CHINESE PORCELAIN AND WORKS OF ART
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Chinese School - Pair of small oil paintings - View of the Hongs of Canton, and a view of Macau, zinc panels 4.25ins (108mm) x 5.75ins (146mm), (early 19th Century) contained in modern gilt moulded frames £1500-2500
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Chinese School - Two pairs of watercolours/gouache on pith paper - Battle scenes, 7.25ins (184mm) x 12.25ins (311mm), and Seated female dignitaries with attendants, 12.5ins (317mm) x 7.5ins (190mm), all in lacquered frames and glazed (19th Century) £150-200 (part)
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Chinese School - Six watercolours/gouache on pith paper - Figures weighing and packing tea, each approximately 12.5ins (318mm) x 7.5ins (190mm), all in lacquered frames and glazed (19th Century) £300-500
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Chinese School - Watercolour on silk - Extensive panoramic scene of figures in a pavilioned garden landscape, 15.75ins (400mm) x 125ins (3100mm), signed, with plain paper and silk scroll face extending beyond the image (late 19th Century) £300-400
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Chinese School - Watercolour/gouache on pith paper - Chained man being led before a seated dignitary, 12.5ins (312mm) x 16.25ins (412mm), framed and glazed £120-160 Note: This painting has been annotated in a European hand in ink to the upper left corner - "A Chinese Padre before the Magistrate. N.B. The shorn head and full vest bespeak the condition of the culprit and his judge."
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Chinese School - Watercolour - River landscape with arched bridge and trees to foreground, 22ins (560mm) x 39ins (990mm), bears signature for Zhao Shao'Ang (1905-1998), in white and gilt frame and glazed £800-1200 Note: By repute bought directly from the artist in a selling exhibition in Chengdu in Sichuan Province, thence by family descent. Vendor's father was in the RAF and stationed in the Chinese Air Force Staff College in Chengdu. He returned to the UK in 1945 with this picture
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Yoshitoshi - Woodblock print - "Legend of Urashima Taro" returning from the Castle of the Sea King on the back of a giant turtle, 13.5ins (343mm) x 18.5ins (470mm), red seal mark, published 1886, in wood frame and glazed £600-800
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Wang Su (1794-1877) - Ink and watercolour on paper - Chrysanthemum, 12.75ins (324mm) x 13.5ins (343mm), signed with one seal mark, mounted but unframed £200-300
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Y. Matsumoto (20th Century Japanese School) - Watercolour - View of a roadside shrine, 9.25ins (235mm) x 12.5ins (312mm), signed, in gilt frame and glazed £80-120
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Japanese School - Thirteen coloured woodblock prints, each approximately 4.25ins (108mm) x 6.25ins (158mm) (mounted but unframed), and a small quantity of unmounted prints, various £100-150
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A Japanese lacquer panel painted and decorated in gilt with Mount Fuji emerging from the clouds, 9ins (228mm) x 12.5ins (317mm), signed "Gozan", (Showa period), in wood frame and glazed £80-120
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Two Chinese blue and white porcelain circular dishes, each painted with Three Friends of Winter Medallion, the exterior with a lady and two children in a garden, 7ins (178mm) diameter (Tongzhi period - six character mark in underglazed blue to base - one with chip to rim) £1000-1500 Provenance: The Collection of Dr. J. Vixseboxse (1916-1986), Dutch Sinologist and Diplomat. Acquired in China in the 1940s to 1970s and thence by descent
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain bottle vase painted with figures at various pursuits within borders decorated with flowers, trellis ornament and butterflies, 14ins (356mm) high (Kangxi period - four character mark in underglazed blue to base) £600-800
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain bowl, the exterior painted with prunus, bamboo and fir trees, the interior with fir tree within flowering border, 7.75ins (177mm) diameter x 3.75ins (95mm) high (Kangxi period - six character mark in blue) £400-600
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain bowl, finely painted with a scrolling design, 6.5ins (165mm) diameter x 3ins (76mm) high (Guangxu period - six character mark in underglaze blue to base) £700-900
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Six pairs of Chinese embroidered panels worked in coloured silks, various sizes from 16.5ins (490mm) x 3ins (76mm) to 27.5ins (699mm) x 3.5ins (89mm), all framed and glazed (all 19th/20th Century) £150-200
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain circular pouring dish painted with a dragon and phoenix amongst flowers and with a band of cloud motifs to the footrim, 5ins (126mm) diameter x 2.25ins (58mm) high (Ming Dynasty) £300-400
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Three Chinese embroidered panels worked in coloured silks, various sizes from 20.75ins (528mm) x 4.75ins (121mm) to 17.5ins (438mm) x 5.5ins (133mm) (all 19th/20th Century), and three Japanese coloured woodblock prints on silk (?), each 9.75ins (248mm) x 6.75ins (171mm), all framed and glazed £100-120
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain ginger jar and associated cover, the cover painted with flower and leaves, the jar painted with character symbols, 9ins (228mm) high (Kangxi period - fritting to cover) £200-300
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain oval meat plate of shaped outline, painted with two deer in a garden, 14.5ins (368mm) x 11ins (279mm) and an octagonal meat plate with figures in a pavilion and island landscape, 13.25ins (333mm) x 10.5ins (267mm) (Qianlong period) £200-300
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A small Chinese blue and white porcelain dish of shaped outline, the centre painted with a figure in the prow of a boat, 11ins (279mm) x 7.75ins (197mm), and a small octagonal meat plate painted with buildings on islands, 11.375ins (289mm) x 8.375ins (213mm) (Qianlong period) £150-250
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain ginger jar painted with calligraphy and lotus blossom, 4.75ins (120mm) high (Kangxi period - lacking cover) £100-200
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Five Chinese blue and white porcelain cylindrical vases painted with flowering branches, rocks and birds on branches, 7.5ins (190mm) high to 8.5ins (216mm) high (17th Century - possibly shipwreck cargo) £300-500
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A matched pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain six sided baluster shaped vases and covers, painted with standing figures in shaped reserves, 8.25ins (209mm) and 8.5ins (216mm) high respectively (with four character marks), and a pair of ditto slender slab sided two-handled baluster shaped blue and white vases painted with flowering branches, each 9.5ins (241mm) high (mark of Sacred Object to bases - damaged) £150-200
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Five Chinese blue and white porcelain tea bowls and saucers painted with pavilions, islands and figures in a landscape (Qianlong period) £100-150
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A group of Chinese blue and white porcelain, including - ewer and cover painted with flowering rock work, 7.75ins (197mm) high (Kangxi period), a spittoon, 4.5ins (115mm) diameter x 2.75ins (70mm) high (cracked), three soup plates, each approximately 8.75ins (222mm) diameter, a tea bowl and saucer and other wares, various (16) £100-200
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A Chinese yellow glazed porcelain circular saucer shaped dish, 13ins (330mm) diameter x 2.875ins (73mm) high (Kangxi period - six character mark in underglazed blue to base - cracked) £1000-1500 Provenance: The Collection of Dr. J. Vixseboxse (1916-1986), Dutch Sinologist and Diplomat. Acquired in China in the 1940s to 1970s and thence by descent
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A Chinese "Imari" porcelain dish painted in blue, orange, red and gilt with a pavilion in a garden surrounded by Chinese lanterns and prunus, the rim with stylised clouds and paired shaped cartouches, 19.25ins (488mm) diameter (Kangxi period - early 18th Century) £500-700
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A Chinese "Famille Rose" Export porcelain charger enamelled with a bird, peonies and zig-zag fence, the rim with loosely painted flowering sprays, 15.5ins (394mm) diameter (18th Century) £500-700
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A Chinese armorial "Famille Rose" porcelain circular plate of shaped outline, the centre enamelled in colours with the coat of arms for Langton within scroll and floral border, 8.875ins (226mm diameter) (Qianlong period - circa 1750) £300-500 Note: See David Sanctuary Howard - 'Chinese Armorial Porcelain', Vol I, Page 952, Addendum
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A Chinese armorial blue and white porcelain tureen and cover, the cover with rococo knop finial and enamelled with floral sprigs, the base with rabbit head pattern handles, both enamelled with coat of arms for Schanck, all within floral borders, 11.5ins (293mm) x 9.5ins (241mm) x 9ins (227mm) high (Qianlong period - circa 1785) £1000-1500 Note: See David Sanctuary Howard - 'Chinese Armorial Porcelain', Vol II, Page 532, U6
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A Chinese "Famille Verte" porcelain circular bowl painted in the Cantonese manner with numerous figures on a terrace, within wide green borders inset with oval vignettes depicting birds and floral sprays, 15ins (382mm) diameter x 6.25ins (158mm) high (late 19th Century - unmarked - centre enamels to interior rubbed and with hairline crack) £300-400
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A Chinese porcelain bowl enamelled in colours with children and ladies on an orange ground, the interior enamelled in green, 8.75ins (222mm) diameter x 4ins (102mm) high (square seal mark) £100-150
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A Chinese porcelain bowl finely enamelled with a landscape and calligraphy, 5ins (127mm) diameter x 2ins (51mm) high (mid 20th Century) £100-150
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A Chinese Cantonese porcelain oval strainer, the surface enamelled in colours and gilt with figures in a garden amongst flowering branches, 14.75ins (374mm) x 11.75ins (298mm) (19th Century) £100-150
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A Chinese "Famille Rose" Export porcelain tankard enamelled with two courtiers in a garden and with lines of calligraphy to reverse, 4.45ins (108mm) high (red painted four character mark to base) £100-150
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A Chinese "Famille Rose" Export porcelain cup and saucer enamelled with flowering peony (Guangxu period six character mark in red to base) £80-100
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A Chinese porcelain dish with incurved rim, the exterior painted in orange and gilt with calligraphy within circles and with enamelled fruit, flowers and leaves on a deep blue ground, 6.25ins (159mm) diameter x 1.75ins (45mm) high (Guangxu period six character mark in red to base) £80-120
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A Chinese Export porcelain baluster shaped cider jug enamelled in colours with a seated figure of "Toby Philpott" holding a letter worded "Dear Tom, This Brown Jug Which Now Foams With Mild Ale Out Of", with double entwined reeded handle, 9ins (228mm) high (Qianlong Period - chip to handle and flake chip to enamel rim) £300-400
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A Chinese porcelain oval meat plate enamelled in colours with "Tobacco Leaf" pattern, 15.25ins (388mm) x 12.75ins (323mm) (cracked), Chinese blue and white porcelain octagonal meat plate decorated with pavilions by a lake, 16.5ins (419mm) x 13.5ins (343mm) (cracked) (all late 18th/early 19th Century), and a Chinese Cantonese jardinière enamelled in colours with figures on a terrace, 13.5ins (343mm) diameter x 8.25ins (210mm) high (19th Century - damaged) £200-300
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A Chinese "Famille Rose" porcelain baluster shaped jar and cover with two courtiers and with lines of calligraphy to reverse, 7.75ins (197mm) high £120-160
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A Chinese "Famille Rose" porcelain cricket box and pierced cover enamelled with a bird perched on a flowering branch and with calligraphy to reverse, 4.5ins (105mm) wide x 2.75ins (70mm) deep x 1.75ins (45mm) high £120-160
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A Chinese porcelain figure the Bodhisattva Guanyan seated with one knee raised in the "Royal Ease" (Mahrajalilasana) position, her robes enamelled in colours with Phoenix, 7.75ins (198mm) high (damage to fingers) £300-400
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A Chinese "Swatow" porcelain charger enamelled in iron red and green with scattered flowers and trellis to border, 13.25ins (336mm) diameter x 3.25ins (83mm) high (Ming Dynasty - Wanli period (1573-1617)) £150-200
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A Chinese porcelain turquoise glazed bottle vase, 16.75ins (425mm) high (now converted to electric table lamp) £400-600
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A Chinese porcelain yellow glazed bottle vase, the body incised and enamelled in colours with two five clawed dragons chasing the Sacred Pearl amongst clouds, 12ins (304mm) high (now converted to electric table lamp - hairline crack) £300-400
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A Chinese porcelain octagonal baluster shaped vase decorated with a celadon glaze, 16.5ins (419mm) high (blue square seal mark to base - 20th Century) £300-400
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A Chinese porcelain bottle shaped vase enamelled in colours with flowers, the shoulder with moulded dragon chasing a Sacred Pearl, 14ins (355mm) high (four character mark in red - repair to dragon) £300-500
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