Well painted blue and white plate with landscape scene clobbered once it arrived in the West, probably in Holland. Small kiln grit spot o cavetto. 8 3/4 in. diam. 18th C
Well painted blue and white plate with a village and landscape scene clobbered once it arrived in the West, probably in Holland. Short hairline off of rim. 18th C. 8 7/8 in. diam.
With blooms of flowering plants against a white fretwork interspersed with small flowers, a band of ruyi at the mouth rim, stylized waves and lotus tendrils around the foot, gilt evident. Slight lean. Early 19th C. 9 1/2" high
Provenance: Stanford, Connecticut collection
The sloping shoulders, neck and foot rim of this heavy vase i ...click for details
Beautifully glazed in a rich coral ground that pools to white at the mouth rim and stops neatly at the stepped foot, the bulbous midsection separated by a short waist from the second gourd which forms a classic 18th C pear shape to the mouth, the base glazed white. Drilled. Yongzheng. 11 1/4 in. high
This is one of a number of jades and snuff bottles obtained from the Hamilton, Bermuda estate of an English gentleman reputed to have settled in Bermuda after service in China during the early 20th C.
The matched pair with one leg resting bent on a rock outcropping and the other straight down, the feathers folded back with the heads held high, the white glaze highlighting the molded bodies. 18th C. 10 in. high.
Provenance: Western Pennsylvania Collection
This is one of three Chinese export 18th and 19th C bird models acquired from a ...click for details
Nicely potted and painted, a band of lotus leaves, leaves, tendrils and flowers in the middle of a bands of decoration along the shoulder and footrim, the glaze pooling neatly at the foot, the base glazed white. 18th/19th C. 5 1/2 in. high.
With a deep underglaze blue decoration around the waist of lotus leaves, tendrils and flowers, a band of decoration along the mouthrim and the footrim, the glaze pooling neatly at the foot, a four character apocryphal Chenghua mark in underglaze blue on the foot. 18th/19th c. 5 in. high.
Well painted and potted with a central medallion depicting two scholars with two of their acolytes in a garden, the cavetto surrounded by a band of lotus leaves and flowers, a band of hex fretwork along the rim intersperced with four medallions of birds, the exterior with hanging bamboo, the base glazed white and unmarked. Kangxi/18th C. 12 in. diam.
Blue and white with two medallions, one of flowering plants and the other of flowering prunus and prunus branches, all surrounded by banana and other leaves and leafy tendrils which flow from the bowl to the metal rimmed top, this decoration which then creates two medallions of hex fretwork between the medallions of flowers and prunus, the bottom glazed white with a two character mark in underglaze blue. 18th C. 5 in. diam. 5 1/2 in. high.
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Rising off of a high foot, the bulbous body slopping to a short neck in the form of a pear shaped vase, the exterior covered with a smooth gray crackle glaze interspersed with short brown lines in the Geyao Song style that extends down into the mouth but stops neatly at the foot to show the unglazed grey ware of the base, a three character collector's mark on the base. 17th/18th C. 6 1/4 in. high.
Fine and rare compressed pear shaped lobed vase with a scalloped mouth and stylized bat shaped handles, the soft paste body covered in a milky white glaze intricately carved in anhua decoration with swirling clouds amidst lingzhi mushrooms decorating the vase from the mouth rim down to the foot, the base unmarked. Yongzheng/18th C. 5 1/4 in. high
With a rich celedon glaze sitting on a splayed foot, the body carved with lotus tendrils and leaves, the shoulders rising to a molded double ring at the base of the neck which flares to an everted mouth, the base partially glazed. 8th/19th C. 6 in. high
Finely painted with a green ground of swirling clouds, a band of overglaze red bats circling the exterior, the interior with a stylized lotus flower surrounded by lotus leaves and tendrils, a four character mark in underglaze blue on the base. 18th/19th C. 5 in. diam.
