Porcelain & Works of Art

Chinese porcelain wucai vase and cover of meiping form, painted in a continuous scene, from the Romance of the Western Chamber, with a monk at the monastery being visited by a bandit, with Ying Ying and her maidservant Hongnian looking out from beyond a screen, with a bearded figure looking out from a window, the underglaze blue particularly well-drawn with bamboo rockwork and the roof to the entrance of the monastery, the reverse with iron-red cloud banks, the drop over cover painted with lingzhi, aster and bamboo, the gently sloped top with fruiting peach in iron-red beneath the underglaze blue finial.

Large and substantially potted celadon glazed bowl, moulded on the exterior with a wide band of flowering lotus and camellia on scrolling, leafy branches above a band of stylised leaves and beneath a band of overlapping petals; carved on the interior with a single wide band extending to the base with the reverse technique of the exterior of lotus and camellia, all encircling a flowerhead in the well, the unglazed base burnt red in the firing with an impressed glazed centre.

Large Chinese spinach jade double trunk spill-holder, naturalistically carved with a standing crane and a standing phoenix bird amongst openwork branches of pine and prunus in high relief, above further branches of bamboo and lingzhi fungus, the underside also naturalistically carved as a gnarled trunk.

Chinese porcelain wucai square-form dish with champfered corners painted in the centre with two phoenix birds in flight on an iron-red cash diaper ground, encircled by sprays of prunus, bamboo, pine and peach flower, the flat everted rim with iron-red keyfret.

Chinese porcelain wucai, ko akai deep dish, with fluted petal-shaped sides and foliate brown-dressed rim, painted with two pheasants, one standing on rockwork the other swooping down, between flowering peach and peony branches, encircled by an elaborate panelled border, of different geometric grounds including fans, flowerheads, hexagons, scales, lozenge and chain-mail, all heightened with bright green, yellow, turquoise and iron-red enamels; the border of the underside incised in anhua with butterflies and insects, dispersed between flowerheads above further anhua petals at the foot.

Chinese porcelain blue and white baluster vase, guanyin zun, painted with Daoist immortals; Liu Hai and Zhongli Qian on rockwork, Li Tieguai with He, the Immortal of Harmony, the reverse with four characters bai fu cheng xiang, ‘hundreds of blessings, longevity and happiness’, alongside thirty fu characters.

Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke serving dish with incurved rim painted in the centre with a boy seated astride a recumbent elephant whose head is raised while his trunk holds up a flowering lotus branch, the incurved rim with keyfret design.

Large Chinese porcelain blue and white serving dish with needle point foliate rim, hariki, brightly painted with large magpies and squirrels amongst the ‘three friends of winter’, sanyou, pine prunus and bamboo, the squirrels clambering amongst fruiting vine branches beneath a scrolling branch of flowers and a brown dressed foliate rim, the underside with birds perched on a continuous branch of flowering prunus.

Pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte saucer dishes, each with upright sides and painted with hanging baskets of flowers, one basket of facetted form with fishermen in a river landscape while the basket contains pine branches, bamboo and prunus, sanyou, The Three Friends of Winter, the other facetted basket with a faux-marbled design and displaying lotus flowers, leaves, pods, arrowheads and other plants, the undersides glazed white.

Chinese imperial porcelain copper-red glazed saucer dish, thinly potted with gently flared lipped rim, covered overall in a rich and even sang-de-boeuf glaze beneath the white-glazed rim.

A Chinese white jade superbly hollowed bottle vase, carved on the body with a wide band of double xi, "happiness" characters, framed within scrolls, between ruyi-heads, the neck with an archaic-style relief band of cicadas, all beneath a lipped rim and on a gently raised foot.

Chinese white and russet jade pendant, carved with three silkworms amongst fruiting mulberry branches and leaves with an open-winged large insect, the reverse with russet leaves and a further insect.

Chinese white and black jade openwork pendant, carved in the form of two tree shrews touching each other at their mouths and feet, the reverse with an open-winged bat.

Chinese chalcedony agate openwork pendant, cleverly carved as two monkeys clambering amongst fruiting peach branches, the larger monkey in pale tone, the other monkey and peaches in russet tones.

Chinese jade black and white openwork pendant carved with a large black cicada, a pair of open-winged butterflies and a silkworm, amongst fruiting and leafy mulberry branches.

Chinese white jade snuff bottle of flattened baluster form, carved on the body in high relief with five open-winged bats, wu fu, all on a short oval foot rim beneath a cylindrical mouth.

A Chinese chalcedony agate carving of a recumbent horse with two monkeys climbing on its back, each clinging onto its mane, with detailed hair work to the tail, with clever use of the material with the back monkey of a lighter tone.

Chinese porcelain blue and white deep basin with flat, everted rim, painted in the centre and the cavetto with twenty-six large shou characters on a fruiting lingzhi continuous scrolling branch, beneath a blue ground wave border with plum blossom, the underside with branches and flowers beneath a blue-dressed rim.