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Lot 634
A Royal Worcester shape 2491 bud vase decorated by James Stinton with a hand painted pheasant and a grouse, signed Jas Stinton, puce mark with date code for 1934 (maked scratched through), height 14cm together with four Wade nursery figures, Nod, I've a Bear Behind, Blynken and Wynken, S/D. (5)
Lot 684
A collection of 19th Century Chinese famille rose porcelain items, to include a tapered ovoid form vase, decorated with figures and attendants, height 24cm, together with a similar pair of cylindrical form tea canisters, height 9.5cm, A/F. (3) The vase has chipping to the rim, rubbing to the decoration and old glue marks. The first pot has extensive damage to the lid which has been reglued. The base has chipping to the rim.The second pot has chipping to the underside of the rim and a hairline to the base. All pieces have rubbing to the decoration.
Lot 694
A matched pair of 19th Century Chinese blue and white vases, each of baluster form, rising to a short upright rim, the body of each decorated in rich cobalt before a milky white ground, depicting precious Buddhistic emblems, birds and foliage, both with Kangxi foour-character marks to base, height 17cm, S/D. (2) Vase oneExtensive restored chips to the upper rim, breaklines and glue residue visible.Vase twolarge fingernail chip to the upper rim, approx. 1cm x 1cm in size.Large firing crack to upper rim, approx. 5cm in length.
Lot 695
A Chinese 19th Century blue and white vase, of tapered ovoid form, rising from a splayed base, the body profusely decorated with two four-clawed dragons in pursuit of the flaming pearl, before foliage and flora, Kangxi four-character mark to base, lamped, height 27cm, S/D. The neck has been badly damaged and reglued. There is chipping to the foot rim and there are pieces rattling inside presumably from the weighting.
Lot 711
A mixed collection of Chinese items, to include a blanc de chine figure of Guanyin, a prunus blue and white vase, enamelware etc, S/D. (7)significant damage to the vase, with break repairs and damageprunus jar lacking coverteabowl with several chips/repair and damageAll items in poor condition
Lot 713
A large 19th Century Chinese blue and white vase and cover of ovoid form rising from a splayed base, the shoulder adorned with shishi relief moulded handles, surmounted by a domed cover, with moulded shishi handle, the body decorated with two four-clawed dragons in pursuit of the flaming pearl, encircled by ruyi clouds and fire scrolls, unmarked, height 62cm, S/D. Extensive repaired brakes to the upper rimChips to the upper rim losses and breaks to shishi finial Chips and nibbles to underside of footrimScratching and wear to exterior sides
Lot 120
A Sèvres bleu céleste-ground cup and saucer (gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe), circa 1764Of the first size, each reserved with a gilt-edged panel painted with flowers in a vase and a basket, respectively, on a ledge with fruit, enclosed by a gilt zig-zag border entwined with trailing flowers, gilt-edged rims, the handle embellished in gilding, the cup: 7.4cm high; the saucer: 14.5cm diam., interlaced LL monograms enclosing date letter L in blue, incised marks (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 32
A massive Urbino maiolica istoriato wet drug jar, attributed to the Fontana Workshop, circa 1565-70Of oval shape with a serpent handle over a moulded mask, decorated to the front with two putti holding up a label reading 'A.D.COCCVZE', above a seated crowned woman holding a sceptre flanked by trees, in a mountainous landscape with rocks and buildings, 34cm high (some restoration)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis vessel is part of a series that is now believed to have been made in the workshop of Orazio Fontana for the apothecary of the Santuario di Loreto. A large part of the apothecary is in the Museo del Palazzo Apostolico di Loreto. Another highly comparable wet drug jar of nearly the same size and shape is in the collection of the Casa di Risparmio di Perugia and was published by T. Wilson/E. Sani, Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Casse di Risparmio di Perugia, (2006), cat.no 55, where the authors point out that the series can be attributed to the Fontana workshop based on stylistic comparison with a vase in the British Museum and a vase sold at auction in London in 1950, both inscribed 'FATE.IN.BOTEGA.DE.ORATIO.FONTANA' and 'FATTO IN URBINO IN BOTEGA DI ORATIO FONTANA', pp.166-170. It is plausible that the seated figure represents the city of Florence, holding a fleur-de-lys sceptre, though this theory cannot be proven. The decorative scheme recurs on a later series made in Pesaro or Castel Durante around 1574-75, where the crowned figure is sitting beneath a canopy. Both types are illustrated next to one-another in Rudolf E A Drey, Apothecary Jars (1978), plates 24a and 24b. Two vases of this type without the drug label, one in the Victoria and Albert museum (inv.no.8969&A-1863) and one formerly in the Spitzer collection, are inscribed 'Fatto in Urbino' (made in Urbino). A further albarello of this type is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, illustrated in Julia Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (1995), no.411. She notes that there are some forty known pharmacy vessels, albarelli and ewers, most of which she lists, p.377. There are two further albarelli in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (inv. nos.1975.1.995 and 1975.1.996). A pair of similar wet drug jars was sold at Christie's Paris, Collection d'un amateur, 15 May 2003, lot 535, and a double-handled pharmacy jar of a similar size to this one at Christie's London, 2 November 2016, lot 199.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 33
A massive Urbino maiolica istoriato wet drug jar, attributed to the Fontana Workshop, circa 1565-70En suite with the previous lot, of oval shape with a serpent handle over a moulded mask, decorated with two putti holding up a label reading 'A.D.PRIASSIO', above a seated crowned woman holding a sceptre flanked by trees, in a mountainous landscape with rocks and buildings, 34cm high (some restoration)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationThis vessel is part of a series that is now believed to have been made in the workshop of Orazio Fontana for the apothecary of the Santuario di Loreto. A large part of the apothecary is in the Museo del Palazzo Apostolico di Loreto. Another highly comparable wet drug jar of nearly the same size and shape is in the collection of the Casa di Risparmio di Perugia and was published by T. Wilson/E. Sani, Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Casse di Risparmio di Perugia, (2006), cat.no 55, where the authors point out that the series can be attributed to the Fontana workshop based on stylistic comparison with a vase in the British Museum and a vase sold at auction in London in 1950, both inscribed 'FATE.IN.BOTEGA.DE.ORATIO.FONTANA' and 'FATTO IN URBINO IN BOTEGA DI ORATIO FONTANA', pp.166-170. It is plausible that the seated figure represents the city of Florence, holding a fleur-de-lys sceptre, though this theory cannot be proven. The decorative scheme recurs on a later series made in Pesaro or Castel Durante around 1574-75, where the crowned figure is sitting beneath a canopy. Both types are illustrated next to one-another in Rudolf E A Drey, Apothecary Jars (1978), plates 24a and 24b. Two vases of this type without the drug label, one in the Victoria and Albert museum (inv.no.8969&A-1863) and one formerly in the Spitzer collection, are inscribed 'Fatto in Urbino' (made in Urbino). A further albarello of this type is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, illustrated in Julia Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (1995), no.411. She notes that there are some forty known pharmacy vessels, albarelli and ewers, most of which she lists, p.377. There are two further albarelli in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (inv. nos.1975.1.995 and 1975.1.996). A pair of similar wet drug jars was sold at Christie's Paris, Collection d'un amateur, 15 May 2003, lot 535, and a double-handled pharmacy jar of a similar size to this one at Christie's London, 2 November 2016, lot 199.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 55
A Montelupo maiolica two-handled vase, circa 1560-70Of ovoid form with blue rope-twist handles, one side painted with a woman seated in a landscape holding fruit, framed by cornucopiae and scrolling foliage and surmounted by a winged mask, against a ground of blue floral scrollwork, the reverse with a cartouche enclosing a large standing bird on a yellow ground, 35.5cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, ItalyFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 6
A Spanish Hispano-Moresque Albarello, Valencia (Manises), circa 1435-75Of cylindrical form, with a tall neck and slanting shoulder, standing on a short footrim, decorated with ten horizontal bands of a stylised flower pattern known as the briony pattern in blue and copper-lustre, 30cm high, various paper collectors' labels to the base (restored)Footnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Foundation The briony motif is - like the ivy motif - one of the most recognisable types of decoration on Hispano-Moresque pottery. According to Anthony Ray (Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 (2000), p. 73) fragments with this motif have been found in the Castell Formós, sacked in 1413, and others in the castle of Llinars, destroyed in 1448. Other pieces can be dated from the heraldry, and Ray goes on to list several rare armorial dishes, all with forms of the briony motif (op.cit., cat. nos. 152-160). This particular stylised flower pattern is continued in Italian pottery; perhaps the most splendid example can be found in the two-handled vase with the arms of Medici-Orsini in the Detroit Institute of Art (37.74). It is discussed in detail by Timothy Wilson, who notes that it is curious that the briony design seems to have come into use on maiolica made in Tuscany about 1480, after it had ceased to be fashionable on imports from Spain. The Detroit vase can, argues Wilson, be seen as a pivotal piece produced at a moment in time when Italian potters, after decades in which wealthy Italian clients had preferred imported lusterware from Valencia to native-made ceramics, conquered the top of their domestic market and began making wares appreciated by the most discriminating and demanding connoisseurs of Renaissance Italy. (see: T. Wilson, The Impact of Hispano-Moresque Imports in Fifteenth-century Florence, Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts (2013), vol 87, pp. 8-13)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 7
A Spanish Hispano-Moresque Albarello, circa 1435-50The cylindrical body with a tall neck and slanting shoulder standing on a short footrim, decorated with eight horizontal bands of stylised ivy leaf pattern in blue and copper-lustre, 28cm high, collectors' marks 1242/12 in black to the baseFootnotes:Provenance: Property of The Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans FoundationComparable examples of this type of albarello are found in the British Museum 1968,0204.1 and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1956 (56.171.95). The ivy-leaf pattern is one of the most recognisable patterns in maiolica production in Manises at this time. It was used on a multitude of vessels, including armorial pieces. Much like the Briony motif, this style was particularly popular in Italy. More unusual examples are the drug-jars with this pattern and the arms of Zeeland, almost certainly to be regarded as Valenschenweck imported into Flanders free of duty. As Anthony Ray (2000) describes it, these wares are amongst the masterpieces in ceramic art. Their technical perfection and virtuoso designs must have seemed almost miraculous to contemporaries living in the countries where pottery was still in its infancy. It became a very profitable industry and a vital one for the local economy. Thanks to the dominance of the Kingdom of Aragón the export thrived. The prestige of Valencian lusterwares was such that in 1441 Philip the Good of Burgundy declared that Valenschenweck could be imported into Bruges free of duty. A similar exemption was made in Venice in 1455 for laura da maiorca e da Valenca. Vessels with ivy-leaf decoration appear in paintings, the best known being the drug jar in the Annunciation (or Portinari Altarpiece) by Hugo van der Goes, now in the Uffizi, painted in 1482, and the drug-jar and flower vase in Ghirlandaio's Birth of St John the Baptist (1486-90) in Santa Maria Novella, Florence.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 1
A Chinese Famille verte powder-blue-ground vase and cover from the Turmzimmer in the Dresden Residence, Kangxi period, early 18th centuryReserved with shaped panels painted with flowering plants issuing from stylised rockwork, the ground colour embellished in gilding with flowering branches and insects, a formal border of floral medallions around the neck, the domed cover similarly decorated, red-painted inventory number P.O 8941 (Dresden porcelain collection), Russian brown-painted inventory numbers cpp 1624 'a'/ KMYM and cpc 1625 'a'/ KMYM, traces of Hausmarschallamt no. I 47, 46cm high (restored) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Royal Collections of Saxony, Residenzschloss Dresden, Turmzimmer (by 1769);Property of the Free State of Saxony, 1918;Property of the former Royal family of Saxony (Haus Wettin, Albertinische Linie e.V.), Schloss Moritzburg, from 1924;Confiscated in 1945, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, inv. no. PO 8941;Restituted to the former Royal family of Saxony (Haus Wettin, Albertinische Linie e.V.) in 1999, by whom sold at Sotheby's Amsterdam, 16-17 October 2001, lot 84Literature:Anette Loesch, Das Porzellankabinett im Hausmannsturm des Dresdener Residenzschlosses (2019), p. 53, ill. 15 (historic photograph)This vase was originally part of a garniture of seven vases in the collection of Augustus the Strong displayed in the Turmzimmer of the Dresden Residence in the 18th century (of the approximately 680 objects on display in the Turmzimmer, only 40 were Chinese or Japanese porcelain). Three survived the Second World War and were restituted to the former Royal family of Saxony in 1999 (Loesch, ills. 14 and 15). Three of the missing vases are recorded in historic photographs (Loesch, nos. 80-82, where it is noted that in 1924 they were moved from the Turmzimmer to the Dantezimmer on the second floor of the Residence, which was used as a storeroom).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 16
An important early Meissen octagonal dish, circa 1721Painted in underglaze-blue, probably by Johann Kaspar Ripp, with a large circular chinoiserie scene depicting two seated figures flanking a table with a teapot in a garden setting with pagodas in the distance, within concentric circles and a border of overlapping arches and scrolls, the rim decorated with a foliate trellis ground reserved with large flower panels alternating with smaller panels with beribboned auspicious objects, the reverse of the rim and inside of the footrim with concentric circles, 29cm across (restored)Footnotes:Claus Boltz diacovered a notice in the Meissen archives that could provide a clue to the present lot: '6.Dez.1721 D.6.Dec.Zeigte Köhler eine große Schüßel, so dermaßen wohlgerathen,daß man dergleichen hieselbst noch nie gesehen:und wie ich von andern höre,so hat er deren noch dreye.Wozu er noch mehr große Stücke samlet und solche hernach zugleich offeriren will. [On 6th December Köhler showed a large dish, so successful that nothing comparable is known: and as I hear from others, he has three more of them. To which he is adding still more large pieces and wants to afterwards offer them all together] (quoted by Claus Boltz in correspondence with the current owner). The arcanist, David Köhler (1683-1723), was one of J.F Böttger's closest collaborators who became technical director of the manufactory after Böttger's death and succeeded in solving the problem of underglaze-blue decoration in February 1720. The manufactory director, Graf (Count) Seebach, promised the arcanists Köhler and Samuel Stöltzel 100 talers in 1721 if they were to 'succeed in preparing large pieces' (R. Rückert, Biographische Daten der Meißener Manufakturisten des 18. Jahrhunderts (1990), p. 50).The very accomplished underglaze-blue decoration is most likely the work of Johann Caspar Ripp, an experienced faience painter who is recorded in the Meissen manufactory between 1720 and 1723. The seated chinoiserie figures and the hanging willow trees, in particular, appear on several other early examples of Meissen underglaze-blue decoration attributed to Ripp: see, for example, the large baluster vase in the Dresden porcelain collection with comparably dense decoration (K.-P. Arnold et al., Meissener Blaumalerei aus drei Jahrhunderten (1988), no. 12); and the baluster vase in the Gutter Collection (M.L. Santangelo, A Princely Pursuit (2018), no. 23).No other examples of this form appear to be recorded in the literature.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 20
A rare Meissen waste bowl, circa 1722Each side decorated with a chinoiserie scene within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red scrollwork, depicting a figure seated by a vase with a dog, and another, smoking a pipe, seated by a table, the sides with a flower spray and insects, the inside with an iron-red Oriental landscape within a similar cartouche. 18.9cm acrossFootnotes:Provenance:Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden (1826-1907); Thence by descent;The Collections of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, sold by Sotheby's Baden-Baden, 7 October 1995, lot 1278Literature: Karl Koelitz, Beschriebendes Inventar der Allerhöchsten Privatsammlung kunstgewerblicher Gegenstände (unpublished ms, Karlsruhe, 1883), inv. no. 1849; Richter, Inventar des Zähringer Museums (unpublished ms, Baden-Baden, 1919), inv. no. 1955aExhibited: Karlsruhe, Zähringer Museum, Grand Ducal Residence, from 1879; Baden-Baden, Zähringer Museum, Neues Schloss, ca. 1960-93This rare early Meissen waste bowl was probably part either of the celebrated collection of the Margravine Sybilla Augusta of Baden-Baden (1675-1733) in Schloss Favorite, or that of Margravine Magdalena Wilhelmina of Baden-Durlach (1677-1742). Both collections were eventually inherited by the Margravine Karoline Luise of Baden-Durlach (1723-83), who displayed the historic porcelain collection as part of her Naturalia Cabinet in the Karlsruhe Residence. The collection was publicly exhibited from 1879 in the same rooms in the Grand Ducal Residence in Karlsruhe that had contained the Naturalia Cabinet, and it was listed in an inventory in 1883 by Karl Koelitz. From 1919, much of the service was moved to the Neues Schloss, Baden-Baden, and from around 1960 was on public display as part of the Zähringer Museum.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 4
A very rare Meissen Böttger stoneware black-lacquered octagonal vase and cover, circa 1710-19Decorated in two tones of gilding with foliate devices and scrollwork borders, the inside of the foot washed in gilding, 14.4cm high (cover restuck) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Margravine Karoline Luise of Baden-Durlach (1723-83);Hereditary Prince Karl Ludwig of Baden (1755-1801);Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden (1826-1907);Thence by descent; the Collections of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, sold by Sotheby's Baden-Baden, 18 October 1995, lot 1268 (part), when acquired by Heinz Reichert on behalf of the present ownerLiterature:Karl Koelitz, Beschriebendes Inventar der Allerhöchsten Privatsammlung kunstgewerblicher Gegenstände (unpublished ms, Karlsruhe, 1883), inv. no. 848;Marc Rosenberg, Die Kunstkammer in großherzoglichen Residenzschloss zu Karlsruhe (1892), pl. 21;Rainer Rückert/Johann Willsberger, Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts (1977), pl. 11c;C. Eberhard (ed.), Carl Friedrich und seine Zeit, exhibition catalogue (1981), no. 5.4.2;Claus Boltz, Steinzeug und Porzellan der Böttgerperiode, Keramos 167/168 (2000)p. 12, ill. 6;Monika Kopplin (ed.), Schwartz Porcelain (2003), no. 77;M. Cassidy-Geiger, Porcelain and Prestige. Princely Gifts and 'White Gold' from Meissen, in M. Cassidy-Geiger (ed.), Fragile Diplomacy (2007), p. 13, fig. 1-24, cat. no. 21Exhibited:Karlsruhe, Zähringer Museum, Grand Ducal Residence, from 1879;Baden-Baden, Zähringer Museum, Neues Schloss, ca. 1960-93;Baden-Baden, Neues Schloss, 'Carl Friedrich und seine Zeit', Markgräfl.-Bad. Museen, 1981;Münster, Museum für Lackkunst, Schwartz Porcelain, 7 December 2003-7 March 2004;Schloß Favorite bei Rastatt, Schwartz Porcelain, 20 March-27 June 2004;New York, The Bard Graduate Centre. 'Fragile Diplomacy', 15 November 2007-10 February 2008, no. 21This small vase and cover was part of a group of Meissen Böttger stoneware decorated in imitation of lacquer that was inherited by the Margravine Karoline Luise of Baden-Durlach (1723-83) in the second half of the 18th century. It was exhibited together with most of the historic porcelain and stoneware that she inherited from various members of her and her husband's families as part of a scientific display in the Naturalia Cabinet in the Karlsruhe Residence. The Böttger stoneware, along with much of the porcelain collection, is listed in her posthumous inventory, which is repeated in that of her son, Karl Ludwig von Baden-Durlach (1755-1801). In the inventory, and probably also in the display of the Naturalia Cabinet, these vases were grouped together with other similar, but apparently unrelated, lacquered Böttger stoneware, including an octagonal coffee pot, this and another small vase, two octagonal teapots, two octagonal sugar boxes and six teabowl and saucers (Verlassenschaft des Erbprinzen Karl Ludwig von Baden-Durlach, 1805-09, Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe (GLA) FA 6 Person 12 II: 'das Naturalien Cabinett: Fein irdenes Geschirr [p. 102 recto, no. 599] 1 Garnitur von brauner Erde stark vergoldet, bestehend in: 1 achteckichter Kaffeekannte, 2 do Karaffen mit Dekel, 2 do Theepots mit Deckel, 2 do Zuckerbüchsen mit Deckel [...]. The Böttger stoneware may originally have been in the collection of the Margravine Sibylla Augusta of Baden-Baden (1675-1733), who assembled an important collection of Chinese and European ceramics including early Meissen stoneware and porcelain in Schloss Favorite, that was inherited by Karoline Luise in 1771. However, Karoline Luise also inherited early Meissen stoneware and porcelain from other members of her husband's family, as well as from her own grandparents.These flasks, together with the rest of the 'garniture', were exhibited from 1879 in the same rooms in the Grand Ducal Residence in Karlsruhe that had contained the Naturalia Cabinet and they are listed in the inventory of 1883 by Karl Koelitz. When the last Grand Duke of Baden abdicated in 1918, this collection was considered the family's private property and, in 1919, it was moved to the Neues Schloss, Baden-Baden, where from around 1960 it was on public display as part of the Zähringer Museum. Most of the lacquered stonware mentioned in the 18th-century inventory is now in the collection of the Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Baden-Württemberg, Schloss Favorite (inv. nos. G7573, 7577, 7580-81) are published by U. Grimm / U. Wiese, Was Bleibt (1996), pp. 52ff. The companion vase from the Baden collections was in a Swiss private collection between 1995 and 2007 (sold by Christies London, 11 December 2007, lot 3).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 52
A small Chinese porcelain teabowl decorated by Ignaz Bottengruber, circa 1730Painted in manganese and shaded in yellow with a continuous Bacchanalian scene depicting Silenus on the donkey and other figures in the wooded landscape dancing and playing instruments, a large vase on a pedestal on one side, the interior with a vignette depicting two figures seated on rockwork holding a bird 3.3cm high; 5.8cm across (small haircrack to base)Footnotes:Provenance:The Estate of the late Andreina Torre, sold at Christie's Geneva, 16 November 1992, lot 201For a discussion of Bottengruber's style, see M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Porcelain Decoration of Ignaz Bottengruber, in Metropolitan Museum Journal (1998), pp. 245-261.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 62
A Meissen yellow-ground Augustus Rex vase and cover, circa 1735Each side reserved with a purple-edged lobed panel painted with 'contour' chinoiserie figures flanked by flowers and with birds and insects in flight overhead, below swags of indianische Blumen reserved on the yellow ground, the sides reserved with three pear-shaped panels painted with indianische Blumen, including a bird on the two lower panels, and one and three trailing flowers, the neck painted with scattered indianische Blumen, the domed cover similarly decorated, with a gilt finial, 51cm high, AR monogram in underglaze-blue (drilled through base, finial restuck, restored rim chip to cover) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:S. Carter Burden, sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, 26 February 1975, lot 253 (part);The Christener Collection, Dallas, sold Christie's New York, 8 June 1979, lot 124 (part);Anon. sale, Christie's Paris, 16-17 April 2008, lot 261A similarly decorated double-gourd vase (41cm high) formerly in the Dresden porcelain collection may have formed part of a garniture together with the present lot (A. Loesch, Das Porzellankabinett im Haismannsturm des Dresdner Resizdenzschlosses (2019), no. 47). A pair of similarly-decorated ovoid vases and covers (47cm high) is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (A.L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (2000), no. 197). The present lot was sold from the Christener Collection together with two double-gourd vases nearly identical in decoration to the Dresden example (missing since 1945); the main difference is that they are raised on (differently gilded) footrims and so probably belong to another garniture. For a discussion of the style of 'contour' chinoiserie decoration, see Den Blaauwen, op. cit., p. 259.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 66
A Meissen Augustus Rex beaker vase, circa 1725-30Painted in underglaze-blue and enamels with elaborate flowering plants and leaves issuing from stylised rockwork at the base and hanging from the top rim, with scattered birds in flight and insects, the bulbous base of the vase painted with two flowering branches and a band of Böttger lustre around the footrim, mounted on a gilt-metal circular base with pierced foliate scrollwork, 43.8cm high, AR monogram in underglaze-blue (restored)Footnotes:Provenance:Private Collection, Paris, sold at Christie's Paris, 24 June 2009, lot 83 (part)This vase was one of a pair, perhaps originally part of a garniture, of which the other is in the Malcolm Gutter Collection, San Francisco (M.L. Santangelo, A Princely Pursuit (2018), no. 53, cat. no. 76, where the painting is attributed to J.E. Stadler).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 67
A very rare large Meissen Augustus Rex vase and cover, circa 1730-35Of slender ovoid form with a flared foot, painted with four different panels depicting flowering plants, including peonies, hibiscus and water-lilies, two including a bird and butterfly, reserved on a ground pattern of iron-red overlapping circles enclosing four dots between borders of ochre and manganese petals, the top with a foliate border around the neck, the foot reserved with six rectangular panels of flowering plants and grasses, the domed cover with six similar panels below a border of petals, gilt-edged rims, mounted on a gilt-metal wreath of berried foliage on a square base, 69.5cm high overall, AR monogram in underglaze-blue (neck and finial replaced, restored hole and crack to side, small hole drilled through base) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Anon. sale, Christie's London, 30 June 1980, lot 300;Anon. sale, Christie's London, 6 April 1981, lot 173AFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 91
A rare Meissen vase, mid 18th centuryOf ovoid form on a flared foot, the shoulder rising to a knopped neck with flared rim, applied with natutalistically modelled and coloured flowering branches, issuing on each side from above the footrim and extending over the rim at one point, also applied with a bee on the foot, gilt-edged rims, 39cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 21 (minor restoration and chips)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 451
A silk mix prayer rug, the central panel set with vase of flowers on a dark blue ground within a stepped floral black and cream stylised floral and serpent decorated border, approx 188 cm x 122 cm CONDITION REPORTS Appeards basically sound, tassles still extant. Some wear to the surface throughout and perhaps paling or slight discolouration though no signs of serious damage, rips tears etc. General wear and tear conducive with age and use. Has clearly been walked on. See images for more details.
Lot 166
A 19th century Italian ebonised breakfront cabinet, in the manner of Giovanni Battista Gatti, with ormolu vase and flower finials and similar handles, the top section with a central arched door flanked by a pair of smaller arched doors with two drawers below, the base having three frieze drawers above three panel doors, inlaid all over with bone, lapis lazuli, agate and other semi precious stones, on bun feet, 176 cm wide, removal cost D Report by RB Some splits and cracks, there is loss to some of the semi precious panels, a little loss to the bone inlay, some of the mouldings are missing to the various parts of the cabinet, with two keys, the structure generally is quite dried out and there are sections of veneer missing, 238 cm high x approx. 47 cm deep, now requiring repair, conservation and restoration
Lot 168
A set of eight George III style mahogany dining chairs, with pierced vase shaped splats, upholstered seats and tapering square front legs joined by H stretchers (6 + 2) (8), removal cost DReport by RBGeneral knocks and wear, some a little faded on the backs, one of the armchairs has had its top rail off and previously repaired, and is loose again now, the seats are a little saggy, they would all benefit from a bit of a polish upcirca 1900
Lot 182
A 19th century Continental porcelain vase, 28 cm, a pair of Spode vases with covers, decorated with horizontal bands of flowers, a set of five 19th century cups and saucers, and a vase, removal cost A Report by JS Vase, chip to rim and staining, wear to the gilt, possible restoration to the foot Spode vases and covers, various chips and cracks and restoration throughout Four of the saucers have chips to rims, no chips, cracks or restoration to cups, general wear to gilding throughout, the vase has rough areas to touch throughout Report by JS Cups and saucers - various glaze cracking and staining throughout. The large vase - various chips to rim and various staining, one of the handles has been partly off and repaired and possible repair to the base Floral encrusted vase - various losses to exposed areas The pair of Vases - large losses and cracks throughout and staining
Lot 185
A Chinese famille rose garniture of four vases, decorated flowering shrubs and exotic birds, comprising pair of vases and covers, 27 cm high, and a pair of trumpet vases, 22 cm high, removal cost A Report by JS The Baluster Vases - two hairline cracks to one vase rim, some rough areas to touch, no visible chips to the naked eye, various firing faults Trumpet Vases - No chips, cracks or restoration, there are some rough areas to touch, various firing faults, some minor surface wear to the decoration
Lot 282
A Chinese blue and white vase, 13 cm and an octagonal plate, 15 cm diameter, removal cost AReport by JSRough areas to the rim of the vase, no other damage found, plate with shallow chips to edgeReport by JSVase - various small chips to rim and rim of base, various firing faultsPlate - various small losses and chips to rim and various firing faults
Lot 288
A Chinese blue and white vase, decorated flowers, 20 cm high, removal cost AReport by JSLid replaced with hardwood cover, some firing faults, few rough edges to rim to touch, no other damage found.Report by JSVery shallow chip to base and a few rough areas around rim. Various firing faults, some light surface scratches
Lot 309
A Chinese rouleau vase, decorated a man breathing fire with a dragon and other figures in underglaze blue, 40 cm high, on a carved and pierced hardwood stand, removal cost AReport by JSNote: Visible crack to the interior, does not come through to the exterior Overall condition good, some light chips to the glaze on the base, some surface wear/scratches throughout due to use and age, small chip to base approx 5 mm across
Lot 350
A late 18th century style mahogany double chair back settee, with pierced vase shaped splats, an upholstered serpentine front seat and on carved cabriole front legs with claw and ball feet, 122 cm wide, removal cost BReport by RBFaded on the back, it feels pretty solid, just needs a good polish and some decent upholstery
Lot 181
Seven items of studio pottery, including: foliate vase by Myrna Smith, Forge House Pottery, Whitby, 12cm high; two small foliate dishes, 12cm and 13cm long; a small vase of organic flared form, 8.5cm high; a Wold pottery pierced candle holder, 13.5cm high; an elliptical planter with impressed foliate decorate, marked C.F., 21cm long and a model of a thrush, 18cm long. (7).
Lot 303
Royal Copenhagen porcelain figure of a goose girl, no. 528, with green underglaze circular stamp and blue wave lines, 18.5cm high; a Zsolnay Pec vase, no. 455, with foliate scroll decoration on cream ground, 23cm high; Bourne Denby Danesby ware blue glazed candlestick, 10cm high and a studio pottery blue glazed vase of slender baluster form, impressed mark H.I. or I.H. in circle, 17.5cm high. (4).Condition report:Copenhagen - Good condition.Zsolnay Pec - Small restored rim chip, slight scratches to body.Candlestick - Good condition.Vase - Good condition.
Lot 332
Small collection of Eastern and Oriental items, comprising: carved bamboo Chinese river boat or sampan; white metal figure of a crocodile with impressed seal mark, 23cm long; another unmarked figure of an ostrich, 13cm high; white metal opium pipe with attached spoons, 23cm long; vintage leatherette purse embossed with a scrolling dragon and pavilions, 18cm long; small square copper box with repousse decoration of an Indian Deity, 7cm wide and an Indian Benares enamelled vase, 23cm high. (7).
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