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A pair of Chinese famille verte enamelled biscuit taperstick holders, Kangxi period, each modelled as a Buddhistic lion seated on its hind legs with a lotus stem holder emerging from its back, raised on rectangular bases, one bearing `Bluett & Sons, London` paper label to base, height approx 14.5cm (some faults).
Five Chinese blue and white snuff bottles and two 19th century tea bowls, three of the former of crackleware, one lacking its stopper, a cylindrical bottle with the four character mark of Kangxi, 8.5cm (3.33in) high, the tea bowls painted with rocks in gardens, six character marks of Chenghua, 7cm (2.75in) diameter (11)
A selection of Chinese blue and white, famille rose and grisaille export porcelains, to include; a blue and white plate, decorated with cherry blossom against a cracked ice ground, apocryphal Chenghua six character mark but Kangxi, 21cm diameter, three octagonal blue and white plates, 22cm wide, a blue and white plate with shaped rim, 23cm diameter, a blue and white custard cup and cover, 9cm high, a grisaille saucer dish, 20cm diameter, and a similar export armorial coffee cup,
A small Chinese blue and white moulded dish, painted with two figures in a landscape, the base with a six character Chenghua mark, but Kangxi 1662-1722, and a small porcelain bowl decorated with butterflies and flowers in blue, the base with a Qianlong mark, dish with a small rim chip, 11.8cm. (2)
A Chinese blue and white square section flask, decorated with flowers and insects, a small pear-shaped vase painted with a kingfisher and a cylindrical box and cover decorated with a landscape scene, Kangxi and later, the flask fritted, the vase cut down, 25.5cm. (4). Provenance: Ernest Ohly Collection.
A rare Chinese green and aubergine dragon bowl, for a concubine of the fifth rank, the exterior finely incised with two scaly five-clawed dragons above breaking waves in pursuit of flaming pearls of wisdom, the base with a six character Daoguang seal mark in under glazed blue and of the period 1821-1850, a faint hairline crack, 11.2cm. Cf. Jan Stuart, Imperial Porcelain and Court Values, Orientations, August 1993, fig. 3 for a Kangxi dish in the same palette from the Tianminlou Foundation, Hong Kong.
A rare Chinese doucai dragon and phoenix bowl, the exterior delicately enamelled with two writhing dragons and phoenix in flight divided by flaming pearls of wisdom, all on a yellow ground, the base with a six character Kangxi mark within a double circle and of the period 1662-1722, minor faults, 14.5cm. For a similar Kangxi yellow-ground bowl in the Shanghai Museum, see Kangxi Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum Collection, pl.160.
A rare Chinese brown-glazed dragon bowl, the flared sides with a central rib dividing bands of anhua dragons in pursuit of pearls of wisdom, the interior with an anhua roundel of two scaly dragons around a central flaming pearl, unmarked, Kangxi 1662-1722, two restored rim chips, 17cm. Cf. Ming Wilson, Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics, p.33 for a related bowl..
A rare Chinese doucai butterfly and flowers conical bowl, the flared sides raised on a short straight foot and delicately enamelled on the exterior with four floral medallions enclosing the flowers of the Four Seasons including peony, chrysanthemum, lotus and prunus, the interior painted with a central medallion enclosing two butterflies and a flower sprig, all encircled by a double line border repeated at the rim, the base with a six character Yongzheng mark and of the period 1723-35, 22.3cm. A similar Yongzheng doucai bowl from the Qing Court Collection is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Colelction, pl.31, and also in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, pl.229. Another bowl of this pattern in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, is illustrated in Seki toji zenshu, vol. 12, pl.64; and one in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, is included in Ireneus Laszln Legeza, Malcolm MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, pl. CXXXIX, no. 378.

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