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Chinese 18th/19th C. Bamboo Water Dropper – Monkey
Chinese wooden Water Dropper, 18th/19th Century
Finely hand-carved Bamboo Water Dropper wich is held by a Monkey (emblem of long life and healthyness).
Condition: typical traces of age and use, see photos
Length: ca. 10,5 cm
Wide: ca.8,5 cm
Chinese Tang Dynasty Yaozhou Bowl – Flowerhead
Extremelly rare brown glazed Bowl, Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Monochrome high fired Tang dynasty Yaozhou brown glazed bowl, decorated with stylized flowerhead in the center.
Excellent condition. Only the typical traces of production and some traces of use.
Provenance: Collection Lauw
Diameter: ca. 11,5 cm
Height: ca. 4,5 cm
Chinese Ming Dynasty Bronze Vase – Pear-Shaped
Antique chinese Bronze Vase, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
Elegant small pear-shaped (Yuhuchunping) bronze vase on an integrated three feet base.
Excellent condition: small nick at the top rim – further only the typical traces of production and use.
Height: ca. 14 cm
6 x chinese Kangxi Period Cup & Saucer – Floral
Six antique chinese porcelain cups and saucers – Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
All are fine painted with plum blossoms (for winter) and chrysanthemums (for autumn) in cobalt blue underglaze. The backside of the saucers and the inside of the cups is also decorated and all pieces are marked.
Almost perfect condition: only a few minute frits at rim, one saucer with a hard to see glazeline at the back side and one cup with a small chip inside the base rim – further just the typical traces of production and use.
Saucers: Diameter ca. 13,5 cm
Cups: Height ca. 5,5 cm
Euro 950.-
Chinese Lead Glazed Tang Dynasty Jar – “hua you”
Antique chinese three Handles Ceramic Jar, Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Rare brownish black lead glazed earthenware Jar with addition of whitish blue splashes – in China called “hua you”. A precursor of the Song Jun wares.
Condition: chips at top rim – further only the typical traces of production and age.
Height: ca. 18,5 cm
Chinese Kangxi Doll House Vase – Square Shape
Small chinese blue & white square Vase, Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Extremely rare square porcelain dollhouse vase with underglaze blue decoration of a rider, a walker, a wise man and a seated person. Early Kangxi Period, 17th Century.
Very good condition – the base rim with chips. Further only the typical traces of production and age.
Height: ca. 4 cm
Pair Chinese Qianlong Enamel Cups – Lady & Gentleman
Two small Antique chinese Cloisonne Enamel Cups, Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
Both cups are decorated in polychrome enamels with a matching design of a lady and gentleman seated in a landscape, the other sides are decorated with a gardensit and a tree. The inner surface of fine white enamel.
Condition: the left cup has two hairlines inside, the right one has a hairline inside and a small part missing on the ege outside – further only the typical traces of production and age.
Provenance: Collection Lauw
Diameter: ca. 4,5 cm
Height: ca. 3 cm
Euro 200.-
19th C. Thai Rattanakosin Bronze Buddha – Gilded
Fine gilded seated Buddha, Rattanakosin Period (1782–1932), Thailand
Southeast Asia, Thailand, lacquer and gilt bronze Buddha seated in half lotus position, signifying meditation, with both hands in his lap, atop a three-tiered, flame spiked throne. Thailand, Rattanakosin Period, early 19th century.
Very good condition: some gilding and red lacquer is lost in couse of use
Height: ca. 13 cm
Euro 180.-
Chinese Kangxi Plate – “The suffering of Christ”
Fine chinese Porcelain Plate, late Kangxi Period (1662-1722), 1700-1720
Unusual chinese porcelain dish representing a wreath and is known as “the suffering of Christ”. Painted in cobalt blue oxide underglaze – a rare type of Chine de commande.
Perfect condition, only the typical traces of the production and use. A great collectors piece!
A similar plate is to see in the “Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden”
Inventarnummer: PO 1367 | China, Jingdezhen, Qing-Zeit (1644 – 1911), Ära Kangxi (1662 – 1722), 1700 – 1720
Diameter: ca. 22 cm
Euro 320.-
Chinese Ming Sacrificial Models – Mingqi
Chinese Sancai-Glazed pottery Models, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
Mingqi miniatures ceramic models such as this 15 examples were made for use in the afterlife and were placed in the tombs of wealthy Chinese aristocrats to accompany them into the next world. Sancai lead glaze on low fired pottery.
Excellent condition: few wear and traces of the age. The wine vessel on the right at the first photo seems to have an old restoration.
Provenance: Collection Lauw
Height: between 1,5 cm and 11 cm
Euro 1100.- (for all 15 models together)
Chinese Kangxi Plate – Basket & Symbols
Superb Chinese Porcelain Plate, Kangxi Period (1662-1722) – Flowerbasket & Symbols
A very fine Chinese porcelain Kangxi plate, around 1720, beautifully and very rich painted with a cobalt blue underglaze – Buddhist symbols and a basket full of flowers.
Excellent condition: one tiny frit at the top rim – further only the typical traces of production and age.
! The same you can find in the Flipje en Streekmuseum Tiel, Collectie Hoogenboom, number 0234-04162
Diameter: ca. 23 cm
Height: ca. 2,6 cm
Euro 220.-
Chinese 19th C. Card Case – Village Scenery
Chinese antique wooden Card Case, late 19th Century
All over finely hand carved Card Case, showing a scenery with houses, trees and people.
Condition: traces of age and minor traces of ware.
Height: ca. 9,5 cm
Wide: ca. 6 cm
Euro 220.-
Chinese 18th C. Boxwood Figure Group – Scholar & Student
Chinese wooden Statue of a Scholar with Student, 18th Century
Finely hand carved figure group of a scholar and student, each of them is holding a book. The carving is made from boxwood root and standing on a hard wood stand.
Condition: typical traces of age with some cracks in the wood.
Figure
Height: ca. 9 cm / Length: ca. 8 cm
Stand
Length: ca. 11 cm / Wide: ca. 9 cm
Chinese Qianlong M&P Bowl – Lemon Yellow
Extraordinary antique Porcelain Bowl – Qianlong Mark & Periode (1736-1795)
The bowl bears foure medalions with flower in the center and leafe scrolls on lemon yellow enameled ground. The rim is in a fine orange-brown coloure painted. Underglaze blue Qianlong Mark (minyao) at the base.
Condition: one chip and a hairline, traces of use inside – further only the typical traces of production and age.
Diameter: ca. 19 cm
Chinese Jianyao Song Bowl – Metallic-Splashed
Extremely Rare Chinese Jianyao Bowl (temmuko) – Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279)
The deep, heavily potted sides flaring upwards to the gently everted rim, covered inside and out with a lustrous black glaze suffused with a pattern of variegated iridescent “Silver-Metallic Spots”, stopping in an irregular line and exposing the rough stoneware body.
Excellent condition – only the typical traces of production (a small flaw at the rim, it is glazed, however) and use.
Diameter: ca. 12,5 cm
Height: ca. 5,5 cm
Chinese 19th C. Bronze Vase – Taotie Mask
Antique Chinese Bronze Vase with Champleve Cloisonne, Guangxu Period (1875-1908)
Graceful chinese bronze vase, featuring an archaistic band of decoration to the upper part with taotie mask motifs. Also the two ring handles are in the shape of taotie in archaic style.
Perfect condition: only the typical traces of production and age.
Height: ca. 31 cm
Euro 350.-
Chinese Kangxi Porcelain Jar – Lotus Scroll
Antique chinese blue & white Jar, Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Fine and rare porcelain jar painted in good quality underglaze blue, attractive decorated with four lotus flowers and lotus scroll all over.
Perfect condition – only the typical traces of production and age.
Height: ca. 12,5 cm
Chinese 19th C. Brush Washer – Boys & Vase
Antique chinese blue & white Brush Washer, 19th Century, Kangxi Mark
Beautifully painted with on the front and back each two boys holding a vase, in between each a bird sitting in the flowering branches. Good underglaze blue decoration on clear white porcelain. On the base a 4-Character Kangxi Mark.
Perfect condition – only the typical traces of production and use.
Diameter: ca. 10,5 cm
Height: ca. 7,5 cm
Euro 180.-
Chinese 18th C. Qianlong Dish – Village
Chine de commande Porcelain Dish, Qianlong Period, ca. 1780
Extremely fine chinese porcelain dish or bowl, nice decorated with walking scholars in a village, mountains and lake landscape. In the background a fisher man. All painted in a high quality cobalt blue oxide underglaze – a rare type of Chine de commande.
Excellent condition: backside three short lines in the glaze and one minute frit at rim, hard to see – further only the typical traces of the production and use.
Diameter: ca. 13 cm
Height: ca. 3,5 cm
Euro 130.-
Chinese Ming Longquan Celadon Glazed Ewer
Chinese Stoneware Wine Ewer, early Ming Dynasty, 14th/15th Century
Large Longquan celadon glazed Ewer made in great shape with heigh spout and handle.
Excellent condition, only the typical traces of production (baking flaw inside the base ring – see photo 8) and age.
Height: ca. 24 cm
Euro 1100.-