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Attributed to Wang Yeting (1884-1942). A set of four enamelled porcelain plaques, Republic period, each painted with figures in mountainous river landscape scenes, with poem inscriptions and red seal marks, the plaques are approximately 34cm x 21cm and the wood frames 39cm x 25.5cmProvenance: From a local private collection inherited from English family who left Hong Kong in the early 1950's.
Two Chinese famille rose porcelain landscape plaques, Republic period, each painted with ships on a river in a mountainous landscape, red seal marks lower right, the plaques approximately 26cm x 38.5cm, the wood frames 36cm x 49cmProvenance: From a local private collection inherited from English family who left Hong Kong in the early 1950's.
Two Japanese woven silk wall hangings, late 19th century, the first decorated with egrets on a pond, 138cm x 133cm, the second with birds on rocks amid clouds, 163cm x 148cm, together with and an embroidered silk family mon panel,Provenance: collected in Japan in the 1890's by Sir Henry Norman, an English journalist and Liberal politician; thence by family descent
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'.
A Chinese archaic bronze bell, Niu Zhong, Eastern Zhou dynasty/Spring & Autumn period, 8th-5th century B.C., crisply cast in low relief to each side to the lower panel with a taotie mask and overlapping scrolls amid leiwen, below bands of scrolling dragons and S-scrolls amid leiwen interspersed by protruding grooved bosses, the suspension loop also with dragons amid leiwen, pale brown and grey patina with thin malachite and azurite encrustation, 29cm high
A rare Chinese archaic white and yellow jade ornament, probably Eastern Zhou dynasty, of domed elliptical form, the centre incised with elongated scrolls and the border carved in relief with C and S-scrolls and 'feathered' scrolls, the underside with raised stud, the white stone altered to yellow in places with large brown and russet striations, 11.5cm together with an archaic white and grey mottled jade 'bird' ornament or finial, possibly Shang dynasty, 9cm (2)Literature:see the book published for 'An Exhibition Organised by The Arts Council of Great Britain and The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1st May-22nd June 1975, Victoria & Albert Museum, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages' for Eastern Zhou dynasty ornaments with similar relief carved scrolls filled with 'feathers'. Plate 91 illustrates a jade yuan ring in the Art Institute of Chicago, Sonnenschein Collection, and plate 147 an ear ornament from the collection of Dr & Mrs Cheng Te-K'un with similar C and S-scroll decoration and dated to the Eastern Zhou dynasty.
Three albums of assorted tickets and ephemera including railway tickets (including some French and German examples), 1960's second class season tickets between Cheltenham Spa and Lansdown, etc, souvenir train tickets, 1970's/80's British Rail Runabout season tickets, museum admission tickets and some loose photographs and reprinted ephemera and a quantity of slides of railway interest including views of locomotives and stations
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