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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 – 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.-
Yuan/early Ming Stem Cup – Cizhou Ware
Small Chinese Cizhou Ware Stem Cup – Yuan/early Ming Dynasty
Extremely rare Cizhou Ware from great shape. The Stem Cup is covered with a creamy white slip and freely painted with leafes in a deep chocolate-brown glaze. Inside marked with a stylised character, likely “tun” that may be translated as “gulp” – Yuan or early Ming Dynasty.
Provenance: Bonhams London, Knightsbridge, Asian Art: May 13, 2019, Lot 258
Perfect condition, only the typical traces of production and use.
Height: ca. 6,5 cm
Euro 1200.-
19th C. Chinese Sancai Vase – “Four Gentlemen”
Large antique sancai glazed Vase, Qing Dynasty, 19th Century
Unusal chinese vase with “Four Gentlemen” decoration in sancai glaze. The “Four Gentlemen” or “Four Noble Ones” is a collective term referring to four plants: the plum blossom, the orchid, the bamboo, and the chrysanthemum. They represent the four different seasons – the plum blossom for winter, the orchid for spring, the bamboo for summer, and the chrysanthemum for autumn.
Excellent condition: small firing error with hairline at the mouth – further only the typical traces of production (baking traces at stand ring) and use.
Height: ca. 29 cm
Euro 1300.-
Two 15th C. Ming Sancai Vases – Fahua
Pair chinese Fahua Vases, early Ming Dynasty, 15th Century
Two extremely rare ceramic vases with fahua lotus decoration in sancai glaze from the early Ming Dynasty – Northern Fahua Wares.
Condition: both with some ware and missing glaze; right one with glued part at base rim (last photo) – further no cracks, hairlines or restorations.
Provenance: Collection Morpurgo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Height: ca. 13,5 cm
Small Chinese 17th C. Kangxi Dish – Scallop Rim
Antique chinese porcelain dish, early Kangxi Periode (1662-1722)
Extremely rare small scallop-rimmed plate, fine decorated with bamboo and peony in a rock garden surounded from flowers. The backside is also decorated. Painted in good deep quality blue colour.
Perfect condition
Diameter: ca. 10,5 cm
Chinese 17th C. Plate – Swastika
Chinese Kraak Style Porcelain Dish, 17th Century, late Ming/early Qing Dynasty
Blue and white Chinese porcelain plate, beautiful and rich decorated with flowers and swastika. Painted in cobalt blue oxide underglaze and marked at the base.
Perfect condition: only the typical traces of production and use.
Diameter: ca. 22 cm
Euro 160.-
Chinese Song Dynasty Jarlet – Qingbai
Rare Chinese Qingbai Celadon Jarlet – Song Dynasty (960-1279)
Nice small vase or jarlet made in good shape, overall with a light bluish-green Qingbai glaze.
Condition: vertical firing flaws under the glaze from production – see photos.
Height: ca. 6 cm