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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.
A Chinese Bronze Vase, probably Jiajing (1522-66), the well-cast elongated pear body with lotus between elephant head handles above swags of pearls and on three elephant head feet, the whole set with cabochons, most missing, 19.5cm Some of the stones may be emeralds, but the majority were probably smoky quartz. Similarly caparisoned elephants, which are of Buddhist significance, were frequent in the late Ming, taking the form of incense burners and porcelain kendhi. For a one of the former, see Chinese and Japanese Bronzes, A.D. 1100-1900, Michael Goedhuis, 1989, no 17.
A good Tokyo porcelain Vase by Kawamoto Masukichi II for Namikawa Sosuke, c.1875, the celadon green body painted by Fusanobu, Tokyo, signed in gold, with a myriad of crabs, some behind white enamel netting hung from a rope and tassel-tied cloth with wisteria, blue Seto Kawamoto Masukichi sei, red trade mark ue (Best) Nihon Tokyo, Namikawa sei, very slight wear, 35cm (8) For comparable marks, see Meiji Ceramics, Gisela Jahn, n.d., p322. The shape is based on a natsume - a presentation tea jar.
A good Yabu Meizan Satsuma Vase, c.1880, minutely enamelled and gilt with encircling registers of women and children at play, butterflies, flowers and diaper, signed Meizan in gilding, 13cm A very similar pair of vases of slightly smaller size is illustrated in The Khalili Collection, No.2.
A collection of five Carlton ware powder blue and gilt jars, comprising two lidded jars in the Egyptian style, a pair of tall neck vases with oriental scene, a single bulbous vase decorated with flowers and foliage together with a small Old Foley ware vas View on www.staceyauction.com
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