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TWO CHINESE SHOULAO TEXTILE PANELS.
Late Qing / Republican era.
212 x 102cm, 167 x 93cm (2)
£400-600
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A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELLED "BOOKS" BOX AND COVER.
Early 20th Century.
Well moulded and enamelled in the form of a stack of two cased sets of books, with red, blue and yellow ground brocade covers attached with ivory clasps, the shorter sides simulating the stitched pages of books, the upper surface of the cover with a label inscribed Le Shan Tang Zhi, 8 x 15 x 12cm.
£500-700
Literature: This object belongs to a group of ceramics made to simulate other materials, particularly popular during the Qianlong era. For an example dating to the Qianlong era see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, 1999, pl 147.
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AN ALBUM DOCUMENTING A BUYING TRIP OF JOHN BADDOCK TO CHINA IN 1908 WITH H OGAMA TANOSUKE.
1908.
Containing a "Memorandum of Agreement" between the two parties, with fifty watercolour studies pasted in, depicting figures, architectural views and scenes of known landmarks and views of Beijing and Shanghai, including of the Great Wall in Beijing and the Bund in Shanghai, together with a photograph of Ma Wanyi, a Muslim dealer visited in Beijing, the album also contains a number of pasted business cards, receipts and invoices, 37 x 27cm.
£1,200-1,500
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XIE XISHAN.
1963.
A set of three books instructing on processes of ink painting, 25 x 17cm.
£300-500
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CATALOGUE OF THE MORGAN COLLECTION OF CHINESE PORCELAINS, NEW YORK.
1911.
The rare second volume, privately printed, 146 pages with numerous colour plates. LIMITED EDITION: 250 copies. Contemporary red crushed morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut, watered silk liners, 25 x 17cm.
£200-300
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BY IMPERIAL COMMAND AN INTRODUCTION TO CHI'ING IMPERIAL PAINTED ENAMELS.
1976.
Hong Kong: Hibaya, by Hugh MOSS, 2 volumes, 87 colour photographic plates. Original cloth, dust jackets and slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 133 of 1100 copies, 41 x 28cm.
£800-1,200
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CHINESE CERAMICS IN THE TOPKAPI SARAY MUSEUM, ISTANBUL.
1986.
London: Sotheby's Publications, by R. KRAHL and J.AYERS, 3 volumes, black and white illustrations throughout, with numerous colour plates. Original blue cloth, top edges gilt, slipcases, 37 x 26cm. (3)
£900-1,000
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CHINESE PORCELAIN. THE S.C. KO TIANMINLOU COLLECTION.
1987.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2 volumes, numerous colour plates, English and Chinese text, original blue cloth binding, slipcase, 37 x 27.5cm. (2)
£300-500
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THE CATALOGUE OF SASSOON CHINESE IVORIES
1950.
London: Country Life, by S.E. LUCAS. 3 volumes, numbered colour plates of 966 objects, original gilt lettered half vellum on green cloth binding, top edges gilt, others uncut. LIMITED EDITION, numbered 153 of 250 sets, 39.5 x 30.5cm. (3)
£3,500-4,000
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ORIENTAL CERAMIC ART, ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES FROM THE COLLECTION OF W.T. WALTERS.
1897.
New York: Appleton. 10 volumes, engraved frontispiece and 116 chromolithographed plates by Stand and reproductions in text, original yellow quarter cloth and pictorial boards, LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 unnumbered sets, 56.5 x 42.5cm. (10)
£5,000-8,000
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THE GEORGE EUMORFOPOULOS COLLECTION. CATALOGUE OF THE CHINESE, COREAN AND PERSIAN POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.
1925-28.
London: Ernest Benn, by Robert Lockhart. 6 volumes, title-pages printed in blue and black, numerous photographic plates, a few in colour and mounted, black and gold textured cloth, spines lettered in gilt, LIMITED EDITION, an unnumbered copy of 725 copies, 44.5 x 32cm. (6)
£6,000-8,000
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A COLLECTION OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ROGER BLUETT.
Including a leather bound, inscribed copy of Chinese Ceramics, the Koger Collection, Chinesisches Gold und Silber, Hugh Moss: The Experience of Art, Volume II, Chinesisches Cloisonné, Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, The Museum of East Asian Art, Inaugural Exhibition, volumes I and II, the Museum of East Asian Art, Jades from China, JJ Lally&Co, Archaic Chinese Bronzes, Jades and Works of Art. (Quantity)
£100-200
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A COLLECTION OF CHINESE ART AUCTION CATALOGUES.
The majority being from Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams (Quantity)
£40-60
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A COLLECTION OF CHINESE ART, TIBETAN, INDIAN AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN ART CATALOGUES.
(Quantity)
£100-200
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A COLLECTION OF CHINESE AUCTION CATALOGUES.
Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams and other auction houses, from the last 20 years (Quantity)
£200-300
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A PAIR OF CHINESE HARDWOOD CHAIRS TOGETHER WITH A MATCHING JARDINIÈRE STAND.
Early 20th Century.
The carved and pierced backs with a quadrefoil panel with antiques on a decorative stand, surrounded by carved and pierced bats, with a marble seat panel, the stand with under-table, the chairs 88cm H. (3)
£800-1,200
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A PAIR OF MARBLE INSET CHINESE HARDWOOD CHAIRS WITH MATCHING JARDINIÈRE STAND.
Late 19th / early 20th Century.
With scrolling pierced arms and backs inset with a circular piece of marble, with a marble seat panel, the stand with under-table, the chairs 108cm H. (3)
£800-1,200
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A PAIR OF CHINESE HONGMU YOKE-BACK ARMCHAIRS.
Late Qing.
98cm H. (2)
£3,000-5,000
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A PAIR OF CHINESE HARDWOOD RECTANGULAR STOOLS.
Late 19th-early 20th Century.
Painted, 51cm H. (2)
£200-300
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A BURMESE SIDE TABLE TOGETHER WITH A CHINESE MARBLE INSET JARDINIÈRE STAND.
19th Century.
The table 73cm H. (2)
£200-300
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A CHINESE HARDWOOD TABLE WITH INSET MARBLE TOP.
Late 19th / early 20th Century.
The aprons deeply carved and incised as bamboo shoots, the slender legs carved as bamboo stems, 75 x 56 x 106cm.
£500-800
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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BARREL AND COVER.
Qing Dynasty.
The body and cover inlaid with floral decoration, metal lion head handles suspending rings, 35cm H.
£1,000-2,000
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A PAIR OF BLACK LACQUERED RECTANGULAR DRAGON AND PHOENIX WALL STANDS.
Late Qing.
Carved with scroll-form ends at the bottom, the surface of each painted with a phoenix above three dragons, among scrolling clouds, each with three folding stands, 57 x 22cm. (2)
£100-200
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A HONGMU LOTUS-FORM STAND.
Qing, 18th / 19th Century.
Formed as a lotus pod from which issue a ring of upward and downward facing lappets, the latter forming the feet of the stand, the surface of stand with circular holes enclosing freely moving seeds, the stand with a rich patina, the seeds of a lighter colour, 7cm H.
Provenance: Spink and Son Ltd.
£400-600
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A FAMILLE VERTE SQUARE SECTION STAND.
Qing Dynasty, Kangxi.
Of square form with inward-curving sides, supported on four short feet, the body painted in enamels in yellows, aubergine and green with floral sprays, each side with four centrally positioned interlocking cash in openwork, 9.5cm H.
£300-500
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A CHINESE JADE BI.
Late Qing.
Raised on an openwork wooden stand, 14cm H.
£400-600
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A COLLECTION OF SIX STANDS.
Late Qing.
(6)
£120-150
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A COLLECTION OF CHINESE STANDS.
(19)
£100-200
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A COLLECTION OF CHINESE STANDS.
(Quantity)
£300-400
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A CHINESE BAMBOO BRUSH POT.
Qing, Dynasty, 18th / 19th Century.
The exterior carved in openwork to depict four scholars and a child in an opening under the shade of an aged pine tree among rocky outcrops. 14.5cm H, 10cm diameter.
£500-800
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A CHINESE BRAZIL NUT CARVED IN THE FORM OF A MINIATURE BOAT.
Early 20th Century.
The bottom inscribed with excerpts from the Chinese classic, "Red Cliff", 5 x 2cm.
£150-250
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A CHINESE COCONUT WHITE METAL LINED BOWL.
Late Qing.
The exterior finely carved with a continuous scene of figures beneath pines, 5.5cm H, 11cm diameter.
£200-300
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A BAMBOO ROOT "SCHOLAR'S ROCK".
Qing Dynasty.
Of bifurcated form, with a well patinated knobbly surface, 28cm H.
£300-500
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A CHINESE BAMBOO WRIST REST DEPICTING LIU HAI.
Late Qing.
30 x 13cm.
£300-500
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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER STEM CUP.
Early Qing, 17th Century.
The exterior with inlaid scenes of a phoenix among bamboo, with metal lining, 9cm H.
£300-500
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A CHINESE CINNABAR LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER.
Late Qing, 19th Century.
Decorated with a phoenix among scrolling flowers, the underside with a floral roundel surrounded by butterflies and flowers, 6cm diameter.
£400-600
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A TURQUOISE AND AUBERGINE-GLAZED LI TAIPO WATER POT.
Kangxi.
Modelled as the drunken poet reclining against a wine jar which forms the water pot, his face with fuddled expression and bristling black beard, 18cm long.
£500-800
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A CHEN MINGYUAN YIXING MODEL OF A BAMBOO SHOOT.
20th Century.
Naturalistically modelled with a small impressed seal mark on the base, 16cm long.
£150-250
Literature: For a related piece see The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Yixing Zisha Stoneware, 2015, cat no 127.
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A CARVED MOTHER-OF-PEARL SNUFF BOTTLE.
Late Qing.
Of flattened ovoid form, one side with a deer, the other with a small frog, 8.5cm H.
£150-250
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THREE AGATE SNUFF BOTTLES.
Late 19th / early 20th Century.
The first two carved with leafy branches in high relief, the leaves incorporating brown colourations in the stone, the one with stopper, 5cm H, the other without, 6cm H, together with a banded agate snuff bottle with lion-mask, rounded rectangular ring handles and stopper, 6cm H. (3)
£100-200
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A COLLECTION OF INSIDE PAINTED SNUFF BOTTLES.
19th / 20th Century.
5.5-9cm H. (8)
£200-300
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A CHINESE SNUFF BOTTLE WITH SILVER INLAY.
Qing Dynasty, Shunzhi, 1652.
The copper bottle with applied pierced oval floral panels, with stopper, the base inscribed shunzhi jiunian cheng rongzhang, 7.5cm H.
£140-160
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A CHINESE JADE SNUFF BOTTLE.
Late Qing.
With stopper. 7.5cm H.
£200-300
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A MOULDED PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLE.
Late 19th / early 20th Century.
Decorated with figures in a landscape, one side with an elephant, qianlong nianzhi written on the base, 7cm H.
£100-200
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A COLLECTION OF BLUE AND WHITE SNUFF BOTTLES.
Qing Dyansty.
Two decorated with Buddhist lion dogs chasing a ribboned pearl, two with fishermen in a landscape setting, Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong marks to bases, 6.5-8.5cm. (4)
£200-300
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A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ABSTINENCE PLAQUE.
Qing Dynasty.
Formed as a double gourd, one side inscribed with the characters zhajie, among scrolling flowers against a yellow ground, the design repeated on the other side with an inscription in Manchu script, pierced longitudinally, 7 x 5cm.
£400-600
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A CHINESE AMBER CARVING OF A DEER.
17th Century.
Seated with the legs tucked under, the head curved round to the right, next to a spray of lingzhi fungus, 5cm H.
£1,000-2,000
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A RAT AND LINGZHI AMBER PENDANT.
Late Qing.
The body curled over a lingzhi spray which the rat is proceeding to nibble at, 3 x 3cm.
£600-800
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A CHINESE JADE PENDANT FORMED AS A LINGZHI SPRAY.
Qing Dynasty.
Deeply carved with various branches of differing sizes, the jade of an even pale celadon colour, 10 x 5cm.
£300-500
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A CHINESE JADE PEBBLE PENDANT CARVED IN RELIEF WITH TWO MONKEYS.
Late Qing.
The surface carved in relief to depict two monkeys holding forth sprays of lingzhi fungus, 5 x 4 x 3cm.
£150-250
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