I will be standing at the "Antiques for Everyone" fully vetted fair at The National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, U.K commencing Thursday 24th July for 4 days.
I will be standing on unit Q20 (sharing with Weedon Antiques) and will be pleased to see you there.
A rare chinese enamelled Yixing stoneware pottery cupstand decorated in coloured enamels with rocks and flowers in roundels on a deep blue ground. The back is decorated with blue enamel on the dry pottery body and the inside of the footrim with a fine crackle glaze.
Dating from the C18th or C19th., it measures 4 5/8inches (11.8 cms)across.
A pair of very stylish Koransha vases decorated in enamels and gilt with snowflakes on a matt celadon ground. The rim and base with underglaze blue and imari palette.
Dating from c.1900, they stand 6 inches (15.2 cms) high.
There are some very minor scratches to the celadon ground and very minor wear to gilding on rim of one vase.
A Chinese porcelain pedestal dish decorated in famille rose enamels with figures in a mountainous landscape. There is a 6 character Tongzhi seal mark painted to the base.
Dating from the Tongzhi period (1862-74), it measures 7 3/4inches (19.7 cms) max. across and 2 inches (5 cms) high.
The rim gilding is worn and there is minor surface wear to ...click for details
A Japanese silver pipe (Kiseru) together with a (Cinnabar?) lacquer on wood case and two ojime beads. The pipe with reeded silver bowl and mouthpiece with bamboo stem. The case of lacquered wood with a floral design and and one wood and one bone carved ojime beads. The interior of the case is signed. (See photo 12)
Dating from the Meiji period (Or possibly late Edo), the pipe measures 20 cms long. ...click for details
A fine totai shippo porcelain vase signed to the base Takeuchi Chubei. The high quality porcelain body is decorated in underglaze blue above the footrim and with cloisonne.
Dating from the mid C19th., it stands 22 cms high.
The body is in very good condition. The interior lid is broken and re-stuck (these are rarely present) and the main lid ha ...click for details
A fine English porcelain cup and saucer hand painted in underglaze blue and enamels with floral sprigs. Whilst unmarked it can be attributed to the Miles Mason factory. (See Berthoud's Anthology of British Tea Cups Pl. 295).
Dating from 1810-15, the cup measures 3 1/4inches across rim and the saucer 5 5/8inches.
An English pearlware plate with reticulated border and decorated in underglaze blue transfer with a rural scene. There is an impressed Davenport mark to the back.
Dating from the 1st quarter of the C19th., it measures 7 3/4inches across.
There is crazing to the glaze and some very faint staining (see photo). It is in good condition with no frit ...click for details
