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

Chinese antique large porcelain circular box with cover decorated in polychrome floral decoration. The base and cover are decorated with peonies flowers on branches in both white and famille rose. There is a six character blue Qianlong seal mark on the base.

Size: 15 cm high by 26 cm diameter

Condition: Very good condition, no cracks and/or breaks

Age: Early 19th century

Chinese famille rose porcelain ink rest with a scroll base. Featuring a praying mantis at rest on a lotus branch. Inscription in black ink with the artist's seal in red.

Size: Approximately 5 1/4" long by 2 3/4" wide by 1 1/2" high

Condition: Good condition

A unique Chinese square puddingstone brush holder done in the sought after red stones. This single piece of stone is carved with rounded top corners and stands on four corner mounts with rounded corners.

Size: Approximately 4-6/8" high by 3-6/8" wide by 3-6/8" depth

Condition: Good condition

Age: Qing Dynasty to Republic

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...

Chinese qingbai bowl moulded on the interior with stylized flowers and leaves. Covered overall with a glaze of pale greenish-blue tone. Remnants of the copper rim.

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

Condition: Good condition

Provenance: Estate of Dr. Hoffman, Connecticut

Chinese antique Qingbai carved bowl. The deep rounded sides sketchily carved on the exterior with flower sprays, covered inside and out with a pale blue glaze that continues over the narrow ring foot to cover the base and stops below the unglazed rim which retains remnants of the original tin mount.

Size: Approximately 6-3/8" diameter by 2-1/8" high

Condition: Overall very good condition. No breaks...

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.

Chinese qingbai bowl separated into six equal lobes moulded on the interior with stylized flowers and leaves, alternating with boys at play with a center lotus bloom. Covered overall with a glaze of pale greenish-blue tone. Remnants of the copper rim.

Size: Approximately 7-1/2" diameter by 2-3/4" high

Condition: Good condition

Provenance: Estate of Dr. Hoffman, Connecticut

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...

Chinese rank badge with what I believe to be a Sixth Rank Badge with the central depiction of the Egret. The right-facing bird soaring toward the sun, is surrounded by ruyi-style clouds, flowers and auspicious symbols. All depicted with bright gold and iron red tie threads. Professionally mounted and sealed as a picture in a wooden frame.

Size: The badge measures approximately 11-1/2" wide by 11" high...

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...

A Chinese "Robins Egg" glazed linghzi waterpot in the form of a ruyi-shaped head of a lingzhi fungus, with a bat at the rim and a large chilong on the opposite rim. Glazed all over with the base rim left unglazed.

Size:

Condition: Good condition, no breaks and/or cracks

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 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

Pair of Chinese antique Shiwan vases covered in a thick brilliant white/blue glaze from the kilns of Guangdong. The glaze stopping just inside the top of the vase and short of the base revealing the buff biscuit. Rimmed and mounted in ormolu...

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)

Chinese square vase painted on two faces with scholars and their attendants beneath trees, and with texts on the other two faces. Glazed all over on a white ground with the exception of the base rim.

Size: 16-1/4" high by 4-3/4" depth by 6-1/4" width

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

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...

Chinese stoneware teadust glazed censer resting on three rounded feet, each having a vent hole and decorated with an upper and lower row of bosses all around. Glazed all overall in a rich green teadust glaze. The base with an engraved 4 character mark.

Size: 5" diameter by 3-1/4" high

Condition: No breaks or cracks - some discoloration on the inside from use

Age: Qing Dynasty

A large Chinese blue and white waisted bitong (brush pot). The flared rim over narrowing sides decorated with a continuous scene of figures in a landscape setting meeting others bearing banners with gifts finely painted in rich tones of underglaze blue. In the distance a man leads a buffalo beside a cliff face. The top and bottom with incised scroll borders. The inside glazed white. The base left bare...

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...

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 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

Chinese pair of mirrored vases depicting two ladies in comfort in an outdoors setting. The back of each vase carries an inscription in black ink with a red seal. The base of each carries of red seal in iron red.

Size: 10-1/4" high by 4" diameter

Condition: Very good condition, no breaks and/or noticeable cracks

Age: Republic

Chinese Song style clair de lune glaze peach-shaped water pot, moulded with five flying bats around the upper part of the peach-shaped body and two lotus buds in relief issuing from the bottom, applied exterior overall with clair de lune glaze. Interior glazed bluish-white, the base left unglazed. No markings.

Age: Qing Dynasty

Size: 7-1/4" length

Condition: Part of one of the bat wings has been chipped off. Other than that no other noticeable cracks or break...

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...

Thinly potted with the interior moulded with five young boys playing with two dogs within trees and vines. Each boy with well defined features, all in separate poses.

The bowl covered all over in a warm olive-green glaze. The back of the bowl left bare with a single line upper border.

The short base covered in kiln grit with a couple of missed glaze spots burnt orange.

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

Condition: No breaks or ...

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 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 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 ...

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...

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)

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 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 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. Turquoise glazed on the inside thinni...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Pair of Chinese porcelain plates painted in famille verte enamels with a mountainous coastal landscape, with figures and buildings. Complete with blue, pink & bianco sopra bianco borders. Edges covered in gilt. The backs left bare.

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

Condition: Very good, some very slight fritting on the edges and wear to the gilt.

Chinese antique double gourd Chinese famille rose porcelain vase with a design of prunus flowers on vines on one side and writing on the opposite side in black with multiple seals in red. On the base is a Jurentang mark in iron red.

Size: Approximately 19 cm high

Age: Republic period

Condition: Very good condition, please refer to pictures.

Chinese thinly potted famille-rose enamelled vase on a lime green graviata ground with five figures in different poses surrounding. The top rim is edged in gilt. The inside and the base are glazed in turquoise blue. The base has a four character mark in iron red surrounded by a single iron red square border.

Size is 10-1/8" high by 7-7/8" diameter

Condition: The gilt edging at the top rim is worn in places and there are some frits. The enamels show some minor wear.

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.

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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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.

Antique Chinese porcelain waterpot handpainted in famille rose enamels on a white ground with peonies and prunus flowers with butterflies flying above. Glazed in white on the inside as well as the base. On the base is a four character Qianlong mark in overglaze blue surrounded by double borders.

Condition: Very good condition, no breaks or cracks

Size: 4" diameter

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

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

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

Large porcelain statue of Guanyin with a serene expression looking down dressed in flowing windswept robes standing on a lotus pod . Her left hand gently holding her robe and in her right hand holding a basket containing two removable fish. Glazed in a thick off-white with a light grey crackle throughout. The inside left bare. Made in the Jingdezhen kilns. On the inside of the base the word "CHINA" stamped in red.

Age: Late 19th/early 20th century

Size: 17-1/2" high

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Pair of Chinese over-glaze iron red bowls outlining a design of peonies and lotus heads among leafy vines on the white ground on the outside and similarly decorated on the inside. The base glazed white with an under-glaze blue six character Daoguang mark surrounded in double blue circles.

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

Condition: Good condition, no breaks or cracks. Some enamel wear around the rims and very small scratches

Age: Late Qing Dynas...

Antique Japanese Hyotan made from a gourd plant for Sake. Painted with trailing flowers outlined in silver. Original red hanging rope.

Age: Edo Period (18th Century)

Condition: Very good condition, no restoration

Size: Approximately 8-1/4" high by 4" diameter at it's widest point.

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 ...

A Chinese porcelain teabowl and saucer painted in famille verte enamels with radiating cartouche panels of foliage. The cup decorated on the inside with sprigs of flowers, as well as the underside of the saucer. Both have seal marks in under-glaze blue to the base. Made for the export market.

Kangxi Period (Circa 1662 to 1722)

There is the possibility of a very small chip on the saucer which had an invisible repair done to it, or else it may be a firing flaw. Please refer...

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. This glaze crack d...

A Chinese porcelain baluster jar and cover painted in famille verte enamels. Decorated with leaf-shaped panels enclosing bamboo, peony, chrysanthemum and prunus, all reserved on a powder-blue ground. The domed cover with a knop finial. Glazed white on the inside. The base glazed white with a six character under-glaze blue Kangxi mark surrounded by double blue circles. Original lid.

Size: Height: 39 cm, Width: 24 cm

Condition: Good overall. There is a repaired chip on ...