R9948

Chinese porcelain blue and white tall beaker vase of gu form, painted on the upper section with seated scholars, two playing weiqi beside a wrapped qin and books, while another holds up a flower-form fan, with two other scholars, one kneeling while playing a qin between two others, one holding a letter, the other a fan, with an attendant close by bringing a covered box, three of the scholars’ robes with elaborate design, all amongst “v”-shape grass in a fenced continuous landscape scene with plantain, pierced rockwork, bamboo and a cloud bank beneath the sun, and between anhua bands of scrolling branch and a triangular diaper, the central band with blue ground lozenge panels painted in reverse technique with lotus flowers and branches and round medallions, above a band of leaves, the unglazed base revealing the biscuit body.  

18 5/8 inches, 47.3 cm high. 

Transitional, circa 1635-1640. 

Chinese porcelain blue and white wine ewer and cover, painted on the broad rounded body with leafy branches of flowering tree peony above ten gently moulded petals of similar branches of flowers, all beneath an upright gate-form handle with flower sprays, with pairs of leaves at the base of the handle, the spout with three flowering branches of aster, the cover with two peony flower heads and a prunus flower on the finial, the base glazed white.

9 7/8 inches, 25.1 cm high.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

A pair of Chinese sancai large stoneware equestrian roof tiles each modelled with a warrior wearing a helmet and armour, seated atop a standing horse, supported by a saddle cloth above clouds, the manes heightened in black, the glaze with traces of iridescence due to weathering.

57cm high, 41cm long, 19cm wide.

Late Ming, 16/17th century.