and a phoenix amongst bamboo trees, the exterior with three similar carps above rolling waves.The largest: 16.2cm (6 3/8in) diam. (2).Footnotes:清康熙 青花童子戲鯉魚圖盤 兩件 《大明宣德年製》款及《大明成化年製》款For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A MOULDED BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL BOWLKangxiDecorated to the exterior with floral sprays and insects panels, inside the flared rim with a diaper band with four reserves of flowers, the central medallion bearing a pseudo coat of arms with three rampant lions.34cm (13 3/8in) diam.Footnotes:清康熙 青花花卉紋章圖盌For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A near pair of Chinese famille verte jars, Kangxi period, on wood plinths, blue enamels repainted Both structurally good; some wear to enamels. Blue enamels added, as catalogued. Each vase deceptively heavy. Covers match exactly; good; stands are similar but not matching; sun-faded.Smaller of the two with a hairline crack downward from neckrim, approx. 1cm; some wear to enamels. Blue enamels repainted, as catalogued. Each vase deceptively heavy. Covers match exactly; good; stands are similar but not matching; sun-faded.Talles:22cm high not including carved cover or base23cm including carved cover but not base
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN JAR AND COVER BEARING KANGXI FOUR CHARACTER MARK TO THE BASE, the cover decorated with rocks, fences and foliage, the jar with figures in a landscape to the front side, the reverse side largely undecorated but with two insects, height 37cm to top of finial, jar height 27cm, together with two late 19th century Chinese Canton Famille Rose cylindrical covered jars, polychrome enamelled with flowers, insects and birds, height 11cm and 7cm, jars have red painted marks inside lid (both jars are chipped, paint missing in some areas), and an early 20th century Japanese satsuma figure group, some wear to gilding (4) (Condition Report: a large glued chip to neck of jar and three further stained cracks running vertically through the top rim, some surface dirt / sticky patches, cover has a minor glaze fault along the top rim, damage to other pieces is mentioned in description)
China, two small blue and white vases, Kangxi period (1662-1722), of various shape, both moulded with petal-shaped panels enclosing ladies and jardinières, both with 'yu' mark to the base (the tallest vase with reglued rim chip of 2.5 x 3 cm, the other one in good overall condition, both with expected nicks to foot rims) h. 8,5-10,5 cm Uit de nalatenschap van Clemens Merkelbach van Enkhuizen [2]
China, two blue and white porcelain vases, Kangxi period (1662-1722), one of double-gourd shape and the other pear-shaped and with later silver foot mount, both decorated with flowers (the double-gourd with grazed rim chip of 1 x 0.5 cm and a small related hairline to the interior neck, the other with minor glaze flaws) h. 9,5-12,2 cm Uit de nalatenschap van Clemens Merkelbach van Enkhuizen [2]
China, a set of two blue and white porcelain cups and five saucers and a set of three saucers, Kangxi period (1662-1722)-19th century, the set of two cups and five saucers painted with foliage, the set of three saucers with flowers and moulded with pomegranate-shaped panels (one cup with hairline, one saucer with star-crack) diam. 13,5 cm [10]
China, a silver-mounted blue and white porcelain jarlet, Kangxi period (1662-1722), the silver later, painted with a pair of ladies playing weiqi on a fenced terrace (the cover detachable, small polished rim chip, some pitting, firing crack to foot) h. 9,8 cm Uit de nalatenschap van Clemens Merkelbach van Enkhuizen [1]
China, blue and white porcelain inscribed vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722), the baluster sides painted with birds among branches of prunus, inscribed with a seal and two lines of calligraphy which may be translated as: 'The old prunus tree is blossoming, but its branches are thin and gnarled/ The older its gets, the more it gains in character', the base with apocryphal Chenghua mark (glaze crack and hairline running vertically over one line of calligraphy) h. 20,7 cm Provenance: Hooykaas Fine Arts b.v., The Hague [1]
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