Catalog: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Porcelain (125)

Of quatrelobed form with a central vertical panel on each side. One side is marked "zhai jie", the other in Manchu script. Bordered with a dense design of stylised lotus on a light green ground within raised gilt borders. The sides painted with scrolling foliage on a white ground with a bottom hole for a string of beads.

Condition: Very good, some slight wear to the enamels

Size: 6.5 cm in length

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...

Chinese porcelain under-glaze blue and white baluster jar with cover. Decorated all around with prunus and cracked ice design. The inside and base glazed white. The lid glazed in the same design.

Age: Late Qing Dynasty

Side: 14" high

Condition: This vase and cover was converted to a lamp. The base has been drilled and the knob on the top of the cover has been removed and there is a repaired crack...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Blue and white brush pot, slightly waisted, done with two central floral motifs on either side surrounded by a scroll pattern. The base has a center recess which is glazed. Glazed white on the inside. Unmarked.

Size: 14 cm diameter

Age: Qing Dynasty (late 19th to early 20th). There is a possibility that this brush pot could also date to the Kangxi period (1662-1722) when these types of bases were common...

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

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...

This lot consists of two serving dishes dated to Qianlong period done in underglaze blue on white...

An antique Chinese blue glazed brushpot. The glaze stopping short of both the top and bottom rim. The inside glazed white, as well as the recessed base with the base rim covered in a brown wash. Unmarked

Qing Dynasty - Circa 18th Century

Approximately size is 15 cm high by 12 cm diameter

In very good condition (Please refer to pictures)

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

Chinese blue and white plate with a central theme of flowers surrounded by a border rim of the same type. This plate is done in the pencil style. The underside of the plate has three evenly space blue branches.

Size: 23 cm diameter

Condition: The plate has a sealed hairline star crack on the base - please refer to pictures

Age: Old, plates like these were made during the Kangxi period

A blue and white stembowl,thinly potted with deep flaring sides painted on the exterior with flowering branches of chrysanthemum, pomegranate, peony and camillia. The interior with a ribbon-tied lotus bouquet. A four-character Xuande mark below the rim on the exterior. The base rim smooth and unglazed.

Size: 15.75 cm high, with a top rim diameter of 15.25 cm and a base rim diameter of 7 cm

Age: Early Republic

Condition: Minor glaze cracks, one in particular wh...

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

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 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

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...

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. The exterior with sprigs of flowering and budding lotus, leaves and arrowheads rising above the lobed rim, all covered in a white glaze.

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

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

A set of three antique Blanc de Chine tea bowls made in the Dehua kilns. Each white bowl thinly potted of plain form with flared lip and tapering sides. Glazed all over in a creamy white glaze except for the foot ring. Purchased from a collection of antique Chinese porcelain belonging to an investment house.

Size: 2.1" diameter by 1-1/2" high

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or cracks. Some slight fritting to the base rim

Age: Qing Dynasty (19th century a...

Chinese dingyao bowl of shallow conical form with lobed rim. The widely flaring sides divided into six lobes, with indentations along the rim corresponding to thin raised lines radiating from the circular inner well.

Age: Song Dynasty (960 - 1279)

Condition: Very good overall condition. Some kiln grit and a firing flaw on one of the lobes.

Size: Approximately 16 cm diameter by 4 cm high

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. The base glazed white with a six character underglaze blue Qianlong mark.

Size: Approximately 7-1/8" high by 4" diameter

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or cracks

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Pair of Chinese antique erotic mirrored imaged plates done in famille rose showing a man and a woman involved in creative pleasures. The plates are gilt rim and the underside of each plate are glazed in pink. On the base of each, there is a 6 character Tongzhi (1862-1874) mark in iron red. These plates come boxed.

Size: 7-1/2" Diameter by 1-15" high

Age: Late Qing to Early Republic

Condition: Very good condition, no breaks and/or noticeable cracks. One of the ...

A pair of Chinese famille rose chargers each painted with the same scene of two long tailed pheasants perched in flowering boughs amongst blue pierced rocks, within a pierced enamelled & gilt spearhead border on a white ground. The backs of each glazed white with no marks.

Size: 2" high by 11" diameter

Age: Qianlong period circa 1770

Condition: One of the plates has a repair on the edge (Please refer to pictures), as well as a minor chip o the edge. There is so...

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...

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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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 pair of porcelain plates made for export with floral decoration and "bianco supra bianco" and famille rose enamels.

Size: 22-1/2 cm diameter

Condition: One has a small hairline and the other one was restored - please refer to pictures

Age: Old, the age of these plates span from the Yongzheng (1723-1735) period to the Qianlong period (1736-1795)

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

A Chinese reticulated revolving vase decorated around the body with four openwork lattice medallions in lime green, set on a dark blue ground with stylized floral scrolls in gilt. The removable center is a theme of boys at play on a white ground. The neck decorated in yellow sgraffito ground, with lotus flowers and elephant head side handles. The base enameled in blue with a six character iron red Qianlong mark.

Size: 11-1/2" high

Condition: There is a repaired break...

Chinese famille rose plate with a central figure of a rooster with other roosters among lotus blooms and other foliage. The underside of this plate has been covered in pewter, leaving the base exposed that shows a six character iron red Guangxu mark. With the addition of pewter, this dish is quite heavy.

Size: Approximately 9-1/4" diameter by 1-1/2" high

Age: Guangxu 1875-1908

Condition: Good condition.

A unique Chinese famille rose dish featuring a large central sunflower with a smaller one beside it. Two flies hovering above with a praying mantis below. This dish has an oval and a square seal in iron red against a gold ground, along with writing and black ink with two further red seals to the side. The underside of this dish is covered in pink. The base in white with a four character Yongzheng mark in gold surrounded by double gold borders.

Size: Approximately 9" diameter

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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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. Lid missing.

Age: This design was commonly...

A Chinese porcelain vase with four roundels depicting two phoenix chasing the flaming pearl in different poses, above a wave design base all in the famille verte palette on a white ground. The inside is painted white, as well as the base. The base holds a six character overglaze Xianfeng mark in iron red.

Size: 39 cm high by 20 cm diameter

Age: Qing Dynasty

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or chips. Refer to pictures.

A Chinese famille-verte enamelled porcelain brushpot, with multiple warriers on horse and feet. Scenes separated by a band around the pot with a ruyi head top border and a wave bottom border. The inside and base glazed white, the rim left unglazed. No markings.

Size: Approximately 14" high by 6-1/4" diameter

Age: Mid 19th century (Qing Dynasty)

Condition: This was once used as a lamp, so the base has a small hole, along with a further small hole at the bottom....

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. The back decorated with three sprigs of flowers with a shop mark surrounded by double circles in under-glaze blue.

Age: Kangxi Period (1662 - 1722)

Size: 11-1/2" diameter by 1-7/8" high

Condition: There is an old st...

Chinese low bowl done in famille verte with a reticulated rim done in a dark blue glaze. The plate shows 4 men enjoying outdoor activities by a lake in a mountainside setting. The underside contains a red Lingzhi fungus mark.

Condition: Good condition, no breaks and/or cracks. Some minor wear to the enamels

Size: 8-1/2" diameter by1-3/4" high

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 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...

Large pair of Chinese export porcelain figures of cranes, done in black and white, each naturalistically modelled perched on a tree trunk base.

Age: Early 20th century - Republic Period or earlier

Condition: Very good condition, no breaks or cracks

Size: Approximately 16" high by 8-3/4" wide by 5" depth

Pair of antique Chinese flower ball dishes with various balls spaced over a white ground. These dishes have scalloped rims edged in gilt. The underside of each dish carries three bats in iron red. The glazed white base holds a shop mark in iron red enclosed in a single iron red border.

Age: Qing Dynasty

Size: Each dish is approximately 4" diameter

Condition: Good, no breaks or cracks. Some of the gilt around the edges has worn off

A Chinese stoneware figure of a seated deity, thickly glazed in a grey crackle. Seated in a high back raised chair with a tortoise with a snake on top between his feet. Prayer square hole in the back of the chair. Un-glazed base recessed base. No markings.

Age: Ming Dynasty

Size: Approximately 9" High by 3-1/2" Depth by 4-1/2" Wide

Condition: Overall in good condition. Some slight chipping (Please refer to pictures)

Provenance: Formally in the co...

Chinese hat stand done in fencai enamels showing fish swimming among foliage. Gilt border with a poem done in black ink. The inside and base glazed white with the base rim unglazed. On the base is a iron red stamped mark in borders.

Size: Approximately 11" high by 4-3/4" diameter

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or cracks. There is wear to the gilt border.

Age: Late Qing to early Republic.

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...

Pair of Chinese porcelain hat stands with a central figure of a foo dog done in iron red enamels with green eyes with pups playing around. One of the hat stands carries writing in black ink at the top. The other has a poem in black ink on the reverse. Glazed white on the insides and on the base with the base rims left unglazed. One has a bulls-eye base. Both carry remnants of Jianding export seals. Gilt borders on both.

Size: Approximately 11-1/4" high by 4-7/8" diameter Cond...

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

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.

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: ...

Large Chinese low bowl painted in blue hues against a white ground with a bluish hue. This bowl features two deer, the male and female under a large tree. The underside of the bowl has three evenly spaced sprigs. The base and rim have been left unglazed. Unmarked.

Size: Approximately 10-3/4" diameter by 2-1/2" high

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or noticeable cracks

Age: Qing Dynasty (Possibly Kangxi period)

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 mille fleur porcelain baluster vase with a flared mouth over a tall neck with flattened stylized animal head handles on either side. The vase is decorated with a dense design of flower heads on a golden background. The base with a six character mark of Qianlong in red together with other illegible characters on a turquoise ground. The inside is glazed in turquoise. Thinly potted.

Size: Approximately 28 cm high by 14 cm diameter (includes handles)

Age: Qing Dyn...

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 porcelain carved/molded snuff bottle all in white with a pelican standing on one leg among foliage. 4 character Daoguang 1821-50 mark on base.

Size: Approximately 3" high

Condition: Good Overall condition. Original stopper.

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...

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 shallow Chinese Blue Glazed Porcelain Bowl. The inside glazed white, with the outside glazed in a deep blue. The base with a square shop mark surrounded by double blue circles.

Size: 4.8 in diameter by 1.1 in high

Condition: Good condition, no breaks and/or noticeable cracks

Age: Old, pin dishes of this type were made during the Kangxi Period (1662 - 1722)