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Auction House:
Bonhams
Number of lots recorded:96
Lots with images:96
Prices available:96
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*** A carved Chinse white jade purse-form snuff bottle, 4 cm high. Provenance: Acquired from Fritz Lintner Antiques on 22 July 99 (receipt) ***
*** Two polychrome enameled vases, Shengdetang and Hongxian iron-red marks, Republic period, 28.5 cm, 23.9 cm high (2). Provenance: R&V Tregaskis Oriental Art, Sydney, 1989 and ***
*** A pair of cobalt blue 'Dragon' plates, six-character Qianlong mark to the base, and of the period, Flaring mouth rim and short foot rim, gilded in the centre a ferocious full-faced dragon, entwining a central 'Flaming Pearl' amid a scatter of flames, all… ***
*** A Chinese export silver tankard and cup, by Wang Hing, late 19th century the tankard marked '??' [sheng-ch'ang], 'Wh', '90', the cup 'Wc', '90', 11.7 cm high, 275g, 8.2 cm high, 80g (2). ***
*** A Chinese tripod censer, Xuande six-character embossed mark, 16 cm diam. 2640g ***
*** A Chinese famille-verte bottle-shaped vase, late Qing or Republic, painted around the body with figures in a garden pavilion, the shoulder decorated with symbols of the four arts against a decorative ground, the neck with shou xin among other symbols of… ***
*** A Chinese famille-rose snuff bottle, Jiaqing four-character iron-red mark, height 7.5 cm ***
*** A carved white jade beaker vase, 18th/ 19th century, 10.8 cm high. Provenance: Private collection, New York, Alexsander Galleries, New York, Jadestone LLC, Portland. 23 Janurary 2011, Private collection, Adelaide, Alexsander, Jadestone LLC ***
*** Two Chinese carved coral snuff bottles, 7 cm high, 6 cm high (2) ***
*** A Chinese cloisonne 'qilin' charger, 35.5 cm diam. Provenance: Western Australia private collection, acquired locally during the 1990s ***
*** A group of four Chinese snuff bottles, late 19th century to 20th century, varying sizes from 7 cm to 8.5 cm high (4) ***
*** A pair of Chinese tea-dust-glaze globular bottle vases, Qianlong six-character impressed seal mark 20 cm high (2). ***
*** An agarwood archer's ring, with a fitted pewter box, 3 cm high ***
*** A archaic-style bronze gui, 10 cm high ***
*** A Chinese inside painted 'koi' glass snuff bottle, Su Fengyu, dated 1980 7.5 cm. Provenance: Purchased at. Y.F. Yang & Company in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Hong Kong. Y.F. Yang & Company ***
*** A Chinese doucai ogee-form bowl, Qianlong six-character mark, 21.8 cm diam ***
*** A Japanese ivory carving of a bellowing elephant, on a carved wooden base, the elephant 20 cm long ***
*** Anonymous, two immortals, ink and colour on silk, hanging scroll, 92 cm x 62 cm. Provenance: NSW private collection, acquired as one of 13 scrolls from (Joseph) Newman's Antiques on 22 July 1960 and hence by descent ***
*** Attributed to Zhong Yin (Southern Tang), Birthday Celebration for Queen mother of the West, 19th century, ink and colour on silk, with two seals of the artist, 160 cm x 80 cm. Provenance: NSW private collection, acquired as one of 13 scrolls from (Joseph)… ***
*** A Chinese ge-type vase, Meiping, Qianlong six-character underglaze blue mark, 23 cm high ***
*** A Chinese zitan libation cup, Qing dynasty, with flaring mouth rim, attached and supported on prune and magnolia branches, copper liner. 11.6 cm wide, 7.7 cm high ***
*** A Chinese aquamarine and amethyst court necklace ***
*** Wang Lanruo (Chinese, 1911 - '), Magpies and Cherry Blossoms, Cranes and Pine Trees, Magpies and Cherry Blossoms: ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll, Signed and inscribed by the artist, with two seals of the artist, Dated 1945, Cranes and Pine Trees,… ***
*** A Chinese gilded bronze Buddha, seated in rajalilasana on a rock, wearing flowing robes with brocade borders opening to reveal his chest and belly, his left hand holding probably a peach, 15.9 cm high ***
*** A Chinese 'lotus pond' ceramic brush pot, 14 cm high, 12 cm diam. ***
*** A carved sandle wood 'chi-dragon' seal, 6 cm high ***
*** A Chinese blue and white porcelain 'Gu' vase, 19th century, painted with archaic tao-tie style masks between bands of stiff leaves 25 cm high ***
*** A Chinese export silver tea kettle on stand and burner, by wing Nam & Co, 65 Queens Road, Hong Kong, circa 1900, the body embossed with chrysanthemums with bamboo swing handle and raised on a bamboo stand 30 cm 1070gms ***
*** A celadon-glazed tripod censer with tomobako, 8.4 cm diam., 5.9 cm high ***
*** A blue-and-white 'figures' double-walled bowl with tomobako, 14.2 cm diam. and 7.5 cm high ***
*** A soapstone seated Lohan and a matching stand 10.7 cm high. Provenance: Gora Singh Mann collection, Wollongong, no. 1039 (label) ***
*** A celadon jade 'mythical animal' plaque Qing dynasty 5.7 cm high, 0.6 cm thick, 37g. Provenance: Gora Singh Mann collection, Wollongong, no. 1721 (label) ***
*** A pale celadon jade carving of 'longevity' 9.8 cm high, 122g ***
*** A green-enamelled blue and white spittoon Qianlong six-character seal mark with tomobako, 8.2 cm high ***
*** A carved dark celadon jade Mughal-style 'Chrysanthemum' bowl, 20th century, Crisply and thinly carved from translucent green stone, the interior with two layers of slender petals radiating from the central roundel with stylised seed heads, the underside… ***
*** A Japanese carved ivory figure of Amida Buddha, 19th century, the Buddha sitting with crossing legs in perfect meditation, wearing flowing robes, his hands in Mida no Join (Meditation Mudra), the surface patinated, the base carved Dokei, with separate… ***
*** A Chinese bronze figure group, 19th century of a laughing man and woman standing bare-footed on a large plantain leaf, a large lotus leaf to the male figure's back, a lotus bud about his shoulder, the lady sitting on a huge lingzhi mushroom, using its cap… ***
*** A Japanese ivory okimono of a Sumo wrestler 20th century, crouched in a combative stance, signed. Height 7.5 cm ***
*** A Vietnamese blue-and-white charger, 15th/16th century Painted in the centre with a peony flowerhead amongst scrolling leaves, repeated in the circling wide band, the underside with lotus petals, recess unglazed exposing biscuit of dark orange, 40 cm diam… ***
*** A gilt copper alloy figure of Buddha Shakyamuni, 50 cm high ***
*** A Chinese famille-rose snuff bottle, Qianlong four-character mark, 23 cm high ***
*** A pair of Chinese enamelled bowls, Guangxu six-character mark, each painted with peasant resting on a rock issuing floral branches and lingzhi fungus, all between two bands, 11.3 cm diam., (2) ***
*** A Chinese purple-ground silk-embroidered jacket, Late Qing dynasty, 131.5 cm wide (sleeves extended), 76 cm long ***
*** Three Chinese carved jade snuff bottles, two 'woven basket' bottles, one of white jade and the other of celadon jade, and the third of white jade, carved with two children playing with a drum on one side and a poem on the other, 6.5 cm high, 7 cm high, 7… ***
*** A Chinese export rectangular card case 19th century, the sides profusely carved all over with panels of figures in pavilions and shading by blossom and fir trees ***
*** A Chinese export painted fan 19th century, the leaf profusely painted with figures with ivory faces, all in a pavilion under leafy trees, carved ivory sticks with different scenes of daily life in a water town ***
*** A black-glazed conical bowl with box, 13.4 cm diam., 5.1 cm high ***
*** A blue-glazed vase Qianlong six-character seal mark 14.2 cm high. Provenance: Gora Singh Mann collection, Wollongong, no. 1057 (label) ***
*** A silver and gilded bronze belt buckle with gold and turquoise inlays Warring States (475 to 221 BCE) 20.2 cm high. Provenance: Miklos Grunberg (1918-1988), Sydney. Mossgreen, Melbourne, 2 June 2008, lot 127. The distinguished characters of this buckle… ***
*** A group of three gold filigree ornaments, Ming to Qing dynasty 4.5 cm long, 2.5 cm long, 1.8 cm long (3). For the possible usage of the 'flower' piece, see notes of lot 15. ***
*** A suite of blue and white tea pot, cups and saucers Kangxi the teapot 13.2 cm high, the cups approx. 4 cm high, the saucers 10.7 cm diam. (14). ***
*** A wucai 'phoenix and dragon' jar 16th/17th century 18.8 cm high ***
*** Two jade axes, Zhang and Gui, probably Shang and Zhou dynasty, the Gui with a fitted box, the Zhang 16.8 cm long, 46g, the Gui 15.2 cm long, 30g (2). ***
*** A collection of hardstone seals, composed of twenty one various reverse carved crests and mottos in carnelian, blood stone and citrine, gilt metal mounted. (21) ***
*** A blue and white 'dragon' bottled vase Kangxi four-character blue and white mark, late Qing to Republic period 39.3 cm high. Provenance: Private collection, Sydney. Bonhams, Sydney, 8 Dec 2021, lot 253. ***
*** A ge-style mallet-shaped vase with box, 15.8 cm high. Provenance: Previously from a Japanese private collection ***
*** A jian-type black-glaze tea bowl with brown streaks with box, 11.3 cm diam., 6.5 cm high. Provenance: Previously from a Japanese private collection ***
*** A turquoise-ground famille-rose vase, Qianlonog six-character mark, 20th century, 31.5 cm high ***
*** A 'Tsongkapa' thangka, Tibet, 19th century, framed, image (measured outside the red boarder) 70 x 127 cm ***
*** Five bronze figures, China, South India, Java, and Thai/ Khmer, of Ayutthaya, China, with incised mark of Parvati and Krishna, South Indian, 17th/18th century, a Bodhisattva and Buddha under Muchalinda, 18.5 cm high, 10.2 cm, 10.9 cm, 11 cm, and 15.3 cm… ***
*** A suite of archaistic glass plaque and a gilt bronze seal, with fitted box, 5.3 cm long, 32.0g; 3.0 x 2.8 x 2,7 cm (2). ***
*** A blue-and-white five-hole flower holder Kangxi four-character mark 24.3 cm high. Provenance: Gora Singh Mann Collection, Wollongong, no. 1043 ***
*** A celadon jade 'woven bamboo' lid, Qing dynasty 7.0 cm diam., 77g ***
*** A carved Chinese greenish-white pale russet jade figure group, 8 cm long ***
*** A group of four metal artefacts, Han and Qing dynasty comprising of a bronze belt buckle with silver inlays, two official hat insignias of first and fourth ranks, and a seal, 7.5 cm long, 6.2 cm high, 7.2 cm high, 3.2 cm high (4)., For an almost identical… ***
*** Five Chinese cloisonne snuff bottles, 19th/ 20th century 7 cm, 7 cm, 6 cm, 8.5 cm, 8 cm (5). Provenance: Purchased at Lawson's and Grays Auction in Australia and Treasure Auctions in HK in the late 1980s and early 1990s Lawson's and Grays Auction ***
*** A Chinese yellow-glaze jar, Kangxi six-character underglaze blue mark 21 cm high. Provenance: Private collection Victoria ***
*** A celadon jade 'landscape' boulder, 13.2 cm high, 521g ***
*** Two famille-rose painted ceramic plaques, Signed Taomi Daoren Wang Qi, dated gengwu year (1930), 19.8 cm x 12 cm each (2). Provenance: Private collection, Singapore, Private collection, Perth, Wang Qi (1884-1937) was one of the founding members of the… ***
*** A Chinese blue-and-white sleeve vase, 22 cm high. Provenance: Western Australia private collection ***
*** A Chinese enamelled bird-and-flower vase, four-character Qianlong mark, Republic, painted around the body with birds and flowers, and two verses of a poem about the scene. 31.6 cm high ***
*** A Chinese hardwood brush pot inlaid with hardstone and ivory, 21.8 cm diameter, 21.3 cm high ***
*** An album of woodblock-printed letter papers of Ten-Bamboo Studio, Shizhuzhai Jianpu, Rongbaozhai, Beijing 1952. complete four volumes including nearly 30 categories of 300 prints of different objects, motifs, and subjects of traditional Chinese scholarly… ***
*** A gilt copper alloy figure of Amitabha, Kangxi period 15.2 cm high. Provenance: Private collection Sydney, acquired from the United States in 2015 ***
*** A carved celadon jade 'pine tree and rocks' washer, stand, jade: 8.5 cm long, 100g ***
*** A bronze 'iris' sculpture, Meiji period, incised Issei, above seal mark of Hidemitsu Kansei 37.5 cm high ***
*** A cloisonne 'winged horse' lobed dish, 17.7 cm wide ***
*** A Chinese painted-enamel ceramic plaque, Attributed to Ma Qingyun, Republic period, dated by inscription 1919 24.7 cm x 36.8 cm ***
*** A Chinese inside-painted 'Monkey King' glass snuff bottle, Wen Xiangjun, dated 1980 9.5 cm. Provenance: Purchased at C.A.C. in the late 1980s and early 1990s Compare a bottle painted by Wen of very similar subject and painting style, lot 177, sale 20955,… ***
*** A Chinese carved agate snuff bottle, Late Qing dynasty 6.5 cm. Provenance: Purchased at in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Singapore ***
*** A soapstone 'mythical beast' seal, Incised 'Baishi' mark to the side, 3.1 x 3.4 x 3 cm ***
*** A Chinese 'dragon'-handle cloisonne vase, hu, Jingtai four-character incised mark, late Qing to Republic period, 18.3 cm high. Provenance: Western Australia private collection, acquired in Peking in the 1960s-70s, hence by descent (by repute) ***
*** A Chinese bracelet of chenxiang beads, consisting of 18 chenxiang beads, separated by four rose quartz beads, suspended with jadeite pendants, length 31 cm ***
*** A Chinese blue-and-white 'landscape' yenyen vase, 49.7 cm high. Provenance: Bearing a label 'Frank Partridge, 26 King Street, St James' Square, S.W. ***
*** A Chinese blue and white porcelain squat vase, Kangxi, painted with the three gods and characters for longevity, prosperity and wealth, 14.5 diameter ***
*** Follower of Dai Jin (1388 - 1462) and Zhao Mengfu (1254 - 1322), landscape album leaf, ink and colour on silk, Autumn landscape album leaf, ink and colour on silk, 21.5 cm x 19 cm, and 24 cm x 19 cm (2). Provenance: NSW private collection, acquired from… ***
*** A Chinese inside painted 'Murals in the Yongle Temple' glass snuff bottle, Liu Ziyi (b. 1939) and Liu Enchang, dated 1987 9.5 cm. Provenance: Purchased at. Y.F. Yang & Company in the late 1980s and early 1990s b. 1939. Y.F. Yang & Company ***
*** A Chinese incised ivory brush pot, 11.1 cm diameter. Provenance: Western Australia private collection, acquired locally in the 1970s (by repute), Western Australia private collection, imported to Australia in the 1940s (by repute) ***
*** A Chinese bronze tripod censer, Embossed Zhengde four-character mark, 11 cm diam. 810g ***
*** An inscribed ivory seal, Attributed to Yu Shuo (1873 - 1957), Late Qing or Republic, incised on opposing two sides with the full text of Zhuzi Jiaxun, a 17th-century educational classics in the Neo-Confucian canon, signed 'winter of Xinchou (1901), Yu… ***
*** A Chinese carved ivory belt buckle and an associated decorating piece, Qing dynasty, each carved with similar design of a dragon in high relief pursuing a flaming jewel amongst clouds, the buckle sliding into two pieces each with a square loop to the back… ***
*** A carved Chinese zitan libation cup, in the shape of a lotus leaf supported by a branch issuing lotus root and buds, with chi-dragons climbing on both the interior and the exterior, 9.8 cm high ***
*** A carved soapstone 'landscape' seal, Attributed to Huang Shiling (1849-1908) box, 5.2 cm high, 62g ***
*** A Chinese hexagonal famille rose brush pot, Six character red Jiaqing mark against a turquoise ground standing on six ruyi-shaped feet, the mouth rim, feet, and the flanges with gilded outlines against a red ground, each side painted in a small central… ***
*** A Chinese 'dragon' pendant, carved with four entwined dragons in openwork, 5 cm wide ***
*** Indian school, cica 1921, showing the portrait of an Indian noble woman wearing traditional costume and jewels, inscribed in Hindi to the base of the portrait. 41 cm x 33 cm ***