From our Chinese Polychrome Collection, a high quality Rose Medallion plate, 19th century either Tongzhi Period (1862-1874) or Guangxu Period (1875-1908). Executed in the typical palette of pinks, blues, greens, yellows, whites and gilt with four individual cartouches: Two contain various figures usually representing scenes from either The Romance of the Western Chamber or The Dream of Red Mansions, the other two contain birds and foliage...

Very well potted porcelain body covered with a white glaze. Fifteenth centuries or earlier. Diameter 5,2 cm. H : 4,4 Condition : Perfect

a Song dynasty longquan celadon large dish with rare dragon motif, rounded side with deep center and glazed base, center decorate with rare dragon chasing flaming pearl motif, covered with good green glaze, good condition with damage at the rim please picture for detail, size: 30 cm

ca. 1870-90s, late 19th century
Guangxu Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with powder blue glaze and famille verte enamels
H: 35.7 cm W: 25 cm (at widest point)
Lamp hole filled in and covered to bottom, cover partially restored.
From a French estate


A large and robustly shaped late Qing covered ginger jar, in the Kangxi style with famille verte flower-baskets against a powder blue ground.

A late Ming - Transitional Wanli - Tiangqi blue and white large jar, rounded side with globular body and glazed base, jar decorated with good underglaze blue of bird butterfly flower and landscape motif, jar is in good condition no damage no chip no crack no restoration, small glaze fritt at the rim, size: 22.5 cm height.

A Chinese Blue White Bowl, Kangxi (1662-1722). Diameter approximately 31 cm. There are few rim chips. In good condition.

An ovoid jar heavily decorated with famille rose enamels depicting two dragons amongst lotus flowers and dense foliage. This item was made in China in the 19th Century. Condition - very good - no damages and no restoration...

A rare and wonderful Chinese porcelain bowl with beautiful glaze designs of cranes flying over crashing waters, each carrying a different object of auspicious nature, such as a lotus, a scroll, a fan, a sword, a gourd bottle, and a basket of fruit. Brightly multicolored clouds fill empty space between each bird. The inside of the bowl has a single crane flying over identical wave motifs with smoke clouds with minor wear. Excellent condition...

Five dynasties Yue "Mise" bowl decorated with twin butterfly incised on the center. 15,5cm diameter. Bowl has been broken on restorations.

A crisply moulded white porcelain "Blanc de Chine" wine cup. The shape is made in imitation of contemporary rhinoceros horn libation cups. This item was made in the Dehua kilns Fujian province, circa 1640 - 1700, during the very late Ming or early Qing dynasty. Condition - excellent - no damages and no restoration...

A very rare and fine Song - Yuan dynasty qingbai glaze carved peony flower large jar, rounded side with globular body and unglazed base, jar decorated with fine craved for peony flower motif, covered with good bluish white qingbai glaze.
Jar is in good condition no chip, no crack, no restoration, good porcelain high ping with finger tip.
Size: 10 cm height, 11 cm diameter.

Description:

A Yaozhou covered jar was in fantastic look.
It was well carved with floral motifs on the surface.
In characteristically yellowish green tint of the glaze, the ware was revealed with the also characteristic beige body clay.
Obvious incursions were happened to the glaze in foggy look.
One manufacturing defect was found at the foot ring.
Otherwise, it was in perfect condition without any restorations,.

Date: Jin Dynasty, 11th/12th century...

VASE WITH WIFE & NINE SONS (TFM081301)
ca. 1860-90s, latter half of the 19th century
Tongzhi-Guangxu Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
Height: 36 cm / 14.2 in
From a Greenwich, CT estate

This vase is lavishly painted with a young wife and nine sons in a garden, flanked with landscape scenes, dragons in relief, and a faux wrapped cloth...

ca. 1890-1920s
Late Qing - Republic period
Porcelain with overglaze famille verte enamels
H: 31 cm
From a Northern California estate

Condition report: a nearly invisible 8.5 cm hairline from rim, otherwise very good.

Guangxu mark, ca. 1875-1908

Both finely potted bowls are covered with a lustrous clear glaze, then painted in a broad palette of overglaze enamels. The thousand flowers design, known in Chinese as jiacai (mingles colors), covers the entire exterior of each bowl from the foot to the rim. The flowers include lotus, peony, hydrangea, chrysanthemum and more. The small spaces between the leaves and blossoms are filled with gold enamel...

Early 18th century
Kangxi Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue
d: 28.3 cm
Perfect condition, some rim fritting typical of Kangxi wares
From a Swedish collector.

This is one of the most well painted Kangxi "flower basket" plates I've seen, in an excellent shade of Kangxi cobalt blue. Please compare with a similar "flower basket" plate in the British Museum (Franks.221).

Six Chinese turquoise glazed figures of immortals. Each finely moulded and standing on a square base. C19th. Ht.4 3/4" (12.1 cm). Condition; small chips to lotus leaf of first figure, chip to sleeve of second figure.

Height approximately 30 cm. In good condition.