This regal, 20th century English 6-piece silverplate tea and coffee service in the Sheffield style would look grand on a sideboard for the holidays. With lovely fluted accents, ebonized handles and finials on ball feet; marked "CAMEO" "EPNS" and "MADE IN SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND" and consisting of a coffee pot, tea pot, kettle on stand, creamer, open sugar, and waste bowl. Condition: very good, some very minor surface scratches...

A rare Song - Yuan dynasty barrel shape three legged large size censer / incense burner, rounded side with barrel shape body and glazed base, censer decorated with trigram motif at the exterior and covered with light bluish green glaze.
Censer in is good condition no chip, no crack, no restoration, there is an original short line from kiln firing at inner rim, porcelain with good ping sound with finger tip.
Size: 18 cm diameter.

A larger than average Chinese porcelain teapot (with matched cover) decorated in European taste with "famille rose" enamels and made for export,circa 1760-1770. Condition - there is substantial wear to the enamels and gilding but no chips, cracks or restoration...

Unmarked, but likely Minton, soft paste porcelain covered sauce tureen "Feuille de choux" pattern with a rose finial. These knock-offs of 18th century Sevres were popular from the mid-19th century (c.1850)onward and Minton made many very good ones. With the lid it is 5 1/2 inches (14 cm) tall, 7 1/4 inches (18.4 cm) long, and 4 inches (10.2 cm) wide.

Condition: The lid has no damage and slight wear to the gilding on one edge...

Porcelain covered with celadon glaze to the foot and decorated with floral carved motif, unglazed concave base. PERIOD : Yue ware 9th Century MEASUREMENTS: 17.2 cm wide, 7.1 cm tall. CONDITION : Perfect, no chips, cracks or hairlines and free from restorations.

A Song/Yuan Celadon Twin Fish Dish. Diameter approximately 21.8 cm and height approximately 4.8 cm. Few crackles glaze in the dish and an 8 mm hairline at the rim. White lights in the photos are reflection of camera flash. Good almost perfectly even color in good condition and free of restoration.

This is an extremely uncommon Irish cordial or wine glass with a domed helmet foot. The round funnel bowl sits atop a multiple spiral air twist stem (MSAT). The glass is quite heavy and substantial, with a good dark metal, and the weight and thickness of the stem all lead to the Irish attribution.

In perfect condition with no problems whatsoever, the glass is 6 3/8 inches tall, with a bowl diameter of 2 1/8 inches and a foot diameter of 2 15/16 inches.

A beautiful late 19th C. Chinese carved amber snuff bottle with twin dragon chasing each other. In excellent condition. H:3"

A fine and well balance potted dish, decorated to interior with incised a pair of aubergine dragons surrounded a shou medallion in the center, the cavetto sides with five clouds. The exterior with a pair of dragons chasing pearl on yellow ground glaze. Yongzheng six characters mark on the base within double circle, probably of the period. Condition is excellent. Diameter: 19cm.

Octagon Jardiniere with Floral Panels
19th century
Likely Guangxu Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze famille rose
enamels on a celadon glazed ground
W: 37.3 cm L: 36.5 cm H: 25 cm
Perfect Condition
From a Berverly Hills, CA estate


Description & Notes

This large eight-sided jardiniere is both rich and gorgeous: a thick celadon glazed ground is decorated with a resplendent parade of flowers, all done in the Chinese floral paint...

A Meissen porcelain cream pot and cover circa 1745 with a pine cone finial. The under glaze hand painted pattern is a variation on the Meissen onion pattern. The crossed sword mark is loosely painted in under glaze blue with an extra dot that is sometimes found on early pieces. Height is approximately 5 ½ inches (14cm). Width from spout to handle is approximately 5 ¾ inches (14.6cm).

Condition: There are firing flaws where the feet attach to the pot. No chips, cracks, or repairs...

Chinese Famille Rose Sugar Bowl and Cover. The petal moulded base and lid with applied Lotus stems, leaves and flowers. Decorated in bright enamels with flowering peony. Yongzheng C1730/40. Height 4 1/4" (10.8cm). Excellent condition, no frits, cracks or restoration. Old collection label attached with sealing wax to base.

This is a beautifully decorated pair of American grape shears, ca. 1890, heavily repossed handles with grapes and grape leaves design, marked sterling on both handles, steel blades marked K. C. Seelbach Co. Germany; Excellent condition; blades may need cleaning. measurement: 6 1/2 in. long.

This set of seven Chinese porcelain bowls comes from the Diana shipwreck. It sank in March 1817 in the Strait of Malacca. The contents were recovered in 1994 and auctioned at Christie's in Amsterdam in 1995. Dimensions: Diameter 14 cm, H. 7 cm each. Condition: 5 bowls perfect, one with a chip on the mouthrim, one with a hairline crack. Every bowl has the original auction sticker.

A Long Quan Celadon bowl Ming Dynasty. Diameter approximately 14.5 cm, height 7 cm. Covered with even green tone and crackle glaze. Center with floral carved, the exterior freely carved with stylised foliate scrolls. Few small glazes lost on the rim. Good condition.

Diameter approximately 23 cm. Height approximately 12 cm. Few chips, engraving marks (as seen in the photos). In good condition.

This rare middle or late 19th century ¡°tea dust¡± porcelain snuff bottle is 3 inches tall and 1½ inches on the widest part. The color and the shape of the body are superb. It is in excellent condition.

Ming Dynasty, Swatow ware porcelain dish covered with a pale grey glaze and with overglaze enamel Arabic inscriptions. Diameter : 19,7 cm. Condition : Broken into 2 parts and rather successfuly re-glued because the crack is inconspicuously and there is still a nice sound when tapped.