Catalog: Vintage Arts (205)

A Chinese export famille rose wall vase, featuring a poem and a Mandarin lady with her children. The inside and the back is glazed in turquoise blue. The rims are dressed in gilt. On the recessed base, there is a six character Qianlong mark in iron red.

Size: Approximately 8-1/8" high by 4-3/8" wide by 2-5/8" depth

Age: Late Qing Dynasty

Condition: Very good condition. Some gilt and enamel wear.

Chinese antique "Henan" stoneware vase of meiping form with ribbing, with a short collared neck over broad shoulders tapering to a narrow foot. Iron painted deep brown to black glaze. The glaze stopping short of the unglazed rim and base.

Age: Song to Jin Dynasty (960 - 1234)

Condition: Very good, no breaks or cracks

Size: Approximately 8-3/4" high by 4-1/2" diameter

Large antique oval Chinese platter or charger with a scalloped rim with a Bianco-sopra-bianco design of flowering stems and a butterfly overhead on a clair de lune glaze ground. The base is unglazed. Made for the export European market.

Size: Approximately 12" wide by 15" length

Condition: Good overall condition, no breaks or cracks. Some very minor wear to the design and the edges

Age: Pre 20th Century

Large antique Chinese porcelain bowl painted in underglaze blue with scholars and students in a fenced garden above a scroll border. The interior of the bowl has similar figures surrounded by a lattice border.

Dated to the 16th or early 17th century but does appear to have been made during the latter part of the Ming dynasty for export...

A pair of Chinese yellow glazed porcelain ogee shaped bowls with incised design on both the inner and outer rim. The center is with an incised design of a lotus bloom. The base glazed in the same yellow with a six character Hongzhi script mark. On the base of each bowl there is a Jian Ding seal.

Size: 7 cm high by 17-1/2 cm diameter

Condition: Very good condition

Age: Late 19th to early 20th century (Republic)

An attractive early 18th century Chinese export porcelain ribbed charger, thinly potted, decorated in famille verte enamels with a central panel of flowers and other foliage with butterflies above, within a segmented border of similar small panels...

Pair of Chinese mirror image porcelain lantern vases painted in qianjiang enamels showing a scholar and his student in a garden setting with the student offering the scholar a flower branch. There is writing on each vase in black and on the base is a six character mark in iron red.

Condition of these vases is good with no chips or breaks. The black writing has faded.

Size: 7-1/2" high by 5-1/4" diameter

Large Chinese antique vase in lantern form done in the famille rose palette. Decorated on one side with stacked treasures. The reverse holds a poem in black ink and a seal in red ink. This type of design is commonly referred to as "Bo Gu" (Old Treasures) or "Hundred Antiquities". The inside is glazed white, as well as the base. The foot rim unglazed. The neck rim also unglazed. On the base there is a stamped Tonghzi mark in iron red...

This lot consists of two serving dishes dated to Qianlong period done in underglaze blue on white. Both plates have unglazed bases.

First Plate: Design is of a village scene with a man or a boy saying goodbye to his wife or mother, bordered by flowers and butterflies. This plate has a couple of rim chips...

Large antique hand enamelled painted blue milk glass vase with central picture of a two daisies with surrounding foliage. The reverse left bare, as well as the base. No markings.

Size: Approximately 12" high by 7" diameter

Condition: Very good condition, no breaks or cracks

Age: 19th century

Maker: Bristol

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

A pair of Chinese blanc-de-chine 'heron' candlesticks each perched among folliage with flowers and other wildlife.

Size: Height: 19.75 inches, Width: 7 inches, Depth: 5 inches

Age: 19th Century

Condition: Good condition. One of the herons has the top of his crown broken off and there are small areas of chips and cracks which are normal for this size and age.

A Chinese circular porcelain plaque decorated brightly with a variety of birds, both large & small, among flowering peony & rocks with a short text above, mounted in a wood panel.

Size: The plaque is 8-1/2" diameter. Complete with frame it is approximately 16" square

Condition: Very good condition

Age: Late Qing Dynasty to Republic

Tea bowl, thinly potted with apricots on leafy branches surrounding the cup on a white ground. The inside left bare. The top rim done in gilt. The bottom rim decorated with an additional gilt circle bordered in iron red. The base with Guangxu six character mark in iron red.

Purchased as an Imperial Mark and Period

Condition: Very good condition, no breaks or cracks...

A Chinese porcelain 'famille rose' jar, finely painted with flowering peony vignettes and fruits on a white ground. The inside glazed white, as well as the base with the base rim and the exterior neck left unglazed. No markings. This is a very nice heavy jar.

Size: 10" high by 10" diameter

Condition: Good condition. Please refer to pictures. No cracks or breaks

Age: Qing Dynasty - Early 19th century (Jiaqing to Daoguang Period 1796 - 1850)

Chinese Peking glass ovoid snuff bottle in good egg yolk colour, decorated in relief with flowers, foliage & sprays of peaches throughout. Recessed base with Yixing type stopper.

Age: 19th century or later

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

Condition: Good condition

A Chinese puddingstone snuffbottle, possibly for the Tibetan market. The mottled red to white stone with all-over striations with a silver stopper with coral cap.

Red puddingstone is supposed to be the rarest colour.

Age: Early 19th century

Condition: Good condition. Refer to photos

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

A pair of Chinese crackled celadon vases, the flared lip rims over short necks with the curved sides tapering to a semi ogee foot and raised glazed base (drilled for electricity).

Size: 23 cm high by 12.5 cm diameter

Date: 19th century

Condition: Good overall condition. Bases drilled for electricity

A large Chinese tapering two-handled 'palace' vase, Hu in 18th century imperial style, decorated principally around the body on the yellow ground with groups of pomegranate and clusters of bats supporting fylfots, below a wide band of lotus and scrolling foliage, underglaze blue waves in a band at the rim, lappets at the foot, the handles as blue elephant heads, the base with an apocryphal seal mark of the Qianlong emperor (1736-1795) on a turquoise ground...

Pair of Chinese cloisonne baluster vases with matching covers. Designed all over with fish swimming among lotus pods and other foilage on a white background. Ruyi shoulder design. The insides are enamelled in a dark blue. The rims and bases in copper. The covers designed the same with the same blue enamel on the inside.

Condition: These are in good overall condition. There is some slight wear to the enamels...

A bronze censer modeled as a Buddhist lion with a hinged neck that lifts up his head. This piece is quite heavy.

Good patina throughout. Evidence of being well used. No repairs or breaks that are noticeable.

Approximate size is 5-1/2" high by 4" wide by 3-1/4" depth when closed.

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...

Chinese export sancai glazed pottery statue of a parrot with red glazed beak perched on a rock.

Age: Mid Qing Dynasty

Size: Approximately 9-¾" high x 3-½" depth x 3-½" wide

Condition: Good, please refer to pictures

A Chinese spinach jade bowl. The cup is carved with deep rounded sides rising to a flaring mouth rim, supported on a short foot with a rolled base rim. The stone a deep green with grey flecks. The base with a six character Qianlong mark.

Size: Height: 2.5 inches, Width: 3.75 inches

Age: 18th Century

Condition: Good condition.

Note: I have lighten the pictures to show the mark.

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

Chinese white bowl carved on the outside with two rows of overlapping lotus petals. Covered with a clear ivory glaze that falls to reveal the white ware. The base and the top rim left unglazed.

Age: Song dynasty (960-1279)

Condition: Very good condition

Size: Approximately 6-1/2 cm high by 14-1/2 cm diameter

A pair of tilework sancai tomb figures of a man and a woman. Each decorated in black and amber glazes. The male figure with a tall conical hat and long robes edged with amber; his hands held before him under the robes with a napkin draped over them. The female figure in similar robes with greater use of amber holding a dish up with her hands under the robes...

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...

Chinese antique blue and white stoneware vase. Painted in under-glaze blue with a central theme of a bird among flowering branches with animal head side handles holding stationary rings. Decorated the same on the opposite side. There is a blue hue to the glaze. Glazed on the inside and base with the base rim unglazed. The base with a four-character mark reading Fugui jiaqi (Beautiful vessel for the rich and honourable).

Size: 27 cm high

Condition: Good condition, no br...

A Chinese lingbi scholar's rock on fitted wood stand. The black and smooth stone of smooth, naturalistic form.

Age: Qing Dynasty

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

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

A pair of elegant small mirror image Chinese famille rose garlic mouth bottle vases each decorated with a design of bands of stylized flower shapes at the mouth over a ruyi head border. The sides of the vases painted with luscious peony blooms on which two exotic birds perch, all over rockwork and key pattern band.

On the opposite sides, multiple lines of calligraphy with three seal marks. Base holds four character Yongzheng seal mark in blue surrounded by a double border.

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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.

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...

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 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

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.

A chinese Blanc de Chine figure of Magu with a fawn at her side looking up at her. Magu is standing on a rocky base in flowing robes holding a ewer in both hands, the fawn supporting a basket of flowers on it's back. Impressed double marks on the upper back.

The double gourd mark reads "Dehua"

The square seal reads Puji Yuren...."the vastly accomplished fisherman", and is one that was used by the potter Su Xuejin (1869-1919). Su was a late Qing-dynasty master figure mode...

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

Large Chinese baluster vase done in tones of under-glaze blue. The scene on this vase goes all round it and is done between multiple layers of borders. The main scene is all plants and trees.

The inside is thinly glazed. The base rim is unglazed, as well as the base. From the pictures it looks rough, but it is quite smooth.

The condition of this vase is very good. There are some places on the top rim where the glaze has skipped over. There is one old crack on the top ri...

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.

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)

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)

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 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...

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.

T...

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...

Chinese porcelain vase Hu shaped with famille rose decoration, the floral and scroll decoration on the main section of the body of the vase has a key pattern border around the rim of the vase and a key and geometric base border with bamboo side handles. The inside glazed white. The base glazed same with a six character Qianlong mark in under-glaze blue. The base rim left unglazed.

Size: Height: 6.25 inches, Width: 3.75 inches, Depth: 2.25 inches

Age: Late Qing Dynasty

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Mirror imaged pair of Chinese planters with attached bases painted. These tapered square planters have a design of birds and flowers on opposite sides with writing and a red seal and on the adjacent sides a poem along with additional two red seals. Painted in white on the outside with a slightly orange peel ground effect. The insides are lightly glazed. The bases are recessed with the corner mounts left un-glazed. These planters are quite heavy.

Condition: Very good condition, no...

A tilework figure of a female dog of fo and young. The dog of sancai glazes of green, yellow and aubergine. The dog with her young at her feet which climbs around to look at her. The kylin seated on a pierced rectangular plinth mounted in ormolu.

Size: Approximately 12-1/2 cm high

Age: Dog (Kangxi Period - 1662 - 1722), Ormolu - 18th Century

Condition: Very good condition, no breaks or cracks

Chinese silk painting done with a scenic view of a village within a mountain setting with a lake in the background with the villagers going about their daily activities. There is calligraphy with a seal in red reading "Lin You Xing". The dating within the calligraphy states that it was painted in the spring season.

Age: 19th century

Size: 36 cm wide by 56 cm long

Condition: In generally good condition. There are some small areas with spotting and water mark...

Pair Of Chinese mule liver glazed porcelain statues of recumbent dogs on fitted wooden stands.

Condition: Very good, no chips or cracks

Size: Each dog is approximately 5" long by 4" high by 3" in width. Stands not included in measurements.

Age: Late 19th century to Republic

Pair of antique hand painted eight lobed pottery urns with handles made by Thomas Forester and Sons. Each alternating lobe has a design of hand painted flowers against a cream background surrounded by a dark blue lobe hand-painted with gilt flowers and other design motifs. The collar of the urns, handles as well as the urn head also painted in the same rich dark blue with gilt. The inside of the urn is painted in gilt. The base glazed white with the trademark incised in brown.

Siz...

A Chinese Jizhou conical bowl decorated on the inside with a pattern of six paper cut prunis blossoms reserved in a dark brown glaze on top of a lighter brown glaze thinning to the lighter brown glaze at the rim. The reverse in the same glaze with the base left bare revealing the buff coloured body.

I believe that this was done with the lost wax method.

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

Age: Southern Song Dynasty (12th to 13th century)

Condition: ...

Chinese famille rose porcelain double gourd vase with various flowers and butterflies painted on a white ground. The base border is painted with alternating bats, flowers and fruits all in iron red. The top rim is covered in gilt, complete with an iron red surrounding border. In the middle is a ribbon. The inside is glazed white, as well as the base with the base rim left unglazed. In the center of the base is a four character over-glaze iron red Jiaqing mark 1796-1820.

Size: App...

A Chinese antique pear shaped snuff bottle done in glass overlay with four colours on an opaque white ground. The bottle of compressed ovoid form raising from an oval foot to a tall cylindrical neck. One carved side shows a bird perched on a tall branch holding fruit. On this side the maker has also affixed his mark, from Yangzhou School. On the reverse it shows a bird with overhead butterflies and insects hovering over lily pods in the water. A wave design base border covers all sides.

A Chinese blanc de chine seated figure of the god of literature Wen Ch'ang, the divinity shown with semi domed hat and with holes in the mouth and chin for horse hair moustache and beard. The god is wearing long robes that fall across his ample stomach and down to his booted feet, below this can be seen the edge of a stool.

Age has been set as 18th century

Approximately size is 32 cm high by 10 cm depth by 15 cm width.

Condition: One of the loops from his hat i...

A Chinese jade tea set comprising of 6 teacups and saucers. The colour of the jade a light celadon. Boxed.

Age: Qing Dynasty

Size: Teacup - 2-1/8" high by 3 " wide (including handle). The saucer is approximately 4-1/4" diameter

Condition: Good overall condition. (Please refer to pictures.