Catalog: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Porcelain (125)

A large Chinese eggshell yellow ground baluster vase well painted with two principal circular panels of a large house among mountains and a coastal mountainous landscape with lesser panels. All painted on a detailed ground painted in formal Qing style with dragons, vases and other precious objects, along with flowers and formal scrolling foliage.

The neck of the vase with couplets containing poems. The inside glazed white with the rim covered in gilt...

A Chinese famille-rose porcelain baluster vase with integral revolving base. The vase features an all around outdoor scene of ladies in conversation between a base border of blue lappets with a top border covering the shoulder and neck with blue flowers and scrolls. The reticulated base glazed in a light celadon with the inside of the vase glazed in white...

Millefleur decorated charger on a burgundy ground well covered in a colorful display of lush blooms, the exterior left bare. The double foot rim encircling the recessed displays a four character mark surrounded by double squares in iron red.

Size: 16" Diameter by 1-7/8" high

Condition: Good Condition, no breaks and or noticeable cracks

Age: Late Republic to Mid Century

A pair of Blanc de Chine prunis trees. One has two birds resting on it's branches surrounded by prunis blossoms. Each set in a rectangular planter with a center hole.

Age: 18th century and earlier

Size: One is 8-3/4" high by 4" wide by 3-1/8" depth. One is 7-3/8" high by 4" wide by 3-1/8" depth.

Condition: Good overall condition for their age. The branches on these are quite delicate and there has been some breakage...

The sturdy shallow body raised on three ruyi shaped supports and molded with six lobes below the correspondingly lobed and raised outer edge of the everted rim thining to a mushroom center band...

A fine copper-red-glazed bowl. The deep rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a gently everted rim, covered overall in a deep red colored glaze fading to white at the rim. The base and the inside white. The base with a six-character Kangxi imperial mark in underglaze-blue within a double circle.

Size: Approximately 4-3/8" diameter by 2" high

Condition: No breaks and/or cracks

A Dehua Blanc de Chine figure of Guanyin

The bodhisattva is modelled seated resting her hands on a rock cliff hidden inside her long flowing robes with one foot exposed. Around her neck she wears a jewelled necklace and a serene expression on her face. The colour an ivory tone.

Age: 19th Century or earlier

Size: Approximately 8" high by 5-1/2" wide by 4" depth

Markings: No Markings

Condition: No noticeable cracks or restoration

Thinly potted with the interior with three fish swimming among waves.

The bowl covered all over in a warm olive-green glaze. The back of the bowl left bare.

Size: approximately 5-3/8" diameter by 2" high

Condition: No breaks or restorations

Note: This bowl along with the other 4 Youzhou bowls were purchased from the same collector many years ago

Thinly potted with a center fish, bordered by three ducks swimming among a water setting all with delicately combed details.

The bowl covered all over in a warm olive-green glaze...

Thinly potted with a double branch stem bearing graceful leaves that frame two large side peony blossoms.

The bowl covered all over in a warm olive-green glaze. The exterior carved with a band of simplified lines that ends below the rim and above the foot ring, resting on a short base.

Size: approximately 6-1/2" diameter by 2-1/5" high

Condition: No breaks or restorations...

Thinly potted with a branching stem bearing graceful leaves that frame a large peony blossom on the central stem, all with delicately combed details below a line border,.

The bowl covered all over in a warm olive-green glaze. The back of the bowl left bare with a single line upper border, resting on a short base.

Size: approximately 7" diameter by 2-1/8" high

Condition: No breaks or restorations...

Thinly potted with the interior moulded with five young boys playing with two dogs within trees and vines. Each boy with well defined features, all in separate poses.

The bowl covered all over in a warm olive-green glaze. The back of the bowl left bare with a single line upper border...

A Chinese reticulated revolving vase decorated around the body with four openwork lattice medallions in lime green, set on a dark blue ground with stylized floral scrolls in gilt. The removable center is a theme of boys at play on a white ground. The neck decorated in yellow sgraffito ground, with lotus flowers and elephant head side handles...

Chinese qingbai bowl moulded on the interior with stylized flowers and leaves. Covered overall with a glaze of pale greenish-blue tone. Remnants of the copper rim.

Size: Approximately 7-3/4" diameter by 2-3/4" high

Condition: Good condition

Provenance: Estate of Dr. Hoffman, Connecticut

Chinese qingbai bowl separated into six equal lobes moulded on the interior with stylized flowers and leaves, alternating with boys at play with a center lotus bloom. Covered overall with a glaze of pale greenish-blue tone. Remnants of the copper rim.

Size: Approximately 7-1/2" diameter by 2-3/4" high

Condition: Good condition

Provenance: Estate of Dr. Hoffman, Connecticut

A Chinese "Robins Egg" glazed linghzi waterpot in the form of a ruyi-shaped head of a lingzhi fungus, with a bat at the rim and a large chilong on the opposite rim. Glazed all over with the base rim left unglazed.

Size:

Condition: Good condition, no breaks and/or cracks

Chinese blue and white plate with a central theme of flowers surrounded by a border rim of the same type. This plate is done in the pencil style. The underside of the plate has three evenly space blue branches.

Size: 23 cm diameter

Condition: The plate has a sealed hairline star crack on the base - please refer to pictures

Age: Old, plates like these were made during the Kangxi period

A shallow Chinese Blue Glazed Porcelain Bowl. The inside glazed white, with the outside glazed in a deep blue. The base with a square shop mark surrounded by double blue circles.

Size: 4.8 in diameter by 1.1 in high

Condition: Good condition, no breaks and/or noticeable cracks

Age: Old, pin dishes of this type were made during the Kangxi Period (1662 - 1722)

Chinese pair of porcelain plates made for export with floral decoration and "bianco supra bianco" and famille rose enamels.

Size: 22-1/2 cm diameter

Condition: One has a small hairline and the other one was restored - please refer to pictures

Age: Old, the age of these plates span from the Yongzheng (1723-1735) period to the Qianlong period (1736-1795)

Chinese famille rose porcelain ink rest with a scroll base. Featuring a praying mantis at rest on a lotus branch. Inscription in black ink with the artist's seal in red.

Size: Approximately 5 1/4" long by 2 3/4" wide by 1 1/2" high

Condition: Good condition

Chinese square vase painted on two faces with scholars and their attendants beneath trees, and with texts on the other two faces. Glazed all over on a white ground with the exception of the base rim.

Size: 16-1/4" high by 4-3/4" depth by 6-1/4" width

Condition: Good condition, no breaks and/or noticeable cracks

Chinese low bowl done in famille verte with a reticulated rim done in a dark blue glaze. The plate shows 4 men enjoying outdoor activities by a lake in a mountainside setting. The underside contains a red Lingzhi fungus mark.

Condition: Good condition, no breaks and/or cracks. Some minor wear to the enamels

Size: 8-1/2" diameter by1-3/4" high

Chinese pair of mirrored vases depicting two ladies in comfort in an outdoors setting. The back of each vase carries an inscription in black ink with a red seal. The base of each carries of red seal in iron red.

Size: 10-1/4" high by 4" diameter

Condition: Very good condition, no breaks and/or noticeable cracks

Age: Republic

Pair of Chinese antique erotic mirrored imaged plates done in famille rose showing a man and a woman involved in creative pleasures. The plates are gilt rim and the underside of each plate are glazed in pink. On the base of each, there is a 6 character Tongzhi (1862-1874) mark in iron red. These plates come boxed.

Size: 7-1/2" Diameter by 1-15" high

Age: Late Qing to Early Republic

Condition: Very good condition, no breaks and/or noticeable cracks...

A Chinese underglaze-blue painted porcelain ewer and cover. The spout with six-character Ming Dynasty Xuande mark. The inside glazed white, the base glazed with a blue tint. The body of the ewer finely painted all over with lotus flowers, scrolls, leaves and fruits.

Measurements: Height: 6.75 inches, Width: 6 inches, Depth: 5 inches

Age: Republican or earlier

Condition: Good condition, no cracks

Chinese stoneware teadust glazed censer resting on three rounded feet, each having a vent hole and decorated with an upper and lower row of bosses all around. Glazed all overall in a rich green teadust glaze. The base with an engraved 4 character mark.

Size: 5" diameter by 3-1/4" high

Condition: No breaks or cracks - some discoloration on the inside from use

Age: Qing Dynasty

Chinese porcelain carved/molded snuff bottle all in white with a pelican standing on one leg among foliage. 4 character Daoguang 1821-50 mark on base.

Size: Approximately 3" high

Condition: Good Overall condition. Original stopper.

A blue and white stembowl,thinly potted with deep flaring sides painted on the exterior with flowering branches of chrysanthemum, pomegranate, peony and camillia. The interior with a ribbon-tied lotus bouquet...

A celadon-glazed vase (Ganlanping). Covered on the outside with an even celadon glaze stopping just short of the top rim. The inside is glazed white, as well as the base. The base rim left unglazed. A six character Qianlong mark in underglaze blue on the base.

Size: 14" high

Age: Qianlong Mark and Period (1736-1795)

Condition: Overall in very good condition. The appraiser at Christie's did notice a short body crack, but felt that it did not detract from...

Chinese porcelain baluster vase painted in late 'famille rose' style on a white ground with a group of Immortals resting in a landscape. The base glazed white with a six character Jiaqing mark in iron red and of the period.

Size: Approximately 30.5 cm high

Age: Jiaqing (1796-1821)

Condition: There is a gash in the top rim extending approximately 1". A restorer can repair this vase at minimal cost.

Painted in Qianjiang style with one face with two figures beneath a willow tree. The opposite showing a quail on the ground with flowerheads, the remaining faces with texts. Side relief elephant mask ring handles. Thickly glazed with an orange-peel effect on the outside. Glazed on the inside and base with the base rim left bare. Various seals in red. Dated 1911

Size: 9-1/2" high by 4-1/2" wide

Condition: Very good, no breaks

Age: Early Republic (1911)

Chinese dingyao bowl of shallow conical form with lobed rim. The widely flaring sides divided into six lobes, with indentations along the rim corresponding to thin raised lines radiating from the circular inner well.

Age: Song Dynasty (960 - 1279)

Condition: Very good overall condition. Some kiln grit and a firing flaw on one of the lobes.

Size: Approximately 16 cm diameter by 4 cm high

A set of three antique Blanc de Chine tea bowls made in the Dehua kilns. Each white bowl thinly potted of plain form with flared lip and tapering sides. Glazed all over in a creamy white glaze except for the foot ring. Purchased from a collection of antique Chinese porcelain belonging to an investment house.

Size: 2.1" diameter by 1-1/2" high

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or cracks. Some slight fritting to the base rim

Age: Qing Dynasty (19th century a...

Chinese antique large porcelain circular box with cover decorated in polychrome floral decoration. The base and cover are decorated with peonies flowers on branches in both white and famille rose. There is a six character blue Qianlong seal mark on the base.

Size: 15 cm high by 26 cm diameter

Condition: Very good condition, no cracks and/or breaks

Age: Early 19th century

A large Chinese tapering two-handled 'palace' vase, Hu in 18th century imperial style, decorated principally around the body on the yellow ground with groups of pomegranate and clusters of bats supporting fylfots, below a wide band of lotus and scrolling foliage, underglaze blue waves in a band at the rim, lappets at the foot, the handles as blue elephant heads, the base with an apocryphal seal mark of the Qianlong emperor (1736-1795) on a turquoise ground. Turquoise glazed on the inside thinni...

A pair of Chinese famille verte enameled porcelain boxes formed as recumbent quails. Realistically modelled, the feathers under green, aubergine and yellow glazes, the interiors glazed turquoise. The underside of the boxes molded with a pair of tucked-in legs, left unglazed. Resting on carved fitted wooden stands.

Size: Each measuring 7" wide, 4.25" deep and 4-1/8" high. Height on stand 6"

Condition: Good condition. There appears to be a very small chip on one of t...

A pair of Chinese thinly potted Zhadou with a pale blue glaze covering all over. The base rim unglazed. The base glazed the same with a four character Zhengde mark in underglaze blue surrounded by double circles. On carved wooden bases.

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or cracks

Size: 6" high

A large Chinese blue and white waisted bitong (brush pot). The flared rim over narrowing sides decorated with a continuous scene of figures in a landscape setting meeting others bearing banners with gifts finely painted in rich tones of underglaze blue. In the distance a man leads a buffalo beside a cliff face. The top and bottom with incised scroll borders. The inside glazed white. The base left bare. No markings.

Age: Transitional (1620 - 1683)

Condition: Good overa...

A Chinese Jizhou conical bowl decorated on the inside with a pattern of six paper cut prunis blossoms reserved in a dark brown glaze on top of a lighter brown glaze thinning to the lighter brown glaze at the rim. The reverse in the same glaze with the base left bare revealing the buff coloured body.

I believe that this was done with the lost wax method.

Size: 6-1/4" diameter by 2-1/4" high

Age: Southern Song Dynasty (12th to 13th century)

Condition: ...

A Batavia ware bottle vase with flared mouth over long neck . The rounded sides decorated with shaped panels containing distant landscape views in blue and white on a red ground. The inside glazed white. The base glazed white with double circles in underglaze blue.

Size: 25 cm high by 10 cm diameter

Age: Late Kangxi period 1662-1722

Condition: There is a small chip on the inside top rim. This does not interfere with the red and ca be very easily repaired at mi...

A pair of Chinese famille rose chargers each painted with the same scene of two long tailed pheasants perched in flowering boughs amongst blue pierced rocks, within a pierced enamelled & gilt spearhead border on a white ground. The backs of each glazed white with no marks.

Size: 2" high by 11" diameter

Age: Qianlong period circa 1770

Condition: One of the plates has a repair on the edge (Please refer to pictures), as well as a minor chip o the edge. There is so...

A Chinese porcelain vase with four roundels depicting two phoenix chasing the flaming pearl in different poses, above a wave design base all in the famille verte palette on a white ground. The inside is painted white, as well as the base. The base holds a six character overglaze Xianfeng mark in iron red.

Size: 39 cm high by 20 cm diameter

Age: Qing Dynasty

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or chips. Refer to pictures.

Antique Japanese Hyotan made from a gourd plant for Sake. Painted with trailing flowers outlined in silver. Original red hanging rope.

Age: Edo Period (18th Century)

Condition: Very good condition, no restoration

Size: Approximately 8-1/4" high by 4" diameter at it's widest point.

Chinese antique Qingbai carved bowl. The deep rounded sides sketchily carved on the exterior with flower sprays, covered inside and out with a pale blue glaze that continues over the narrow ring foot to cover the base and stops below the unglazed rim which retains remnants of the original tin mount.

Size: Approximately 6-3/8" diameter by 2-1/8" high

Condition: Overall very good condition. No breaks. There is one glaze fracture on the inside of the bowl extending from the...

Large Chinese low bowl painted in blue hues against a white ground with a bluish hue. This bowl features two deer, the male and female under a large tree. The underside of the bowl has three evenly spaced sprigs. The base and rim have been left unglazed. Unmarked.

Size: Approximately 10-3/4" diameter by 2-1/2" high

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or noticeable cracks

Age: Qing Dynasty (Possibly Kangxi period)

Large Chinese antique vase in lantern form done in the famille rose palette. Decorated on one side with stacked treasures. The reverse holds a poem in black ink and a seal in red ink. This type of design is commonly referred to as "Bo Gu" (Old Treasures) or "Hundred Antiquities". The inside is glazed white, as well as the base. The foot rim unglazed. The neck rim also unglazed. On the base there is a stamped Tonghzi mark in iron red. Lid missing.

Age: This design was commonly...

A Chinese Blanc de Chine Lotus bowl made in the Dehua kilns. The deep rounded sides naturalistically modelled in the form of a lotus leaf, elegantly rising to a rim with furled edges. The interior of the lotus blooms lightly incised with veins. The exterior with sprigs of flowering and budding lotus, leaves and arrowheads rising above the lobed rim, all covered in a white glaze.

Size: Approximately 8" diameter by 4-1/2" high

Condition: Very good condition, no breaks or n...

Chinese famille rose plate with a central figure of a rooster with other roosters among lotus blooms and other foliage. The underside of this plate has been covered in pewter, leaving the base exposed that shows a six character iron red Guangxu mark. With the addition of pewter, this dish is quite heavy.

Size: Approximately 9-1/4" diameter by 1-1/2" high

Age: Guangxu 1875-1908

Condition: Good condition.

Pair of Chinese porcelain hat stands with a central figure of a foo dog done in iron red enamels with green eyes with pups playing around. One of the hat stands carries writing in black ink at the top. The other has a poem in black ink on the reverse. Glazed white on the insides and on the base with the base rims left unglazed. One has a bulls-eye base. Both carry remnants of Jianding export seals. Gilt borders on both.

Size: Approximately 11-1/4" high by 4-7/8" diameter Cond...

Chinese hat stand done in fencai enamels showing fish swimming among foliage. Gilt border with a poem done in black ink. The inside and base glazed white with the base rim unglazed. On the base is a iron red stamped mark in borders.

Size: Approximately 11" high by 4-3/4" diameter

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or cracks. There is wear to the gilt border.

Age: Late Qing to early Republic.

Two pair of Chinese turquoise glazed foo dog statues.

One pair on stands with the female holding it's young with it's right paw and the male holding a ball with it's left paw. Unglazed bases with the word China in faint on the base in red.

The other pair are in stance. Again with unglazed bases with incised numbers.

Size: The pair on stands are approximately 8" high by 3-1/3" wide by 2-3/4" depth. The pair in stance are approximately 6-1/4" in length by 4-1/2" h...

A pair of Chinese porcelain cylindrical vases in mirror image, painted in famille rose (fencai style) with maidens on a garden terrace with plum rose trees overhanging. The insides glazed white with a gilt border. The base rims unglazed. The bases glazed white with stamped iron red marks.. Drilled for electricity.

Also included is a pair of small Chinese saucers with similar images with a double gilt border and writing in black on the front. The base of each glazed white with s...

Set of three Chinese Qingbai celadon glaze bowls with incised design on the inside. The outside glazed the same, but left blank. The foot rims and bases as well as the top rims left unglazed.

Size: All bowls are approximately 6" diameter by 2-3/8" high

Condition: Two of the bowls are in good condition with the exception of some minor kiln imperfections due to firing. The third bowl has a rim crack and also a chip. Refer to pictures.

Chinese white ware bowls.

BOWL #1 - Thickly potted with a thick slightly blue (Qingbai ?) glaze with a rolled rim. The glaze stopping short of the base revealing the white clay and the unglazed rim and base. No markings.

Size: Approximately 6-1/4" diameter by 2" high.

Condition: Bowl is slightly warped, but in otherwise good condition. No noticeable breaks or cracks, except those resulting from the kiln firing.

BOWL #2 - Thickly potted with a thick...

Chinese tea caddy and saucer done in grisaille tones with gilt.

The tea caddy has a orange peel white glaze ground with a central flower with butterflies on the front and back. Similar design is on each side. The cap is original. The base left bare.

The saucer is done in a similar design with a central flower surrounded by various borders. The reverse glazed in white.

Note: This is not a matching set but has been put together as they compliment each other

A Chinese yellow ground green enameled boys bowl with a flared rim on a straight base. Thinly potted and incised with 8 boys around a fence under overhanging trees in leisure in green enamel between a top and a lower border. The inside glazed with yellow and left bare. The base rim round, smooth and left unglazed with the base covered in the same yellow glaze with a six character under-glaze Yongzheng blue mark surrounded by double under-glaze circles.

Size: 6" diameter by 2-5/8" ...

Chinese rank badge with what I believe to be a Sixth Rank Badge with the central depiction of the Egret. The right-facing bird soaring toward the sun, is surrounded by ruyi-style clouds, flowers and auspicious symbols. All depicted with bright gold and iron red tie threads. Professionally mounted and sealed as a picture in a wooden frame.

Size: The badge measures approximately 11-1/2" wide by 11" high. The overall size including the frame is 13-1/2" wide by 13" high x 3/4" depth....

Pair of Chinese celadon bottle vases with an overall crackle. The top rims have a brown wash, while the base rims are left unglazed. The base glazed in the same celadon colour. The insides glazed white or else a lighter shade of celadon. Also crackle. Unmarked.

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or cracks (Please refer to pictures)

Size: Approximately 9-1/4" high by 5" diameter at its widest point

Age: Late Qing Dynasty

Chinese famille rose porcelain double gourd vase with various flowers and butterflies painted on a white ground. The base border is painted with alternating bats, flowers and fruits all in iron red. The top rim is covered in gilt, complete with an iron red surrounding border. In the middle is a ribbon. The inside is glazed white, as well as the base with the base rim left unglazed. In the center of the base is a four character over-glaze iron red Jiaqing mark 1796-1820.

Size: App...

A Chinese porcelain 'famille rose' jar, finely painted with flowering peony vignettes and fruits on a white ground. The inside glazed white, as well as the base with the base rim and the exterior neck left unglazed. No markings. This is a very nice heavy jar.

Size: 10" high by 10" diameter

Condition: Good condition. Please refer to pictures. No cracks or breaks

Age: Qing Dynasty - Early 19th century (Jiaqing to Daoguang Period 1796 - 1850)