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Chinese, Japanese & Asian Works of Art — Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers

Auction House:Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & ValuersNumber of lots recorded:389
Sale Title:Chinese, Japanese & Asian Works of ArtLots with images:389
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:177
Date:8-Oct-2017
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A Japanese porcelain three-tiered circular Stacking box, transfer printed in blue & green, Showa period, traditionally jubako boxes are used as lunch, bento boxes, food storage. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 15, diameter 14 cm
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Two Japanese Satsuma dishes, maker's mark to base, diameter 10 cm
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A finely painted plate in GIlt with 500 Arhats & porcelain bowl with celadon glaze, incised bamboo decoration, diameter 10 & 19 cm
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A fine Japanese teapot & two cups & saucers with Flowering wisteria & a Satsuma dish with a rooster [7]. Provenance: A retired Hong Kong newspaper editor, now living in Sydney, condition: a chip to one of the saucers, height 13 cm
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Japanese Kutani eggshell porcelain tea service, Showa period, comprising six cups and saucers, tea pot, sugar bowl and cream jug, [15]. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 20 cm
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Ten Japanese porcelain - Arita bowls & dishes, mark to base, Showa period, five rectangular dishes decorated in underglaze blue & red in the Imari palette & blue underglazed landscape with gilt highlights on bowls, [10]. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, length 18.5 cm
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Eight Japanese Imari porcelain dishes, 19th/20th century, two sets of four matching dishes, each with scalloped rims and decorated in the Imari palette, [8]. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, diameter 15 cm
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A Japanese Kutani porcelain Koro, Showa period, tri-footed separate base beneath a globular body, surmounted by a seated figure. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 31 cm
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Ten Japanese Kutani dishes, with Kutani mark to base, including five fan shaped dishes Showa period, mid 20th century, painted with a shogun camping by a lake with an attendant about to unfurl a scroll, the fan dishes are painted with a flower cart within a gilt & iron red border, a Kaku mark, [10]. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, diameter 25, length 13 cm
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Five dishes +two fine red lacquer Japanese lidded bowls, painted designs in gilt & black, Taisho period, decorated with Ginko leaves & bamboo. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 6 & 7, D. 9 & 7.5 & 12 cm
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A fine Japanese Kutani tea service, iron red rising Sun to underside, circa 1950, bands of colour & design from brocade fabric, set includes covered pots, sugar, milk, tea or coffee & six cups & saucers, [18], tea pot: H 17 cm
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Japanese black lacquer Sweetmeats stand two red lacquer boxes, Showa period, square stand raised on four shaped legs, the top gilt hand painted with three red crested cranes & a boxed calligraphy set [5]. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, diameter 16 & 17 cm, height 10 cm
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Two Japanese black lacquered covered containers, 20th century, a hexagonal form lunch box with bail handle and a circular box [2]. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 23, diameter 24 cm
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Three Japanese black lacquered trays, two matching square trays and a circular tray with shaped rim [3]. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, diameter 30 cm
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Five Japanese lacquer lidded bowls painted with Tri colour gilt pheasant, Taisho period. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, diameter 12 cm,Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive
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A boxwood carved netsuke, a Mouse Look back, length 5 cm
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A boxwood carved Japanese figure, with maker's mark to the base, inscribed with Yu Shan, height 5.5 cm
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A Japanese carved & lacquered Inro, signed & dated with a Cyclical year, Taisho/Showa period, a figure holding a sack & stepping on basket, length 8, width 5 cm
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Two Japanese lacquered wood Ikebana vases, one in the form of water bucket the other cylindrical with gilt lacquer decoration birds and vines, one with original liner [2]. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 26.5 cm
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The Bodhidharma ink & Color on paper, signed Shou Zhi with red seal, 19th/20th century, carrying a long staff with a red gourd, after Qi Bai Shi, the monk credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to china, 160 x 58 cm
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Two Japanese large Format Ukiyo-e Bijin-ga, beautiful Women & flowers, each signed + red seals, Showa period, 20th century, the woodblock prints, ink & colour on paper of beautiful women & flowers are two of the themes that many artist perfected due to demand by the middle classes of the late 19th & 20th century, 111 x 45 cm
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Two Japanese diorama in box frames, mid 20th century, one with red crested cranes the other with golden pheasants, 36 x 18 cm
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A Japanese print, Kiso Kaido Road, Keisai Eisen, 1790 -1848, Japan Ukiyo-E Museum, Matsumoto, Japan, 34 x 48 cm
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A Japanese ink & colour on paper, a portrait of Uesugi Harunori, [1751-1822], a Japanese daimyo from a Samurai clan. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, condition: water marks, pencil scratches, 165 x 63 cm
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A Japanese hanging scroll ink & colour on paper, Daruma, a Living icon & Eminent monk, signature & red seal, an Indian who introduced Zen Buddhism, often represented wearing red robes & large earrings. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, 186 x 72 cm
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Japanese carved wood and gilt Bodhisattva, 19th/20th century, with glass inlayed eyes, gold brocade covered base. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, condition, some small losses., height 33 cm
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A Japanese bronze bust of Guanyin with gilt highlights, 20th century. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, condition: We understand that the verdigris can be cleaned, height 24 cm
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A Japanese figure of a Kannon, with a full round Compassionate face, Showa period, a masterful carving in the round using the grain of the wood, holding a fly whisk in one hand while the other hand points upward, can be male or female, note: Kannon worship in Japan is widespread & non-denominational. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 30 cm
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A serene Japanese carved wood Buddhist monk, Showa period, standing with hands together clasping prayer beads, on a circular dais with inscribed characters. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, condition, minor chips to base, height 25.5 cm
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Japanese silver shallow dish, calligraphy to the base, reads 3nd November 1967 & name, diameter 8 cm
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A Japanese woven bamboo basket, circa 1970s, condition: wear marks to the base, W 27, depth 20 cm
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A Japanese Damascene cigarette case, inlaid with SIlver & gold, circa 1950, the high quality mixed metals of mount Fuji in the background while a beauty is pulled along on a rickshaw by a barefoot driver, 12 x 8 cm
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An Embroidery on silk with a full Sun & red crested cranes Roosting in a pine tree, early 20th century, label on reverse Kirkman Studio, fine Art gallery, Castlereagh St Sydney, 49 x 30.5 cm
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A rare Japanese figure of Shou Lau, God of Longevity, wearing a white glazed robe with blue trim, and holding his staff and scroll, height 30 cm
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Seven Japanese Studio Pottery bowls, dishes & cups, different clay & glazes, circa 1960, including Oribe glaze on dish, [7], condition: overall very good some minor rim frits, diameter 7 - 18.5 cm
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Japanese Studio Pottery with maker's marks, including a Shino Wabi Sabi slab plate, circa 1970s [3], each high fired with different clay & glaze techniques, 16 cm sq H 12 & 16
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Japanese Studio Pottery, including a Matcha tea bowl, Temmoku glaze, circa 1970s, the tea masters found beauty in rustic & unrefined, natural or imperfect forms [4], height 11, 15 & 18 cm
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Seven Japanese oval Studio Pottery DIshes + another dish, circa 1960s [8], length 21 cm, 13.5 x 13.5 cm
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A collection of Japanese Studio Pottery, bowls & cups, with hues of black-brown glaze [5], height 7-12 cm
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Four Japanese Imari porcelain dishes, Showa period, four shallow circular dishes, one with scalloped rim, decorated in the Imari palette, two with maker's mark, [4], diameter 15 -18 cm
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Eleven Japanese porcelain plates & bowls including five matching Kutani shallow dishes, Showa period, circular plates, bowls & dishes, different kilns including Kutani, Arita & Satsuma, some with maker's marks, fine & detailed painting, designs including viewing the moon [11], diameter 12 cm - 18 cm
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Two iron Japanese tea pots with impressed maker's mark, condition: one of the lid was missing, height 12 & 15 cm
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Three Japanese cylindrical bamboo canisters, mid 20th century, each with hand painted decoration. [3], height 24 cm
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Two Japanese cast iron tea kettles, Tetsubin, Nambu Teki, Taisho period, knops in the shape of a pine cones, curved circular handles. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 15 &16 cm
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Four Japanese traditional tea Ceremony lidded tea caddies, Natsume, Showa period, the wooden tea caddies are lacquered by a maki-e specialist artists, distinguished by the stylized decoration, red decorated with black & gilt flying cranes, the black lacquer decorated with red & gilt lacquer flying cranes & mons [4], height 7 cm,Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive
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Three hanging scrolls, Japanese / Chinese, Turtles & bamboo with rising Sun, Daruma & Tengu with rising Sun, signed Tian Shan Weng & seal mark, & signed Ren Li in 1971, condition: Creases, tears & discolouration, 122 x 40, 156 x 47, 205 x 42 cm
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A Chinese pumpkin-shaped Porcelian box & cover & circular lidded box, each with Qianlong mark, 20th century, each with overglaze enamel, condition: a chip to the rim, diameter 13 cm
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Two Chinese porcelain enamel bowls, Republic period, one with cabbage & butterfly design the other with dragons. Provenance: A retired Hong Kong newspaper editor, now living in Sydney, diameter 23 & 25 cm
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A large Chinese porcelain vase, the long neck ending in a flared Mouth, painted in overglaze enamel, the writhing dragon below flames & a band of waves, height 38 cm
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A pair of Chinese porcelain painted tiles, Zhushan Artist Wang Qi [1884-1937], cyclical date 1933, signature & two red seals, painted in overglaze enamels, the song Poet, Su Dongpo & Confucianist leader Zhou Dunyi, instructing young boys standing in gardens sprouting lingzhi [2], condition: no evident damage, in fine original conditional. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, 78 x 29 cm,Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive
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A fine Chinese porcelain vase, painted in the famille verte palette, a Yongzheng seal mark, the classical rouleau shape with square section, each panel with different floral & rock formation, height 46 cm
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A fine group of four Chinese porcelain jars & pots painted with Playful iron red lion dogs, Republic period, two brush pots, & a tall ovoid shaped flat lidded jar, painted with a very lively dog on a white ground, applied lion dog handles with rings & lidded jar [6]. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 11-20 cm
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A Chinese porcelain bowl, the deep rounded shape & flared rim with a yellow glaze & overglaze green dragon, on tall fitted stand, diameter 14 cm
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Two Chinese porcelain tiles, Artist signature & wood frame, Republic period, 90 x 35 x 3 cm
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A Chinese porcelain bottle shaped vase, incised & moulded in relief, impressed Kangxi seal mark, figures in clouds & a dragon swirling around the neck, a palette of yellow, aubergine & light & dark green with iron red highlights, on fitted wood stand, height 38 cm
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A Chinese porcelain baluster shaped vase, Republic period, painted with a traditional landscape with bands of black on the neck & foot rim, a poem to the reverse, with a Qianlong mark, on fitted stand, height 50 cm
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A Chinese iron red baluster shaped vase with double handles, Republic period, inscribed by Yu Yuanchang with seal mark to the base, height 58 cm
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A Chinese bell shaped porcelain vase with traditional Chinese painting, six character Kangxi mark, height 27 cm
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A Chinese porcelain vase of rouleau shape, iron red seal, a black ground & green peony floral meander around a rectangular panel painted with figures in a garden pavilion, in the famille verte palette, height 42 cm
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A Chinese polychrome porcelain bulbous lidded jar, height 22, diameter 21 cm
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A large Chinese porcelain jar, with an underglaze blue six character Jiajing, Ming Dynasty mark to shoulder, the red glaze with yellow continuous scrolling cloud pattern, including Chinese longevity characters, height 26, diameter 33 cm
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A tall Chinese porcelain vase, the rouleau shape painted in overglaze Enamels, a multi coloured palette with gilt highlights, height 60 cm
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A large porcelain bowl, the white glazed with a fired-out copper red glaze, a pattern of large flowering vines, height 13, diameter 25 cm
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Chinese porcelain brush pot & yellow glazed bowl, each with a seal mark, Republic period, with everted rim, decorated with red bats & Shou characters, the brush pot with moulded decoration of pine tree & lion dogs on an underglazed blue wave ground, [2], condition, bowl with minor rim chip and hairline crack, height 15.5 cm
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An ovoid Chinese porcelain jar & Underglze blue Jarlet, Qing dynasty, height 8 & 13 cm
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A large porcelain dish, yellow glaze with Underglae blue nine dragon design, a Yongzheng mark, diameter 37 cm
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A Chinese porcelain moonflask, with Xuande mark around the Mouth rim, finely painted in underglaze red & blue with birds sitting in a flowering branch, height 31 cm
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A Chinese porcelain BottleShape vessel & two cups, a Wucai glaze with Changhua mark, condition: line crack to the base of the vase, height 5 & 19 cm
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A tall porcelain vase with applied flowers in relief, underglaze blue & red, original woven protective basket from kiln, height 44 cm
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Five Chinese pottery dishes & bowls & stem cup, Qing Dynasty, condition: hairline cracks & chips, diameter 9 - 16 cm
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A massive Chinese underglaze blue porcelain bowl, the deep rounded sides painted inside & out with a continuous leafing scroll & large flower blooms, height 16, diameter 40 cm
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A large Chinese porcelain jar, painted with figures between bands of traditional motifs, a fitted woven rattan basket, height 29, diameter 38 cm
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A Chinese porcelain ovoid vase, in underglaze blue a Qilin between bands of stylized ruyi panels, 19th/20th century, height 18 cm
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A large Chinese octagonal shaped porcelain jar, painted in underglaze blue, height 22, diameter 26 cm
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A Chinese porcelain underglaze blue vase, the rouleau shape with fine bands of design on the neck & Mouth rim, height 28 cm
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A very large porcelain vase, painted in underglaze blue with a band of Buddhist Emblems, height 63, diameter 36 cm
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A porcelain bottle vase, the long neck with a flared Mouth, a six character mark of Yongzheng, the exterior surface densely decorated with waves & dragons in a deep cobalt blue, height 34, diameter 18 cm
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A tall Chinese porcelain vase with a Thousand Shou characters on a white ground, a Yongzheng mark to base, Shou', long life, in seal script, height 50 cm
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A group of Chinese porcelain, blue & white chop stick holder & dish [3], Japanese mark to the base of hexagon shaped ink well, height 20, height 6, diameter 13 cm
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A fine Chinese porcelain vase the gourd-shape with Clair de lune glaze, Qianlong mark to the base, height 23 cm
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A Chinese porcelain Clair de lune glazed bottle vase, Qianlong seal mark to the base, a compressed globular body & short neck rising from a slightly tapering foot, covered with an even soft blue glaze, height 23 cm
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A Chinese porcelain Clair de lune glazed mallet shaped vase, Qianlong seal mark to the base, a globular body & long neck rising from a neat foot, covered with an even soft blue glaze, height 23 cm
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A pale blue glazed bottle vase with a carved decoration, Qianlong seal mark, a compressed garlic mouth, height 30 cm
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A Chinese porcelain crackle glazed bowl & a lidded celadon glazed box, diameter 12 - 14 cm
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A pair of celadon glazed Chinese porcelain bowls, mark to the base inscribed by Tai He Studio, diameter 11 cm
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An Eartheware drum shaped celadon glazed jar, with incised decoration, height 11 cm
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A Chinese turquoise glazed vase, with applied elephant handles, Hongzhi mark to the base, a waved mouth & incised cloud decoration, height 38 cm
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An tall porcelain vase, the elegant shape with a monochrome tea Dust glaze, a Yongzheng seal mark, height 36 cm
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A Chinese porcelain vase with black & blue glaze, height 18 cm
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A brown iridescent glazed Muscular ox, Qing Dynasty 18/19th century, realistically modelled with hooves & tail picked out in black, length 20, height 12 cm
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A Chinese ceramic brown glazed censer, with double lion mask handles & raised on three low legs, diameter 15 cm
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A Zoomorphic earthenware censer with a bird finial & all over celadon glaze with incised pattern, height 20 cm
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A double-fish vase, incised scales under the Transparent glaze the Dingyao style has applied double handles, following the form of metal with a short neck & deep foot, height 17 cm
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A Chinese celadon green vase the ovoid shape has an incised design under the glaze, height 30, diameter 11 cm
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A very fine porcelain bowl, made by a master potter, 20th century, Ming mark to base, diameter 28, height 12 cm
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A Chinese blanc de chine revolving bowl, with moulded design of writhing dragon, character on the bowl inscribed Nei Fu, with character Guan (official ware) to the base, height 10.5 cm, diameter 15 cm
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A Chinese porcelain bottle shaped vase, with a Crackled celadon glaze & neck rings, height 21 cm
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A Chinese porcelain vase, the design moulded under the celadon glaze, an impressed Qianlong mark, the square shape with a deep foot, height 37 cm
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A Chinese crackle glazed bottle vase with rectangular handles, height 23 cm
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A Chinese hanging scroll, ink & colour on paper, the fall of Autumn, signed Zhong Yu, with a red seal mark, 1980, porcelain scroll terminals, 168 x 62 cm
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