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Ceramics — Chinese - Oriental - Sotheby's
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Ceramics - Chinese
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| *** | A Dehua censer Qing dynasty, 17th century of compressed globular form, supported on a short splayed foot, the sides set with two animal mask handles below the waisted mouth and everted rim, covered with an ivory tinted glaze, the base with impressed An… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of 'famille-rose' bowls marks of Xianfeng each of steeply rounded form with flared rim, the exterior painted with a figure carrying a basket of fruits, a fly whisk and a bundle of scrolls, his head turned to look at the deer to one side and with… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Famille-Rose' porcelain plaque mounted as a table screen, 19th/20th century, of rectangular form, brightly enamelled with sages and attendants approaching a lakeside palace set among trees and mountain peaks, framed and mounted as a screen (2) the… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-rose' Shou character dish seal mark of Jiaqing of saucer shape, painted in iron-red on the interior with the wufu encircling a central shou medallion, the exterior with a frieze of characters alternating in iron-red and turquoise enamel between… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white censer, Kangxi period, decorated with phoenix medallions alternating with cloud scrolls above a continuous lotus scroll, the shoulders with key fret border and the waisted mouth encircled with Buddhist emblems, applied metal loop handles,… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'blance-de-chine' figure of Guanyin, 18th / 19th century, standing barefoot on a cloud scroll base, wearing long flowing robes opened at the chest to reveal a beaded ruyi. Height 37 cm. Provenance: Compare with a figure of Guanyin sold in our New York… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of 'Famille-Rose' rouleau vases, 19th/20th century, each decorated with dragons reserved on a ground of stylized waves and scattered clouds, seal marks, mounted with European gilt metal bases (2) 66 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white 'Qilin' dish, Ming Dynasty, 16th century spiritedly painted on the interior with a qilin in a central medallion within a band of floral scrolls around the cavetto, repeated on the underside, wood stand (2), 31.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A celadon-glazed jar, seal mark of Qianlong, the ovoid body rising to a short neck, moulded on each side below the shoulders with a reversed 'C'-shaped mock handle, covered overall with a sea-green glaze of even tone, the base inscribed in underglaze blue… | *** |  |
| *** | A copper-red glazed dish Qing Dynasty, of shallow saucer shape, the rounded sides springing from a short foot covered inside and out with a rich pinkish glaze thinning to white at the lipped rim, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of Bow sauceboats, circa 1753, decorated in the famille rose palette with sprays of flowers to the interior and exterior, each of oval shape with scrolling rim with a high spur thumb rest, supported on lion mask and paw feet, marked 'E' in red to… | *** |  |
| *** | A flambe-glazed three spouted vase mark of Tongzhi, the lobed body of double gourd form rising from a countersunk foot to the three narrow necks, the rich red glaze vertically streaked with lavender blue in the indentations of the lobes, the base incised… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of 'Lotus and Buddhist emblems' dishes marks of Guangxu each of saucer shape, painted on the interior in underglaze blue with coloured enamel detailing, with a central lotus medallion within radiating lotus sprays encircled with a frieze of the… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of 'dragon and phoenix' dishes marks of Guangxu, each of shallow saucer shape, the interior painted in 'famille-rose' enamels, iron-red and underglaze-blue with a dragon and phoenix encircling a central 'shou' and bat medallion, the base inscribed… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'longquan' celadon openwork 'peony' vase, Ming dynasty or later, with double walls of pear shape rising from a straight foot to the narrow waisted neck, the outer wall carved with a peony scroll bearing two blooms among foliage in openwork below an… | *** |  |
| *** | Two 'famille-rose' kendi Qing dynasty, 18th century one decorated with floral scrolls on a blue ground between formal borders; the other with vertical panels of flower sprays on alternating colour grounds, the necks with upright stiff leaves (2), 21 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-rose' 'butterfly' vase mark of Guangxu the globular body rising to a trumpet neck, decorated in iron-red and 'famille-rose' enamels with numerous butterflies in flight, divided by a frieze of detached stylised lotus sprays and shou characters… | *** |  |
| *** | A double gourd vase, 20th century the lower bulb of oval section supported on a short splayed foot and surmounted by an upper bulb flanked by two loop handles terminating in ruyi heads, the sides painted in underglaze blue, enamels and gilding with pairs… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white vase, transitional period, of beaker form, the tall flared sides painted with a bird in flight above flowering plants and bamboo growing beside rocks in a continuous garden scene, above a frieze of cloud scrolls around the waist and a… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'blance-de-chine' Dehua figure group of wen chang and kui xing, 18th / 19th century, standing on clouds rising above waves, the deity wearing flowing robes, tied with a long tasselled cord around the waist, his head covered with a cloth cap tied with a… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of bronze mounted vases, Qing Dynasty, 19th century the crackle-glazed ovoid body of each set with mask and ring handles picked out in brown on the shoulders, the mouth and pierced base in bronze. Height 22 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An underglaze-blue and enamel decorated vase, 20th century, of pear shape, the sides decorated with a large green dragon amongst scattered iron-red bats and blue clouds, above a band of crested waves encircling the foot, the base with apocryphal Yongzheng… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of famille-rose vases and a cover, Qing dynasty, 19th century, each of baluster form decorated with cranes, kingfishers and other water birds reserved on a ground of lotus blooms and foliage, between a band of crested waves around the base and a… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Longquan' celadon dish, Ming Dynasty, the interior carved in the centre with a lozenge-diaper medallion within a floral scroll encircling the cavetto, covered with a glaze of attractive even tone 34 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white charger, Wanli period, the interior painted with insects and flowering plants growing beside rocks in an octagonal landscape medallion, within diaper borders, the shallow widely flared sides with radiating petal-shaped panels of ribboned… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of famille-rose wall vases, each of double gourd form painted with a landscape medallion below a smaller medallion of calligraphy, reserved on the overall turquoise ground decorated with bats and lotus scrolls, the base inscribed in iron-red with… | *** |  |
| *** | A flambe-glazed vase, seal mark of Qianlong, the compressed angular body rising from a splayed foot to a tall slender neck with lipped narrow mouth, with raised bands encircling the body and set with two loop handles, the base incised with a six-character… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white yenyen vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period painted in bright cobalt blue with deer and cranes beside rocks and pine trees in a continuous landscape around the sides and repeated on the tall trumpet neck, bo, 45 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of yellow-ground 'bat' bowls marks of Tongzhi, the steeply rounded sides decorated on the exterior in iron-red with numerous bats in flight around gilt shou medallions, all reserved on the bright yellow ground, the base inscribed in blue enamel on… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-rose' bowl mark of Guangxu the rounded sides decorated in bright enamels on the exterior with a crested bird perched on ornamental rockwork among flowering plants, bamboo and lingzhi fungus, the base inscribed with a six-character mark in… | *** |  |
| *** | A set of four glazed pottery attendants with sedan chair, Ming Dynasty each figure standing with one arm raised to support the wood pole bearing the carriage, wearing a belted robe glazed in aubergine and turquoise, the rectangular carriage with canopied… | *** |  |
| *** | An iron-red decorated vase, 20th century of tapering shouldered form surmounted by a short cylindrical neck and galleried rim pencilled with formal borders in sepia, the sides painted with a lady smoking a pipe seated in a canopied carriage drawn by a… | *** |  |
| *** | An inscribed landscape vase by Zhou Guojun, 20th century of upright form, the sides painted with a continuous landscape with a cluster of thatched roofed buildings beneath a large willow tree on the rocky shores of a lake, the neck with a blue enamel… | *** |  |
| *** | A famille-rose 'Eight Buddhist Emblems' bowl seal mark of Daoguang the exterior decorated with the bajixiang in pairs between a ruyi band and a key-fret border in iron-red, the interior undecorated, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark in… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-rose' rouleau vase, 19th/20th century, the sides painted with a lady carrying a baby accompanied by several dignitaries, some also carrying babies in their arms, and an old man offering a bowl of fruit, on a terrace overlooking a garden of… | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese 'famille-rose' figure of Pudai seated holding a rosary in one hand, wearing a floral decorated turquoise ground robe, his face with jovial expression 26 cm high. Property from the Collection of Dame Nellie Melba GBE | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese Dehua vase, Qing dynasty of baluster form with narrow lipped mouth, the sides carved with flowering sprays and set with two animal mask handles, all beneath the ivory tinted glaze, an inscription incised on one side 29 cm high. Property from the… | *** |  |
| *** | An octagonal yellow glass vase, the bulbous pear-shaped body supported on a high straight foot and rising to a tall slender neck, the opaque glass of a rich egg-yolk yellow tone, the recessed base with an apocryphal four-character seal mark of Qianlong,… | *** |  |
| *** | An inscribed 'famille-rose' vase, 20th century, of slender ovoid form tapering to a tall narrow neck with heavily lipped rim, the sides decorated with an old man in a rickshaw, his attendant kneeling to tie his sandal, in a landscape setting, the reverse… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of yellow-ground green and aubergine enamelled 'dragon' dishes marks and period of Guangxu, the shallow rounded sides resting on a short foot, the interior incised with an aubergine and a green glazed dragon contesting a flaming pearl within a… | *** |  |
| *** | An inscribed landscape vase, 20th century, of slender shouldered form, the sides painted with figures in a continuous mountain landscape between formal blue enamel borders around the base and flared mouth, an inscription on the reverse, the base with an… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white jar, Ming dynasty Wanli period the sides painted with birds in flight and perched among flowering peony, chrysanthemum and lingzhi fungus, below a sprig and diaper band around the shoulders 16 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Longquan' celadon deep bowl Ming dynasty with steeply rounded sides and lipped rim supported on a short straight foot, the interior impressed with a central floral spray, covered overall with a sea-green glaze apart from an unglazed ring inside the… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white censer, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, the squat rounded sides with a frieze of precious objects and ribboned emblems below the flared mouth with key fret border; together with a blue and white covered bowl, the steeply rounded sides with… | *** |  |
| *** | A flambe glazed vase, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, the ovoid body surmounted by a slender neck, covered with a streaked blue and red glaze falling unevenly over the shoulders 37 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A large 'Longquan' celadon dish, Ming Dynasty, carved on the interior with a central floral spray and with detached scrolls encircling the everted rim, all beneath the glaze of attractive even blue-green tone 39 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A flambe-glazed vase, Fanghu, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, of archaic bronze form, the pear-shaped body of rectangular section rising from a short straight foot, set at the shoulders with a pair of lug handles and moulded with a large peach-shaped panel to… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of blue and white bottle vases, Ming Dynasty, Wanli period each of pear shape tapering to a narrow neck with garlic mouth, the sides reserved with cranes and lotus among scrolls on the underglaze-blue ground below chilong and lingzhi on the neck… | *** |  |
| *** | A Wucai Gu-shaped vase, transitional period painted with ladies and children in a fenced garden, below a band of peony 29.5 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-rose' 'butterfly' vase mark of Guangxu, the globular body rising to a trumpet neck, decorated in iron-red and 'famille-rose' enamels with numerous butterflies in flight, divided by a frieze of detached stylised lotus sprays and shou characters… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-rose' 'Mille Fleurs' vase the globular body surmounted by a slender cylindrical neck, applied around the shoulders with a sinuous dragon and flaming pearl picked out in iron-red and gilding on the floral ground, the turquoise base inscribed… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white bottle vase Qing dynasty, 18th century, the ovoid body rising to a slender cylindrical neck, decorated overall with horizontal bands of shou characters between a band of lotus petals at the base and ruyi head and scroll borders around the… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-rose' butterfly vase mark of Guangxu, the globular body surmounted by a tall waisted neck, painted in iron-red and enamels with numerous butterflies in flight, divided by a frieze of detached stylised lotus sprays and shou characters around the… | *** |  |
| *** | A Dehua sleeve vase Qing dynasty, 17th /18th century, the tapering cylindrical body surmounted by a short waisted neck and set below the shoulders with two lion mask handles, covered overall with an ivory-tinted glaze. 29.5 cm high. | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white 'chicken head' ewer Ming dynasty, 16th century the globular body surmounted by a short waisted neck and flared mouth, set on one side with a spout shaped as a chicken head opposite the handle modelled in the form of a chicken tail, the… | *** |  |
| *** | A simulated 'lingbi rock' mountain-form brushrest naturalistically formed as rocky crags with a weathered surface and irregular hollows, the dark glaze accented with spots of turquoise simulating lichen, the underside with an impressed four-character seal… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of famille rose bowls, 19th/early 20th century, each painted on the exterior with ribboned wan symbols above a continuous band of rocks and waves, the interior glazed in turquoise, the base inscribed in iron-red with a six-character mark of Guangxu… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Longquan' celadon censer, late Ming Dynasty, of squat rounded form with everted rim standing on tripod feet, covered inside and out with a crackled green glaze, the unglazed areas on the base and interior burnt orange in the firing. Diameter 33.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A blue-glazed bowl, Qing Dynasty, shunzhi period, well potted with widely flared sides incised on the interior with dragons encircling a central 'FlaMing pearl' beneath the glaze of even dark blue tone, the rim, footrim and base in brown, fitted box, (2),… | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white 'Warrior' dish, mark and period of Kangxi, the centre with two equestrian warriors in a landscape, within radiating petal-shaped panels enclosing flowers and rocks alternating with further armed warriors, all reserved on a diaper ground,… | *** |  |
| *** | A set of ten Chinese export 'Fitzhugh' pattern hot water plates, early 19th century, decorated in underglaze-blue (10) 28 cm for a plate of this pattern see Gordon, 1977, col. Pl. IX. Plates of this pattern in the collection of Elinor Gordon, were sold at… | *** |  |
| *** | A large 'Famille-Verte' jar and cover, Qing Dynasty, of baluster form decorated with medallions of fish and water weeds, interspersed with floral and precious object vignettes on an iron-red diaper ground, the domed cover with lion knop, apocryphal… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Longquan' celadon censer, Ming Dynasty, supported on tripod mask feet, the shallow bombe sides carved with floral scrolls and with a band of bosses below the everted rim, all beneath the glaze of even tone 30 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An Annamese blue and white altar vessel, 16th/17th century of stoutly potted baluster form encircled around the widest part with an unglazed dragon in high relief, and painted with a flaming pearl, clouds and flames above a band of upright lappets rising… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'clair-de-lune' glazed vase, Fanghu, 20th century, the baluster body rising to the neck flanked by a pair of rectangular lug handles, moulded to the front and back with a raised peach-form panel, covered overall with a pale blue glaze, the base… | *** |  |
| *** | A famille-rose 'Flower and Insect' vase. 20th century, the tapering shouldered body springing from a high foot and surmounted by a waisted neck and flared mouth, delicately painted with insects among different flowering plants and a pair of song birds,… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of 'famille-rose' coral-ground 'peony' bowls seal marks of Qianlong, each with steeply rounded sides, enamelled on the exterior with three yellow-ground panels of peony blooms issuing from leafy stems bordered by entwined leafy flowering stems,… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of lime-green ground bowls, 20th century, (2), each painted on the exterior in 'famille-rose' enamels with birds perched on blossoming prunus trees, the reverse with an inscription in black, the interior glazed in white, the base inscribed in blue… | *** |  |
| *** | A large sepia-decorated landscape vase, 20th century, of tall ovoid form rising from the flared base and surmounted by a waisted neck with everted mouth, the sides painted predominantly in sepia with detailing in iron-red, depicting a continuous lakeside… | *** |  |
| *** | A large 'famille-rose' basin, mark of Guangxu, stoutly potted of shallow cylindrical form, the straight sides rising to a broad everted mouth with grooved galleried rim, painted on the interior with a pair of cranes standing among flowering lotus plants,… | *** |  |
| *** | An unusual blue ground vase, the slender ovoid body surmounted by a waisted neck with incurved mouth, decorated with bands of rectangular landscape panels in 'famille-verte' enamels reserved on the gilt cracked-ice blue ground, the interior and base… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Longquan' celadon dish, Ming dynasty of shallow form with barbed everted rim, carved on the interior with scrolling lotus sprays around a central flowerhead, repeated on the exterior, the sea-green glaze falling short of an unglazed ring inside the… | *** |  |
| *** | A moulded gourd vase the flattened globular body surmounted by a slender neck with amber mounted garlic mouth, decorated in relief on either side with a medallion of Buddhist emblems reserved on a ground of bats in flight among cloud scrolls, the base… | *** |  |
| *** | A large zitan brush pot Bitong, Qing dynasty, of plain cylindrical form. 20.5 cm high. | *** |  |
| *** | A yellow-ground ‘Famille-rose' bowl, 19th / 20th century, the exterior decorated with sprays of flowering peony, the blooms in tones of pink and iron-red amongst green foliage, extending up the sides to the white glazed rim, the interior and base glazed… | *** |  |
| *** | A liver-red glazed vase, Qing dynasty, 19th century, the globular body with tall waisted neck, covered on the exterior with a finely streaked glaze of rich tones draining from a line below the rim;. Height 38 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Canton 'Famille-Rose' vase, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, the lobed ovoid body rising to a flared pleated neck set with pairs of gilt lions, painted with figure scene panels and vignettes on a floral strewn ground 65 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A famille rose double gourd vase, Qianlong mark, Republic period, painted in enamels with butterflies of differing size, over a even clear glaze. Height 35 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A famille rose patterned ormolu mounted vase and cover, 19th century, possibly French, of ovoid form, the sides decorated in the Chinese style and 'Famille-rose' palette, with a frieze of pairs of boys either side of lanterns with ribbon lotus blooms… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Longquan' celadon dish, Ming Dynasty, stoutly potted with shallow rounded sides, the interior impressed with a central hibiscus spray within a combed petal-shaped border, the cavetto carved with lotus scrolls, all beneath the olive-green glaze 40.6 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A cafe-au-lait glazed jar, 19th/20th century, of ovoid form surmounted by a short waisted mouth rising above a raised horizontal band, covered on the exterior with a lustrous coffee coloured glaze, the rim and interior glazed in white, the base inscribed… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'famille-verte' rouleau vase, the steep sides painted with a maiden holding a fan seated on green rockwork, her head turned towards a boy approaching offering her a lotus flower, the shoulders with a vignette diaper ground border below bamboo and… | *** |  |
| *** | Two blue and white jars, Qing Dynasty, 18th century comprising a baluster jar decorated with Buddhist lions among lotus between formal borders; and a ginger jar with panels of boys alernating with lotus scrolls; together with a later blue-ground ginger… | *** |  |
| *** | A set of four painted porcelain plaques, 20th century, each of rectangular form, painted in famille-rose enamels with figures variously occupied in boats and on the shores of a lake, with pavilions set among rocks and trees in a landscape of craggy cliffs… | *** |  |
| *** | A famille-rose bowl Qing Dynasty, 19th century, with steeply flared sides rising to the gilt rim, painted on the exterior with figures in a garden setting, a lady with attendants being led towards a horse held by a young boy, the interior and base with… | *** |  |
| *** | A flambe-glazed vase, 19th/20th century, the globular body standing on a short straight foot and rising to a slender trumpet neck above a raised horizontal band around the shoulders, covered with a rich lavender-blue streaked crimson glaze thinning to… | *** |  |
| *** | A wucai saucer dish mark of Wanli the interior painted in coloured enamels and underglaze blue with a central figure scene within a continuous floral meander around the cavetto repeated on the underside between double line borders, the base inscribed in… | *** |  |
| *** | A doucai saucer dish, mark of Yongzheng, decorated in underglaze blue and enamels with a central medallion of flowers and lingzhi fungus growing beside ornamental rockwork, the underside with a frieze of similar plants and rockwork between double line… | *** |  |
| *** | A 'ding'-style 'lotus' dish, the rounded sides rising from a short straight foot, carved on the interior with a flowering lotus spray, the underside with overlapping petals, covered overall in an ivory-white glaze falling unevenly over the foot, metal… | *** |  |
| *** | A crackle-glazed censer Qing dynasty, with rounded sides tapering to the wide mouth set with double upright loop handles and supported on tripod conical feet, covered inside and out with a mushroom coloured glaze suffused overall with a network of black… | *** |  |
| *** | An unusual simulated rockwork archer's ring, 20th century, the exterior decorated with swirls of chestnut, black and grisaille to imitate natural stonework, the interior rim inscribed in iron-red with an apocryphal four-character seal mark of Qianlong. 3… | *** |  |
| *** | A large Canton 'famille-rose' bowl Qing dynasty, 19th century the rounded sides painted on the interior and exterior with figure scene panels and vignettes within gilt ground lotus flower and foliage borders, interspersed with birds, butterflies and… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of canton 'Famille-rose' vases, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, each decorated with figure scene and bird and flower panels, the neck and shoulders applied with gilt chilong and Buddhist lions, gilt wood stands, (4), 35 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A 'Blanc-De Chine' Dehua figure of Guanyin, 18th century, seated in lalitasana. Height 23 cm. Provenance: The mark translates as 'Reaching All, Even the Fishermen' known as the 'Fisherman' mark and is mainly found on figures.Compare with a similar figure,… | *** |  |
| *** | Two 'Longquan' celadon dishes, late Ming Dynasty one with barbed rim and petal fluted cavetto beneath the sea-green glaze; the other with ribbed cavetto and everted rim beneath a pale green glaze, wood stand, fitted boxes (3) 32 cm and 33. 8 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A porcelain 'Landscape' panel, Qing Dynasty, late 19th/20th century, of rectangular form, enamelled predominantly in tones of blue and green with two sages and attendant standing conversing in a lakeside garden with distant sampans and mountains,… | *** |  |