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Oriental — Sotheby's
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| Number of lots recorded: | 96 |
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| *** | A Satsuma earthenware vase attributed to Kinkozan, Meiji period of squat globular form surmounted by a tall neck with waisted mouth, the sides painted with a panel of birds among prunus and flowering plants on one side, the reverse with a cockerel and hen… | *** |  |
| *** | A set of four hongmu 'dreamstone' marble-inset armchairs and a pair of side tables, 19th/20th century, each chair with ruyi -shaped crestrail and straight back posts, joined by carved openwork fruiting branches, enclosing a circular 'dreamstone' marble… | *** |  |
| *** | 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 gilt bronze and cloisonne enamel 'Bixie' water dropper, 20th century, the mythical beast crouched, facing forward and holding a small bowl in its jaws, an aperture on its back fitted with a stopper decorated with a yinyang symbol, inscribed on the… | *** |  |
| *** | Three gilt bronze wares Qing dynasty, comprising a censer and cover, the squat body on slender tripod legs with openwork cover surmounted by a Buddhist lion knop, wood stand, a square section vase, the tapering upright body surmounted by an everted… | *** |  |
| *** | An unusual painted kesi hanging scroll, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, depicting legendary figures including the eight immortals, the Hehe Erxian and others variously occupied in a lakeside landscape, the Queen mother of the West riding on a phoenix… | *** |  |
| *** | A Duanstone inkstone, Qing Dynasty, of oval form, the recessed upper surface with an arched reservoir at one end within a carved border of dragons among clouds, fitted wood stand (2) 19.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A turned rhinoceros horn cup, the slightly flaring sides rising from a shallow circular solid base to a straight rim, the horn of light honey tone5.3 cm high, 8.5 cm wide | *** |  |
| *** | 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 celadon jade group, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, of Shou Lau seated on his deer, holding a gnarled staff and a large hat hanging over his back, the stone with slight brown striations and russet suffusions, box (2) 8 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 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 gilt bronze figure Tsong Kha Pa, Tibetan, 16th century, seated in dhyanasana and clad in a dhoti, holding a flowering lotus with attributes, the hands are held in the gesture of teaching with a beatific smile, upon a lotus base. Tsong Kha | *** |  |
| *** | Attributed to chen huanghou, 19th/20th century scholars at leisure, ink and colour on silk, handscroll signed Chen Huanghou, inscribed and with three seals, 25.5 x 1460 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A jade carving of a boy Washing an elephant, Qing Dynasty, 18th/19th century, the boy crouched on its back holding a long handled brush, the stone of whitish tone 3. 8 cm a boy riding on an elephant or washing an elephant signifies good fortune. Compare… | *** |  |
| *** | 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 carved soapstone figure of Luohan and stand, late Qing Dynasty seated wearing loosely draped robes with incised decoration, his right arm resting on his raised right knee as he inserts a long prick into his ear, his face with smiling expression, the… | *** |  |
| *** | A white jade carving of a Buddhist lion, 20th century, the animal crouched on all fours with head raised facing forward, the features well defined, and the bifid tail curled over the hind quarters, a bat resting on its haunches to one side carved from a… | *** |  |
| *** | A jade circular plaque Qing dynasty, carved with a recumbent tiger and cub on a rocky ledge beside leafy plants and ornamental rockwork above the circular ring border, the pale stone with areas of dark brown markings, 5 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | 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… | *** |  |
| *** | An archaistic celadon jade vase and cover Qing dynasty, 19th century, of rounded rectangular section and hu form, the sides supported on a splayed foot with raised borders, the slightly waisted neck set with two tubular handles and carved in relief with a… | *** |  |
| *** | 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… | *** |  |
| *** | An unusual hardwood waisted day bed Ta, the soft mat seat enclosed by a rectangular wood frame with inset everted ends, the moulded edge above a straight waist supported on sturdy beaded cabriole legs terminating in scroll feet, and joined by a… | *** |  |
| *** | A small gilt bronze censer, late Ming dynasty with rounded sides supported on slender tripod legs, the sides with panels of 'The Three Friends' in relief on a punched ground divided by vertical flanges and set with two upright loop handles, box, 11.5 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt copper figure of Buddha Shakyamuni, Nepal, 18th/19th century seated in dhyanasana on a lotus base over a throne supported by a lion and lioness, his right hand lowered in bhumisparsa mudra and the left in varada mudra, wearing loosely draped robes… | *** |  |
| *** | A large inlaid hardwood Chinese 'boys' canted top table cabinet, of rectangular form with hinged lid, joined by a chain to one side and opening to reveal a tray like compartment above the doors opening to two pairs of short drawers and a long drawer, the… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of ivory maidens, late Qing Dynasty each standing holding a flowering spray in the raised right hand, wearing loosely draped robes and hair drawn into a high coiffure, the details incised and picked out in black, wood stands (4), 25 cm;, 25.6 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An unusual archaistic jade cylindrical jar and cover the straight sides carved in low relief with a broad frieze of taotie above horizontal double grooves and a band of vertical ribs rising from the convex base, supported on three bracket feet carved with… | *** |  |
| *** | A cinnabar lacquer 'floral' dish Qing dynasty, 19th century, of saucer shape, carved in relief on the interior with a profusion of flowers and foliage, including peony, chrysanthemum, daisy, hydrangea and hibiscus, repeated around the exterior of the… | *** |  |
| *** | 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 pair of carved ivory wrist rests, 19th/20th century each of tapering rectangular form, the curved exterior carved in low relief with a fisherman walking along the shore, the underside intricately carved and pierced with sages and attendants variously… | *** |  |
| *** | 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 huanghuali folding horseshoe-back armchair, Jiaoyi, 20th century, with rounded crestrail ending in outswept handrests, supported by the curved extensions of the front legs and the curved plain back splat, the seat frame carved with two chilong and… | *** |  |
| *** | A set of twelve silver 'dragon' bowls, 20th century, (12), each with steeply rounded sides decorated on the exterior with a dragon in relief, its scaly body encircling the sides, a three character inscription mai jian shi and a number for each bowl below… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of square-corner 'flower and bird' hardwood display cabinets Liang'ge gui, 20th century, the upper display shelf of each framed by pierced scrolling dragons around the top and sides, and with a gallery carved with foliate scrolls below, all above… | *** |  |
| *** | A pale celadon jade 'dragon' belthook Qing dynasty, 19th century, the slightly curved shaft with dragon's head hook, surmounted by an undercut chilong holding a lingzhi frond in its mouth, the underside with an oval knop for attachment carved with scrolls… | *** |  |
| *** | 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… | *** |  |
| *** | An inscribed bronze plaque, Yuan/Ming dynasty or earlier, of arched rectangular form, one side cast in relief with the multi-armed deity Avalokiteshvara seated on a waisted throne, the reverse with an eight line invocation, 16 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | 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 celadon jade 'dragon and phoenix' vase and cover Qing dynasty, 19th century of rectangular section and upright form, carved in high and pierced relief with a dragon climbing above the wave-splashed rockwork base towards a flaming pearl among clouds… | *** |  |
| *** | A carved ivory brushpot, Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century, of cylindrical form, the sides carved in deep relief on the exterior with a scene of boys celebrating beside a garden pavilion, some carrying a banner, others playing musical instruments and others… | *** |  |
| *** | A hardwood display cabinet, of stepped rectangular form on short corner feet, the taller central section with a glazed door opening to reveal four shelves, flanked by two shorter hardwood doors, the exterior carved overall with blossoming prunus boughs,… | *** |  |
| *** | A hardwood open shelf cabinet, 20th century, the rectangular top with moulded bossed edge set with removable everted ends and surmounted by a small shelf with everted ends resting on two supports carved as flowering prunus trunks, backed by a shaped… | *** |  |
| *** | Two jade pendants each of plain cylindrical form, one carved from a white stone, the other carved from green jadeite with bright suffusions, each with beaded cords (2), each 8.5 cm long | *** |  |
| *** | A celadon jade 'phoenix' vase, 19th/20th century, the recumbent bird resting with legs tucked beneath the winged body with long curling tail plumage, supporting on its back an archaistic ewer with angular scroll handle and a loose ring suspended from the… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of low-back armchairs Meiguiyi and a matching side table, 19th/20th century the heavy blackwood resembling zitan, each chair with a straight crestrail continuing through rounded corners to the back posts, enclosing a rectangular openwork panel… | *** |  |
| *** | A huanghuali and hardwood Qing-style horseshoe-back armchair Quanyi, 19th/20th century, with a rounded crestrail set on straight front and back posts, flanked by shaped beaded edge spandrels and tapering side posts, the out-scrolled terminals carved with… | *** |  |
| *** | A Japanese silver tea service, Konoike, circa 1900 comprising a tea pot, hot water pot on stand with burner, two cups and saucers, a lidded sugar bowl, a cream jug, a slop bowl and a tea strainer, all decorated with bamboo on a hand beaten ground, the… | *** |  |
| *** | A carved jade 'chilong' bowl Qing dynasty, 19th century, the shallow rounded sides, carved with two sinuous chilong in high and pierced relief forming the handle to either side, the pale stone with russet suffusions. 11.5 cm diameter. Provenance: Zorich… | *** |  |
| *** | A shibayama-inlaid gold lacquer saya inro, Meiji period, of upright form, the saya decorated with a continuous waterside scene, on one side Momotaro seated beside a pine tree being offered gifts by an oni watched by a dog, the reverse with a pheasant… | *** |  |
| *** | 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 'blance-de-chine' Dehua figure of hooded Damo (Bodhidharma), 17th / 18th century, standing supported on a reed floating above the base of swirling waves, one bare foot protruding from beneath the hem of his long flowing robes with skirt tied at the… | *** |  |
| *** | A thangka of the Third Panchen Lama (1738-1780), Tibetan, 19th century, Gouche on sized canvas Lobsang Paldem Yeshe seated holding a book in his lap with his right hand in the teaching gesture, above him is the red deity Amitabha and Vajrabh | *** |  |
| *** | A Paubha of Sukhavati Lokesvara, Nepalese, 19th century/20th century, seated with his consort on his lap, above a row of five variant forms of himself, in the very bottom row are four diminuitive donor figures worshipping three central deit | *** |  |
| *** | A Bronze Figure of Walking Buddha, Northern Thailand, 15th century, wearing a dhoti with the right hand in vitarka mudra, 30 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | 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 pair of lacquered ivory miniature cabinets, Meiji period, each of rectangular form, with a long drawer below a pair of hinged doors opening to reveal two pairs of stepped shelves with removable front panels forming compartments, the exterior and… | *** |  |
| *** | A celadon jade figure of Guanyin, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, standing barefoot beside rockwork, with head turned to the side, wearing a billowing wide-sleeved robe and a scarf draped over her high chignon, holding a leafy spray in her left hand, the… | *** |  |
| *** | 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 cloisonne enamel Gu-shaped vase, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, of archaistic fangu form, the turquoise blue ground with kui dragons, phoenix above taotie, and plantain lappets, all divided by vertical notched flanges, the interior with stylized lotus… | *** |  |
| *** | 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 gilt bronze figure of Samvara, Tibetan, 16th century with, a gilt copper figure of Avelokitsvara, 16th century the figure clasping his consort and clad in a dhoti and wearing a Crown;. Height 12 cm and. Height 11 cm respectively | *** |  |
| *** | A Bronze Figure of A Lohan, Ming Dynasty the figure standing with his hand clasped at his front, clad in flowing robes on a lotus base 52 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | 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… | *** |  |
| *** | An Annamese blue and white dish, 15th/16th century, with shallow rounded sides and everted lipped rim, painted in the centre with a stylized lotus flower encircled by leaves, the well with flowering foliage below a band of classic scroll on the rim, the… | *** |  |
| *** | A miniature four panel ivory table screen, Qing dynasty, 19th century, each panel of arched form finely incised and picked out in black with scenes of figures engaged in battles, on horseback and on foot in mountainous landscapes, the reverse with a… | *** |  |
| *** | A group of two hardstone vessels and a figure group Qing Dynasty, 18th/19th century the largest 15 cm comprising an agate lingzhi | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt bronze figure of Shakyamuni Buddha, late Ming Dynasty, well cast seated in vajraparyankasana. Height 26 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A carved soapstone figure of a Luohan and stand Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century, seated with hands clasped around his raised left knee, wearing loosely draped robes with an incised border and foliate motifs, the shaven head with benign expression, the… | *** |  |
| *** | A soapstone 'mythical beast' seal, 19th/20th century, the rectangular base surmounted by the crouching beast with head turned towards its hind quarters, with long mane and coiled tail, the front of the base with an inscription and the face carved with… | *** |  |
| *** | A jade 'mythical beast' rhyton, 19th/20th century, the steep sided vessel supported on the back of a crouching animal with head turned to the side, and set on one side with a chilong forming the handle opposite an animal mask and pendant loose ring below… | *** |  |
| *** | A hardwood recessed leg table Qiaotouan, the flush rectangular panelled top within a mitred frame with grooved moulded edge, supported on rectangular vertically grooved square section legs with beaded edges, joined by a beaded apron with shaped spandrels… | *** |  |
| *** | An ivory tripod censer and cover, late Qing Dynasty the sides carved in archaic style with a frieze of confronted kui dragons and set with double loose ring handles inlaid in coral and turquoise, the domed cover pierced with dragons among foliate scrolls… | *** |  |
| *** | A carved soapstone figure group Qing Dynasty, 19th century, of Guanyin seated on a separate base of variegated red soapstone, holding a scroll in her left hand and a rosary in the right, wearing loosely draped wide sleeved robes, the incised borders and a… | *** |  |
| *** | A celadon jade 'pomegranate' waterpot Qing dynasty, (2), the large hollowed fruit growing on a branch bearing further fruit and foliage extending in pierced relief over the sides, a small boy seated clinging to the branches, the stone of pale even tone,… | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt bronze figure of Dipankara Buddha, Nepal, late 19th century, (2), standing on a lotus pedestal, the right arm raised in vitarkamudra and the left lowered in varadamudra, the removable figure supported on a stepped rectangular base backed with an… | *** |  |
| *** | 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… | *** |  |
| *** | Tao Yiqing 1914-1986 Mountains in the Rain ink and colour on paper, framed signed Tao Yiqing, inscribed and with one seal 94.5 x 124.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A four-panel embellished hard wood screen, 20th century, each panel inlaid with various materials including, mother-of-pearl, bone, soapstone and wood with polychrome decoration, to depict birds and animals beside plants and rockwork, the upper section… | *** |  |
| *** | An amethyst and jadeite court necklace, Chaozhu, the 108 amethyst beads divided by four jadeite fotou (Buddha heads), the fotou at the back connected to a gourd-shaped fotouta (Buddha head stupa) suspending a green hardstone matrix beiyun (back cloud)… | *** |  |
| *** | 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… | *** |  |
| *** | An unusual mixed hardwood display stand, 19th/20th century, constructed with one square and one rectangular display surface on two levels, all resting on corner legs some terminating in angular scrolls, the four outer corner legs joined by side stretchers… | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt bronze figure of Amitayus, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, cast seated in dhyanasana on a rectangular plinth, the hands held in dhyanamudra, wearing a long robe draped over the left shoulder exposing the right shoulder and jewelled necklace, the… | *** |  |
| *** | 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 shibayama-inlaid gold lacquer three-case inro, Meiji period, elaborately decorated in typical shibayama style with a continuous scene depiciting thieves being attacked after robbing a temple, dropping their treasures from sacks over their backs, the… | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt bronze and repousse figure Padmasambhava, Tibetan, 19th/20th century, the gilt bronze figure seated in dhyanasana holding a vajra in his lap and a vajra raised in his right hand, elegantly clothed wearing a high Crown, upon a lotus b | *** |  |
| *** | 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… | *** |  |