Catalog: Vintage Arts (205)

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

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...

Antique tea caddy done with a central lotus bloom in a thick blue enamel on white with extending branches and smaller blooms on all sides. Original lid with a similar but smaller design. The base is unglazed, as well as the caddy's top rim for the lid

Condition: Good condition, some slight wear to the enamels

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

Age: Qing Dynasty to Republic

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

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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.

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.

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...

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...

Chinese antique turned wooden brush pot in Huanghuali wood. The pot tapers towards the triple beaded turned base, fashioned to look like a stand and has a slightly rolled top with a recessed base. No mark. Good patination of the wood.

Approximately 22 cm high by 17-1/5 cm diameter at widest point.

Good condition with normal signs of use.

Note: I have lightened some of the pictures up quite a bit so that the details of the grain of the wood can be seen.

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 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...

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...