A JAPANESE GOLD LACQUER BOWL & COVER, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY.
The low cylindrical bowl and cover decorated overall with scrolling flowers on a sprinkled gold ground. The interior is red lacquer. Nice quality work. Late 18th or early 19th century.
5.3/8 inches (13.7cm) diameter, 2.3/4 inches (7cm) high. The lacquer is dirty an ...click for details
A JAPANESE GOLD LACQUER BOWL, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY.
The hemispherical bowl on a slightly flaring foot decorated with scrolling foliage on a sprinkled gold ground. Amongst the foliage can be see three family crests (mon) of differing sizes. Nice quality work. Late 18th or early 19th century.
The decoration is divided diagonally with a blue and gilt border, one side features a waterfall and pine landscape, the other with karakusa. An excellent design methinks. The back of the dish with the good wishes ‘fuki choson’. First half of the 18th century.
A RARE PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT PLATES, A VIEW OF CANTON, 18th CENTURY.
Two beautifully painted octagonal dishes from an 18th century export service. The scene is of the major trading port of Canton (present day Guangzhou) at the mouth of the Pearl River. Many of the buildings depicted can still be seen today. I have a suspicion that the plate was given a soft-paste slip before painting as it enables finer work. The a ...click for details
A CHINESE PORCELAIN JARDINIERE, BUDDHIST SYMBOLS, 19TH CENTURY.
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A robust porcelain planter or jardinière decorated with Buddhist symbols dispersed amongst lotus scrolls. The construction using strengthened corners is interesting.
Approximately 6.3/4 inches (17.1 cm) long, 4.1/2 inches (11.5 cm) wide, 2.3/4 inches (6.9 cm) ...click for details
The plate decorated with the Indian Tree pattern in the famille verte palette. The area around the blue enamel exhibits the iridescence that one expects to see on Kangxi famille verte porcelain. Made for export to the West, circa 1700.
A dish with a rounded cavetto and gently foliated rim. The centre is decorated with a large brocaded flower head amongst flowering prunus. The rim has a very pretty border of flowers. The back is similarly decorated, within the foot-rim can be found the spur marks typical of period Japanese porcelain and a flower mark in red and gold enamel. 1st. half of the 18th centu ...click for details
Shibata illustrates a similar form though with a floral decoration which he dates to 1655 ~ 1670, Impey shows a closer example in ‘Japanese Export Porcelain’ that he dates to the late 17th century. I cannot recall ever seeing one of these ewers with a lid; certainly a lid was never in situ when this ewer was fired as the rim is fully glazed. One has to consider that a lid has bee ...click for details
A fine and large late 19th or early Republic 20th century Chinese famille rose vase in the form of a wine jar. It is not thickly potted but is heavy for its size attesting to the quality of the porcelain paste, which is compact and smooth. There is rose enamel present but it is used sparingly, just on the bottom border and in some panels around the neck. The enamels are thickly applied and bright. The slightly concave base is unglazed.
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A CHINESE DEHUA BRUSH WASHER, 18TH ~ 19TH CENTURY.
The squat Blanc de Chine washer covered overall with a pure white glaze stopping neatly just above the unglazed foot-rim. The glaze has an attractive soft sheen; the porcelain is very translucent and exhibits a slightly warm tone when a light is placed behind. 18th to 19th century.
