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Lot 276
A Chinese white and brown jade figure of a recumbent of crane, Song dynasty or later, the figure with its head bent backward and grasping a fruiting peach branch in its beak, the stone with russet and brown inclusions, length 5cm, wood standCompare a similar jade carving of a goose in Chinese Jade Throughout The Ages, an exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and The Oriental Ceramics Society June 1975 Victoria and Albert Museum, item 243, dated to the Song period.
Lot 291
A good Chinese pale celadon and russet jade archer's ring, 18th/19th century, the carver skillfully using the russet inclusion in the stone to carve a monkey holding a peach in relief, within a landscape with rocks, a pavilion, waves and lingzhi fungus, the stone of good even tone with russet skin and inclusion to one side, height 2.5cm, diameter 2.8cm
Lot 307
Two Chinese pale celadon jade figures of Liu Hai and his three legged toad and a recumbent lion-dog, 19th/20th century, the figure holding a cord suspended with cash with the three legged toad on his back, the stone of good even tone with some russet inclusions and the toad carved from a darker inclusion in the stone, height 5.8cm and the lion-dog of good even tone with a russet inclusion to the back, length 6.6cm
Lot 313
A rare and large Chinese archaic bronze ritual drinking vessel, Hu, Warring States period 5th-3rd century B.C., carved in relief with three registers of ancestral figure scenes of sacrifice, worship and hunting, taotie mask ring handles, brown patina with areas of malachite and cuprite encrustation, approx. 50cm high, repairsLiterature:see Jessica Rawson, Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual, British Museum Press, 1987, Fig. 28e with an illustration of a smaller bronze Hu vessel in the Palace Museum Beijing decorated with similar figure scenes.A bronze fanghu (square wine vessel) decorated in the same style but with an inlay technique around the decoration is in the Rietberg Museum, accession no. RCH9A and is illustrated in the Museum Rietberg Zurich Museum Guide, Zurich, 2000, p. 75, fig. 59.A fanghu of this type and style with pictorial decoration in flat relief restricted to three horizontal registers, now without any of the background inlay material remaining, in the National Palace Museum, is illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Shang and Chou Dynasty Bronze Wine Vessels, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1989, p. 217, plate 77. A third, smaller fanghu decorated in the same technique with silhouetted figures and animals in flat relief shown in various hunting scenes, also now lacking the inlay material which filled the background, in the Freer Gallery of Art, is illustrated by Lawton in Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Change and Continuity 480-222 B.C., Washington D.C., 1982, p. 33, no. 5The decoration is similar to scenes carved on to later Eastern Han dynasty stone tomb reliefs such as The Wu Family Ancestral Shrine found on the north of Wuzhai Mountain in Zhifang Township, Jiaxiang County of Shandong Province, China.Provenance: the estate of the late Jean-Claude Jean-Claude (1926-2016).Jean-Claude Lepileur was a man of great learning. Born in Lisieux in France, he became a buyer and seller of antiques and formed a partnership with Mrs Senta Christian in a joint antiques venture, travelling to and from England from their early base in Deauville in Normandy. Mr Lepileur was a self-taught historian, chemist and restorer, with a particular love of all things Asian, especially pieces of art from China. And more specifically ancient Chinese bronze artefacts, which he collected avidly all his life.Mr Lepileur and Mrs Christian moved their business to Finchley in London in the 1950s and they continued to operate as a partnership until 1996, when Mrs Christian passed away. Jean-Claude had a very discerning eye for art and at one point even managed to identify two original Rembrandt sketches for sale on a stall on Portobello Market and was able to purchase them for a few pounds. They were later fully authenticated by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Mr Lepileur was also a frequent visitor to the British Museum in those days as he was always keen to compare his latest Chinese bronze acquisitions with those in the collection of the museum. During his life he amassed a collection of some eighty bronzes and a number of ceramics, pictures and scrolls. He also collected over 60 reference books, many of them very detailed, which he used to assist him with his research. Mr Lepileur was still buying and selling up until his death in December last year, aged 90. The collection is presented complete, with no omissions and is a great tribute to his skill in identifying, researching and collecting some wonderful pieces of Chinese art.
Lot 1070
An attractive modern platinum and single stone diamond ring with trapeze cut diamond set shoulders, the claw set round brilliant cut stone weighing approximately in excess of 4.00cts,Size KThe vendor did not purchase the ring directly from Tiffany but instead from a jeweller. We therefore cannot guarrantee that the stone and mount started life together. There is no accompanying paperwork or certifiacet with the ring. The shank has "T & Co" in an oval stamp with accompanying platinum hallmarks for London 2003. There are no visible nicks or chips to the diamond. The colour and clarity are very approximately estimated as G/H and I1/I2.
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