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Dimensions:
H 6 cm - Dia.: 12,4 cm (the bowl)
Dia.: 10,3 cm (the plates)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- All three in excellent condition, negligible superficial wear.
Dimensions:
H 7 cm - Dia.: 15 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With three tight hairlines on the rim of ca. 1 cm, 1,5 cm and 5 cm. The longest one hardly visible but showing up under UV-light.
- Otherwise in very good condition.
Dimensions:
H 7,6 cm - Dia.: 18,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in good condition.
- The rim with a number of small superficial chips.
- Minor baking-related discolouration around the foot.
- The base with a wax export seal.
Dimensions:
H 5,3 cm - Dia.: 8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
73 x 43,5 cm (excl. hanger)
H 30,4 cm (the vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase with a tight glaze line on a ring of one of the handles. On the inside only, not visible on the outside, a ca. 10 cm glaze line. Otherwise in excellent condition.
- The panel with the round plaque in excellent condition. The upper, fan-shaped plaque, with wear as visible. The wood in good condition with a split to top right and lower left corner.
Dimensions:
H 32,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Bottom marked.
- One of the bottom corners with negligible glaze loss.
- One minor chip (6 mm).
- Normal minor superficial wear and baking flaws.
Dimensions:
H 8 - L 9,5 cm (the shell-shaped brush washer with wooden stand)
H 4,2 - L 7,3 cm (the shell-shaped brush washer without stand)
H 6,3 - L 11,8 cm (the weight with wooden stand)
H 4,2 - L 11 cm (the weight without stand)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The shell-shaped brush washer in excellent condition, with wax export seal on the base. The wooden stand with some wear.
- The biscuit fruit and stand both in very good condition with minor wear.
Dimensions:
H 19,5 - L 17,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With small losses to the beard and to one finger, otherwise in good condition with minor baking flaws.
Ref.: E. D. EDWARDS in “THE DRAGON BOOK“, published in London, 1938:
“THE MUSSEL AND THE HERON".
A mussel was lying on the riverbank sunning itself when a heron came by and pecked at it. The mussel closed its shell, nipping the bird’s beak, whereupon the bird said: “If you don’t let me go to-day or to-morrow there will be a dead mussel.” The mussel replied: “If I don’t open to-day or to-morrow, there will be a dead heron.” Just then a fisherman came along and seized them both.”
It is not uncommon to see the heron replaced by a duck in depictions of this story.
Dimensions:
H 24,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase generally in condition, the top rim with a faint ca. 3 cm tension line.
Compare:
For a quite similar decoration with scroll bands and lion mask handles, see: Christie's, Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 13-22 September 2016, lot 1935 (link).
Christie's Amsterdam, The Decorative Arts Sale, 22-23 March 2011, lot 226 (variant on the same theme).
Dimensions:
H 21,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition. Negligible baking flaws around the foot.
Dimensions:
H 32 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in excellent condition, the gilding well-preserved.
- The surface with negligible minor superficial wear.
Dimensions:
H 42,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The base with an inscription.
- With two rim sections broken out and restuck, of ca. 10 x 4 cm and ca. 5 x 2 cm. Otherwise in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 4,5 cm - Dia.: 20,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a baking crack visible on the back, slightly showing on the front under strong light. Otherwise in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 12,5 - 10,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The blue and white teapot with the tip of the spout polished and a very small superficial rim chip filled. Otherwise in excellent condition.
- The famillle rose teapot with a superficial chip to one corner of the lid. The teapot generally in excellent condition, with a chip to the inner rim.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 9,3 - 6,4 cm (the largest and the smallest box and cover)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The powder blue box: the cover in excellent condition, the box with a small chip to the inner rim.
- The famille rose box with the lady: the cover in excellent condition, the box with a small superficial chip on the outer rim.
- The famille rose box with floral design: both pieces in excellent condition.
- The blue and white 'dragon and phoenix' box: both pieces in excellent condition.
- The blue and white 'Wang Bu style' box: the cover in excellent condition, the box with a small superficial chip.
- The famille rose box with the bird: both pieces in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 12 - 2,7 cm - Dia.: 24,5 - 13,6 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The monochrome blue jar in excellent condition.
- The celadon ground bowl with a number of small rim chips and superficial wear.
- The pair of large plates: one in excellent condition, one with a reglued rim chip with related ca. 5 cm hairline.
- The pair of bird plates: one with a small rim chip at ca. 6 o'clock, one with a small rim chip at ca. 5 o'clock with related ca. 1,5 cm hairline.
- The pair of small plates: one with a ca. 4 cm hairline, one with a rim chip with related 1 cm hairline.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 34,5 - 29,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
The two famille rose chargers with '100 antiquities' design both in excellent condition.
The blue and white charger with a hairline between 12h and 13h (about 5,3 cm). Furthermore with a few burst glaze bubbles on the rim, otherwise in good condition.
The famille rose charger with censer and calligraphy with minor superficial rim chips, sections of superficial glaze loss and fritting.
Dimensions:
H 9 cm - Dia.: 18,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Two faint ca. 5 cm hairline from the rim, visible on the inside but not showing on the outside of the bowl.
- The rim with a baking flaw, the surface with superficial wear.
Dimensions:
About 31,8 x 20,7 cm (the plaque)
Frame: 49,4 x 34,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The plaque in very good to excellent condition.
- Some very minor superficial wear and right top corner with an almost invisible scratch.
- Not inspected outside the frame.
- Frame with minor traces of use.
Dimensions:
H 43 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cover with small chips and glaze loss on the rim.
- The vase with a few very small superficial chips and burst glaze bubbles on the outer rim.
Dimensions:
H 31,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 45,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, negligible baking flaws on the mouth.
Dimensions:
H 27,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition. No damage whatsoever.
Dimensions:
H 35,1 - 14,1 cm (the largest and the smallest vase)
Dia.: 25,9 cm (the plates)
The lot consists of twenty-one vases and two plates.
Condition:
- All in excellent condition, no damage.
Dimensions:
H 20,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The jar in excellent condition.
- The lid with a rim chip with related ca. 5 cm hairline.
Dimensions:
H 58,5 - 57,5 cm x 2
Condition: (UV-checked) (from left to right)
- (1) The vase on the left in excellent condition.
- (2) The vase in the middle with a small chip to the underside of the rim, otherwise in good condition.
- (3) The vase on the right in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 57,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 11,7 - 8,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pot on the left in excellent condition.
- The pot in the middle in excellent condition.
- The pot on the right with a restored ca. 3 cm hairline from the rim, otherwise in good condition.
Dimensions:
H 30 - 26,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- (UPDATE Sep. 29) The smallest vase measures 23 cm and not 26,5 cm as indicated.
- The smallest vase in excellent condition.
- The tallest vase in nearly excellent condition with a baking flaw on the rim.
Dimensions:
H 42,8 - 42,5 - 22,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The smallest vase in excellent condition with crazing lines on the inside of the neck.
- The lantern with a ca. 5 cm hairline from the rim.
- The rectangular vase with losses to the lower sections of both ears, and a small superficial chip to two corners.
Dimensions:
H 47,5 cm (the immortal)
H 23,8 cm (the jar and cover)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The figure with a loss to the ornament on the back of the hat, otherwise in excellent condition. The hair reinforced with some glue just below the nose.
- The jar in excellent condition. The associated cover also in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 45 - 28 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase with the large figures with a recoloured chip to one handle, a ca. 15 mm glaze line on the inner part of the mouth, not on the outer part, a few burst glaze bubbles around the rim, a section of glaze loss around the foot and a ca. 8 cm Y-shaped hairline in the base.
- The hat stand with a superficial chip to one of the reticulated panels with related 1 cm hairline and a ca. 12 cm vertical hairline.
Dimensions:
H 5,3 - L 40 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The central square bowl with a ca. 3 mm rim chip and another to one corner, otherwise in good condition.
- One of the larger side bowls with a superficial chip on the vertical rim, otherwise in good condition.
- The three other larger side bowls all in excellent condition.
- One of the smaller side bowls with two superficial rim chips, otherwise in good condition.
- The three other smaller side bowls all in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 24,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 7 cm - Dia.: 14,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 45,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in very good condition, with a tight X-shaped hairline on the base.
Dimensions:
H 3,3 - 1,9 cm (the largest and the smallest bowl)
Dia.: 7,1 - 5 cm (the largest and the smallest bowl)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The largest erotical bowl in excellent condition, the smallest with a 2 mm rim chip.
- The largest Wu Shuang Pu cup with a chip on the outer rim with ca. 15 mm hairline and another C-shaped hairline of ca. 20 mm. The smallest in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 61 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase in good condition with a number of small superficial chips around the rim.
Dimensions:
H 37,5 cm (the bottle vases)
H 34 cm (the rouleau vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The rouleau vase in excellent condition.
- The famille rose covers: one with two rim chips and a small rim section reglued, one with two filled rim chips, a number of small rim chips, a small reglued chip and some touch-ups to the finial. A reglued break to the unglazed inner section.
- One vase with a small rim chip, the body with a C-shaped hairline.
- One vase with a restored break around the neck, with related overspraying. Otherwise in good condition.
Dimensions:
H 59 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In very good to excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 43 cm (vase decorated with five figures)
H 42,5 cm (the other vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase on the left in excellent condition.
- The vase on the right with a tight hairline on the base.
Dimensions:
H 22 cm
Marked 'Da Qing Qianlong Nian Zhi'.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition with minor superficial wear to the gilding.
Dimensions:
H 38 - 35,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The figure on the right with a chip to the robe on the left elbow, one to the nose and two to the right elbow. Some minor superficial wear and negligible baking flaws.
- The seated figure on the left with a reglued break to the hand holding the book, a few small superficial chips to the base, one to the left elbow and one to the knee below. Some minor superficial wear and negligible baking flaws.
Dimensions:
H 28,5 - 26,5 cm (x2)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase on the left with a chip to the underside of the rim, otherwise in good condition.
- The vase in the middle in excellent condition.
- The vase on the right with a long ca. 20 cm vertical hairline on the back.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 12,7 cm (the saucer)
H 5,5 cm - Dia.: 8,9 cm (the cup)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The saucer in excellent condition.
- The cup with a ca. 3 cm hairline running down from the rim, showing up under UV-light but invisible to the naked eye.
Dimensions:
H 19,5 cm - Dia.: 26,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in very good condition.
- The rim with a superficial ca. 8 x 3 mm chip and a few burst glazed bubbles.
Dimensions:
H 46 cm - Dia.: 22 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 12,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The teapot with a small ca. 2 mm flake on the upper rim and a section of superficial glaze loss on the inner rim. The body with a ca. 6 cm vertical hairline on the inside, partly visible on the outside.
- The associated cover in good condition.
Dimensions:
H 59 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a ca. 5 cm hairline in the body.
Dimensions:
H 44 - 45 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase in the middle with numerous reglued breaks around the neck.
- The pair of vases with ladies both in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 82 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase generally in excellent condition.
- One handle with a small section of loss to the tail of one of the lions.
Provenance:
'Die Fürstliche Sammlung Thurn und Taxis', Sotheby's, Regensburg, October 1993, lot 2527 (StE 5252).
Dimensions:
H 50 cm - L 54 cm
34 x 25 cm (the plaque)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The porcelain plaque in excellent condition.
- The wooden stand with some damages as visible.
Dimensions:
Canton bowl: H 17 - Dia.: 41 cm
Imari bowl: H 12 - Dia.: 28,2 cm
Blue and white bowl: H 10 - Dia.: 23 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The Canton bowl with a large reglued section and a rim chip.
- The Imari style bowl with a rim section of ca. 15x 7 cm broken out and restuck, with some retouching. The sound intact when tapped.
- The blue and white bowl with two retouched superficial rim chips, otherwise in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 10,1 - Dia.: 27 cm (the bowl on stand)
Dia.: 20,2 - 20,1 cm (the dishes)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The famille rose plate in excellent condition.
- The bowl on stand in good condition with minor superficial wear. The outer rim with a few small superficial chips.
- The famille verte plate in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 45 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cover with a filled rim chip on the underside of the rim, nothing showing on the upside.
- The vase in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 64,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in very good condition.
- A few small losses to the dragon's eyes.
- The gilding with superficial wear.
- The base drilled for mounting.
Dimensions:
H 8 cm - Dia.: 10 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The bowl generally in good condition with a few small spots of glaze loss on the outer rim.
- The cover in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 29,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in good condition, with superficial wear, spots of superficial glaze loss and discolouration.
Dimensions:
H 9,5 - 4 - Dia.: 18,7 - 7,7 cm (the largest and the smallest)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The qingbai type bowl with a number of small rim chips.
- The jarlet with a rim chip.
- The other pieces in good condition with minor wear and glaze degradation from being underground.
Dimensions:
H 9,7 - 1,6 cm - Dia.: 17 - 7,1 cm (the largest and the smallest)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in good condition. All with superficial wear as commensurate with the archeological history.
- One alms bowl broken and reglued.
Dimensions:
H 21,5 - 12,5 cm (the largest and the smallest Buddha figure)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The tallest figure lacking the tip on the head. The neck with a crack, but not broken. The base with a chip, possibly a casting flaw. Further superficial wear and a few horizontal surface cracks.
- The second tallest in good condition with minor superficial wear.
- The smallest with a chip on the base, on the back, a few casting flaws, and superficial wear throughout.
Dimensions:
H 10,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a number of repairs, to: the front head, the thumb of the hand lacking the ornament, pointer and pink of the other hand, the left ear and two sections on the base.
- Lacking the base plaque.
- With traces of polychromy to the hairdo and neck.
Dimensions:
H 8 cm - L 19,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in good condition, with a small undeep dent on one side.
- Minor superficial wear, encrustation and patina throughout.
Weight:
1,1 kg
Dimensions:
H 5,7 cm - Dia.: 13,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in good condition.
- The rim and general surface with superficial wear and a number of small scuff marks throughout. Natural encrustation on the inside.
Dimensions:
H 39,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One vase with a ca. 10 cm hairline in the upper half, the other vase with a superficial baking flaw on the rim, a tight ca. 4 cm horizontal glaze line on the inside only, not visible on the outside and superficial wear to the enamels. Both with further minor superficial wear.
Dimensions:
H 23 cm - Dia.: 16 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The base with a few small sections of superficial glaze loss all-around, a small chip to the unglazed inner rim and to the candle holder.
- The cover with fritting around the finial, a short glaze line to the inside only and minor baking flaws to the reticulated section.
Dimensions:
H 37,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both vases in excellent condition.
- One cover with the finial reglued, with a chip to the lion's tail.
- One cover with two spots of glaze loss to the finial, a rim chip and a baking flaw on the rim.
Dimensions:
H 16,1 cm - Dia.: 20 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, with some baking flaws visible on the inside.
Dimensions:
H 6,7 cm - Dia.: 12,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 37,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, with negligible minor superficial baking flaws.
Dimensions:
H 35 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, the rim with a few burst glaze bubbles.
Dimensions:
H 42 cm (the vase with cover and stand)
H 32,5 cm (the vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase in very good condition. Some baking-related discolouration and a small superficial 3 mm chip around the foot. The unglazed footrim with a superficial ca. 8 mm chip. Minor scratches.
- Wooden coover and stand with age-related wear.
Dimensions:
H 45 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition, with negligible superficial baking flaws.
Dimensions:
H 9,5 cm - Dia.: 21,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in very good condition.
- The rim with a superficial ca. 5 x 1 mm chip and a small baking flaw.
- Superficial wear.
Dimensions:
H 30,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 41,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a superficial chip to the underside of the left corner's rim, otherwise in very good condition.
Dimensions:
H 20,6 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 59,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The outer rim with a ca. 10 x 8 mm rim chip, otherwise in good condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 28,5 cm (the plate with Xuande mark)
Dia.: 26,7 cm (the plate with the kintsugi style repair and Kangxi mark)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The dish on the left with a gold-lacquer kintsugi repaired chip on the rim, otherwise in good condition.
- The dish with immortals in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 25 cm (hu vase)
H 23,5 (tulip vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The monochrome vase in excellent condition.
- The tulip vase in excellent condition with a small burst glaze bubble on the outer rim of one of the bulbs.
Dimensions:
H 13,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 12,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 14 cm (the teapot)
Dia.: 12,7 - 8 cm (the saucers and the cups)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cups both in excellent condition.
- One saucer with a short 4 mm hairline, otherwise in very good condition.
- One saucer with a network of hairlines in the center, otherwise good.
- The teapot in excellent condition, the lid with a small superficial 3 mm rim chip.
Dimensions:
H 6,8 - 5,9 cm (the largest and the smallest cup)
Dia.: 12,9 - 12,2 cm (the saucers)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The lobed saucer with a superficial ca. 5 mm rim chip at ca. 6 o'clock, otherwise in good condition.
- The round saucer with a ca. 3 cm hairline.
- Cups in very good to excellent condition (from left to right on photo 1): Nr. 3, nr. 4, nr. 5, nr. 8
- Nr. 1: a ca. 4 cm hairline.
- Nr. 2: a ca. 5 mm hairline.
- Nr. 6: a chip on the outer rim and two ca. 4 cm hairlines.
- Nr. 7: the ear replaced.
- Nr. 9: a ca. 3 cm hairline.
Dimensions:
H 8,7 cm - Dia.: 14,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cover in excellent condition.
- The teapot with two small superficial chips to the tip of the spout.
Dimensions:
H 13 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 16,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With two ca. 3-4 cm hairlines restored at ca. 1 and 7 o'clock. The rim with a superficial 5 mm chip at ca. 5 o'clock. Otherwise in very good condition.
Dimensions:
H 8 cm (the tallest vase)
H 4,5 cm (the smallest vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in good condition.
- The largest vase with 2 chips to the top rim (4 and 5 mm) and inner foot rim with superficial chips.
- The fifth vase with superficial chips to the foot rim and negligible glaze loss of the top rim.
- The third vase with chip to the top rim (4 mm) and negligible glaze loss just above the foot rim.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 14,6 cm
References:
For another example: The Metropolitan Museum, New York, Accession Number: 79.2.378, see: https://www.metmuseum.org/
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In nearly excellent condition, with a superficial 2 mm flake on the outer rim, almost invisible from the front.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 22,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One in very good condition with a few small superficial chips on the outer rim.
- One in good condition with a few more apparent chips on the rim.
- Both with a vibrant, shiny glaze.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 13,1 cm (the saucers)
H 5,3 cm - Dia.: 8,1 cm (the cups)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Saucers in excellent condition: 5
- Saucers in very good condition with (a few) small superficial rim chips: 15
- One saucer with a ca. 5 cm hairline across the center.
- One saucer with a ca. 7 cm hairline across the center and some small rim chips.
- Cups in excellent condition: 9
- Cuyps in very good condition with (a few) small superficial rim chips: 6
- Two cups with a ca. 6 cm hairline.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 23 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One with a ca. 10 cm hairline across the base, otherwise in good condition.
- The second with a ca. 4 cm hairline from the rim at ca. 1 o'clock and a few small superficial rim chips and sections of glaze loss on the rim.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 34,6 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a ca. 5 mm rim chip at ca. 11 o'clock, with short tight related hairline of ca. 12 mm. Otherwise in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 16 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The couver with touch-ups to glaze loss on the finial. Under UV-light, at least two restored breaks show up, quasi invisible to the naked eye.
- The box with a slightly retouched ca. 6 cm hairline, otherwise in good condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 38,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, no damage whatsoever.
Dimensions:
H 14,5 cm - 14 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The underglaze red, blue and white vase in excellent condition.
- The blue and white vase with a restored rim chip.
Dimensions:
H 11 cm - Dia.: 21,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in good condition, with a bright and fresh glaze and a dark shade of cobalt blue.
- With a faint ca. 2,5 cm hairline running down diagonally from the rim. The sound of the bowl quasi intact when tapped.
- A number of small, superficial chips and some fritting around the rim.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 38,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, no damage whatsoever. Executed in a beautiful shade of cobalt blue.
Dimensions:
H 42,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase in very good condition with a small superficial chip on the rim.
- The cover with a reglued rim section with a very small filled section.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 31 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In very good condition, with an unusually small number of small superficial chips and frits.
- Generally an outstanding example of its kind, executed in attractive shades of cobalt blue and with a clear and outstanding moulded structure.
Dimensions:
H 6,4 cm - Dia.: 31,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in good condition with a number of small superficial rim chips and a section of discolouration on the rim between 9 and 11 o'clock.
Dimensions:
H 9,8 cm - Dia.: 21,6 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With two partly retouched hairlines running down from the rim, of ca. 10 and 8 cm.
- The rim with fritting and glaze loss throughout.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 28,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- A tight glaze line, only visible on the front and not on the back, of ca. 1,5 cm, at ca. 1 o'clock.
- The rim with typical small superficial chips and fritting all-round.
Dimensions:
H 9,9 - 9,3 cm
Dia.: 22,4 - 22,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The marked bowl with minor chips to the foot rim and glaze losses to the top rim.
- Top rim with minor chips (the largest one 8 mm) and a hairline of 13 mm.
- The second bowl severely restored, with numerous breaks with related overspraying.
Dimensions:
H 22,7 - 3,4 cm - Dia.: 31,2 - 15,7 cm (the largest and the smallest)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The kendi with a small chip to the tip of the spout and numerous spots of baking-related glaze loss. The base with a few superficial chips.
- The blue and white dragon dish with two ca. 3 cm hairlines and a few rim chips, the base marked Nei Fu.
- The Imari-style plate in very good condition with a few negligible superficial rim chips on the underside.
- The blue and white phoenix plate with a few small superficial chips and superficial wear around the rim.
- The blue and white deer plate with a filled rim chip with related 3 cm hairline.
- The dish with ornamental design with unglazed central circle with a superficial rim chip.
- The 'qilin' dish in excellent condition with minor baking flaws.
Dimensions:
H 15,9 cm (without base)
Provenance:
An 'Antiquités S. Edmond Chine ancien - 224 Bd St Germain' label on the inside.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in very good condition with a number of small superficial chips throughout.
Dimensions:
ø 37,2 - H 9,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The rim with three chips, one mostly on the underside.
- Typical superficial touch-ups to the dragons.
- Minor superficial wear and some adhered dirt throughout.
Dimensions:
H 9,2 cm - Dia.: 40,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, with minor superficial baking flaws.
Dimensions:
H 4,5 - Dia.: 24,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition with minor superficial wear.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 40,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The surface with typical crazing, the rim with numerous burst glaze bubbles and baking flaws, otherwise in good condition.
Dimensions:
H 5,7 cm - Dia.: 28,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In very good condition, with negligible superficial wear and some spots of rubbing on the rim.
Dimensions:
H 5,6 cm - Dia.: 34 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in very good condition.
- The outer rim with a superficial ca. 5 mm chip.
Dimensions:
9 x 4 x 3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
The jade libation cup generally in good condition, with a natural tension line through the handle and a section of the cup. The foot rim with a small section possibly weathered or filled with an other material.
Dimensions:
H 7,5 - 6,1 cm (the tallest and the smallest snuff bottle)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally all in good to excellent condition, with minor wear as visible on the photos.
- Black part of the cap of the green snuff bottle with barely visible negligible damage.
- Snuff bottle right top corner (photo 2): the cap with very minor damage.
- Snuff bottle left bottom corner (photo 2) with cork broken.
Dimensions:
H 21 - 17,5 (x2) - 12 cm (x2)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair of Buddhist lions: one in excellent condition, one lacking the stick holder.
- The tallest Guanyin and child figure in nearly excellent condition, with a small superficial chip to the underside of the boy's left foot.
- The ten-armed Avalokitesvara figure with a loss to one of the fingers, a few small chips to the tips of the lotus leaves and two leaves reglued.
- The smallest Guanyin and child figure with small chips to the tips of the fingers and the left hand reglued, otherwise in good condition.
Dimensions:
H 44 cm
Provenance:
'Die Fürstliche Sammlung Thurn und Taxis', Sotheby's, Regensburg, October 1993, lot 2530 (StE 5111).
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The left Guanyin figure: head and headgear with baking flaws and (glaze) cracks.
- The hands restored (glued and slightly tinted).
- Folds of the mantle with negligible glaze losses.
- Both figures with some minor baking flaws.
- The right Guanyin figure with minor scratches to the shoulder.
- The extremities of the robe with minor chips at one side and small restoration to the other side.
- Very minor restoration to the headgear.
Dimensions:
H 17,1 - 11,6 cm (incense burner with and without stand and cover)
H 11,2 - 8,3 cm (teapot with and without stand)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The censer in excellent condition. The wooden stand and cover with superficial wear and scratches.
- The teapot and cover both in very good condition. The teapot with a few negligible small baking flaws. The wooden stand with wear and small losses.
Dimensions:
H 8 cm - Dia.: 11,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
- The base with an applied wax customs export stamp.
Dimensions:
H 21 - 7 cm (the largest and the smallest figure)
Condition: (UV-checked) (from left to right)
- (1) The blanc de Chine group of a man with ostrich, Kangxi, with a chip to the whistle, to the content of the basket, to the hole next to his foot, the tip of the bird's beak. Further minor wear.
- (2) The famille rose lady in excellent condition.
- (3) The blanc de Chine group of go-players, Kangxi, lacking the head of one of the players.
- (4) The seated Guanyin with damage to both hands, otherwise in good condition.
- (5) The seated female figure with damage to the finger tips, the toes and the top of the vase.
- (6) The seated figure with two superficial chips to the tips of the ribbon.
- (7) The blanc de Chine Guanyin in excellent condition.
- (8) The famille rose male figure in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 22,3 cm
Base and cover signed.
Condition: (UV-checked)
Cover with minor chip to the rim. The tail broken off and restucked. The tip of one wing restored. Furthermore the owl jar and cover in good condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 15,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition with minor superficial wear.
Dimensions:
H 90 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
The vase in very good condition, with minor superficial wear and dirt and minor baking consistencies. The body with a small dent, only noticeable by swiping the item by hand. Body with a very small intendation (4 mm).
Dimensions:
The painting: 116 x 41,3 cm (the landscape)
The scroll: 192 x 54,5 cm
The painting: 153,5 x 39,5 cm (the male figure)
The scroll: 83,5 x 27,8 cm
The painting: 97 x 37,2 cm (the female figure)
The scroll: 32,2 x 27,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
The smallest painting with some tears and minor spots. The support with some crease lines, minor damage to the borders and spots. Furthermore in good condition.
The painting on the right with crease lines, tears and some minor damage.
The landscape painting with a negligible and hardly visible crease line. Furthermore in very good to excellent condition. Support with very minor spots.
Dimensions:
H 24,4 cm (the blue and white vase)
H 15 - 9,4 - 8 cm (the teapots)
H 12,3 cm (the Imari vase)
H 7,8 cm (the cup)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The blue and white vase in excellent condition with a few glaze lines on the base.
- The cup in excellent condition.
- The teapot with the arch-shaped handle in very good condition, with circular tension lines where the handle meets the body on both sides. The cover with a rim chip.
- The white ground teapot with a small superficial chip to the tip of the spout and a superficial glaze flake to the rim. The cover in excellent condition.
- The blue ground teapot with a few small chips to the unglazed footrim, otherwise in good condition. The cover in excellent condition.
- The small vase with two small chips on the rim, otherwise in good condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 42 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, no damage whatsoever.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 22,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The rim with typical fritting and small superficial chips around.
- A tight ca. 2 cm hairline on the rim at ca. 2 o'clock.
Dimensions:
H 25 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The base with a filled hole. On the side of the foot, a tight ca. 3 cm glaze line. Otherwise in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 22,6 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Two in excellent condition.
- Two with a staple-reinforced ca. 15 cm hairline.
- One in excellent condition with a minor baking flaw on the rim.
- One with a superficial ca. 7 mm rim chip at ca. 1 o'clock and a tight ca. 4 cm hairline in the center.
Dimensions:
H 7,8 - Dia.: 18,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a ca. 7 cm hairline running down from the rim, as well as a few small superficial rim chips and small frits.
Dimensions:
31,5 x 24 x 8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in good condition.
- A rim chip next to the right corner of the neck opening, and a smaller one to the underside of the left corner. Two sections of the rim polished.
Dimensions:
H 9,1 cm - Dia.: 11 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One cup with a consolidated horizontal ca. 8 cm hairline across the body, situated on the upper part of the reticulated section, showing up under UV-light but quasi invisible to the naked eye. The foot with a tight ca. 2 cm hairline extending upwards.
- One cup with a filled ca. 2 x 1 cm rim chip with related overpainting. The foot with a ca. 4 mm touched up chip. A consolidated and slightly retouched horizontal ca. 6 cm hairline across the body.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 20,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One plate in excellent condition, with a superficial 2 mm chip to the underside of the rim.
- One plate with a superficial 5 mm chip on the outer rim, two small superficial 2 mm chips to the underside of the rim, otherwise in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 22,5 - 22,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The plate on the right in very good condition with a superficial chip on the outer rim of ca. 5 x 2 mm.
- The plate on the left, with incised border design, in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 10,8 cm (the saucers)
H 3,6 cm - Dia.: 6,7 cm (the cups)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One cup with a tight 1,5 cm hairline showing up under UV-light, invisible to the naked eye.
- One cup with a ca. 2,5 cm hairline with some retouching, showing up under UV-light.
- One saucer with two tight ca. 2 and 1 cm hairlines with some retouching, showing up under UV-light.
- One saucer in excellent condition.
Literature:
A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, p. 264, cat. 1 for a similar pice.
D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, I, no. 151 for a similar tea bowl and saucer from the Mottahedeh Collection.
Dimensions:
H 11,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The lid with a superficial chip on the finial.
- The jug with some retouched fritting on the handle. A hairline on the rim of ca. 3 cm just above the handle.
Dimensions:
H 10 - 9,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The teapot and cover on the left with a number of small superficial chips to the rim of the cover as well as a number of minor superficial baking flaws. The teapot with a filled rim chip and a very small superficial flake to the tip of the spout.
- The teapot and cover in the middle with the finial restuck and a number of small superficial chips to the rim of the cover. The teapot with the handle broken off and restuck, the breaks retouched. The tip of the spout with a negligible 1 mm flake.
- The teapot and cover on the right of Samson origin. The cover (a Yongzheng original) with a chip to the finial. The teapot with a rim chip with a ca. 4 cm hairline.
Dimensions:
H 12,6 cm - Dia.: 28,9 cm
Provenance:
A Christie's label on the inside and the bottom.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With two small filled rim chips, otherwise in very good condition.
Dimensions:
H 8 cm - Dia.: 16,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One of the side panels with a ca. 3 cm hairline running from the top rim to the flower decoration. Otherwise in very good condition, with minor superficial wear.
Dimensions:
H 10,8 - Dia.: 26 cm
Provenance:
A Christie's label on the inside.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, with a negligible 1 mm superficial flake on the outer rim.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 22,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The rim with a superficial 2 mm glaze flake, another 2 mm chip and a 15 mm glaze line on the front only, not on the back. Otherwise in good condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 11,8 cm (the saucer)
H 3,9 cm - Dia.: 7,5 cm (the cup)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The saucer with a filled superficial rim chip of app. 3 mm on the underside of the rim, at ca. 6 o’clock.
- The cup with a quasi invisible ca. 2 cm hairline, otherwise in good condition.
Dimensions:
H 19,5 - W 17 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The right hand of the green figure missing the tip of the thumb.
- Otherwise in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
ø 22,8 - 23 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One plate in excellent condition.
- One plate with a small rim chip of ca. 5 x 2 mm filled, otherwise in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 26 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition. Minor superficial wear to the gilding.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 22,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, with negligible minor superficial wear.
Literature:
D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, p. 266; A. Varela Santos, 100 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain, London, 2014/2015, cat. 119 (a similar charger).
Dimensions:
H 16 - 9,8 cm (the largest and the smallest item)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The armorial caddy with retouching around the rim. Four tight ca. 4 cm hairlines extending from the rim.
- The teapot with the spout restuck and a ca. 3 cm hairline extending from this break. The rim with a ca. 5 cm hairline. The tip of the spout with a superficial chip. The associated lid with a 3 cm hairline and a superficial 5 mm chip on the rim.
- The 'pink flowers' jug on the far right with a restuck section, with filling and a long extending hairline.
- The famille rose jug with small flowers on the far left with a ca. 10 cm hairline, a rim chip and a ca. 15 mm glaze line.
- The 'mandarin figures' jug with a large chip on a top corner, a large flake on the foot, two hairlines and a rim chip.
Dimensions:
Bowl: H 9 - Dia.: 19 cm
Teapot: H 10 cm
Milk jug: H 9,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The jug in excellent condition.
- The bowl with a ca. 5 cm hairline on the rim and a rim chip of ca. 5 mm with related 2 cm hairline, otherwise in good condition.
- The teapot with the cover reglued and with numerous small rim chips. The teapot, very thinly potted, with a chip to the rim and a tension line around the lower connection point of the handle to the body.
Dimensions:
H 4 cm (the cup) - Dia.: 11,5 cm (the saucer)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The saucer in excellent condition.
- The cup with a rim section broken out and restuck, the breaks retouched.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 13,5 cm
H 6 cm - Dia.: 9 cm (the cup)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cup with a ca. 7 cm hairline running down from the rim, showing up under UV-light but quasi invisible to the naked eye.
- The saucer with three tight ca. 3 cm hairlines from the rim, showing up under UV-light but quasi invisible to the naked eye.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 31,6 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a faint hairline showing up under UV-light, invisible to the naked eye, along the side of the center of the dish, from ca. 3 to ca. 5.30 o'clock, startin and ending at ca. 4 cm from the rim.
- A number of small superficial touch-ups to the overglaze enamels.
- A few very small fillled superficial rim chips on the underside of the rim.
- Minor superficial wear throughout, as well as superficial glaze crackling.
- The restoration very well executed and quasi invisible to the naked eye.
Literature:
G. Reitlinger, Ashmolean Museum: Eastern Ceramics, Oxford, 1981, p. 58, cat. 135 for a similar plate.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 23 - 22,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair with the white birds: one in good condition with a tight ca. 2 cm glaze line on the underside, only partly visible on the front, and a ca. 5 cm glaze line in the center on the underside, not visible on the front. The second with a hairline in the center and a retouched rim chip.
- The pair with the brown birds: one with a ca. 6 cm hairline and a small rim chip, one with a hairline across the center and a few small chips to the underside of the rim.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 14 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a small retouched section of ca. 18 x 7 mm on the rim at ca. 1 o'clock, otherwise in excellent condition.
The saucer embellished by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) with clouds, putti and ribbon. Coats of arms are bestowed by kings for services rendered to the country and designed by colleges of arms. They are thus very austere symbols. It is very unusual to have them embellished by artists. This is one of the very rare cases were it happened.
António de Araújo e Azevedo, 1st and only Count of Barca (Portugal 1754-Brazil 1817), Foreign Office Minister, War Minister, State Councillor, Prime Minister, Navy Minister in Brazil in 1814, founder of Beaux-Arts Academy in Brazil, scientist and writer.
Provenance:
Elinor Gordon collection, USA, sold at Sotheby’s New York.
Dimensions:
H 8 cm - Dia.: 13,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One cup with two superficial rim chips and a section of loss to the reticulated outer wall, otherwise in good condition.
- One cup with two large rim chips, one with related ca. 4 cm Y-shaped hairline, otherwise in good condition.
- One saucer with a chip on the outer rim, minor superficial wear, otherwise in good condition.
- One saucer with a chip on the rim and a ca. 5 cm hairline, minor superficial wear, otherwise in good condition.
Dimensions:
H 21,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With superficial losses to the overglaze black on the hairdo and a loss to the blue hairpin on the right.
- With a reglued break to the neck.
- With a chip to the hand holding the ornament.
- With two superficial chips to the base.
- With a small superficial flake to the back of the overglaze blue rock.
Dimensions:
H 33,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a long horizontal hairline across three of the four sides.
- The rim with a superficial ca. 10 x 5 mm glaze flake.
Dimensions:
H 13 cm (the covered jar)
H 11,8 cm (the teapot)
Dia.: 13,5 - 11,5 cm (the largest and smallest saucer)
Dia.: 8,7 - 7,4 cm (the largest and smallest cup)
Added some wooden cup and saucer standards.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Numerous small damages throughout, please refer to the images.
Dimensions:
H 18 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One with two chips on the rim, two small baking flaws on the body and a tight ca. 1 cm glaze line just above the foot, otherwise in excellent condition.
- The second in nearly excellent condition with a superficial chip just above the foot.
Dimensions:
H 15,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The jug with a chip to the spout, otherwise in good condition.
- The lid with a chip to the finial. The finial broken off and reglued.
Dimensions:
H 20,2 - 19,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in good condition with minor glaze loss around the rim.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 13 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, minor wear to the gilding and grisaille decoration.
Literature:
E.g. C.C. Brawer, G. Wu and C. le Corbeiller, Trade Winds, The Lure of the China Trade, 16th-19th Centuries, New York, 1985, p. 10 (cat. 25 for a similar plate); G.A. Godden, Oriental Export Market Porcelain and Its Influence on European Wares, London, 1979, p. 222 (a tea caddy with similar pattern); C.J.A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, London, 1997, p. 281 (cat. 327 for a part tea set overdecorated in Europe with the same pattern and p. 324, cat. 385 for a plate overdecorated in Europe with a more elaborate scene taken possibly from another original).
Dimensions:
H 58 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One in nearly excellent condition with a superficial 3 mm glaze flake just above the foot, hardly worth mentioning.
- The second in excellent condition with two small spots of baking-related glaze loss just above the foot.
Provenance:
'Die Fürstliche Sammlung Thurn und Taxis', Sotheby's, Regensburg, October 1993, lot 2621 (StE 5362).
Dimensions:
H 48,5 cm
Condition:(UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 17 cm - Dia.: 24 cm (the wine cooler)
H 9 cm - Dia.: 19,8 cm (the bowl)
Dia.: 28,5 - 23 cm (the plates)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cooler with a number of reglued breaks and losses. Please note that it is not Kangxi but of Samson origin.
- The blue and white bowl in excellent condition.
- The Imari-style plate in excellent condition.
- The famille rose dish in good condition with a number of small chips and sections with glaze loss on the rim. The enamels well-preserved and fresh.
Dimensions:
H 17 cm - Dia.: 27 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 34,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cover with a ca. 2,5 x 1 cm rim chip, further fritting and small chips to the outer rim and finial.
- The vase with a ca. 5 cm hairline from the rim, superficial wear, dirt and minor baking flaws.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 35 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a ca. 7 cm hairline at ca. 11 o'clock.
- The rim with numerous small chips and fritting all-around.
- Otherwise in good condition with a beautiful fresh glaze and intact enamels.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 22 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One with a superficial ca. 8 x 2 mm rim chip at ca. 11 o'clock, otherwise in very good condition with a few 2-3 mm chips to the underside of the rim.
- The second with a ca. 6 cm hairline at ca. 11 o'clock and a ca. 5 x 2 mm rim chip at ca. 5 o'clock, otherwise in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
Dia.: 22 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in excellent condition.
- A faint ca. 5 cm glaze line showing up under UV-light on the side of the center, invisible to the naked eye on the front and slightly showing under very strong light on the back.
Dimensions:
H 6,5 cm - Dia.: 12,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 31,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dimensions:
9 x 6,5 x 4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in very good condition, the foot rim with a few negligible 1-2 mm superficial chips. The stone with natural inclusions.
Dimensions:
Various dimensions.
+30 items.
Condition: (UV-ckecked)
Most textiles in very good condition. Some textiles with traces of use (spots) and a few with minor tears.
Dimensions:
Work: 43,5 x 23,3 cm
Frame: 56 x 36 cm
Not inspected outside the frame.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition with typical minor negligible superficial wear.
Dimensions:
Both paintings about 18 x 27 cm.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in very good condition with negligible minor superficial wear.
Dimensions:
158 x 83,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
A few threads a bit loose, however hardly visible. Top with minor discoloration. Furthermore in very good to excellent condition.
Weight:
1,1 kg (all in)
Dimensions:
The painting: 56 x 129 cm
The scroll: 190,5 x 69,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
The dark blue silk border with tears and damage. The painting with a number of crease lines. Some spots. Strenghtened at the back. Furthermore in good condition.
Dimensions:
Work: 30 x 30 cm
Frame: 45 x 44,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
Both paintings in good condition. The left painting with some foxing. The right painting with a tear on top (not touching the figures). Both with some minor/negligible holes, probably due to paper worm.
Dimensions:
Work: about 98 x 68 cm
Frame: 114,5 x 85,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
Not inspected outside the frame.
A bit worn, minor discoloration and some threads loose, especially in the left top corner. Furthermore without doubt in good condition.
Dimensions:
The painting: 145,5 x 75,5 cm
The scroll: 181 x 84,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
The painting with a number of crease lines and some tears. Minor damage to the borders. The mount with some damage. The reverse strenghtened with tape at the weakest spots.
Dimensions:
H 16,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
Some superficial wear and three minor cracks (two in the front and one at the reverse): one from the right knee to the bottom rim, one from the bottom rim to the left foot and one from the rock to the cloth. Furthermore, the Buddha figure in very good condition.
Dimensions:
Rock: H 12 cm
Soapstone Buddha figure: H 24,5 - 22,2 cm (without base)
Condition: (UV-checked)
The rock with the usual wear and minor chips to the bottom rim, almost invisible in standing position. One of the sides with very minor damage to the centre (3 mm). Furthermore in very good condition.
The Buddha group with the normal natural inclusions and some very minor damage at the height of the kendi. Furthermore in very good condition.
Dimensions:
H 9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
The normal natural inclusions and superficial wear. Rim with negligible chips. Furthermore, the figure in very good condition.
Dimensions:
H 35 - 32 cm (with and without stand)
Condition: (UV-checked)
With the unavoidable very minor damage to the extrimities, barely or not visible to the naked eye. Furthermore in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
H 10,5 cm - Dia.: 27 cm (the round box and cover)
26,5 x 15,5 x 14,5 cm (the rectangular box and cover)
Condition: (UV-checked)
Both boxes with the normal superficial wear and minor traces of use.
The bottom of the round box slightly loose and with a crack at the side. Very minor damage to the mother-of-pearl inlay. Bottom of the inside part slight loose and reglued. Probably one division element missing.Top of the cover with traces of glue and negligible damage, hardly visible to the naked eye.
The rectangular box with a negligible hole to two corners. Top with some cracks and minor damage, among others to the mother-of-pearl inlay. Key lacking.
Furthermore both boxes in good condition.
Dimensions:
H 22 cm - Dia.: 31 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
The top with two cracks and some minor spots. The usual superficial wear. One minor chip to the side reglued and one minor chip refilled. Furthermore the stand in good condition.
Dimensions:
Work: 36,5 x 27,5 cm
Frame: 47,8 x 38,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
The usual damage to the borders due to the framing. Some flaking of the paint and some retouches (the foliage). Needs some cleaning and restoration, otherwise the painting in good condition.
Dimensions:
Work: 83,2 x 57,5 cm
Frame: 93,6 x 72 cm
The reverse with a label '1120'.
Inscribed with a signature at the right bottom corner (De Heem? Dated?).
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The painting needs a severe cleaning and some restoration.
- Some damage, especially to the borders (due to the framing).
- Some overpaint (left bottom corner, above the glass, grapes to the right of the bowl, center of the bowl, fruit to the right next to the bowl, right bottom corner).
- Relined.
Dimensions:
Work: 64 x 48,8 cm
Frame: 81 x 65 cm
Condition report:
The work is accompanied by two documents from Mr Jan Bender, honorary chief restorer of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In the most recent document (May 2018), Mr Jan Bender, who also quotes Prof. dr. em. Roger D'hulst (Professor of art history at Ghent University and for some time chairman of the Rubenianum in Antwerp), emphasizes David Teniers' share in the painting.
The work has been professionally restored by Mr Jan Bender in 1991.
A signature (D. Teniers f...) at the bottom in the middle.
Compare:
The representation of a guard room is certainly not exceptional for the oeuvre of David Teniers and his workshop, see, for example: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, object number SK-A-398 (link).
Dimensions:
Work: 21,8 x 16,5 cm
Frame: 38,4 x 33 cm
Cardboard with at both sides an attribution to Frans Francken and Jan Breughel.
Daniël Seghers (1590-1661) and Jan Breughel II (1601-1678) were contempories of each other.
Compare:
Attribution possible based on an iconographic similarity between this work and a work by Francken and Breughel sold at Sotheby's in 2004 (link).
Condition report: (UV-Checked)
Normal minor damage to the borders due to the framing. Some minor retouches and old restorations. Needs some cleaning. Furthermore in good condition.
Dimensions:
134,9 x 92,5 cm
Unframed.
Painting adapted to -most probably- serve as a supraporta.
Condition: (UV-checked)
The painting needs some cleaning. Left and right bottom corner with a small hole in the canvas. Minor flaking of the paint, in particular at the left side. Very minor damage to the central tree. Relined and with minor old restorations.
Original format more than likely rectangular, but angles bent according to the new destination.
Dimensions:
Work: 113 x 80,5 cm
Frame: 130 x 100 cm
Compare:
The frame with an attribution to Johannes Lingelbach (1622-1674). A strong parallel can be drawn with a work by Jan Weenix (1641-1719), namely 'The prodigal son feasting with the courtesans in the midst of classical ruins, in the distance a Mediterranean harbor'. The upper right-hand corner of the work, including a sculpture representing the brother murder, shows a very similar setting (link).
Condition: (UV-checked)
The painting needs some cleaning. Minor damage to the borders due to the framing. Minor flaking of the paint, especially in the left bottom corner. Relined. A rather faint network of craquelures. Some old restorations and some retouches (rather little things here and there in the painting). A restoration on the central part of the sculpture (with retouches).
Dimensions:
Work: 114 x 80,5 cm
Frame: 128,4 x 95,7 cm
Possibly a monogram right bottom corner (S.F.? / G.F.?).
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Some restorations and overpaint: borders and here and there smaller retouches on the painting (most often outside the music instruments) and two larger interventions (the right side of the item on the right: a strip of 10 x 1 cm; and a spot of ca. 4 x 4 cm a few centimeters from the right side of the globe).
- Some older restorations as well (e.g. guitar with horizontal strip and bagpipe with vertical strip).
- Relined.
Dimensions:
35,4 x 30,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Wear and some minor damage.
- Some overpaint, especially the green parts in the lower left quart and some green accents.
Dimensions:
50,2 x 42 cm
In the front the depiction of the Trinity, offered a meal by Abraham and Sarah.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Some wear and some damage.
- Some minor flaking of the paint.
- Small crack in the pictural layer at the height of the separation of the two panels.
- Some overpaint, especially the border and the blue/green parts (dresses, the tree, etc.).
Dimensions:
36 x 31,3 cm (Annunciation)
35,4 x 29,9 cm (Birth of the Virgin Mary)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Birth of the Virgin Mary: some flaking of the paint, especially on all borders.
- Annunciation: Some wear and minor flaking of the paint (especially chest and hands of the angel and hands of Mary). One of the splints missing.
Dimensions:
35,5 x 29,5 cm (Christ Pantocrator)
31,4 x 26,4 cm (Saint John the theologian in silence)
Condition: (UV-checked)
Saint John with some wear and minor damage (small part of the hand, small part of the beard) and some scratches. Minor retouche (right sleeve). Riza with some wear and minor damage.
Christ Pantocrator with some very minor wear and damage. One splint renewed and one splint missing. Riza with some wear and minor damage.
Dimensions:
H.: 26 cm - L.: 16 cm (the coffee pot)
H.: 18 cm - L.: 20 cm (the teapot)
Dia.: 19 cm - H.: 9,5 (the bowl)
Dia.: 12 cm (the saucer)
L.: 18 cm - H.: 6,50 cm (the cup)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- All but one in very good to excellent condition, with minor wear to the gilding.
- The bowl with a circular hairline around the lower part.
- The coffee pot with a negligible 1 mm chip to the side of the tip of the spout.
Dimensions:
H 77,5 - 70 cm
The work marked 'S. Marti & Cie - Medaille d'Argent 1889' and '2584'.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Some minor wear.
- Marble bases with some negligible rim chips.
- Base of the central part with one missing gilt bronze decoration. One side piece with missing flower and one loose decoration.
- Back of the clock with some scratches.
Dimensions:
H 58,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
Both cassolettes in very good condition.
Some hardly visible superficial rim chips.
Some superficial wear to the gilding.
Some bronzes with minor traces of wear and use.
One top part not entirely central on the vase.
One foot with a natural vein.
Dimensions:
H 23,5 cm
The clock at the reverse marked 'LeCoultre & Cie - Swiss'.
The work numbered 197965.
In addition to the original packaging, the original warranty certificate is also included.
Condition:
- The clock in very good condition.
- Box with some minor/negligible wear.
Dimensions:
L 56 cm (the boat)
79 x 29 x 25,5 cm (the glass case)
The boat is a model of the R.N.L.I. Ayr.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The boat in very good condition.
- One side glass panel of the case with minor crack (about 2 cm).
- One wood connection between bottom and top missing and one connection renewed. The four wood strips at the top not entirely nicely fitting.