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Sotheby's
Number of lots recorded:96
Lots with images:96
Prices available:96
Category:
Ceramics - Chinese
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*** A pair of 'famille-rose' wine cups seal marks of Daoguang, (2), each painted on the exterior with a sage accompanied by his crane, conversing with an old man carrying a basket of flowers, the reverse with two iron-red bats in flight, the base inscribed in… ***
*** A pair of yellow-ground 'famille-rose' dishes marks of Guangxu, each of saucer shape, painted on the interior with a composite floral meander of brightly enamelled blooms among scrolling foliage reserved on the bright yellow ground, the white glazed… ***
*** A blue and white censer Qing dynasty, of bombe form, the sides painted with a continuous lakeside scene below a frieze of pencilled cloud scrolls around the wide flared mouth, 19 cm diameter ***
*** A carved white-glazed yenyen vase, 20th century, the splayed base and tall trumpet neck decorated with a mountainous landscape above and below the central bulb encircled with two dragons and ruyi fungus, the base pierced with a central aperture, inscribed… ***
*** A blue and white dish late Ming dynasty, the interior painted with fish swimming among lotus and other water plants, in a medallion encircled around the broad everted barbed rim with a landscape frieze, the underside with tree shrews and vine, 30.4 cm… ***
*** A pair of Chinese blue and white yen yen vases, 19th/20th century (2). A pair of Chinese blue and white yen yen vases, 19th/20th century each painted with figures in a continuous mountain landscape (2) 45 cm high. Property from the Collection of Dame… ***
*** Two blue white kendi Ming dynasty, Wanli period one decorated with a figure seated in a lakeside garden; the other with alternating panels of prancing horses and floral sprigs (2), 20.5 cm high; 19 cm high ***
*** A 'famille-rose' 'floral' dish Qing dynasty, 18th century, painted on the interior with peonies and other flowers growing beside rockwork, in a central medallion within a turquoise and pink ground border, brown-edged rim, 37 cm diameter ***
*** A 'famille-rose' bowl mark of Xuantong, with rounded sides and lipped rim, the exterior painted with birds in flight and perched among flowering plants and rockwork, the base inscribed in iron-red with a six-character mark, 12.2 cm diameter ***
*** A blue-glazed Guan jar, the baluster body waisted below the wide neck and set on the shoulders with a pair of bovine mask handles, the exterior covered with a glaze of violet blue tone, the rim and interior glazed in white, 32.3 cm high ***
*** A 'Longquan' celadon dish, Ming dynasty the rounded sides carved on the interior with radiating petals below the everted lipped rim, covered overall with a sea-green glaze, an unglazed ring inside the footrim burnt orange in the firing 27 cm diameter ***
*** A blue and white vase and cover Ming dynasty, 16th century of slender baluster form, the sides painted with a frieze of trailing lotus scrolls between a band of lappets around the splayed base and ruyi -shaped floral panels around the shoulders, below the… ***
*** A group of famille rose wares, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, comprising a bowl, painted on the exterior with alternating landscape and floral panels within blue and pink enamel borders, wood stand, a pair of floral decorated plates, and another similar… ***
*** A 'famille-rose' plate Qing dynasty, Qianlong period decorated with a maiden and boy within flowering sprays; together with a later rectangular 'famille-rose' dish decorated with maidens in a garden setting (2) 21 cm diameter; 23.5 cm long ***
*** A blue and white vase, 20th century, of square section, painted on the exterior with pairs of birds among different flowering plants and rockwork, with an inscription to one side, the base with a glazed square recess inscribed in underglaze blue with a… ***
*** A blue and white meat dish, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period, of chamfered rectangular form, the centre with a lakeside scene within formal borders, 40.3 cm ***
*** A 'Kraak Porselein' blue and white saucer dish, Wanli period, painted with a bird perched among bamboo and chrysanthemum flowers within radiating petal borders; together with, 20 cm, 15 cm and 14 cm diameter respectively ***
*** A 'blance-de-chine' Dehua figure of eve, 17th / 18th century, standing on a rockwork base, scantily clad with drapery around her waist held by both hands at the front, and trailing to the ground, her hair swept up from her forehead and dressed in a coil… ***
*** A pair of 'Famille-Verte' rouleau vases, 19th/20th century, the sides painted with the eight immortals each riding on a different mythical beast, between formal borders, apocryphal Kangxi marks (2) 61.5 cm ***
*** A flambe-glazed vase, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, with ovoid body and slender neck, covered with a finely streaked glaze of rich tone; together with a later lavender-blue glazed vase (2) 21 cm and 28.5 cm respectively ***
*** A 'Dehua' figure of a Buddhist lion, Qing Dynasty, 17th/18th century, seated on a high rectangular plinth applied with prunus sprigs, one foreleg raised over a pierced brocade ball beside a seated cub, the head raised and slightly turned to the side with… ***
*** A Blanc-de-Chine figure of Guanyin, late Qing Dynasty, seated in 'Royal Ease' on a high pedestal, holding a child in her lap and a book in one hand, a vase and a bird on a rocky ledge and with a male and female attendant standing in front 20.5 cm ***
*** A blue and white jar, Ming Dynasty Wanli period of squat shouldered form, the sides painted with birds and insects hovering over chrysanthemum, peony, bamboo and other flowering plants below a peach sprig diaper border encircling the shoulders 16. 5 cm ***
*** An unusual celadon-glazed stand, the recessed top of squat rounded form, supported on a high splayed foot encircled with a double collar, covered overall with a broadly crackled olive green glaze, falling short of the footrim burnt orange in the firing 15… ***
*** A Blanc-de-Chine censer, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, of squat bombe form standing on a splayed foot, the shoulders set with double lion mask handles below the flared mouth, the glaze of even ivory tone 14.3 cm. Provenance: Jane Carnegie, Melbourne ***
*** A 'Famille-rose' teapot and cover, Qing Dynasty Qianlong period the pear-shaped body set with a narrow spout opposite the loop handle and painted in bright enamels with a pheasant perched on rockwork among flowering prunus and peony, the domed cover with… ***
*** Seven Chinese Imari plates, Qing Dynasty 18th century comprising a set of four, each painted with a maiden and boys picking flowers in a fenced enclosure; and three painted with flowers and precious objects (7) 22.2 cm and 21.3 cm ***
*** A flambe vase, 19th/20th century, the ovoid body with a double raised band around the shoulders below the tall waisted neck, covered with a rich crimson glaze faintly suffused with lavender blue around the neck, the base incised with an apocryphal four… ***
*** A pair of iron-red 'dragon' bowls seal marks of Daoguang, each with widely rounded sides springing from a short straight foot, decorated on the exterior with two iron-red dragons pursuing flaming pearls on a ground of white enamelled sgraffiato waves, the… ***
*** A copper-red glazed meiping, Qing dynasty, the exterior covered with a rich evenly applied dark-red glaze falling just short of the base and the white-glazed lipped rim of the narrow mouth, 19 cm high ***
*** A celadon-ground and underglaze blue vase Qing dynasty, 19th century the ovoid body decorated in white relief and painted in cobalt blue with a dignitary and two attendants beneath a maple tree, the waisted neck set with two phoenix handles picked out in… ***
*** A blue and white stemcup Ming dynasty, 16th century the steeply rounded sides pencilled with a dragon, deer, hare and other animals reserved on a ground of swirling waves, the high splayed foot with leafy sprays, the base with a four character mark in… ***
*** An inscribed landscape vase by Zou Guojun, 20th century of upright form, the sides painted with a continuous landscape with pavilions set among rocks and trees, between blue enamel formal borders around the neck and base, an inscription in black signed… ***
*** A blue and white saucer dish, Kangxi period, the petal-moulded cavetto decorated with floral sprigs around a central medallion of butterflies and trees; together with, 15 cm and 11 cm diameter respectively ***
*** A pair of miniature blue and white bottle vases, Kangxi period, decorated with flowers and rockwork, together with, 10 cm, 9 cm, 7 cm 15 cm, 8 cm and. Height 7 cm respectively ***
*** A blue and white dish, Kangxi mark and period, decorated with a flowering prunus bough and blossoms reserved on a 'Cracked-ice' ground; together with a similarly decorated blue and white dish, the base with apocryphal Chenghua mark; and a smaller dish… ***
*** A rose quartz vase and cover, Qing Dynasty, the shouldered body carved in high relief with a phoenix beside peony flowers growing from rockwork, the reverse with a duck resting on a lotus leaf, the cover with duck knop, fitted wood stand (3) 24 cm ***
*** A 'Lonquan' celadon cup stand, Yuan/Ming Dynasty, of flower shape, the shallow rounded sides and everted rim carved with petals radiating from a raised band of petals and a row of bosses enclosing an unglazed central recess; together with a celadon-glazed… ***
*** A 'Famille-rose' saucer dish, Guangxu mark the interior with four stylised phoenix among flowering lotus within a gilt line border on the rim, the underside with three detached floral sprays, the base inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze blue… ***
*** An unusual circular plaque late Qing Dynasty, decorated in bright enamels with petal-shaped floral panels radiating from a central flower medallion reserved on a ground of figure scenes alternating with birds and flowers, all within a frieze of flower and… ***
*** A 'famille-rose' dish, Republican period, the interior decorated with figures on horseback and carrying a banner, escorting an old man approaching his carriage in a landscape setting, the base inscribed in iron-red with Ju Ren Tang mark, wood stand, (2),… ***
*** A gilt decorated blue-glazed kendi Qing dynasty, 18th century, of globular form surmounted by a tall trumpet neck, and set on the shoulders with a bulbous spout, decorated in gilding on the ground of deep blue tone, 24.5 cm high ***
*** A 'famille-rose' dish Qing dynasty, Qianlong period the interior painted in bright enamels with a lotus meander in a central medallion within a frieze of peony vignettes and floral jardinieres on the broad everted brown-edged rim 31 cm diameter ***
*** A pair of shiwan ware garden seats, Qing Dynasty, each of hexagonal section, the slightly curved sides vertically ribbed and reserved with alternating relief decorated panels, and with two circular apertures as handles, the top pierced with a central wan… ***
*** A blue and white vase, Ming dynasty, Wanli period, the pear-shaped body tapering to a tall narrow neck, painted in deep cobalt blue with alternating panels of leaping horses and flowering plants divided by narrow bands, the neck with chased metal mount,… ***
*** A set of four 'kraak porselein' bowls Ming dynasty, Wanli period, (4), each decorated with a central medallion of birds and flowers, or flowers and insects and precious objects, within radiating panels of masks and vignettes, (4), 14.5 cm to 15.5 cm… ***
*** A lime-green ground 'famille-rose' saucer dish mark of Guangxu the interior decorated with a central gilt shou character medallion within the wu fu, reserved on a turquoise ground and repeated in a frieze around the cavetto, interspersed with ribboned wan… ***
*** A 'famille-rose' circular box and cover mark of Guangxu, (2) the domed cover painted with a scene of boys at play in a garden setting within a 'millle-fleurs' border around the rim, and repeated on the rim of the shallow rounded sides painted with… ***
*** A blue ground garden seat, Qing dynasty, late 19th century, decorated in white slip on the violet blue ground with birds and flowering plants below a band of ribboned emblems, the sides pierced with 'cash' between bands of raised bosses, 47.5 cm high ***
*** A pair of iron-red and gilt boxes and covers marks of Guangxu each of compressed globular form, the exterior gilt with a series of shou characters divided by key-fret borders, repeated on the interior encircling ribboned emblems, all reserved on the coral… ***
*** A set of three famille rose figures of Guanyin, Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century, the figures in sizes, each seated wearing loose brightly coloured robes and a shawl covering the high coiffure, -3, 21 cm, 15 cm, 13 cm high. Provenance: Walter Waddingham,… ***
*** A blue and white plate, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period painted with a central medallion of a sage seated fishing beside a lake and two figures on the opposite bank, the base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark; together with a blue and white… ***
*** A pair of underglaze-blue and enamelled dishes, each decorated inside and out with blue lotus scrolls outlined in green and with details in yellow and iron-red, encircling a similar central medallion, apocryphal Kangxi marks to the base, each 20.3 cm… ***
*** An unusual ‘Famille-Noire' Minyao bowl, mark and period of Qianlong, the sides with upturned brown-edged rim, and decorated on the exterior with scrolling hibiscus flowers reserved on the black ground, beneath a green glaze, the interior glazed in white.… ***
*** A pair of 'Famille-Rose' vases, each of ovoid form with straight narrow mouth, the sides well painted with flowering chrysanthemum in a variety of colours, the leafy stems extending over the sides, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a four… ***
*** An 'Egg and spinach' biscuit dish, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period, with shallow cavetto and flared rim, covered inside and out in egg-yolk yellow splashed with green, the interior of the footrim glazed in white20.5 cm ***
*** A blue and white ginger jar, Qing Dynasty 18th century of ovoid form, the sides painted with a continuous lakeside scene of sampans and pavilions below a formal border around the shoulders 23. 3 cm ***
*** A massive iron-red decorated vase, 20th century of ovoid form surmounted by a tall flared neck, painted overall with dragons among flowers and foliage, the details highlighted in black, the base with apocryphal Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue 53 cm ***
*** A 'famille-verte' beaker, the steeply rounded sides with flared rim, painted on the exterior with a continuous scene of an archer standing on a rocky promontary beside trees and jagged cliffs, 9 cm high ***
*** A blue and white dish, Qing Dynasty, kangxi period, painted with two sinuous dragons chasing a 'FlaMing pearl' within a band of waves around the broad everted rim, lingzhi sprig mark, 26.5 cm ***
*** A 'Famille-rose' dish, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period, the interior with detached floral sprays within a gilt spearhead border around the scalloped rim, 33 cm ***
*** A Chinese Imari dish, Qing Dynasty 18th century painted with a fruiting and flowering pomegranate tree, bamboo and other plants in a medallion within a vignette and diaper border, the broad everted rim carved with a frieze of flowers, sprig mark 38. 5 cm… ***
*** A ‘Famille-rose' Canton enamel bowl, late 19th century, the interior with a central floral panel within a surround of similar panels interspersed with iris vignettes below a floral border, the exterior similarly decorated, and interspersed with oval… ***
*** An anhua-decorated white-glazed stem bowl Qing dynasty or later, with steep sllightly rounded sides rising to a flared rim and supported on a tall splayed foot, the interior decorated with two scaly dragons pursuing flaming pearls, the base of the… ***
*** A blue and white Swatow 'dragon' jar late Ming dynasty, stoutly potted of baluster form, painted with a dragon encircling the sides above a band of waves, with a frieze of rocks and flowers at the base, the shoulders with a ruyi scroll and set with four… ***
*** A Doucai bowl the rounded sides painted on the exterior with a continuous floral scroll above a band of upright lappets encircling the foot, the interior with a central floral medallion, the base inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Qianlong mark 11… ***
*** A pair of doucai saucer dishes marks of Guangxu, (2), each painted on the interior with a multi-bloomed floral scroll in a central medallion within double underglaze blue line borders, the underside with detached sprays, the base inscribed in underglaze… ***
*** An inscribed 'Three Friends' brushpot seal mark of Qianlong, of cylindrical form, the exterior decorated in the style of Tang Ying in 'famille-rose' enamels and 'grisaille' with a pair of birds beside prunus, pine and bamboo, an inscription in black with… ***
*** A pair of underglaze blue and iron-red 'dragon' bowls yanghe tang zhi hall marks, each with shallow rounded sides and lipped rim springing from a short straight foot, decorated on the interior with a central medallion enclosing an iron-red dragon in… ***
*** An inscribed Yixing teapot and cover, signed Wu Yungen, of rectangular section, the baluster body set with an upright spout and loop handle, one side carved with a four line inscription, the dark brown ware faintly flecked, the base inscribed with a… ***
*** A pair of underglaze blue and enamelled bottle vases and covers Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century, (4), each decorated on the exterior in underglaze blue and gilding with medallions alternating with clusters of flowering plants and precious objects, and… ***
*** A blue and white 'kraak porselein' dish Ming dynasty, Wanli period, the interior with a central medallion of an insect resting beside a peony flower growing from rockwork, on diaper grounds within alternating ribboned object and flower sprig vignettes, 29… ***
*** A 'Longquan' celadon 'lotus' dish Ming dynasty the interior carved with a lotus medallion within radiating petals around the cavettto below the everted lipped rim, covered with a sea-green glaze 35 cm diameter ***
*** A celadon-glazed hu-shaped vase, 20th century, the pear-shaped body set with two animal head and ring handles, the sides with entwined dragon scrolls in low relief, all beneath the sea-green glaze of even tone, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with… ***
*** A twin-duck water dropper, Ming dynasty modelled as a duck and a drake side by side, the hollow backs with a central aperture, covered in a green glaze, the wing plummage and heads picked out in aubergine and yellow 9.5 cm long ***
*** A flambe-glazed bottle vase, 19th/20th century covered with a lavender blue streaked crimson glaze thinning towards the narrow mouth 38.5 cm ***
*** A set of four porcelain panels, 20th century, each painted in famille-rose enamels with pairs of birds on rockwork beside flowering lotus and bamboo, an inscription in black with a red seal reading Cheng Yiting to one side, framed. -4. each panel 21 x 12… ***
*** Three 'Famille-rose' vases, 20th century, comprising one decorated with birds, bamboo and flowering peonies, two decorated with figural panels reserved on floral grounds, (3), 58 cm, 59 cm, 61 cm ***
*** A 'Famille-Rose' bowl, seal mark of Tongzhi, of octagonal form, the rounded sides with flared rim, painted on the exterior with the eight immortals, the interior and base glazed in turquoise, inscribed in iron-red with a six-character seal mark 15 cm ***
*** A Canton 'Famille-Rose' Bough pot, Qing Dynasty 18th/19th century, of chamfered rectangular section, the flared sides supported on a splayed foot, painted with figure scene panels within fruiting vine and tree shrews in relief extending over the sides… ***
*** A pair of hardwood stools, 19th/20th century, the rounded sides with open panels supported on five bracket feet, the flat top inset with a recessed 'famille-rose' porcelain plaque of maidens in a garden (2) 46 cm high ***
*** Two 'Dehua' libation cups, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, the flared sides of each applied with deer, cranes, dragons and flowering prunus growing from rockwork (2) 12.7 cm and 11.4 cm ***
*** A blue and white stem cup with 'Lanca' characters, seal mark of Qianlong the steep flaring sides with a frieze of lanca characters enclosed by a lotus scroll, the splayed stem encircled by a band of petal lappets, a collar of florettes and interlinked… ***
*** Eight Chinese Imari plates, Qing Dynasty 18th century comprising a pair decorated with a deer gazing at a bird in flight in a central medallion within a border of further deer and flowers; and a set of six painted with flowers and bamboo beside a fence… ***
*** A blue and white dish, 18th century, painted with a landscape medallion and flower sprays together with, 23.3 cm, 25 cm and 28 cm diameter respectively ***
*** A flambe glazed jar, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, the ovoid body supported on a high foot, covered on the exterior with streaked crimson and blue glazes, wood cover (2) 29 cm ***
*** A 'Famille-Rose' bowl, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, of quatrelobed oval form, painted with the eight immortals in a continuous landscape, above floral scrolls around the high splayed foot, the interior with fish among water weeds, the base inscribed in… ***
*** A Chinese bowl, 19th century, bearing apocryphal Chien Lung marks, ceramic, 8.1 cm high; 18 cm diameter ***
*** A pair of 'famille-rose' wine cups marks of Guangxu, each of steeply flared form painted on the exterior with flowering plants beside rockwork, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character mark, 6.7 cm diameter ***
*** A small 'dragon' vase, mark of Xuantong, the ovoid body surmounted by a slender waisted neck, decorated with iron-red dragons among underglaze blue scrolling clouds, divided by gilt line borders at the shoulders, the base with a band of white crested… ***
*** An archaistic 'claire-de-lune' glazed vase, 19th/20th century the globular body decorated in low relief with a frieze of stylised dragons and phoenix between bands of key-fret, below the tall cylindrical neck with upright stiff leaves and further… ***
*** A blue and white deep dish Qing dynasty, 18th century, painted on the interior with scholar's objects beside a willow tree and flowering plants, the shallow sides with a diaper border below the broad everted rim with sprays of peony, bamboo, prunus and… ***
*** A 'Longquan' celadon dish late Ming dynasty the shallow rounded sides carved with radiating petals extending to the barbed everted rim around a central impressed floral medallion 29 cm diameter ***
*** A 'kraak porselein' blue and white bowl late Ming dynasty, the steep sides painted on the exterior with panels of bamboo and fruiting and flowering plants, the interior with floral sprigs encircling a bird medallion, 13 cm diameter ***
*** A Canton 'famille-rose' vase, Qing dynasty, 19th century, the ovoid body tapering to a waisted neck with everted scalloped rim, decorated with figure scenes and flower and bird panels on a floral strewn gilt ground, 61 cm high ***
*** A copper-red glazed saucer dish, seal mark and period of daoGuang, covered inside and out with a liver-red glaze, 20.5 cm diameter ***