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Ceramics — Chinese - Oriental - Sotheby's
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| Number of lots recorded: | 96 |
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Ceramics - Chinese
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| *** | A group of famille-rose ceramics Qing dynasty, comprising a pair of covered bowls, each of flared form with indented corners, painted on the exterior with a continuous scene of figures fishing from boats and rafts and resting on sampans moored near the… | *** |  |
| *** | A large blue and white petal moulded bowl, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, the steeply rounded sides with upright petal-shaped panels rising from the base, each enclosing a blossoming tree within a florette and foliate border below a band of shaped floral… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white circular plaque, Ming Dynasty, Wanli period, decorated in vivid blue with a dignitary in a garden setting, surrounded by attendants and soldiers, one holding a parasol over his head, another kneeling offering gifts to a lady accompanied… | *** |  |
| *** | Two yellow glazed wine cups, Guanxu mark and period of inverted bell form resting on a short straight foot applied overall with an Imperial yellow glaze on the biscuit, the six character mark in regular script is applied to the base of each | *** |  |
| *** | A wucai faceted jar mark of Wanli of stoutly potted baluster form, the octagonal sides painted in coloured enamels and underglaze blue with alternate rising and descending dragons in iron-red, yellow, blue and green among scattered clouds, all between a… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of underglaze-blue and iron-red bowls, marks of Guangxu (2), each painted to the interior with a medallion enclosing a dragon reserved on an iron-red wave ground within a double line border repeated on the lipped rim, the exterior similarly… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of Doucai 'Dragon' wine cups, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, each thinly potted with steeply flared sides and lipped rim, painted with two green scaly dragons pursuing flaming pearls among cloud scrolls, within underglaze-blue outlines and line… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white saucer dish, Xianfeng mark the interior painted with dense floral scrolls in a central medallion within double line borders, and a similar scroll encircling the exterior of the shallow rounded sides, the base inscribed with a… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of hardwood mounted circular porcelain plaques and stands, late Qing Dynasty/ Republic period each painted in 'Famille-Rose' enamels, one with two figures walking in the garden of a lakeside pavilion, another figure resting on a terrace nearby, the… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-rose' 'Phoenix' bowl Guangxu mark and period the rounded sides rising from a straight foot towards the flared rim, painted on the exterior in pink, yellow and green enamels of soft tone with four stylised phoenix in flight with outstretched… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white bottle vase, 19th/20th century, the globular body rising from a short foot to a tall waisted neck with everted mouth, moulded around the body with raised bands and painted in cobalt blue with a broad composite flower scroll between… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare powder-blue ground 'dragon' bowl, mark and period of Kangxi, the steeply rounded sides and flared rim springing from a straight foot, covered on the exterior with a powder-blue glaze decorated with two scaly dragons pursuing flaming pearls among… | *** |  |
| *** | An iron-red and enamelled dated stem cup Qing dynasty, Guangxu period, the widely rounded sides painted in iron-red with two confronted dragons among flames and cloud scrolls, supported on a tall splayed foot encircled with a green and white enamel band… | *** |  |
| *** | A famille-rose 'hundred deer' vase, 20th century, of archaistic hu form, the sides painted with a continuous scene of deer on the banks of a lake in a landscape of trees and rockwork, set with two iron-red dragon-form handles on the tapering shoulders,… | *** |  |
| *** | A Wucai ‘Dragon and Phoenix' bowl, mark and period of Guangxu. Diameter 15 cm. Provenance: Butterfields & Butterfield, San Francisco, May 2002, Lot 1240 | *** |  |
| *** | A powder-blue ground gilt-decorated brushpot bitong, Kangxi period. Height 18 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An attractive ‘Pseudo tobacco leaf' tureen, cover and stand, Qianlong period, the chamfered rectangular tureen with flared sides, decorated with flowering hibiscus and mon, 38 cm stand | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Famille-Rose' Chinese export 'Armorial' part dinner service, early 19th century, comprising a canted rectangular tureen with cover and stand, an oval soup tureen with cover, a sauce boat and stand, one oval dish, two small oval dishes, eight dinner… | *** |  |
| *** | A set of four famille-rose rectangular porcelain plaques, 20th century, each painted with a different lakeside landscape with mountain peaks rising in the distance, some with figures in the foreground seated near garden pavilions among flowering trees and… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-verte' rouleau vase, painted on the cylindrical sides with a lady offering a flower to her companion seated in a chair beside a banana palm and ornamental rockwork, a boy holding a fan to one side, the narrow neck with bamboo sprays below the… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Famille-Rose' vase 20th century, the tapering shouldered body painted with two maidens conversing, one carrying a qin over her shoulder, and with a bat and a crane in flight, the base inscribed in iron-red with an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark, wood… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white jardiniere, Guangxu period (1875-1908), painted with nine lively five-clawed dragons amongst flame and cloud scrolls, above breaking waves and below a band of ruyi panels. Height 37 cm, with wood stand | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white beaker vase, Ca. 1640 or later painted in bright cobalt-blue with birds in flight over blossoming prunus and bamboo above a ruyi head and foliate scroll and an incised chevron pattern border, a band of stiff leaves encircling the base,… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white bowl, mark and period of Kangxi well potted with rounded sides springing from a short foot, the exterior painted with a frieze of scenes of figures in gardens and pavilions below a broad lozenge diaper border around the flared rim, the… | *** |  |
| *** | A ruby-ground 'famille-rose' landscape vase seal mark of Qianlong the ovoid body painted with a continuous lakeside scene with figures and thatched huts in the foreground and distant mountains, between lime-green and yellow ruyi -head borders, the waisted… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-verte' rouleau vase Qing Dynasty, 19th century the straight sides decorated in coloured enamels with figures receiving a visitor on a pavilion terrace, with attendants beside a horse and maidens bearing gifts in the garden outside, in a… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white bottle vase, probably circa 1640, the globular body rising from a straight foot to a tall waisted neck, painted on the exterior with two attendants presenting gifts to a dignitary accompanied by four other attendants in a garden setting,… | *** |  |
| *** | A relief decorated 'famille-rose' 'hundred antiques' vase Qing dynasty of rouleau form, the exterior moulded and brightly enamelled with precious archaic objects, jardinieres, flowers and ribboned emblems, below the galleried mouth encircled with a… | *** |  |
| *** | A celadon-glazed vase Qing dynasty, late 19th century of ovoid form surmounted by a tall waisted neck with flared rim, the sides carved with a frieze of archaistic dragon scrolls between bands of lozenge diaper and upright stiff leaves around the neck,… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Longquan' celadon garden seat, Ming Dynasty, the gently curved sides carved with panels enclosing flowering peony sprays between horizontal rows of raised florettes and bands of floral scrolls, the flat top moulded with a barbed panel of lozenge diaper… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of gilt-decorated blue-ground bottle vases, marks of Guangxu, each globular body rising from a short straight foot, a raised band below the shoulders and tall waisted neck with flaring rim, decorated in gilding with a pair of dragons confronted on… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Famille-Verte' 'Dragon' Bowl, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period, with steeply rounded sides decorated with alternating green and aubergine enamel dragons chasing yellow flaming pearls among red flames, the interior centred with a further green dragon roundel… | *** |  |
| *** | A Wucai baluster jar, transitional period, decorated in bright enamels and underglaze-blue with dragons pursuing flaming pearls alternating with phoenix flying among clouds, above wave splashed rocks, fitted box 31 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Doucai' saucer dish, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, the interior painted with an iron-red dragon writhing among clouds in a central medallion encircled around the cavetto with four iron-red carp leaping from crested green waves, within underglaze-blue… | *** |  |
| *** | A large blue and white sleeve vase, transitional period, of cylindrical form with waisted neck, the body finely painted with an official standing beneath a parasol, his attendants holding fans and banners to the side greeting a messenger bearing a gift,… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of famille-rose bowls, Shendetang marks, Qing dynasty, Daoguang period, each of wide rounded form with lipped rim, decorated on the exterior with a scene of a pair of ducks swimming in a lotus pool with flowers and foliage rising from the water,… | *** |  |
| *** | A flambe-glazed jar seal mark of Yongzheng, of squat globular form, the hexagonally lobed sides rising to a narrow lipped mouth, covered on the exterior with a crimson glaze streaked in milky lavender-blue thinning to a buff tone, the base impressed with… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of famille-rose bowls Qing dynasty, each with steeply rounded sides and lipped rim, painted on the exterior with a continuous scene of chickens and chicks in a garden of bamboo, peonies and other flowers beside ornamental rockwork, the interior… | *** |  |
| *** | An unusual cricket cage and cover seal mark of Qianlong, of slender hexagonal form, the sides pierced with panels of dragons and foliate scrolls between bands of bats in low relief picked out in brown and gilding, reserved on a similated wood grain ground… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of 'famille-rose' cups, 19th/20th century, each of steeply flared form with lipped rim, decorated on the exterior with a maiden holding a vase of flowers standing among scrolling clouds and the 'wufu' in flight, an inscription on the reverse, the… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue-glazed vase, Meiping Qing dynasty, 18th century, the tapering body rising to curved shoulders and narrow waisted mouth, covered to the exterior with a rich blue glaze stopping neatly above the foot, the rim and interior glazed in white, 17 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white box and cover mark of Jiajing of compressed globular form, the domed cover decorated with a central dragon and phoenix medallion within a frieze of flowering plants and rockwork repeated around the shallow rounded sides, the rims with… | *** |  |
| *** | A set of four painted porcelain plaques, 20th century each of rectangular form painted in coloured enamels with figures variously occupied in boats and on the shore, beside a lakeside village with pavilions set among rocks and trees in a landscape of… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Longquan' celadon censer, late Ming Dynasty of squat bombe form supported on tripod feet, the sides carved with peony scrolls beneath the translucent blue-green glaze 31 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of ‘Famille-rose' bowls, Shendetang mark, Daoguang period, each of rounded form with everted rim, decorated on the exterior with a continuous scene of ducks and lotus in a pond, iron-red mark, 14 cm, formerly in the Weishaupt collection,… | *** |  |
| *** | A large 'Famille-Rose' vase, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, decorated with numerous figures on a pavilion terrace watching boys in a dragon procession, several carrying banners and poles with fish, a large dragon and Buddhist lions, two dignitaries riding on… | *** |  |
| *** | A Ming-style blue and white dish, Qing Dynasty, 18th century with gently rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot, painted in rich cobalt blue tones to the interior with a medallion enclosing a leafy composite floral scroll, encircled by a classic… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of famille-rose 'Phoenix' bowls marks and period of Guangxu, each with steeply rounded sides springing from a short straight foot, decorated on the exterior with four large phoenix in flight among scrolling flowering stems, between gilt line… | *** |  |
| *** | A small Guan-type vase, Fanghu, seal mark of Qianlong of rectangular section, the pear-shaped body with canted corners rising from a straight foot to the slightly waisted neck flanked by a pair of tubular handles, covered overall with a greyish green… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue-glazed altar vessel and cover, Dou, seal marks of Qianlong the shallow bowl supported on a high splayed foot below a raised collar, moulded around the sides with a series of formal borders, the similarly decorated high domed cover with rope twist… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Longquan' celadon bowl, Ming dynasty with steeply rounded sides supported on a short straight foot, the interior carved with a continuous lotus scroll around a central floral medallion, the exterior with upright petals below a key-fret border around… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of inscribed landscape bottle vases, 20th century each of squat globular form surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck, the sides painted with figures in boats on a lake and others near thatched huts and dwellings on shore, in a continuous landscape… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of 'famille-rose' bowls marks of Tongzhi each with steeply rounded sides and gilt edged lipped rim, painted on the exterior with a continuous lakeside landscape with figures and pavilions in garden settings and distant mountains, the base with a… | *** |  |
| *** | A copper-red saucer dish, seal mark and period of Daoguang with shallow rounded sides and everted rim, covered inside and out with a 'Sang-de-boeuf' glaze thinning to the white glazed rim, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze… | *** |  |
| *** | An unusual incised purple-glazed dish carved mark and period of Qianlong carved with a full-faced five-clawed dragon suspended amidst scrolling lingzhi Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30th October 2000, lot 142 19.4 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | A painted porcelain plaque, 20th century the rectangular panel painted in a 'famille-verte' palette with figures crossing a bridge beside a lake in a mountainous landscape, inscribed in black with a poem signed Ye Ting Wang and red seal, framed 38.7 cm by… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white saucer dish, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period, boldly painted with fruiting peach and finger citron boughs extending over the interior, the reverse with ribboned emblems and flaming pearl, wood stand (2) 36 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A famille-rose 'Flower and Insect' bowl and cover seal mark and period of Daoguang, the steeply rounded sides with flared rim painted on the exterior with a cicada beside flowering chrysanthemum, a long-legged insect in flight on the reverse, repeated on… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'dragon' bowl and cover marks of Shendetang zhi, the steeply flared sides painted on the exterior in iron-red and gilding with two dragons pursuing flaming pearls on an incised white wave pattern ground, repeated on the domed cover around a central ring… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of iron-red 'dragon' cups, 19th/20th century, each with steeply flared sides painted on the exterior with two dragons pursuing flaming pearls among scattered flames above a band of crested waves encircling the small foot, the base inscribed in… | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt-decorated blue-ground vase and cover Qing dynasty, 19th century, (2), the sides gilt on a dark blue ground with lotus scrolls interspersed with bats holding tasselled pendants, between lappet and ruyi -head borders, the base inscribed in iron-red… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white bowl mark of Kangxi, Qing dynasty, the rounded sides painted with a frieze of jardinieres of fruits and flowers, above a continuous lotus scroll at the base and a band of the babao around the lipped rim, the interior with two dragons in… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of blue and white dishes Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, each with shallow rounded sides and lipped rim, supported on a double footrim, boldly painted on the interior with a shaped lappet and ruyi head medallion enclosing three cranes in flight and… | *** |  |
| *** | A Dehua censer Qing dynasty, 18th century the squat bombe sides set with two lion mask handles below the waisted mouth with everted rim, covered with an ivory tinted glaze 13.5 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | An unusual white-glazed, relief-carved 'famille-rose' vase mark of Hongxian, the shouldered ovoid body surmounted by a short waisted neck, carved in low relief with bats in flight among clouds on a cell-diaper ground between a band of upright lotus petals… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'blance-de-chine' Dehua figure of Damo (Bodhidharma), 18th century, standing barefoot supported on a reed floating above the base of swirling waves, his hands clasped beneath the voluminous folds of his long layered robes, leaving his chest bare, his… | *** |  |
| *** | A carved 'Longquan' celadon dish, Ming Dynasty 15th century, the interior freely carved with two curling lotus stems within radiating lotus sprigs on the petal-moulded cavetto, repeated on the exterior, within the barbed everted rim, covered overall in a… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Famille-Rose' 'Butterfly' Vase Mark and period of Guangxu, the globular body surmounted by a trumpet neck and everted rim, painted in iron-red and 'Famille-Rose' enamels with numerous butterflies in flight divided by a frieze of detached lotus sprays… | *** |  |
| *** | A transitional blue and white baluster vase and cover, circa 1640, painted with a dignitary under a tree, with a deer and young attendant, in a garden in a mountainous landscape18.5 cm high. Together with a blue and white pourring bowl, Yuan | *** |  |
| *** | A Ming style blue and white 'Lotus' dish, Qing Dynasty 18th century well potted with rounded sides springing from a short tapering foot, the interior painted in rich cobalt blue with a ribboned lotus bouquet in a central medallion encircled by a composite… | *** |  |
| *** | An unusual 'Dragon' bowl, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period, with steeply rounded sides springing from the slightly tapering foot, painted with four blue enamel dragons, the writhing animals leaping among green and iron-red clouds in pursuit of a gilt flaming… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white bottle vase, the ovoid body surmounted by a tall slender neck, painted with panels of maidens and boys, apocryphal six-character Kangxi mark within a double circle 45 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A 'blance-de-chine' figure of Guanyin, 18th / 19th century, seated on a high rockwork base with both legs pendent, wearing long flowing robes, tied at the waist and falling open at the chest to reveal a beaded necklace, her bare feet protruding from… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white 'dragon' dish mark of Zhengde, the interior painted with a dragon among lotus scrolls in a central medallion, encircled by a similar frieze of dragons and lotus around the cavetto, and repeated on the underside, the base inscribed in… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white Ming-style dish, of saucer shape, the interior with a central medallion of 'The Three Friends' within a composite floral scroll repeated on the exterior, unglazed base, 33 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of turquoise-glazed 'dragon' bowls marks of Guangxu each with deep rounded sides rising from a short foot to the flared rim, the exterior incised with two dragons pursuing flaming pearls above wave splashed rocks encircling the base, applied inside… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white rouleau vase Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, painted with a continuous scene of sages in a lakeside setting, some on a sampan seated eating at a table, whilst approaching others waiting on the rocky shore, near steps leading to pavilions set… | *** |  |
| *** | A wucai 'dragon' bowl mark of Wanli the steeply rounded sides with lipped rim springing from a short tapered foot, the interior with a central medallion of a phoenix in underglaze blue, the exterior painted in underglaze blue, yellow and green enamels and… | *** |  |
| *** | A small coral-ground famille-rose bowl, 20th century, painted on the exterior in bright enamels with different flowering plants, including peonies, lilies and asters, reserved on the rich coral-red ground, the interior glazed in white, the base inscribed… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Famille-rose' vase, Qing Dynasty, 18th century the rounded sides with a figure standing beside a large iron-red Buddhist lion chained to a post in a garden setting below a sage and attendant with jars of flowers and bats in flight around the wide… | *** |  |
| *** | A massive Canton 'Famille-rose' vase, late 19th century decorated in bright enamels with alternating panels of figures, birds and flowers and precious objects, reserved on the gilt ground, the neck with a pair of Buddhist lions and the shoulders with… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Famille-Verte' rouleau vase, decorated with a continuous scene of figures on the terraces of a garden pavilion below the neck painted with a lakeside view between formal borders around the shoulders and galleried rim 46.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A large famille rose bottle vase, Qianlong seal mark, Republic period, painted with branches of fruiting and flowering pomegranate, below a wide band of stylised lotus, peaches and bats on a lime green ground. Height 56 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of hardwood mounted famille rose circular panels, late Qing/early Republic, each elaborately painted with mountainous river landscape scenes, with figures in retreats and sampans, with an inscription, above a hardwood stand carved wi | *** |  |
| *** | An unusual white-glazed 'Dragon' jar, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period, of ovoid form, the sides finely incised with three dragons variously positioned in pursuit of flaming pearls among clouds and flames, the design subtly picked out in blue beneath the… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Famille-Verte' vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period, of slender ovoid form, the sides painted in bright enamels with insects hovering over the 'Flowers of the Four Seasons' in panels reserved on a florette-strewn seeded green ground, replacement cover (2)… | *** |  |
| *** | A Doucai floral bowl, seal mark of Daoguang the steeply rounded sides painted in doucai enamels with six stylised lotus blooms borne on a formal foliate scroll, all above a band of ruyi heads, the interior glazed white, inscribed on the base with a… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of green-glazed ‘Dragon' bowls, marks and period of tongzhi. Diameter 15 cm each incised on the exterior with dragons chasing ‘Flaming pearls' above a band of rocks and waves beneath the lime-green glaze, the interior glazed in white | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Famille-rose' vase, republican period, of baluster form, the sides decorated with a group of boys playing in a continuous garden beneath blossoMing trees, gilt edged rim, the base with apocryphal Ju Ren Tang zhi mark in iron-red, 31.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A large famille-rose 'peony' dish, late 19th/early 20th century, of deep saucer shape, boldly enamelled in bright colours with leafy branches of flowering peony extending over the interior, bearing large blooms in tones of pink, white and iron-red, the… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Longquan' celadon vase, Yuhuchunping, late Ming dynasty the pear-shaped body springing from a straight foot encircled with a key-fret border, the sides carved with a continuous lotus scroll below a frieze of clouds and stiff leaves on the slender… | *** |  |
| *** | A celadon-glazed tripod censer with slightly flared sides rising from three short cabriole legs to the flat incurved rim, moulded on the exterior with a continuous floral scroll, between a series of concentric rings encircling the base and the mouth,… | *** |  |
| *** | Two blue and white bottle vases late Ming dynasty, Wanli period, (4), almost forming a pair, each of pear-shape tapering to a slender neck, the sides of one painted with panels of different flowering plants, the other with alternating panels of leaping… | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese export dinner service in the 'famille-verte' palette, circa 1910 (44). A Chinese export dinner service in the 'famille-verte' palette, circa 1910 decorated with roosters and birds in a garden landscape, comprising eight dinner plates, eight soup… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-rose' 'auspicious emblems' bowl, seal mark of Daoguang, with widely rounded sides springing from a high slightly tapering foot and rising to a lipped rim, the exterior decorated with a parade of alternating twin fish, lotus flowers and chimes,… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-rose' bowl seal mark of Daoguang, with steeply rounded sides rising from a recessed base, painted on the exterior with birds in flight and perched on branches of pink and white blossoming prunus trees growing among bamboo, and with a red sun… | *** |  |