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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. The base glazed in white with ...

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. The base with a four character Qianlong mark (1736-95) in overglaze blue.

Size: 9-1/2" high

Age: Republic

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A Chinese Ming Dynasty-style gold speckled and patinated bronze six lobed and tripod censer, marked in seal script 'Xuande'.

Size: Height: 5.5 cm, Width: 9.5 cm

Age: Late 19th - early 20th century

Condition: Well used, there is a crack on the underside of one of the lobes - please refer to pictures

A chinese garlic head stoneware vase covered in a qingbai glaze. The body incised with peonies among various leaves. The glaze pooling in the recesses and continuing on the inside on the upper part only with the remaining left unglazed. The base and rim left unglazed. The body covered in a crackle.

Age: Ming or earlier

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

Condition: The neck of this vase was broken off and reglued. Due to the glaze, incised design and crackles, ...

Chinese large chrysanthemum formed deep bowl with rounded sides covered all over in a Clare du Lune glaze. The glaze thinning on the ribs in the interior and pooling between the petals on the exterior. The base glazed white.

Size: 8-1/2" diameter

Age: Republic or earlier

Condition: There is a glaze crack that occurred during firing - please see pictures

Pair of Chinese reticulated jade plaques each of circular shape carved with lions surrounded by scrolling flower blossoms, with matching wood stands.

Age: Qing Dynasty - Late 19th century

Condition: One of the plaques has a crack in the center

Finely potted with steep sides rising from a short straight foot. The interior crisply impressed moulded in high relief with a central medallion with a lotus bloom circled by a key fret band. The main band of the bowl on the inside has two phoenix flying amid scrolling flower blossoms beneath another key fret band circling the upper rim.

Glazed all over with a light blue glaze stopping short of the upper rim which shows the remnants of a silver band.

Size: 6-1/2" diameter ...

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 broken tips have been saved and are i...

Pair of fine rare mallow shaped bowls, thinly potted. The steep, gently rounded sides neatly divided into six even lobes raised on a slightly tapering high foot. Covered all over in a pale blue glaze with the top rim left bare and bordered in gilt. The base rims glazed with the bases left bare with firing grit and burnt orange in the process.

Diameter: These are currently in storage, but I remember them being approximately 4" diameter and the same in height.

Condition: Go...

Pair of stoneware blue glazed crackle cups most likely for tea. The glaze a blue resembling Ju Ware pooling to a deep blue in areas. The base rims are left bare with the bases glazed in the same blue glaze.

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

Condition: Good condition

Age: Late Ming/Early Qing

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. The exterior and rim are covered with a thick glaze of deep red and purple, with the interior covered with a pale milky blue glaze.

The base incised with the number four and covered with a thin olive-brown glaze.

Size: Approximately 8” diameter by 2-3/8” high

Conditio...

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. The exterior carved with a band of simplified lines that ends below a single line border and above the foot ring, resting on a short base with kiln grit.

Size: approximately 5" diameter by 2" high

Condition: No breaks or restorations.

Note: This bowl along with the oth...

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.

Note: This bowl along with the other 4 Youzhou bowls were purchased f...

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. There is a firing flaw in the base

Note: This ...