Catalog: Vintage Arts (205)

A selection of 6 pieces of mid-century coloured glass decorator pieces, as follows:

1 - Large raspberry round center vase with open top. Base engraved with Chalet Canada. Size is approximately 13-3/4" high by 11" wide

1 - Large blue tinted center vase. Base engraved with Chalet Canada...

Chinese baluster vases in famille rose with nine peaches among flowers and vines with bats on a white ground. The symbols of peaches and bats together mean long life and happiness. The inside of each is glazed white, as well as the base. On each base is an overglazed stamped blue six character Qianlong mark.

Republic to early PRC

Good condition, no breaks or chips (please refer to pictures)

Size is approximately 12-1/2" high by 8" diameter

Pair of vintage oriental pheasants in gilded sterling 925 silver, and polychrome cloisonne enamels. Each pheasant is mounted on a wood base, marked and numbered.

Approximately sizes are 9.5x14 cm and 11x13 cm

  Mid 20th Century - Peoples Republic of China

In very good condition

White jade incense holder carved from a single piece of jade. The jade a white colour with a few patches of black striations. Replacement stand.

Size: Approximately 5-1/4" high by 1-1/2" diameter (Holder Only)

Condition: Good condition

Age: Republic to mid century

Set of two Chinese ink stones. The larger one is carved with dragons and clouds surrounding the three pots. On the back there are two sections of writing. The other stone is covered and the front cover has scenic carving with a poem. On the back of this one there is a three character seal mark. Both stones are well used.

Size: Larger stone is approximately 9" in length by 6" wide by 1" high...

Chinese porcelain and wood screen panel. Carved wood frame set with three painted porcelain panels of landscape scenes. Middle screen with calligraphy and seal marks. Brass hanging loop.

Size : 15" wide x 48" high

Condition: Light overall wear

Age: 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...

Chinese porcelain and wood screen panel. Carved wood frame set with a painted porcelain panel of a swimming fish scene with calligraphy and 2 red seals. Brass hanging loop.

Size: 22" high x 13-3/4" wide x 1" depth.

Condition: Light overall wear

Age: Republican

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...

Pair of cylinder cases, thinly potted with narrow necks and feet painted in mirror image with birds perched among flowering prunus plants. Accented red hand drawn borders at the rims and base of each vase with a poem on the opposite side.

On the base of each is a red overglaze seal of Liu Yucen.

Condition: On one of the vases, there is the remnants of a Jianding export seal. Next to this seal is a glaze crack, most likely from trying to remove the seal...

Antique blue opaline glass vase with a gilt ormolu top border and a family crest. In very good condition, no breaks or cracks. This vase is approximately 6-1/2" high.

Pair of Chinese porcelain and wood screen panels. Carved wood frame set with a porcelain panel of flowers and bird. Each screen with with calligraphy and seal marks. Brass hanging loop.

Size: 26" high x 11-3/4" wide.

Condition: Light overall wear

Age: Republic

A selection of early to mid-century coloured glassware with gilt and hand painted enamels. All are in good condition, free from cracks or breaks with minor wear to the gilt and/or enamels. Descriptions and sizes are as follows:

2 small dark pink/burgundy coloured vases with gilt trellis and circular gilt rings. Approximate size is 4-1/4" high

2 small dark blue coloured vases with hand painted flowers with a gilt trellis and circular gilt rings...

Set of three vintage glass vases as follows:

1 - White stem vase with central hand-painted rose with a lattice top and bottom border accented with gilt. On the base in green "Hand Painted by Paris Style" plus a logo. Size is 7-3/4" high. Condition very good, with no breaks or cracks.

1 - White stem vase with hand-painted stem of blue bells. Artist signed. On the base further french writing in gilt. Size is 9-1/2" high...

A selection of 9 hand painted apothecary jars ranging in age from antique to vintage. All are in good condition with some minor wear to the enamels and gilt. Each one carries their original lid...

Unique Chinese yixing teapot with rondels of marbled clay surrounding the teapot and on the cover. The spout and the handle are modelled in a bamboo design with a pig finial on the lid. There is a four character impressed mark on the base, as well as a different four character impressed mark on the underside of the lid.

Age: Purchased as an antique teapot. Actual age is not known

Condition: Good condition. Evidence of use.

Series of 4 Chinese Horse drawings by Xu Beihong. Black ink on paper mounted each in a silk border. Each drawing depicting a different horse pose. All signed by the artist with various seals.

Provenance: Purchased from the estate of a retired professor from the University of Paris France many years ago.

Condition: These prints have never been framed, they have been kept in a portfolio. Some yellowing to the silk borders.

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 Chinese bronze temple gong, made in the Ming Dynasty style with mark of the Xuande Emperor (15th century)...

Chinese porcelain circular table screen mounted in a carved wooden frame, decorated in polychrome landscape with waterfall and village scene. The piece is signed with the signature of Wang Yeting. This piece was made in China in the first quarter of the 20th century and was possibly destined for the export market considering the troubled times that this was produced in...

Chinese Ma Shaoxuan glass inside painted portrait snuff bottle of a Chinese official...

A pair of Chinese famille-rose enamelled 'landscape' vases on a pink graviata ground with numerous sprigs of flowers spaced throughout. The bases with Qianlong marks (1736-95).

Size is 9-1/2" high by 4-1/2" diameter

Age: Estimated at mid 20th century.

Chinese ceramic jar and cover with two 3-toed relief chilongs wrapped around the upper part of the body. The jar is glazed in an off white colour and the dragon has blue glaze highlights. Unglazed on the inside, bottom base and rim

Size: 5-1/2" high and 4-3/4" diameter

Condition: Good condition, no noticeable breaks - refer to pictures

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

Set of four Chinese jade archer rings. One is a white jade with russet inclusions, one is a celadon, one is a jadeite and one is of a red colour. All are polished with rounded edges.

Age: Qing Dynasty

Condition: Good condition, please refer to pictures.

This is an antique Chinese ink painting of young bamboo in fan form on silk done in shades of black ink with 3 seals in red. This is a lovely rendering, with subtle brush work as well as decisive strong definition.

Size: Approximately 16 cm high by 46 cm long

Condition: This painting is old and exhibits the normal signs of aging. Visible wear and discolouration on the ribs, with some minor foxing throughout. No tears or missing pieces.

Age: Qing Dynasty

Garlic shaped mouth with twin turquoise ground handles supporting it. The flask is covered in flower heads and bats surrounding a shou character over a stylised lotus flower with other Buddhist emblems all outlined in gilt. The raised base with a palmette decoration below a scroll band.

The base rim has been left unglazed and the recessed base is covered in the same turquoise glaze surrounding a six character Qianlong mark in underglaze blue, it's background left unglazed.

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A pair of Chinese Blanc de Chine figures of recumbent females, each lying on a large lotus leaf on a rock bed and with partial crackle. Their left hands are raised gently supporting their heads and in their right hands, laying by their side they are clasping the ties of their robes. These figures have very small differences between them.

Size: Approximately 3-1/2" high by 2-1/4" wide by 6-1/2" length

Condition: Very good, on one of the figures, on the bottom of the robe there...

A Chinese bronze oil lamp in the form of a tapir, with a boy riding on his back holding a pole supporting the lamp for the oil. The oil dish has scroll patterns around its border. The The body of the animal adorned with taotie and scroll elements Non magnetic.

Size: 9" high by 9" width

Age: Unknown - Types of these oil lamps were made in the Zhou/Han Dynasty (c.475BC-9AD)

Condition: There is defragmentation of the metal on the base of the feet, as well as ...

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...

Pair of Chinese jade celadon carved vases with ring handles and covers. The overall carved design on the hexagon shaped vases are flower branches. The covers carry a lotus bud finial with similar carving.

Size: Approximately 8" high

Condition: Overall in generally good condition, some nicks. I believe that one of the rings has broken off and is missing.

Age: Qing Dynasty to Republic

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 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...

A Chinese turquoise glazed vase of flattened form with elephant head side handles covered. The glaze is covered in small crackles and pools at the base. The base left unglazed except for a small section. The base is glazed with the exception of the center where it has been left bare. No markings.

Age: Kangxi Period (1662 - 1722)

Condition: Good condition. There are a few base rim nibbles and a couple of very small areas where the glazed has chipped off and attached bac...

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

A six-sided (hexagon) porcelain water pot done in famille rose with scenes of flowers and birds on each side on a white ground with an orange peel effect. On the top at each corner is an additional single flower. The inside glazed white. The base left unglazed.

There is a six character iron red Qianlong mark at the top on one of the sides.

(In the pictures showing the inside, there is a dirt/ink buildup running the height of the slab sides These are not cracks.)

A Chinese porcelain Famille Verte brush pot with motif of birds perching on trees surrounded by flowers done in Kangxi style. Unsigned.

Age: Qing Dynasty (late 19th century/early 20th century)

Size: 13 cm high by 9 cm diameter

Chinese antique doucai porcelain cup, stand and lid. The interior of the bowl and the lid left plain. The base of the bowl and the stand contains a six character Yongzheng mark in underglaze blue surrounded by a double circle, also in underglaze blue.

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

Approximate sizes are as follows: Stand: 4-3/8" diameter Cover: 3-1/2" diameter by 1" high Bowl: 3-7/8" diameter by 2-1/8" high

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)

Hand painted vase made by the Alexandra Porcelain Works, Ernest Wahliss in Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia, c. 1911-1912. This vase depicts a maiden walking with her ducks in a country setting on one side while the other side continues with the country scene. It is hand signed by the artist "....... der Classen" at the bottom of the main scene. The base of the vase carries the seal of the factory, along with it's manufacturing identifying marks.

Condition: Very good, no breaks or chips to th...

A pair of Chinese porcelain sancai glazed models of Pheonix with each perched upon a flowering tree trunk. These Chinese porcelain figures of birds are typical of the examples made for export to the West during the latter part of the 19th century or into the 20th century, influenced by Ming pieces with sancai or three color glazes.

Size: Approximately 38 cm high by 11 cm wide

Condition: Generally in very good condition. There is a repaired break on the wing of one of the ...

An antique green glazed porcelain bottle vase with the glaze stopping just below the top rim revealing an all over ge-type crackle with dark grey (iron wire) and gold (golden thread) crackle. The base rim unglazed with the base revealing the same ge-type crackle. Unmarked.

Qing Dynasty - 19th century

In very good condition (please refer to pictures)

Approximately 24 cm high by 16 cm diameter at it's widest point

A Chinese shoushan seal carved in its natural form. On one side it shows a man riding a donkey, with another kneeling gathering items under a large tree. The reverse reveals a home in the distance. On this side, there is also a four character carved mark. This seal is carved all around using its natural colours and striations for features within the carving. The base holds the seal. (Note: Pictures have been lighten to show detail)

Age: Qing Dynasty

Size: Approximate...

Decorated in "blood and milk" palette with gilding at the center with furniture and precious things, the border with four reserves of similar objects on a gilt and decorated diaper. The base holds a double circle in underglaze blue.

Size: approximately 9" diameter by 1-1/4" high

Age: Kangxi period (1662-1722)

Condition: These plates are thinly potted. There are some rim frits, as well as some frits/minor chips to the base rim. There is also some wear and loss ...

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...

A Chinese antique porcelain bowl in underglaze blue. The outside of the bowl is surrounded in lotus scrolls while the inside shows a phoenix in flight with a scroll border surrounding the foliated rim. The base rim left unglazed. The base glazed with a four character mark stating "Da Ming Nian Zao" (Made During the Great Ming Dynasty) surrounded by double circles in underglaze blue.

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

Condition: Very good condition, no br...

Chinese antique six lobed deep stoneware bowl. Covered all over in a buff colour celadon glaze. Straight circular foot ring.

Size: Approximately 6-7/8" diameter by 2-3/4" high

Condition: Overall in very good condition. There is one chip on the foot ring. The base of the bowl holds the remnants of three kiln firing stints.

Age: Yaun Dynasty (1279 - 1368)

A pair of Chinese blanc de chine figures of the immortal Budai, each figure shown with laughing expression and holding a string of beads in their right hands while their left grasps their long robes. The robes fastened at the upper chest with circular clasp. Below the corpulent immortals robes the robes are fastened with a long, tasselled fastener. Remains of old collection sticker with writing on the underside of one of the figures.

Size: Height: 28 cm, Width: 15 cm, Depth: 10 cm

A Chinese stone figure of a lady of the court done in Sancai glaze colours of yellow, blue and brown. She is standing holding a bowl with her left hand, her long flowing dress tied in the center with a long ribbon. Her hair is pinned up. Her face left unpainted.

Size: Approximately 8" high by 3-3/4" wide (at base) by 3" depth. (Note: This figure sits in a fitted wooden base).

Condition: There is a chip at the base and I believe that the very top tip of one of her fin...

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" ...

A Chinese Blanc de Chine model of the immortal Budai standing on a rocky outcrop. The corpulent divinity is shown wearing a simple patched robe fastened over the shoulder and slung under his ample stomach where it is fastened with floral pins. The figure with a necklace of beads hanging on his right hand. His left hand grasping a large hanging sack. Made in the Dehua kilns in Fujian province.

The brother of this figure is on display in the British Museum, and can be viewed via th...

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

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

Pair of Famille Rose Mandarin flattened quatrefoil form vases brightly enamelled with shaped moulded panels enclosing figures at leisure. One side displays a balcony setting and the opposite side displays a picnic setting with each having a lake and mountains in the background. The sides have a further rondel with flowers and birds. All displayed on a bright orange diaper ground. The sides are moulded with twin dragon handles in gilt. The lids with a foo dog finial. The bases glazed in white and...

A Chinese cloisonne enamel dish with a central medallion made to imitate dreamstone outlined with a border enameled with flowers and butterflies on a blue ground with an additional border with flowers on a white ground. The dish is completed with a copper rim in a wave design. The back enameled in the same design around the rim with the center enameled in blue. All with gilded wires. This charger is quite heavy.

Size: 12-1/2" diameter by 1" high

Age: Late 19th - early...

Large green stoneware model of a standing horse, done in Tang style, covered in a rich crackled green glaze, on an integral rectangular base. The base is unusual having a central piercing & being built up rather than simply flat as in the originals.

Age: Pre 1920

Size: 16-1/2" high by 17" length

Condition: Good overall condition, some small areas of chipping and one corner on the base has a chip. On the upper back of the horse is the remains of a Jian Ding seal.

Blanc de Chine statue of Guanyin holding a flowering lotus stem in her right hand dressed in flowing windswept robes standing on a base of rolling waves, standing on a lotus pod. Her open robes reveal a beaded necklace. Glazed all over in white with the inside left bare. At the base, the faint stamp of "CHINA" is engraved. The statue and the base appear to have been made separate and then luted together.

Size: 17-1/2" high

Age: Late 19th/early 20th century

Condition...

Pair of of Chinese antique spinach green jade plaques. Each is hand carved with a scene of bamboo and another flowering plant with butterflies overhead, all within an incised circle border. Gilt highlights the incised design of both. The reverse of each has been left bare. The stands are later.

In very good condition (Please refer to pictures)

Size of each is approximately 18-1/4 cm diameter by 0.63 cm in width. The height including the stands is 29.85 cm.

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...