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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| The Art of Tea | |||
| Auctioneer: | Chiswick Auctions | Location: | London W3 8BL |
| Contact: | Tel: +44(0)20 8992 4442 | ||
| Date: | 3rd November 2015 | Time: | 2:00PM |
| Details: | Viewing: Sunday 1st November 12 noon to 6pm Monday 2nd November 10am to 8pm Tuesday 3rd November 9am to 11am |
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| Auction Lots - Page 3 | |||
| 360 | |||
| A JAPANESE SILVER JUG, TOGETHER WITH TWO CHINESE SILVER ITEMS. Early 20th Century. The jug with a repoussé flowering iris plants on a stipple ground, the jug and handle also with stipple decoration, chunyin mark to base, 12.5cm H, an hexagonal section double handled sugar pot and cover with a carved bamboo design on a stipple ground, three impressed marks, Nanking, 850 and guang xiang, 16cm H, the smaller jug with a bamboo form handle and carved with flowering chrysanthemum, three impressed marks, 85, xianshi and ren, 7cm H. (3) £800-1,200 |
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| 361 | |||
| A THREE PIECE JAPANESE SILVER TEASET. Miyamoto Shoko, Tokyo. Comprised of a teapot and cover, double handled sugar bowl and cover, each of globular form, with a band of lappets rising from the short circular foot to the centre of the body, the upper half with repoussé chrysanthemum decoration, the covers surmounted by a ribbed spherical finial, each piece with impressed with Miyamotoshoko. Tokyo. Sterling. 14cm H. (3) £500-800 |
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| 362 | |||
| A THREE PIECE CHINESE EXPORT SILVER TEA SET. Circa 1920. Comprised of a teapot and cover, double handled sugar bowl and cover, each of globular form with wide shoulders, the bodies with a centrally positioned circular panel above an overall stipple ground, the well proportioned spouts, handles and finials formed as bamboo stems, naturalistically modelled in nodular sections, two impressed marks, guangji and zhu, the teapot 14cm H. (3) £800-1,200 |
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| 363 | |||
| A CHINESE SILVER FOUR PIECE TEA SERVICE. c. 1900. Comprising a teapot, double handled sugar bowl, tea caddy and cover, and a milk jug, all of curved square section and with rounded shoulders, the handles and finials in simulation of bamboo stems, together with a tea caddy, the cover with the character cha in repoussé on the cover, each piece with fine repoussé all over with a dense pattern of overlapping bamboo leaves and a band of scrolling leaves below the rim, impressed jiangiu tuwuxing mark to base, 7.5-14cm H. (4) £4,000-6,000 |
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| 364 | |||
| A VIETNAMESE SILVER SIX PIECE TEASET. Early 20th Century. Comprising a teapot, coffeepot, sugar pot, sugar scoop and tray, the four vessels with a wide body, raised on wide foot, with waisted shoulders, the domed covers surmounted by a globe-form finial, the sides and covers with a landscape scene in fine repoussé, the handles and scoop claws formed as bamboo branches, the hongmu tray mounted in silver, the edges with landscape scenes, and raised on four globe-form feet, impressed mark, 900 Vietnam Tantian, the tray, 56 x 36cm. £4,000-6,000 |
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| 365 | |||
| A TIBETAN SILVER TEAPOT AND COVER. 18th / 19th Century. Of well-proportioned form with a globular body, rounded shoulders with an upright cylindrical neck, the curved upright spout rising from the open mouth of a dragon, set opposite an 'S'-curved dragon handle terminating with a scaly up-turned fish tail, all raised on a short foot from which issue repousséd lappets, a motif repeated in two rows on the cover encircling the bud-form finial, the body is carved with two five clawed dragons among scrolling clouds, the shoulders and neck with Buddhist emblems, 18cm H. £1,500-2,000 Provenance: English private collection |
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| 366 | |||
| A TIBETAN SILVER TEAPOT AND COVER. 18th / 19th Century. Of similar form to lot 365, but more compact, the neck with two flower heads, and the finial on the cover surrounded by only a single ring of lappets, 11cm H. £1,500-2,000 |
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| 367 | |||
| A TIBETAN MONASTIC COPPER JUG AND COVER. c. 17th Century. The heavy copper vessel cast in two halves using a mould, the cover incised and shaped to resemble a lotus flower, surmounted by a lotus bud finial, the body decorated with archaic-style floral designs, 16cm H. £200-300 This vessel and its method of manufacture belongs to a specific group of early monastic domestic and ritual metal ware, of which few pieces survive today. |
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| 368 | |||
| A TIBETAN MONK'S BUR WALNUT TEABOWL AND COVER. 19th Century. Of deep rounded form with steep sides raised on a cylindrical foot, the cover of domed form, 10cm H. £150-250 Provenance: Spink and Son Ltd A similar piece may be found in the Horniman Museum, accession number nn1205. |
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| 369 | |||
| A TIBETAN COPPER AND BRASS MONK'S HAT EWER. 19th Century. The outer surface covered in sheets of metal with floral patterns in repoussé and of copper held onto the wooden ewer with horizontal and vertical brass bands, the handle and spout also in brass, the lobed crown with two snow lions flanking an offering also in repoussé, 23cm H. £1,200-1,500 The duomuhu is a form derived from a Tibetan object for the storage and production of butter tea, a mixture of tea leaves, yak milk, water and salt, drunk as part of Tibetan rituals. Lot 369 is typical of the indigenous form with a wood lining and copper plates held together by metal bands. The form was popularised across China particularly during the reign of the Qianlong emperor, who was a committed practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism with strong political ties to the Dalai and Panchen Lamas. Under the Qianlong emperor, duomuhu were produced in a range of materials including porcelain, cloisonné and canton enamels. Lots 370 and 371 show the continuation of the tradition across the succeeding centuries of the Qing Dynasty. Of the two, lot 371 provides the most direct reference to Tibetan iconography with the eight Buddhist emblems reproduced around the body. Each has been illustrated (left) alongside emblems from the Tibetan silver cup, lot 266, to indicate the transformation into Chinese taste, other elements include the cash symbol, the bats, and the rings of ruyi heads and lappets around the raised bands. In the case of lot 370, the Buddhist influence appears to be less, beyond the overall form including the raised bands which echo the metal bands of the Tibetan original. |
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| 370 | |||
| A CHINESE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TIBETAN STYLE EWER AND COVER, DUOMUHU. Qing Dynasty, 19th Century / early 20th Century. The tall cylindrical body divided into four sections by raised gilded bands embellished with floral scrolls, each of the horizontal registers containing decoration on a lapis ground of interlocking T-scrolls, kui dragons and lotus flowers, all below a similarly decorated lobed crown rim resembling a monk's cap, the spout with painted blue qi dragons and the handle formed as a chain connecting two rings issuing from the mouths of two lion dog masks, daqing qianlong nianzhi mark to base, 52cm H. £1,500-2,000 Literature: For a similar piece see Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, Sotheby's New York, September 2014. |
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| 371 | |||
| Qing Dynasty, 18th / 19th Century. Of cylindrical section, the curved upright spout rising from the open mouth of a dragon, the spout and handle of rectangular section, the body with two raised bands, decorated with Buddhist emblems separated by scrolling floral decoration, against a blue ground, the lobed crown painted and pierced with cash decoration, 39.5cm H. £3,000-5,000 Literature: For a related example see Compendium Collection of the Palace Museum, Enamels, volume 5, plate 225. |
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| 372 | |||
| A CHINESE YELLOW GROUND DRAGON TEAPOT AND COVER. Republican era. Potted in pear-shaped form, the body decorated with two leaping dragons, one in green and another in aubergine, each confronting a flaming pearl above a sea of green waves, a key scroll border at the rim, the overhanging cover decorated with a green dragon within a key-scroll border below a circular finial, bao guizhai zao mark to base,17cm H. £200-300 |
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| 373 | |||
| A CHINESE HUOQIAN SHIPIAN TEABOWL AND COVER. Republican era. The body decorated in enamels with three boys at play in the garden, the cover with a further two boys in pursuit of a butterfly, 9.5cm H. £400-600 |
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| 374 | |||
| A CERAMIC MODEL OF A FIGURE BOILING A KETTLE. 16.5cm H. £80-120 |
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| 375 | |||
| A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE TEA CULTIVATION PLATE, NUMBER 3. Qing Dynasty, Qianlong, c. 1740. Painted with a tea production scene, the border with elaborate rococo scroll-work, on the back the number 3 in underglaze blue, 23cm diameter. £200-300 Literature: For a plate within the series see The Choice of the Private Trader, The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from the Hodroff Collection, Howard,1994, cat no 69, for another see Tea Time in Flanders, 1996, cat no 85. |
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| 376 | |||
| A JAPANESE SATSUMA TRIPOD KORO. Late Meiji. Of cylindrical form with dragon head feet, and looping handles, delicately painted with a continuous scene of figures in a landscape including various instances of tea drinking, signed Takayama ga, 18cm H. £200-300 |
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| 377 | |||
| A CHINESE BAMBOO PARFUMIER. Qing Dynasty, 18th Century. Of cylindrical form, the surface carved in high openwork relief with a tea-drinking scene involving twelve figures and a horse below pines in a rocky landscape, 20.3cm H, 5.5cm diameter. £400-600 Export paintings, produced through the 18th and 19th Centuries, were designed to elucidate an aspect of Chinese cultural life as a keepsake for a Western visitor. Paintings of the growing, processing and sale of tea invariably came as a group of twelve images. The stages depicted include breaking up the soil for planting; planting the tea bushes; cultivating the plants; picking the tea leaves; brining the tea from the fields for sorting and drying; drying the leaves; drying, sorting and pounding the leaves; pounding and dying the leaves; bringing the tea for firing; firing the tea and negotiating the sale to a tea merchant; packing the tea and weaving boxes; packing boxes of tea into a boat ready for shipping. See The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, Crossman, 1991, pp. 440-441 for more details. Lots 377-379 provide various combinations of these scenes, with lot 375 utilizing a more unusual medium. |
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| 378 | |||
| A SET OF TEN TEA PREPARATION PITH PAINTINGS. Late Qing. Showing various stages of the tea production process, including group scenes showing the interactions of repeat characters 23 x 28cm. (10) £100-200 |
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| 379 | |||
| A SET OF EIGHT PITH PAINTINGS. Qing Dynasty. Each showing an individual engaged in various activities including tea production processes, framed and glazed, 11 x 14cm. (8) £500-700 |
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| 380 | |||
| A COLLECTION OF FOUR TEA PREPARATION TRADE PAINTINGS. Qing Dynasty, c. 1820. Depicting three scenes: first, the cultivation of tea plants, second, pounding and drying the leaves and third, packing tea and weaving baskets, the latter with two painted images, framed and glazed, 31 x 46cm. (4) £1,500-2,000 |
| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| The Art of Tea | |||
| Auctioneer: | Chiswick Auctions | Location: | London W3 8BL |
| Contact: | Tel: +44(0)20 8992 4442 | ||
| Date: | 3rd November 2015 | Time: | 2:00PM |
| Details: | Viewing: Sunday 1st November 12 noon to 6pm Monday 2nd November 10am to 8pm Tuesday 3rd November 9am to 11am |
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| Page: | 1 2 3 | ||