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* ANDREA BRIOSCO, called RICCIO (1470-1532) Virtue rewarded by Fame, bronze plaquette, a winged female figure (Fame) sits on a globe, her right foot on an overturned vase, crowning with a laurel wreath a winged child (Virtue) before her; behind them is a palm tree with two laurel branches, from one of which hangs a tablet inscribed I S A, 50.6mm (Molinier 243; Bange 394; Kress 223; Bekker 154; Planiscig p. 456), a very fine contemporary cast
* George III, William Hunter (1718-1783) physician and collector, iron medal by William Burch, 1774, bust left wearing cap and gown, rev., vase with scene of a surgical operation, 80mm (BHM 188, this piece illustrated; Cochran-Patrick 109, 29; Storer 1721-3), with black patina, very fine and rare
A Chinese agate prunus vase, carved in high relief with flowering branches in orangey red over a darker ground, 19th century, 9.5cm. Together with a wood stand. (2) Provenance: Sackville, 5th Earl of Yarborough, purchased from John Sparks Ltd., for 40 guineas, and recorded in the Sparks archive.
The following thirty-nine lots (lots 45 - 83) of Ming and Qing dynasty porcelains have been collected over the last thirty years, largely from specialist Asian Art dealers in London. Professor Laurence first became interested in Chinese porcelain around 1946 whilst serving in Japan as a medical specialist in the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps. Each lot is accompanied by a copy of Professor Laurence`s 2003 publication: Chinese Porcelain, 25 Years of Unscholarly Collecting, An Entertainment and an Anthology of Scholars` Taste. A small Chinese wucai cylindrical vase, decorated with a scholar in a mountainous landscape, holding a ruyi sceptre next to a crane, his servant who looks away holds a qin wrapped in silk, Shunzhi period 1644-1661, minor damage, 19cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: purchased from R & G McPherson, London.
A Chinese vase of rolwagen shape, decorated in underglaze blue and wucai enamels with a scene from a romance, the neck with flowering branches and rocks within iron red line borders, Shunzhi period 1644-1661, extensively damaged and restored, 37.7cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Cf. Shunzhi Porcelain: Treasure From an Unknown Reign, no.78 for a related vase.
A Chinese baluster vase, decorated in wucai enamels with a continuous band of flying horses among waves, rocks, flames, flowers and precious objects, c.1630-40, extensively damaged, 29cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: purchased from D & M Freedman, London.
A Chinese baluster vase and cover, decorated in underglaze blue and wucai enamels with horses leaping among Buddhist emblems between tall rocks against which crash waves, late Ming dynasty c.1630-40, damage and restoration, 38cm. (2) From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD.
A Chinese baluster vase, with a short neck flaring slightly towards the rim, decorated in underglaze blue and wucai enamels with tree peonies growing among rocks, Shunzhi Period 1644-1661, damages and restoration, 27cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: purchased from R & G McPherson, London.
A Chinese wucai gu-shaped vase, the centre bulb painted with peony within panels against a diaper ground, the neck with flowering branches among rocks, the foot with fruiting sprays, Shunzhi period 1644-1661, restoration and with the rim reduced, 39cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Cf. Shunzhi Porcelain, Treasure from an Unknown Reign, no.33 for a similarly decorated rolwagen.
A Chinese famille verte octagonal section vase, with a flared neck, decorated with alternating panels of floral sprays and landscapes, the shoulder and neck similarly decorated, the foot with a band of diaper, Kangxi 1662-1722, extensively damaged and restored, 37.2cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: purchased from S. Marchant & Son, London.
A Chinese ovoid vase, painted in underglaze blue and wucai enamels with a continuous scene of a procession of boys in a landscape, two bearing pennants, one carrying a parasol, one a flautist and one astride a Buddhist lion, the reverse with palm plant and rocks, Shunzhi period 1644-1661, cracked and chipped, 21cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: purchased from D & M Freedman, London.
A Chinese small ovoid vase, decorated in underglaze blue and wucai enamels with a scene from a romance, Shunzhi period 1644-1661, a long body crack, 18.5cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provevance: purchased from D & M Freedman, London. Cf. Shunzhi Porcelain: Treasures from an Unknown Reign, no. 70 for a large similar vase in the Butler Family Collection.
A Chinese porcelain vase, originally of archaic gu shape, with upper rounded section and tall foot gently spreading towards the base, decorated in underglaze blue with elaborate floral scrolls against a red over-glaze enamel ground, the protruding flanges with wave patterns, Wanli 1573-1620, the neck reduced, 19.5cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance; purchased from JAN Fine Art, London. Cf. A similar complete vase is shown in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ming-style Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, p.31, no.44.
A Chinese blue and white meiping vase, with a short narrow neck and flared rim, painted with a band of lotus scroll around the body, a border of rocks and cresting waves around the foot, and a band of peonies within gadroon panels at the shoulder, Ming dynasty 1st half 16th century, glaze defect to the shoulder, glaze degradation probably due to sea immersion, 25cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: purchased from R & G McPherson, London.
A Chinese blue and white barrel-shaped vase and cover, painted with two birds in flight above chrysanthemum and bamboo issuing from rockwork, c.1640, 20.5cm. (2) From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: the Hatcher Cargo. Purchased from Anthony Gray, London.
A Chinese blue and white yen yen vase, brightly painted in underglaze blue with a dignitary and his servant being approached by a peasant with a gift, and a water buffalo in the foreground, the neck with sages inspecting a scroll, Kangxi 1662-1722, some damages, 46cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: purchased from D & M Freedman, London. Cf. A similar vase from the collection of Avery Brundage is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics, The Standard Guide, no. 589.
A Chinese blue and white sleeve vase, finely painted around the body with a scene depicting a warrior bearing a spear and with two attendants, consulting a sage who holds a gnarled staff and points to the mountains, the central band with four cranes divided by scrolls, all between anhua bands of flowers and chevrons, Shunzhi period 1644-1661, restoration to base, 43cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Cf. Shunzhi Porcelain, Treasures from an Unknown Reign, no.55 for a similar vase.
A good Chinese signed rhinoceros horn libation cup, of a mellow honey tone, finely carved with a gourd, a ruyi sceptre and a fly whisk, hanging from the rim, the sides carved as a gnarled and knotted tree trunk, the base with an incised square seal mark, 17th century, minor faults, 16cm. Provenance: the Alexander Collection. William Cleverley Alexander (1840-1916) was one of the most noted connoisseurs of his day, an accomplished draughtsman and a member of the Burlington Fine Arts Club, he was renowned for his taste in Western paintings and Asian works of art. The collection was started in 1867 and included items from the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties. Alexander lent generously to the exhibitions at the Burlington Fine Art Club, and to the City of Manchester Art Gallery Exhibition, 1913. Woolley and Wallis sold a Yuan dynasty blue and white gourd-shaped vase from this important collection, 15th July 2005 for a hammer price of £ 2,600,000. For further details about The Alexander Collection, cf. Hobson, Rackham and King, Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, 1931, where 58 pieces from the collection are illustrated.
A Chinese jade vase-shaped plaque, from a wall panel with scrolling handles, a shallow bowl with a silver coloured metal rim and another incised with fruiting peach branches, 18th/19th century, some damages, 13.5cm. (3) Provenance: an important European private collection formed in the 19th century by a Russian nobleman and diplomat.
A Chinese celadon jade vase, finely carved with a scaly sinuous dragon climbing up one side and with two smaller chilong dragons to the reverse, amidst cloud scrolls in shallow relief, the rim and foot with key fret bands, Qianlong 1736-95, together with a reticulated wood stand, 18cm. (2) Provenance: an important European private collection formed in the 19th century by a Russian nobleman and diplomat.
A Chinese celadon jade vase, rising from the back of a seated phoenix, the vase carved with a band of stylized fungus and with a bifid kylin dragon to the reverse, all crisply carved and well defined, 18th century, raised on a reticulated wood stand, 11cm. (2) Provenance: collection of Professor R C Cookson, (1922-2008).
A large and imposing Chinese spinach-green jade vase and cover, of archaistic form, the flattened body carved to each side with an elaborate design of hibiscus flower heads and foliage around central bianqing or sonorous stone motifs, the handles carved as elaborate fungus like scrolls, 18th/early 19th century, 32cm. (2)
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