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Lot 141
A COLLECTION OF CHINESE 17TH CENTURY BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN Europe saw three periods of `Chinamania` between the 17th and 20th centuries. The first in the early 17th with the kraak wares, the second with chinoiserie from the mid-18th century until the early 19th, , and again when the aesthetes went china crazy in the last decades of the century. Collectors vied for the best pieces - almost invariably Kangxi (1662-1722) blue and white, the best of sapphire-blue tone driving up prices only to see the craze vanish as quickly as it had begun. One devotee was the American painter James MacNeil Whistler who illustrated some of the pieces in the collection of Sir Henry Thompson (1878). One of the present lots no.145 is closely akin to no.203 in that Catalogue. Although modest, this offering is typical of a forgotten era. A double-gourd Vase, c.1640, trekked and washed with a literatus reading in a garden, a boy approaching, the upper bulb with stiff leaves, rim frits, 20.5cm A vase of similar form and decoration and the same size was raised by Captain Hatcher from the junk dated 1643, see The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes,1988, pl. 61.
Lot 239
English Electric Co. A rare original sales brochure for the “Canberra” MkII type, c. 1950s, together with Hawker-Siddeley promotional brochure, and similar for Armstrong-Siddeley “Sapphire” and “ASS” & “Turbo-Jet” engines, with others including “Mamba” & “Python” propeller-turbine engines (4)
Lot 157
Borneo: an interesting lot comprising a letter from Panderan Sharbanda of Pandas Damit to Governor Hamilton of Labuan, thanking him for his assistance in an armed dispute involving the British North Borneo Company and H.M.S. Sapphire, dated 1889, framed and mounted together with a translation; a parang, heavy blade 16 1/2 in., plain wooden hilt, rattan bound wooden scabbard; and a small collection of sea charts of the North Borneo area.
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