Catalog: Vintage Arts (205)

A Chinese figure of a monkey on a rock bed. Modeled resting on one raised knee and holding a peach in his right paw. The fur delicately delineated with pale iron-red fur markings.

Approximate size is 4-1/4" wide by 8" high by 3-1/4" depth.

Condition is very good, no breaks or cracks. Some wear to the enamels

A Carved silhouette agate snuff bottle, the slightly flattened globular body carved to the front face using the dark brown layer with a scholar among trees, flowers and rockery. The reverse left bare. Complete with original matching agate stopper. Recessed base.

Age: Qing Dynasty

Condition: Good condition

An elegant Chinese opaque pink glass snuff bottle of circular form. Original spoon with green jade stopper.

Age: Qing Dynasty (19th Century)

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

Condition: Good condition

Pair of large Chinese porcelain blue and white beaker vases in the Kangxi style. Each is decorated all around in under-glaze blue lotus blooms and flowering prunus on a white ground. The inside of each is glazed white. The base glazed the same with a double circle in under-glaze blue. These vases are quite large and heavy.

Age: Late 19th century to early 20th century

Size: 15-1/2" high

Condition: Overall in good condition...

A Chinese Beijing yellow glass vase, 'yuhuchunping'. This thick-walled multi-layered vase formed with a pear-shaped body is raised on a slightly flared rolled foot. The opaque glass is a bright egg-yolk yellow colour. Qianlong incised four-character mark within a single square. A well-made and heavy vase.

Qing Dynasty - (circa 19th century)

Very good condition (refer to pictures)

Approximate size is 10" high by 6-1/2" diameter at it's widest part

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.

This is a rare Chinese gourd teapot with a rounded handle. The lid made from a gourd plant also with a wooden base. The teapot has a wooden rim and base. On one side is a front facing five-clawed dragon and the other side is a phoenix in flight. The top rim is decorated with leaves. The side with the handle has a bat and underneath the handle the has the "Sanduo" design of the three fruits. The spout side has two bats and a mark on the actual spout...

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...

A fine Japanese antique Satsuma tripod koro with lid. Decorated on one side with a group of children playing and on the other side a garden scene with flowers against a fence. The domed cover decorated the same with a seated foo dog finial resting on a ball. Resting on three animal head legs. All highlighted with gilt.

Age: Meiji Period (19th Century)

Condition: Very good condition. There is a small chip on the mane and the tail of the foo dog.

A Chinese moon or flask vase painted in qianjiang style. One side of the vase shows a valley scene with mountains in the background with a man. There is a iron red seal and black writing at the top. The reverse side shows two swallows on a willow branch, again with a red seal and further writing. The vase is completed with a pair of qilong handles...

Rare stoneware teadust melping vase. The broad mouth over narrow shoulders with the sides tapering to a slightly flared foot.

Glazed on the exterior, the base ring left bare as well as the interior below the neck. The base is glazed in the same teadust colour, the green toned glaze pooling around the edges.

Condition: In very good condition, no breaks or cracks

Size is approximately 16 cm high by 9-1/2 cm diameter.

A square section Chinese baluster vase. Painted on two faces with scholars & their attendants beneath trees, with texts and seals on the other two faces. The inside and recessed base glazed.

Size is 16-1/4" high by 6-1/4" wide by 4-3/4" depth.

Condition is very good, no breaks or cracks.

Age: Republic

Chinese double gourd vase painted in famille rose with a design of plum rose flowers against a cracked ice design in gilt. The top of the vase bordered in a light blue wave border, with the middle in lotus petals with a border base again in light blue and light aubergine. The inside glazed white...

A Chinese porcelain underglaze blue painted 'dragon' baluster jar and domed cover.

Age: Late Qing Dynasty

Size: 19" high by 11-1/2" diameter

Condition: Very good, original lid

Well hollowed, the glass of varied strawberry and milky tones colour, well carved in the form of a mallow flower. Complete with a jade and agate stopper.

Age: Qing Dynasty

Condition: There is a scratch/shallow surface crack at the bottom base.

Size: 2-3/4" high by 1" depth by 2" width

Chinese Qianlong blue on white under-glaze octagonal porcelain plate with a landscape design. The base is glazed white.

Condition: Good condition. There is a 2" hairline crack and some slight fritting on the rim edges. (Please refer to pictures)

Age: Qianlong Period

Size: Approximately 29 cm diameter

A Chinese export gilded wucai porcelain plate. Decorated with swallows and lotus flowers and petals. The back left bare. No markings.

Age: Circa 19th century

Size: Approximately 9" Diameter

Condition: Very good. There has been a professional repair (tiny touch-up) in one area at the rim.

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