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Click here to subscribeA Nantgarw porcelain botanical plate and an English plate in the French style: the first painted in London with a large central floral spray and insects surrounded by a blue enamel line, the rim with five smaller sprays, impressed mark, circa 1820, 23 cm diameter [rubbed]; the second painted in the Paris manner with a central vase of flowers on a gilt ground, 23.5 cm diameter [stacking wear].
A rare Vauxhall blue and white vase: of ogee form with foliate scrolled handles, painted with panels depicting an extensive oriental lake landscape, the reverse with an attendant holding a parasol above two Chinese figures with a pagoda to one side, the panels reserved on a solid blue floral ground, on circular pedestal foot, circa 1755-58, 13.5 cm high [minor chip to rim]. *Notes The shape is copied from the Vincennes 'Vase à Oreilles' designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis in the 1750s. An almost identical underglaze blue decorated vase was illustrated [plate 203 c and d] ECC Transactions 1989 Vol.13 Part 3. Vauxhall polychrome vases of this shape are usually attributed to the atelier of James Giles.
A Bohemian overlay glass vase: of slender footed form with knopped stem and castellated rim the green body overlaid with alternating white petal shaped panels either fret cut or enamelled with blooms on a gilt scrolling ground, 42 cm high, 19th century, [some wear to gold].
An unusual Kashan carpet, woven in colours with a bold circular central medallion and vases of flowers, on a plain navy blue ground, within three stripe borders with conforming urns of flowers and pendants filled with vase pattern motifs, signed to top edge, 9ft 6ins x 6ft 8ins
A Chinese carved polychrome and giltwood seated figure of Guanyin Pusa holding a scroll in her left hand, a vase by her elbow and a bird perched behind her right shoulder, 9.5ins (24.3cm) high Note : Chaozhu School. See "Arts of Asia" July-August 2003, page 82 - Article by Keith Steven & Jennifer Welch "Guanyin, Various Forms and Styles of Images of Chinese Bodhisattva" for illustration.
A Chinese carved lacquered and giltwood seated figure of Guigu Zi - Member of the Board of Medicine - A bearded Immortal holding a tablet, 10ins (25.5cm) high, and a similar seated figure of a demonic deity with three eyes, possibly Erlang Shen, a double gourd vase in his right hand, 8.75ins (22.4cm) high Note : Guigu Zi purchased in Hong Kong in 1977. Guangzhou School.
A Roman glass vase with three applied prunts, 7ins high (signs of burial and crack to body), an Indian terracotta double sided model of a woman resting on a couch, 5ins high, a carved alabaster portrait bust of a Neo-classical lady, 2.75ins high, and a carved alabaster torso of a reclining woman, 5.5ins long Provenance : Acquired some forty years ago from the Estate of the vendor's late grandmother
A Chinese "Famille Verte" porcelain cylindrical brush pot painted with Kuixing, 4.75ins (l2cm) high (red seal mark to base - late 19th Century), a robin's egg glazed cylindrical brush pot, 4.5ins (11.3cm) high (apocryphal Qianlong red seal mark to base but later), an en grisaille decorated spill vase, 5ins (12.6cm) high, and an en grisaille decorated biscuit porcelain brush rest, 3.75ins (9.5cm) wide
A Chinese carved lacquer and giltwood standing figure of Lei Gong - The Duke of Thunder - A half man half bird winged figure with beaked mouth holding a hammer and gourd vase in hands, 9ins (22.8cm) high, and wooden stand for same, a standing figure of Zeng Zhang Tian Wang - King of the South - One of the four Heavenly Kings - A bearded man with a sword in his right hand, 8.25ins (21cm) high, and wooden stand for same, a standing figure of a warrior, his right hand raised holding a sword, his left foot resting on a wheel, 11ins (28cm) high, and two other similar figures, various Note : Lei Gong purchased in Hong Kong in 1977 for £68 - See Keith Stevens - "Chinese Gods: The Unseen World of Spirits and Demons", page 133. All from Fujian Province.
A Chinese cobalt blue Peking glass bottle shaped vase, 9.5ins (24.3cm) high (apocryphal etched six character mark to base - 19th Century - chipped), and similar two-handled bulbous bowl with moulded handles, 3.75ins diameter (9.6cm) diameter x 4.75ins (12.2cm) high
A Chinese carved polychrome and giltwood seated figure of Guanyin Pusa - The Merciful Bodhisattva of Compassion and Sympathy seated below a rocky canopy, a vase to her right and a bird to her left, on raised plinth base, 10.75ins (27.4cm) high Note : Purchased in Hong Kong in 1977. Probably from Hunan Province. See "Arts of Asia" July-August 2003, page 86 - Article by Keith Steven & Jennifer Welch "Guanyin, Various Forms and Styles of Images of Chinese Bodhisattva" for illustration.
Four Chinese vases, to include an early 19th century example, with monochrome lustre decoration of a seated monkey holding out a branch trying to hook a sack suspended from a tree, all against a blue ground, a jade colour enamel vase, with mask and ring handles, a celadon ground vase, with white enamel prunus and swallow decoration, a cream ground vase, with blossom and scroll decoration, smallest 32.5cm, tallest 37.5cm
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