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Lot 2025
Troika pottery chimney slab vase, marked 'Troika St. Ives England' and with artist's monogram to base, h19.5 x w11.5cm, together with a Troika pottery slab vase, marked 'Troika St. Ives England' and with artist's mark to base, h17 x w11.5cm, both decorated in the Stoveman pattern to the front (2)Condition Report: Slight chip to the glaze in the blue cross hatch design, otherwise both appear to be in good condition.
Lot 2016
Lalique 'Six Figurines' goblet vase, the tapering body press-moulded with inset frosted and blue patinated panels with draped female figures, etched 'R Lalique, France' to base, 19.4cm highCondition Report: Top and base faceted edges possibly later, small chip to the base edge, minor scratches under the base
Lot 925
A 'FIGURAL' BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN VASEChina, 20th century. The baluster-shaped vase is painted in underglaze blue with a continuous scene depicting two scholars standing on a narrow rocky path by the riverside among trees and rockeries in the distance. The neck with geometrical and ruyi-head bands.Condition: Very good condition with only minor fritting to the foot rim. Provenance: Holzapfel collection, Geneva, Switzerland. This lot was acquired by a third-generation member of the Holzapfel family after 1995 and has remained in the family ever since.Weight: 2.8 kgDimensions: Height 34 cm5% or 13% VAT will be added to the hammer price additional to the buyer's premium - only for buyers within the EU.
Lot 779
A SONG STYLE WHITE CIZHOU VASEChina, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) or earlier. The finely potted body of oval form, the shoulders rising to a slender elongated neck surmounted by a flaring cupped mouth and supported on a slightly splayed foot, the exterior applied with a white slip, skillfully carved through the white slip to the buff-colored body with a broad frieze enclosing blossoming peonies issuing from curling leafy scrolls, between two bands of lappets around the foot and neck, all beneath a translucent milky glaze.Condition: Excellent condition with minor firing flaws.Provenance: British private collection. Weight: 1558 g Dimensions: Height 31.3 cmAuction comparison: Compare a related vase, dated to the Jin Dynasty, at Sotheby's New York in Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 17 September 2013, lot 80, sold for 11,875 USD.
Lot 811
A BLUE AND WHITE CELADON-GLAZED 'QILIN AND PHOENIX' VASE, LATE QINGChina, 19th to early 20th century. The vase of baluster form with a cylindrical neck applied to either side with confronting Buddhist lions and a trumpet-shaped mouth with a tall rim, painted with a qilin and a phoenix amid clouds.Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear and firing irregularities.Provenance: Old Austrian private collection.Weight: 3,530 gDimensions: Height 43.3 cm
Lot 359
A SUPERB PLIQUE-À-JOUR VASE WITH CHRYSANTHEMUMS, ATTRIBUTED TO HATTORI TADASABUROAttributed to Hattori Tadasaburo (d. 1939), unsignedJapan, c. 1905, Meiji period (1868-1912)The baluster sides rising to a short waisted neck, applied with silver rims, delicately worked in silver wire and bright enamels in shades of red, violet, yellow, green, and white against a dark-blue ground with numerous overlapping chrysanthemums borne on leafy vines.HEIGHT 9 cmCondition: Excellent condition with minor wear.Provenance: Private collection, purchased from Malcolm Fairley Ltd.With a padded silk box and cover.Although the inveterate innovator Namikawa Sosuke (1847-1910) is thought to have developed plique-à -jour in the early 1890s, it was probably not until after 1900 that it became possible to produce pieces on this scale, since it is almost impossible to avoid some small cracks during the cooling process.Auction comparison: Compare a related but considerably larger and later plique-à -jour vase, also densely decorated with colorful flowers, dated to the Showa period, at Christie's, The Avo Krikorian Collection: Innovation and Inspiration of Meiji Period Design 19 February 2007, Geneva, lot 115 (sold for 14,400 CHF).
Lot 913
A SMALL 'HUNDRED BUTTERFLIES' PORCELAIN BALUSTER VASEChina, Republic period (1912-1949) or later. The baluster vase rising from a recessed foot to a concave neck and everted rim, brightly enameled around the exterior with butterflies in flight, against a yellow ground printed with circular decor. Apocryphal Jiaqing reign mark to underside. With a silk storage box.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear. Provenance: German private collection. With an old invoice dated to June 15 1992.Weight: 274.4 g Dimensions: Height 18 cm
Lot 876
A PORCELAIN 'WUCAI' VASE WITH LADIES AND BOYS IN ROCKY LANDSCAPEChina, late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to Republic Period (1912-1949). Of baluster shape with a short neck and everted lip, painted in polychrome enamels with depiction of court ladies and playful children in a nice landscape of Taihu rocks and succulent vegetation, within double lines in underglaze blue.Condition: Good condition with minor wear and firing imperfections. Provenance: Holzapfel collection, Geneva, Switzerland. This lot was acquired by a second-generation member of the Holzapfel family and has remained in the family ever since.Weight: 796 g Dimensions: Height 19.5 cm
Lot 789
A FAMILLE ROSE BOTTLE VASE WITH LIDChina, late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). The compressed globular body rising from a recessed foot to a cylindrical neck. Brightly enamelled with a hen, a butterfly, a peacock, and birds within a fenced garden further decorated with craggy rocks, blooming peonies, cherry blossoms, and bamboo. With a border of floral scrolls against a dotted ground and lobed reserves enclosing birds below the rim. The lid with floral designs.Condition: With wear and manufacturing flaws as well as a long hairline crack though the body with associated chips. The lid with larger chips and a repair. Provenance: Croatian private collection.Weight: 2203 g Dimensions: Height 37 cm
Lot 887
A GE-TYPE VASE, HU, LATE QING TO REPUBLICChina, late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to Republic period (1912-1949). The well-potted vase with a globular body bearing two horizontally incised bowstring lines, rising to an everted neck and gently rounded rim, flanked by a pair of cylindric 'touhu' handles. Covered overall in a gray glaze and a network of dark gray and russet crackles, of archaistic design with intentional spur marks and two large perforations to the foot ring.Condition: Very good condition with minor traces of wear and age. Provenance: German private collection.Weight: 666 g Dimensions: Height 18.9 cm
Lot 797
A WUCAI PORCELAIN COVER FOR A WALL VASEChina, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). The cover with four tiers each decorated with lappets in alternating colors, separated by bands with geometric designs.Condition: Some manufacturing flaws such as firing cracks and glaze fritting, some material loss. The top two tiers reattached and bottom tear with a repair.Provenance: From an Austrian private collection.Weight: 847 gDimensions: Height 18.5 cm, Width 16.5 cm
Lot 701
A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON KINUTA (MALLET) VASE WITH PHOENIX HANDLES, SOUTHERN SONGChina, 1127-1279. The mallet-shaped body rising to a wide everted rim, set to the neck with a pair of stylized phoenix handles with detailed crown and wings, covered overall with a glaze of olive-green tone stopping above the foot burnt orange in the firing.Condition: With minor wear and firing irregularities. The neck with a kintsugi repair. Provenance: From a New York private collection and thence by descent to the present owner.Weight: 410 g Dimensions: Height 18.5 cmLiterature comparison: Published examples include one in the Bishmon-do Temple, previously in the possession of a branch of the Tokugawa Family, the former Daimyos of Kyushu, illustrated by Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, London, Hong Kong, 1962, 1980, plate 78, and another two illustrated ibidem, one from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, color plate G and the other, from the Yomei Bunko Collection, plate 80, and finally one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Lung-Chuan Ware of the Sung Dynasty, plates 5 and 5a. Mallet vases with dragon and phoenix handles were also found in the wreck of a Yuan dynasty ship near Sinan and were included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found off Sinan Coast, Seoul, 1977, and illustrated in the catalogue, plates 4-7.Auction result comparison: Compare a closely related Longquan celadon mallet vase, also dated to the Southern Song dynasty and with near-identical twin phoenix handles, at Christie's Hong Kong in Important Chinese Art on 30 October 2001, lot 777, sold for HKD 235,000.
Lot 782
A LEAF-SHAPED FAMILLE VERTE SAUCERChina, 19th century. The leaf-shaped saucer with applied handle is painted in vivid polychrome enamels on the inside with a flower-filled vase within butterfly and flower borders. The backside with four lotus bouquets.Condition: Very good condition with traces of use and wear. Provenance: Holzapfel collection, Geneva, Switzerland. This lot was acquired by a third-generation member of the Holzapfel family after 1995 and has remained in the family ever since.Weight: 232 gDimensions: Length 20.5 cm5% or 13% VAT will be added to the hammer price additional to the buyer's premium - only for buyers within the EU.
Lot 784
A FLAMBE-GLAZED SQUARE BALUSTER VASE, QING DYNASTYChina, 1644-1912. Covered overall with a finely crackled, lustrous glaze of crimson tone with broad creamy lavender-blue streaks, thinning to a pale cream-mushroom color at the rim and along the edges; attractively pooling in thick drops over the shoulder and interior of the neck.Provenance: Danish private collection. German private collection, acquired from the above.Condition: Excellent condition with old wear and firing flaws, such as small glaze losses around the foot rim. Small losses to the foot, most likely inherent to manufacturing. Slightly tilted. Intentional crackling to glaze.Weight: 5,037 gDimensions: Height 45.5 cmFlambe glazes derive from Jun wares, a glaze that was first revived by the Yongzheng emperor and which remained popular throughout the Qing dynasty.Auction result comparison: Compare a related flambe-glazed vase, dated 18th-19th century and also of square section, but of slightly smaller size (35.5 cm high), at Sotheby's New York in The Hundred Antiques: Fine & Decorative Asian on 30 September 2020, lot 1025, sold for USD 6,930, and a related flambe-glazed baluster vase, dated 18th-19th century and with a similar glaze, but of larger size (58.3 cm high), at Christie's London on 22 January 2013, lot 306, sold for GBP 6,000. 清代窯變釉方瓶 中國, 1644-1912年。通體施整體覆蓋著光澤的火焰紅色釉料，夾雜著乳白色和藍紫色條紋。邊沿多為藍與月白相間或醬黃色釉。肩部和頸部内有濃厚的釉滴。 來源：丹麥私人收藏；德國私人收藏， 購於上述收藏。 品相：狀況極佳，有舊磨損和燒製缺陷，例如足緣周圍的釉面缺損。足部小缺損，很可能是製造固有的。微微傾斜，釉面開片。 重量：5,037 克 尺寸：高 45.5 厘米 拍賣結果比較：比較一件窯變釉瓶，十八至十九世紀 ，同樣方形，但尺寸稍小 (高35.5 厘米)，見紐約蘇富比The Hundred Antiques: Fine & Decorative Asian 2020年9月30日 lot 1025, 售價USD 6,930；一件窯變釉瓶，十八至十九世紀，相似釉色，但尺寸稍大 (高58.3 厘米), 見倫敦佳士得2013年1月 22日 lot 306, 售價GBP 6,000。
Lot 920
A PORCELAIN 'RIVER LANDSCAPE' VASEChina, Republic period (1912-1949). The square-sectioned body with tapered rectangular sides supporting a cylindrical neck and everted rim, painted in brown tones on two facets with a river landscape, calligraphy reading 'Tang Jitong', and a seal; the two remaining facets inscribed with a poem.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and some fritting to edges. Provenance: English private collection. Weight: 4180 g Dimensions: Height 49 cmAuction result comparison: Compare a pair of vases similarly painted and also dated to the Republic period, at Sotheby's New York in Important Chinese Art on 11 September 2019, lot 943, sold for 17,500 USD.
Lot 824
A FINE BLUE AND WHITE LONG ELIZA VASEChina, 19th century. Of straight cylindrical form with a thick everted rim, painted in brilliant cobalt blue with the traditional Long Eliza decoration, featuring four panels with an elongated women in front of a small boy. The panels neatly formed by interwoven ribbons and bats. The underside with an apocryphal Kangxi reign mark.Condition: Excellent condition with minor firing imperfections. Provenance: Croatian private collection. Weight: 1535 g Dimensions: Height 35 cm
Lot 762
A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN KANGXI REVIVAL GARLIC VASEChina, late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). The pear-shaped body rising from a short foot to a slender neck surmounted by a garlic-head mouth, finely painted in rich underglaze cobalt blue to the exterior. The belly decorated with square reserves enclosing depictions of landscapes and scholar's desk with auspicious symbols. The neck with a decorative band of geometrical patterns and floral motifs, the mouth with rectangular reserves enclosing finely painted flowers.Condition: Excellent condition with some firing imperfections. Provenance: Holzapfel collection, Geneva, Switzerland. This lot was acquired by a second-generation member of the Holzapfel family and has remained in the family ever since.Weight: 512 g Dimensions: Height 20.4 g
Lot 776
A GE-TYPE CRACKLED 'BAMBOO' BOTTLE VASEChina, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). The compressed globular body is surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck with three horizontal ribs, spaced further apart than the ribs at the body, and tapering to the wide rounded mouth, covered overall in a celadon glaze suffused with dark grey and russet crackles.Condition: With minor firing flaws, one glaze chip to mouth and tiny notches to foot rim, otherwise good condition. Provenance: French private collection.Weight: 1053 g Dimensions: Height 25.5 cm
Lot 761
A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN KANGXI REVIVAL 'LANDSCAPE' VASEChina, late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). The vase of baluster form with a broad cylindrical neck and wide mouth. Painted in intense underglaze cobalt blue to the exterior with a Chinese landscape including rocks, a river, trees, a boat and two figures sitting on the riverbank, all under a band of stylized ruyi heads and tiny circles. A 'spiral' border decorating the mouth.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear. Provenance: Holzapfel collection, Geneva, Switzerland. This lot was acquired by a second-generation member of the Holzapfel family and has remained in the family ever since.Weight: 1156 g Dimensions: 24.5 cm
Lot 932
A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN VASE AFTER WANG BUChina, 20th century. The rounded rectangular body rising from a slightly spreading foot to a short square neck with an everted rim, finely painted in the style of Wang Bu (1896-1968) on two sides with an immortal and his servant fishing and picking flowers, the other two sides depicting birds and ducks flying over grass and flowers. Artist seal next to the boy servant and studio mark 'Yuan Wen Wu Guo zhi Zhai' to the underside.Condition: Very good condition with minor firing imperfections such as fritting to rim. Provenance: German private collection.Weight: 1738 g Dimensions: Height 27.5 cm
Lot 900
A TEADUST-GLAZED CONJOINED PORCELAIN VASE GROUPChina, late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to Republic period (1912- 1949). Formed of six vases arranged in a circular formation, each with a baluster body rising to a slightly waisted bamboo style neck molded with a horizontal rib. Covered overall in a finely mottled matte glaze of deep olive-green color that also covers the underside while the mouth rims are of burnt toffee color. The base of the central vase impressed with an apocryphal Qianlong reign mark. Condition: Excellent condition. Provenance: Swiss private collection. With a paper label 'Franzero Collection' probably referring to the collection of Dr. Carlo Maria Franzero (1892-1986) as well as a larger old collector's label.Weight: 1038 g Dimensions: Height 17 cm
Lot 872
A GE-TYPE LIGHT BLUE MOONFLASK VASEChina, late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to Republic period (1912-1949). Finely potted with a broad, gently compressed, rounded body rising to a waisted neck and lipped rim, the neck flanked by a pair of zoophoric and reticulated handles, covered overall in an appealing light blue glaze suffused with dark grey crackles.Condition: Very good condition with minor surface wear and minor firing flaws. Provenance: German private collection.Weight: 431 g Dimensions: Height 16.4 cm
Lot 365
A CLOISONNE ENAMEL MINIATURE VASE WITH COVERJapan, Meiji period (1868-1912)The small vase with domed cover is worked in silver wire and colored enamels with butterflies and flowers on a black ground. The base shows a similar design on a blue ground. The interior of the vase and cover as well as the underside rim applied with brass.HEIGHT 6 cm, INNER DIAMETER 3 cmCondition: The cover knob missing. With minimal surface wear and one larger area where the enamel has been damaged. Provenance: Austrian private collection.
Lot 1158
RANZAN: A PAIR OF SATSUMA MINIATURE BALUSTER VASESBy Ranzan, signed Kono shina wa Toyo no bijutsu Satsuma-yaki Ranzan no zoJapan, Meiji period (1868-1912)Each with baluster sides rising from a spreading foot to a waisted neck with everted rim, and enameled and gilt with two shaped reserves enclosing scenes with warriors and street merchants, respectively, the ground densely decorated with butterflies and gilt stippling interspersed with diapered designs, the shoulder with a variety of brocade patterns, the neck again with butterflies below floral scroll repeated on the foot, and the gilt rim with a geometric band. Each signed Kono shina wa Toyo no bijutsu Satsuma-yaki RANZAN no zo (This is a fine Oriental Art object made by Ranzan, Satsuma ware) to the base.HEIGHT 9.2 cm and 9.3 cmCondition: One vase with a repaired chip to the mouth, otherwise in very good condition with minor surface wear and minimal firing flaws.Provenance: French private collection.Ranzan literally means "Orchid and Mountain". The kiln often inscribed its products with extensive texts referring to fine art, Orient, Great Japan, and the like.
Lot 817
A TEADUST-GLAZED GARLIC-MOUTH PORCELAIN VASEChina, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). The ovoid body rising from a short foot to a tall slender neck with a garlic-head mouth applied with a pair of sinuous chilong, covered overall in an appealing deep green glaze. The underside with a Qianlong mark of the period. Condition: Very good condition with minor firing flaws. Provenance: A noted German private collection, acquired at Nagel Auctions in Stuttgart, Germany on 10.05.1012, lot 1541.Weight: 2835 g Dimensions: Height 36.2 cm
Lot 340
MIYAO: A BRONZE VASE DEPICTING A SAMURAI AND BIRDSBy the Miyao company, signed Miyao zoJapan, Meiji period (1868-1912)The bulbous body rising from a spreading foot to a waisted neck, depicting two detailed scenes, with a samurai on one side and birds on the opposite side. The vase is further embellished with fine details of clouds, dragons and delicate patterns. The central section of the vase is framed by a rim on the top and bottom. The underside is signed MIYAO zo.SIZE 18.5 cm x 16.5 cmWEIGHT 2,961 gCondition: Very good condition with minor wear and a few small nicks and scratches mainly on the bottom.Provenance: French private collection.
Lot 809
AN IRON-RED, BLUE, AND WHITE PORCELAIN TABLE LAMPFrance in Chinoiserie Style, 19th century, the porcelain maybe earlier. The bottle vase decorated in underglaze blue and iron red with flowerheads surrounded by leafy scrolling vines. Mounted to a brass base supported on four legs and topped with a brass finial. The porcelain incised to the inside 3.4.93.Condition: Overall good condition with some wear, traces of soldering to interior of brass finial. Provenance: English private collection.Weight: 1488 g Dimensions: Height 35.5 cm
Lot 612
A FOUR-CASE MOTHER-OF-PEARL SOMADA INRO WITH EN SUITE HAKO NETSUKEJapan, 18th/19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)The four-case lacquered inro and hako bearing a roiro ground, with beautiful Somada-style aogai inlays and a coral ojime. The front and back of the inro depicting a composition of leafy sprays of grapes, the two-part hako netsuke portraying a helmet and a sword on the upper part and a blooming flower inside tripod vase and fan on the lower part.HEIGHT (inro) 9.3 cm (inro), LENGTH (netsuke) 3.5 cmCondition: Overall good condition with some wear to the lacquer and some losses. Provenance: Irish private collection.
Lot 1278
A VERY LARGE PERSIAN RETICULATED BRONZE VASEPersia, around 1900. The outsized, segmented bronze vase rising from a splayed ring foot to a two-part globular body and with an elongated trumpet-shaped rim, intricately reticulated with a continuous design of floral decor and calligraphy scripts.Condition: Overall fine condition with surface wear, traces of soldering, cracks, warping to the rims, and dents. Provenance: Austrian private collection.Weight: 3.9 kg Dimension: Height 108.2 cm
Lot 275
A GILT BRONZE MOUNTED ARCHAISTIC JADE VASEChina, around 1880. Of flattened form, the rectangular body supported on a short foot and rising to a waisted neck, the shoulder carved with a pair of detailed lion masks suspending mock ring handles and the body with a bands of taotie masks within stylized clouds and dotted stripes. The pale celadon jade with cloudy white inclusions. Both the foot and mouth rim set with gilt bronze mountings.Condition: Good condition with minor wear mainly to gilding, natural age cracks and few minuscule nicks here and there. Provenance: Ex-Collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the aboveWeight: 1447 g Dimensions: Height 21.5 cm
Lot 207
A FINE ROCK CRYSTAL "CHILONG" VASEChina, 18th-19th cent. Of a nice, light-greyish color with naturals inclusions, decorated with two clambering chilongs amongst lingzhi sprays, carved in a high relief. The surface of the thick-walled translucent vase is neatly polished.Condition: Good condition with expected surface wear, few small chips to exposed areas and natural inclusions in the stone. Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.Weight: 910 g Dimensions: Height 13.5 cm
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