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A Chinese white porcelain "Anhua" decorated "Dragon" stem cup, finely incised with five clawed dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls within borders of clouds and waves, 5.5ins (104mm) diameter x 4.25ins (107mm) high (encircled six character mark of Qianlong to interior and of period) £10000-15000
Provenance: Hugh M. Moss applied paper label. Sotheby's London - Raymond Oppenheim Collection - 1st July 1969, Lot 183 - originally sold as one of a pair
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A pair of Chinese white glazed porcelain "Chrysanthemum" bowls, 3.5ins (89mm) diameter x 1.5ins (39mm) high (with apocryphal Qianlong mark but late 19th/early 20th Century) £500-700
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain Yenyen vase painted with a river landscape with mountains to background, with a fisherman in his boat and figures crossing a river, 18.25ins (467mm) high (Kangxi period - cracked) £400-600
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain baluster shaped vase and cover painted with figures at a table, mountain and trees, 19ins (483mm) high (four character mark to base - 19th Century - neck damaged) £200-300
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A pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain jars and covers with metal mounted rims decorated with kylin amongst cloud motifs, 7.125ins (182mm) x 7.375ins (188mm) high (19th Century - one cracked through body) £500-700
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Four Chinese hardwood framed panels, each inset with a blue and white porcelain tile, decorated with a mountainous seascape, and a seven-word poem, each 30ins (763mm) x 12.25ins (311mm) overall, signed and dated dingmao (1927 - 20th Century) £800-1200
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain "Lotus Scroll" bulbous vase, painted in the Ming style with leaf scroll within classic lotus scrolls borders, 16.75ins (426mm) high (apocryphal Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue, but late 19th Century) £2000-3000
Provenance: Sotheby's Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art London, 12th - 14th July 2006, lot 609
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A Chinese powder blue glazed porcelain and gilt baluster shaped vase decorated with birds perched on prunus blossom branches and bamboo shoots within floral and scroll borders, 17ins (430mm) high £200-300
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A Chinese "Famille Rose" porcelain bottle vase enamelled in colours with bats, fruit and scrolls, 15.75ins (402mm) high (six character mark in red to base - 20th/21st Century) £600-800
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A pair of Chinese porcelain "Yutangchun" bottle shaped vases enamelled with bats and cloud motifs, 15.5ins (393mm) high (apocryphal Guangxu six character mark in red but early 20th Century) £1500-2000
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A Chinese porcelain vase enamelled in colours with flowers, two birds perched on a branch and with calligraphy to neck, 23.5ins (597mm) high (20th Century) £100-150
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A Chinese porcelain two-handled vase enamelled in colours with flowering branch, with calligraphy to back, with animal head and ring pattern handles 22.5ins (572mm) high (20th Century) £100-150
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A Chinese porcelain bottle shaped vase with flared neck, enamelled in colours with figures in a landscape on a black ground, 10ins (254mm) high (early 20th Century) £250-300
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A Chinese "Famille Verte" porcelain baluster shaped vase enamelled in colours with birds amongst trees, 10ins (254mm) high (blue double concentric rings to base - late 19th/early 20th Century) £150-200
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A Chinese "Cantonese" porcelain baluster shaped vase with moulded handles and flared neck, enamelled in colours with a dignitary and attendants within reserve borders, 23.75ins (604mm) high (19th Century) £600-800
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A Chinese "Cantonese" porcelain two-handled baluster shaped vase, enamelled in colours, with birds, butterflies, insects and flowering branches, on a pale celadon ground, within floral filled borders, 23.75ins (604mm) high (late 19th Century - hairline crack and drilled to base) £200-300
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A Chinese "Cantonese" porcelain two-handled vase enamelled in colours with bands of birds, flowers and insects and bands of dragons and characters, with bird pattern handles and moulded dragons to neck, 16.5ins (420mm) high (repaired to neck and chipped) £120-160
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A Chinese "Famille Noir" porcelain square vase painted with flowering branches protruding from stylised rock work, insects and flowers, 18.5ins (470mm) high (apocryphal Kangxi six character mark in underglazed blue to base but 20th Century) £700-900
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A Chinese porcelain bulbous jar and cover enamelled in colours with a procession of six figures and a baby and with two bats in iron red, 8ins (204mm) high (20th Century) £100-150
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A Chinese porcelain bulbous jar and cover enamelled in colours with two women seated by a tree reading letters and with calligraphy to back, 9.25ins (235mm) high (20th Century) £100-150
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A Chinese "Famille Verte" porcelain baluster shaped jar enamelled in colours with mythological birds, rock work, bamboo and flowering peony (double concentric mark in blue to base), with gilt brass stand, 7.25ins (260mm) high overall £200-300
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A pair of Chinese reticulated porcelain vases of square section, moulded with figures on terraces, and painted in colours with the "Famille Verte" palette, 14ins (356mm) high (six character mark in blue - one with chip to rim) £300-400
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A Chinese white glazed porcelain cylindrical brush pot, moulded in relief with dragon, cloud motifs and fish with waves to footrim, 4.5ins (115mm) diameter x 5.5ins (140mm) high (impressed seal mark to base - 20th Century) £100-150
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A Chinese porcelain two-handled Moon flask enamelled in orange with kylins and poppies, 11.75ins (299mm) high, with carved and pierced hardwood stand (19th Century) £500-700
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A Chinese porcelain rectangular pillow enamelled in colours on all sides with couples in erotic poses within blue and red geometric borders, and with pierced ends, 5.75ins (142mm) x 4.75ins (121mm) x 2.25ins (57mm) (early 20th Century) £300-500
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A Chinese porcelain octagonal soup plate enamelled in colours with two chickens, rock work and flowering peonies, 8.75ins (222mm) diameter (Qianlong period - 18th Century) £450-650
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A Chinese "Famille Verte" porcelain saucer shaped dish enamelled in colours with standing figures including warriors in a landscape, 14.25ins (362mm) diameter (late 19th/early 20th Century) £300-500
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A Chinese "Famille Verte" porcelain plate of shaped outline, enamelled in colours with a vase and Sacred items, 10.25ins (261mm) diameter (square seal mark in blue and blue concentric circle), and a Chinese porcelain octagonal soup plate painted in blue and colours with people in a landscape, 8.57ins (222mm) (both 18th Century) £100-150
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A porcelain circular charger in the Chinese "Famille Rose" manner, enamelled with two phoenixes and peonies, the border enamelled with landscape scenes and still lives within shaped reserves, 23ins (583mm) diameter (20th Century) £1000-1500
Provenance: Christie's East New York, Chinese Export and Oriental Works of Art, 27th March 1990, Lot No. 158
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A Chinese "Famille Rose" porcelain octagonal dish, the exterior enamelled in colours with eight warriors in shaped panels, the interior decorated with a turquoise glaze, 6.625ins (168mm) diameter x 3ins (76mm) high (apocryphal Qing Dynasty red seal mark to base but 20th Century) £300-500
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A Chinese porcelain craquele turquoise glazed dish of shaped outline, 7.25ins (184mm) diameter 2ins (51mm) high (20th Century) £80-120
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A Chinese Armorial porcelain circular charger enamelled in colours and decorated in gilt with central armorial, the border with floral and swag ornament, 14.75ins (375mm) diameter (20th Century) £150-200
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A Chinese "Cantonese" porcelain bowl of shaped outline, on raised foot, enamelled in colours with figures, birds, flowers insects and fruit, in reserve panels, 11.75ins (300mm) x 15.375ins (391mm), and a similar plate, 9.75ins (248mm) diameter (cracked - both late 19th Century) £80-100
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A Chinese "Export Ware" porcelain part dessert service, enamelled in colours with figures within borders of butterflies, birds and carp, comprising - nine 7.75ins (197mm) diameter plates, pair of rectangular serving dishes with canted corners, 6.75ins (172mm) x 9ins (228mm), and a serving dish of shaped outline, 10.5ins (267mm) x 9.75ins (248mm) (19th Century) £300-400
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Nine Chinese "Imari" porcelain plates painted with bamboo and flowering shrubs, each 10.5ins (235mm) diameter (18th Century - some fritting to edges) £300-400
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A Chinese porcelain rectangular plaque enamelled in colours with a woman holding a fan in front of a rocky outcrop and flowering prunus, 13.75ins (349mm) x 9.25ins (235mm), signed, in wood frame (20th Century) £500-700
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A Chinese blanc de chine figure of a standing Guanyin with deer to one side and carrying a basket of flowers, 24.75ins (629mm) high (20th Century - minor damage) £1000-1500
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A Chinese flambé glazed stoneware bulbous vase, the cylindrical neck with flared rim, 13.5ins (344mm) high (19th Century), carved wood stand for same and complete with wooden fitted case £800-1200
Provenance: G.E.Hubbard (1885-1951) worked for the London Foreign Office from 1916, and was based in Peking between 1920-1924. From 1924-1933 he worked for Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank as a political/diplomatic agent in Peking and Shanghai. It was during this period overseas that he came into possession of this vase. It has remained in his family possession since.
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A Chinese flambé glazed stoneware baluster shaped vase, 18.25ins (463mm) high (incised mark to base) £400-600
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A Chinese Sang de Boeuf glazed pottery bottle shaped vase, 13.25ins (336mm) high (late 19th Century) £200-300
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Two Chinese Sancai glazed standing pottery figures of grooms, each 11.75ins (298mm) high (Tang Dynasty) £1500-2000
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A Chinese "Marbled" Yixing stoneware teapot and cover, 3.5ins (89mm) high (circular seal mark to base) £70-100
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A Chinese circular brown glazed tile moulded in high relief with a five toed dragon, 6.5ins (165mm) diameter, in ebonised turned frame £1000-1500
Provenance: A typed paper label to reverse states - "Reserved tile of the Palace of Ming Dynasty in Nanking, built ... 1368. Presented by Q.T.Chen, 1922", a similar tile sold Mid West Auction Galleries, Oxford, MI, USA, 27 September 2009, lot 153
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A fine Japanese "Satsuma" pottery baluster shaped vase decorated with figures in landscapes within shaped cartouches, on a ground of coloured and gilt cells, 4.5ins (140mm) high (square seal mark - Meiji period), with turned wood stand £500-700
Provenance: Purchased from Liberty's in 1947
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A pair of Japanese porcelain circular chargers decorated in colours in the "Imari" manner, the centre painted in blue, the border with six reserve panels with landscape scenes and birds, 18.5ins (470mm) diameter £120-160
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A pair of Japanese "Imari" porcelain jardinières decorated with vases of flowers within circular cartouche and with birds perched on flowering branches, each 12.75ins (325mm) diameter x 9.5ins (242mm) high (20th Century) £300-400
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A pair of Japanese Kutani porcelain two-handled vases and covers decorated in colours and gilt with flowers and birds within shaped reserves and within a red and gilt border with kylin pattern finials and dragon pattern handles, 16.75ins (426mm) high (three character mark in red to base - 20th Century - chipped to rim and cracked) £200-300
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A pair of Japanese Kutani porcelain ovoid two-handled vases enamelled in colours and decorated in gilt with figures in a landscape and Samurai warriors within shaped reserves, the borders decorated with cranes and geometric ornament, with kylin pattern handles, 18ins (459mm) high (each with six character in red to base) £200-300
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A pair of Qajar pottery vases painted with fish amongst a running design of foliage and flowers, 9ins high (19th Century) £300-500
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An Isnik pottery charger of shaped outline painted in two tones of blue with stylised flowers and leaves, 16.75ins diameter (19th/20th Century - chips) £120-160
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