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Ming Porcelain - Exhibition 2009
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MARCHANT

Specialist in Antique Asian Art

Recent acquisitions 2010
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A Chinese Longquan celadon glazed shallow bowl with flat everted rim, carved in the well with three phoenix birds in flight amongst insects, encircled by a continuous scrolling branch of flowering lotus, the exterior with a band of lappets above the foot, covered over all in a rich celadon glaze, the base with a burnt red unglazed ring.
A Chinese Ming Imperial porcelain yellow glazed saucer dish with flared rim, covered over all in a rich and even egg yolk yellow glaze slightly pooling on the exterior of the foot rim, the base glazed white.
A pair of Chinese porcelain Ming blue and white deep dishes, one painted in the centre with a mountainous river landscape scene with fishermen in their boats travelling between steep mountains with pagodas, pavilions, pine and wuti; the other with a city wall, pagoda and pavilions in the distance, with a large boat, six fishing boats and a tall pagoda divided by a central mountain with a large pine tree, each dish encircled by six lobed panels of birds perched on flowering branches including chrysanthemum, camellia and peach, all on grounds of cash and scale diaper, the undersides painted with three birds perched amongst large flowering branches above scrolls on the foot.
A large Chinese porcelain Ming blue and white saucer dish painted with five carp, li yu, amongst flower sprays and aquatic plants, encircled by underglaze blue double rings, the underside with six cranes between ruyi-head cloud sprays, above a band of scrolls at the foot and beneath a further double line in underglaze blue, the base unglazed.
A Chinese porcelain Ming Swatow deep dish painted in the centre with a turquoise Buddhist lion encircled by an iron-red ribbon and brocade ball, the wide border with three phoenix birds in flight, between large sprays of lotus, chrysanthemum and peony, heightened with green enamel leaves.
A Chinese porcelain large blue and white kosometsuke saucer dish in the form of a lotus flower-head, with moulded petals and foliate rim, the centre with an open flower-head encircled by a band of stylised leaves and a blue ground band of scrolls beneath the double petal moulded leaves dispersed between wan characters, the underside similarly decorated with a double band of moulded lotus petals.
A Chinese porcelain kosometsuke waterpot in the form of twin peaches, with stalk and foliage in relief, painted with four butterflies on a key-fret ground, the three biscuit feet of butterfly form.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke sweetmeat dish in the form of a fisherman or gaijin (foreigner) holding a conch, wearing a large hat and a sash all on four circular feet, the details rendered with lines, wash and fukizumi, the underside with his face moulded and painted to reveal the features and enriched with fukizumi.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke sweetmeat dish in the form of a conch shell, painted with a carp li yu amongst aquatic plants, the ribbed end with fukizumi, the underside with further fukizumi, on three circular feet. 7 ¼ inches, 18.4cm long.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke sweetmeat dish in the form of a sheep, the face outlined, the body with a blue wash ground and individual lines to imitate the hairwork, moulded on the underside to reveal the features, all on three short feet.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke sweetmeat dish in the form of a Chinese perch gui yu, the details painted in lines, wash and splashed dots fukizumi, the underside moulded to reveal the features of the fish, on three circular feet.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke sweetmeat dish in the form of a recumbent buffalo, the details picked out in lines and blue wash splashed on both sides with fukizumi, the underside moulded to reveal the features with the outlined face, all on three short feet.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke sweetmeat dish in the form of a recumbent horse, the details painted in outline and blue wash, the underside moulded and outlined to reveal the features of the horses head and splashed with fukizumi , all on four short feet.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white sleeve vase, rolwagen, painted with vases containing flowering plants including a crackled vase in a stand with lingzhi, fungus branch and camellia, a tall slender vase with prunus, a gu form vase with prunus and bamboo, a tripod crackled censer with leaf sprays, a blue ground vase painted with ruyi-heads in a stand containing peony and a square jardinière with orchids and rock, all above “V”-shaped grass and rockwork beneath the moon, the slightly flared neck with stylised leaves, the flat base unglazed.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte baluster vase and cover, painted with “100 Boys” at various pursuits, including playing a qin, looking at a scroll, reading and playing weiqi, all in a fenced continuous scene with rockwork, banana plant and flowers, between triangular diaper bands in iron-red and underglaze blue, the neck with five precious objects tied with ribbons, the cover decorated with boys between plant sprays beneath an underglaze blue knop.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte double spouted wine pot and cover with gate-form bracket handle, the body of lobed quatrefoil form, painted with panels of chrysanthemum and peony, between lotus flowers on scrolling branches beneath precious objects on the spout, the cover with further precious objects between chrysanthemum and peony beneath an iron-red and gilt bud form finial.
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte chrysanthemum-form saucer dishes, each painted with a standing lady beside rockwork, one holding a fan, the other a rabbit, encircled by eight panels of “100 antiques”, iron-red and gilt lotus, birds on branches and a powder blue ground panel with a gilt river landscape scene, the underside with flower sprays.
A Chinese porcelain large famille verte dish painted with Pan Yue “The Most Handsome Man in China” arriving in a wheeled sedan chair being pushed by his attendants with further attendants carrying his belongings, arriving at a large building enclosing thirteen watching ladies, all in a borderless river landscape scene between rocks, willow, overhanging pine and wuti, the sky with stylised clouds beneath a gilt moon.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte large two handled fish bowl, painted on both sides with branches of flowering peony amongst daisies, with chrysanthemum sprays beneath the biscuit lion mask handles, all between iron-red bands of stylised leaves and chrysanthemum flower-heads, the waist with reserves of flowers on a geometric iron-red and gilt ground with chrysanthemum flower-heads, the interior painted with forty-one carp, two shrimp and two crabs amongst aquatic plants, all beneath the flat everted lipped rim, painted with reserves of fish alternating with shrimp, all on a geometric cash diaper ground with chrysanthemum flower-heads and scrolls on the rim.
A Chinese porcelain famille verte wine cup of conical form, delicately painted with a standing scholar holding a staff beside a deer holding a single piece of lingzhi in its mouth, the reverse with a pine tree amongst rockwork.
A pair of Chinese Imperial porcelain famille verte birthday dishes, each painted with a lady and her attendant fanning a fire amongst rocks, one with the lady seated on rocks fanning the flames while her attendant stands behind her holding sticks, the other with the lady seated and the attendant fanning the flames, each surrounded with a border of flower sprays and insects beneath the flat everted rim.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white, underglaze copper-red and celadon brushpot, bitong, the cylindrical body carved with a continuous river landscape scene, with three figures in a boat crossing a wide river towards a village with pine trees, wuti, plants and rockwork.
A Chinese porcelain minyao blue and white bowl of thinly potted deep form, painted on the exterior with four panels divided by rocks and clouds, with figural scenes of soldiers, monks, ladies with their attendants and a scholar holding a fan behind a wall, the interior painted with five boys at play by a rocky ledge with a building in the distance.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white vase of rouleau form with high shoulder and galleried rim, painted with a scholar and attendant crossing a rocky promontory in a mountainous river landscape scene, with a fisherman seated in his boat, houses in the mountains, waterfall, pine, wuti and a pair of birds in flight, the neck with ruyi-head, keyfret and interlocked bands, divided by a single rib.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white baluster vase with flared rim, three string ribs at the shoulder and gently tapering body, painted with three large deer in a continuous landscape, with two interlocked pine trees amongst rockwork and grass beneath stylised clouds, the neck with two lozenge panels of a bird perched on a flowering camellia branch with insects amongst flowering pinks and daisies.
A Chinese porcelain blue and white vase of gu form with galleried rim, painted on the central bulge with the young Emperor seated holding a lotus flower, three attendants holding hu tablets in front of a screen beside two standing guards, each holding a halbard in a fenced terrace with bamboo plants and wuti, the neck with three officials also holding hu tablets, one pointing at the moon with their attendants holding gifts in a fenced landscape scene, with rockwork and bamboo at the edge of a terrace, beneath a triangular diaper on the rim, the foot with a further diaper band beneath a wide band of three pine branches.
A pair of Chinese porcelain blue and white moulder flower-form bowls with foliate rims, each painted with tweleveimmortals above stylized clouds, with Shoulao the god of longevity and head of the immortals seated hoding a ruyi sceptre, the other immortals all identifiable by their attributes including Lu Dongbin with his sword and fly whisk and Li Taiguai with his crutch and gourd, all above the twelve different flower sprays representing the months in relief petals, the interior painted in the well with Tong Fangso standing on stylised clouds and holding his peach branch over his shoulder beneath a band of petals and flower-heads on a blue washed ground at the rim.
A pair of Chinese porcelain blue and white vases of yanyan form, both painted on the body with eight stylised lotus form panels each enclosing one of the “eight immortals”, standing holding their attributes in a fenced garden scene amongst rockwork and plants, all on a dense, lozenge diaper ground beneath triangular bands at the rim, one with a scroll band on the neck, the other with a keyfret.
A Chinese porcelain turquoise glaze vase of archaic gu form, with galleried rim, flared foot and relief flanges carved in the centre with four peony flower-heads amongst foliage between wide bands of stiff leaves, covered over all in an even turquoise glaze extending to the interior of the neck, the base glazed white.
A Chinese porcelain famille rose large saucer dish, painted with three equestrian warriors holding swords and halbards, riding yellow, pink and aubergine horses amongst rockwork and flags, with figures holding banners in the distance, beneath a brown dressed rim, the underside with a lingzhi fungus mark within a double ring.
A Chinese porcelain famille rose baluster vase and cover, painted with the three star gods, Shoulao, the god of longevity, holding a staff tied with a scroll and a peach, Fuxing, the god of happiness, holding a hu tablet and Luxing, the god of rank and affluence, pointing at three children, with bats in flight in a continuous landscape scene beneath multicoloured cloud sprays, the reverse with a large pine tree amongst rockwork with lingzhi, all beneath books, scrolls, a qin, ribbons and precious objects on the neck, the cover painted with boys.
A Chinese Imperial porcelain stem cup with tall foot and gently flaring rim, decorated with sandou, peach, pomegranate and persimmon in underglaze copper-red on blue branches with leaves.
A Chinese Imperial porcelain ru-type, lavender glazed large rectangular jardinière with flared flat rim on a stepped foot, covered over all with a rich and even lavender blue glaze suffused with a fine crackle, the wide foot rim dressed with a brown wash, the base with two apertures for drainage.
A pair of Chinese Imperial porcelain copper-red glazed jardinières and stands, of deep “U”-form with flat everted lipped rim, the stands with chrysanthemum petal ribs on the exterior, covered over all in a rich red glaze, thinning to a paler tone on the petals, the rim interior and base glazed white.
A Chinese Imperial porcelain blue and white Ming style dice bowl, thickly potted with upright sides, painted with six lotus flower-heads amongst scrolling foliage, above a band of scrolls on the foot and beneath a band of crested waves at the rim.
A Chinese porcelain white-glazed bottle vase with cylindrical neck and flared rim, the body moulded in relief with three large blooms of lotus, camellia and camellia japonica, on a continuous scrolling branch with buds, chrysanthemum and cymbidium amongst other flowers and leaves, beneath a band of keyfret and ruyi-heads at the shoulder and above a lappet band, the neck with a band of stiff leaves beneath further ruyi-heads at the rim, the base glazed.
A Chinese Imperial porcelain blue and white cong with lipped rim, painted with two five clawed dragons amongst stylised ruyi-head clouds and flames, above a wide band of crested waves, all between double lines in underglaze blue.
A Chinese porcelain minyao famille rose hexagonal wine cup, painted with five standing officials and an attendant pulling a wheeled chair in a continuous landscape scene with fencing and rockwork, the interior with flower sprays of lotus, chrysanthemum, peony, winter sweet and others, all encircling a day lily in the well beneath a gilt rim.
A Chinese porcelain minyao famille rose deep cup, painted with boats on the Poyang Lake, with a pavilion and wall in the foreground and mountain peaks amongst clouds in the distance, the reverse with an eight column poem written in black enamel between iron-red gourd seal gu pu, (ancient and humble), four character signature of Zhao Bian and a square seal wo si gu ren, (I respect the ancient), all beneath a gilt rim.
A Chinese porcelain minyao famille rose two handled food container, liner and cover of cylindrical form, the exterior painted with immortals and their attendants, seated at a rockwork table amongst pine trees and fencing, the reverse with three figures seated at a table, with lady and boy attendants between gilt double line mask and loose metal ring handles, the liner imitating faux bois with gilt keyfret, the domed cover painted with the three star gods and their attendants in a landscape scene, with rockwork beneath a gilt Buddhist lion finial, all the interior and base lined in turquoise.
A pair of Chinese porcelain minyao famille rose enamelled ogee-form bowls with fluted rims and covers, each painted with the eight immortals, the bowls with the three immortals Li Tieguai, his gourd and crutch on the ground, Han Zhongli, holding up his fan and Zhang Guolao, with his bamboo tube and metal beaters also on the ground, all between He Xiangu, with her lotus branch and Lan Caihe, with the basket of fruit, the covers with the three further immortals, Lu Dongbin, with his sword over his back, between Cau Guojiu, holding his pair of beaters for keeping time and Han Xiangzi, playing his flute, all in a continuous landscape scene with rockwork, trees and flowering plants, the interiors with a turquoise enamel lining.
A Chinese porcelain minyao famille rose dish with foliate rim, painted with a young couple in conversation, the man holding the feathers of his elaborate head-dress in a fenced terrace scene beside a window, with a standing bearded dignitary reading a book with a lotus pond behind the fence, encircled with ducks swimming amongst flowering lotus, leaves and aquatic plants, with praying mantis and butterfly all beneath the gilt foliate rim, the underside with five large butterflies in flight amongst flowers and leaves in green and turquoise on a lime green ground.
A Chinese porcelain minyao famille rose dish with foliate rim, painted in the centre with a boy riding a buffalo, looking at three birds in flight whilst the moon goddess Chang Er and her two attendants stand on clouds looking down, with rockwork and wuti , encircled by a border of fifteen multicoloured bats amongst stylised ruyi-head clouds, all beneath a gilt foliate rim, the underside with five large butterflies in flight amongst flowers and leaves in turquoise and green enamel, all on a lime green ground.
A Chinese Imperial porcelain famille rose yellow ground graviata bowl, decorated with three medallions of san yang kai tai each with a ram, one seated on the edge of a rocky promontory beside bamboo and an overhanging blossoming branch, one standing beside a nandina and lingzhi issuing from rockwork, the other walking towards an overhanging white branch with camellia and bamboo, all between precious objects including a blue and white vase containing a branch of blossoming peony, a halbard and a music stone tied with a ribbon, beside a tray of pomegranate and brocade scroll above gilt rings and a lingzhi ruyi-sceptre, all on a lemon yellow feather arabesque ground, the interior painted in the well in underglaze blue with san yang kai tai, three rams in harmony, encircled by four branches of day lily, camellia, pine, bamboo and lingzhi, alternately with pendant, fish, gourd, music stone and ruyi-sceptre.
A Chinese Imperial porcelain famille rose ruby ground graviata bowl, painted with four medallions of a fruiting peach branch, a flowering branch of tree peony, buds and bamboo, a fruiting pomegranate branch above asters and a branch of camellia and tree peony with bamboo, between stylised peony and lotus sprays on scrolling branches, all on a bright ruby feather arabesque carved ground, the well of the interior in underglaze blue with a basket of peaches and peony beside three kites, encircled by four different floral branches of pomegranate, lingzhi, camellia and prunus.
A Chinese Imperial porcelain famille rose, grisaille and iron-red enamelled yellow ground graviata bowl, painted with four medallions of mountainous river landscape scenes, probably depicting the four seasons, each with figures and pavilions, between stylised sprays of tree peony amongst branches, with a prunus flower-head above a hydrangea, all on a yellow feather arabesque carved ground, the interior with a stylised flower-head.
A Chinese Imperial porcelain famille rose bowl of deep “U”-form, decorated with four roundels of precious objects including a vase of laburnum, lantern and ruyi-sceptre on a rich, yellow ground of flowering and fruiting gourd amongst leaves and scrolls, between bands of keyfret and beneath a gilt band at the rim, the interior decorated with gourds, flower-heads, leaves and scrolls, beneath an iron-red keyfret band at the rim.
A Chinese gilt bronze seated bare foot figure of Guandi, holding a sword hilt while resting his right hand on his thigh, his left hand raised, wearing finely incised robes with dragon decoration and detailed armour with a shoulder mask, his long hair combed straight at his back.
A Chinese rectangular gilt bronze jardinière of tapered form on four bracket feet with flat everted rim, cast in relief with thirty-eight children at play including dancing, playing musical instruments, wrestling, playing a board game, with a ball, riding a hobby horse, seated with a qin, two dressed as a Buddhist lion and picking flowers in landscape scenes on a stippled ground amongst wuti, pine and willow, pavilions, bridges, rockwork and lotus pond.
A Chinese Imperial cloisonné incense burner with rounded body on three short feet, with two loop handles at the rim, decorated on the body with lotus and prunus flower-heads, amongst scrolling foliage, all on a turquoise blue ground. 4 3/8 inches, 11.2cm at widest point, 4 7/16 inches, 11.3cm, total height. The base inset with a square gilt plaque and incised with a four character mark of Qianlong and of the period, together with a fifth character ru (place),
A Chinese Imperial cloisonné tripod censer of archaic lien form, the cylindrical body decorated with two bands of three taotieh masks between stylised chilong dragon heads, the top band with pink chilong dragon heads, the lower band with purple ground chilong dragon heads, all on a turquoise blue ground, between double ribs above ruyi-head feet, the underside with multicoloured ruyi-scrolls on a turquoise ground.
A pair of Chinese cloisonné square form pricket candlesticks made in five sections, decorated with stylised lotus flower-heads between interlocked fretwork, the tapered and baluster section similarly decorated with bats, the interior of the drip pans with prunus flower-heads on a cracked ice ground.
A large Chinese jade circular two handled marriage bowl on four short feet, the two handles in the form of open winged, two horned dragons, the interior carved in high relief with two fruiting peach branches and lingzhi fungus, the exterior of the bowl carved on each side with double happiness character set on a band of the eight Buddhist emblems, the stone of pale celadon tone.
A Chinese bamboo carving of a standing smiling figure of Shoulao holding a tall root wood staff surmounted by a double gourd in his left hand and a lingzhi ru-yi branch in his right, wearing long flowing robes, tied with a ribbon at the front, with detailed beard and hairwork neatly tied in a covered bun at the back, a small attendant stands at his front holding a large peach.