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H 42 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With two baking flaws.
- With a long Y-shaped glaze line in the bulbous body.
H 24,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 52 cm (incl. mounts)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a tight glaze line in the bulbous body, otherwise in excellent condition.
53 x 26 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a large chip to the right bottom corner.
- Minor nibbling along the edges.
H 23,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 11,6 cm - Dia.: 23,3 cm (the covered bowl)
Dia.: 35,5 - 34 cm (the widest and the smallest charger)
Condition:
- Bowl and cover both in excellent condition but associated.
- The charger with antiquities in excellent condition.
- The pair of chargers with birds and peonies: one in excellent condition, one with superficial losses to the overglaze enamels.
H 15,1 cm - Dia.: 23,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a number of small superficial chips around the inner rim, otherwise in very good condition.
H 36,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 22 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With two repaired sections along the rim, with the handle broken off and restuck, the ruyi element restored.
- The body with a restored crack from one side to another, the base with a hairline across.
H 47,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, with minor superficial baking flaws throughout.
H 9,4 cm - Dia.: 21,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- A restored baking flaw on the rim.
H 30,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Various dimensions.
Condition:
- The pair of small vases: both in excellent condition.
- The bowl with birds and flowers in good condition, with wear to the turquoise enamel.
- The bowl with medallions with a small chip on the rim.
- Pair of blue ground famille rose saucers: in excellent condition.
- Pair of 'Mandarin' saucers: in excellent condition.
- Pair of small famille rose saucers: superficial wear to the enamels, otherwise good.
- 4 Kangxi blue and white 'crab and fish' saucers: 3 in very good too excellent condition, one reglued.
- 9 blue and white 'crab and fish' saucer, Kangxi mark: 1 in excellent condition, 5 with one or a few small rim chips, 3 with one or two short hairlines.
- The cups and saucers: three cups in good condition with small 1-2 mm chips on the rim, one cup with a 3 cm hairline, one cup with a 6 cm hairline. The saucers: one in excellent condition, one with a few small 1-2 mm chips on the rim, one with two hairlines and one broken and reglued.
- Other saucers mostly in reasonable to very good condition, except one with a large rim chip. The red ground saucer with a hairline.
Dia.: 26,3 - 18,2 cm (the largest and the smallest dish)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Three plates with orange ground with flower vases: one in excellent condition, one with a number of spots with glaze loss around the rim and the largest one with one small rim chip of ca. 2 mm.
- The dragon plate with two hairlines of 1,5 cm and 3 cm and a small rim chip.
- The pair of butterfly plates: one in excellent condition, one with a chip on the rim and a ca. 3,5 cm hairline.
- The blue and white Kangxi plate with small chips and fritting on the rim.
- The pair of blue and white Qianlong plates with small chips and fritting on the rim.
H 30,1 - 15,4 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase and cover both in excellent condition.
- The copper red vase with a chip on the foot.
- The dragon vase with a ca. 3 cm hairline.
- The small blue and white vase with a ca. 1 cm tension line along the rim.
H 16 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 13 - 11 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- All three in excellent condition.
H 7 - L 10,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition.
H 7 cm - Dia.: 14,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 24,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The porcelain in excellent condition, the gilding worn.
- One vase with the bronze mount somewhat deformed.
H 52 - 16,5 cm (the tallest and the smallest item)
Dia.: 18 cm (the brush pot)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The brush pot with a ca. 7 cm star-shaped glaze line in the base.
- The small blue and white landscape vase with a rim chip and a short tight glaze line in the base, otherwise in very good condition.
- The small bue and white vase with boys holding a vase with a small chip on the outer rim, otherwise in very good condition.
- The large vase with a short tight hairline on the rim of ca. 3 cm. The cover in excellent condition.
H 56,3 - 54 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One side vase in excellent condition.
- One side vase in nearly excellent condition, with a negligible burst glaze bubble on the applied dragon.
- The central vase with small losses to the applied dragon on the back, just above the inserted bronze and glass case.
Dia.: 28,1 cm (the plates)
H 8,3 - 8 cm - Dia.: 17,5 - 16,8 cm (the tallest and the smallest bowl)
Condition:
- Five dishes in excellent condition.
- One with a baking crack on the rim.
- One with a baking crack on the rim and a small rim chip.
- Three bowls in excellent condition.
- One with one rim chip of ca. 1 cm.
- Two with a small number of 1-2 mm chips on the rim.
The items with a Christie's label at the back.
The Diana hit on the 14th of March 1817 some rocks of the Straits of Malacca and sank. The wreck - with tons of beautiful blue and white porcelain - was identified and recovered in the nineties by Dorian Ball. Christie's auctioned the porcelain cargo in Amsterdam in March 1995 (link).
H 60,5 - 60 - 58 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase on the left with a 3 cm glaze line along the rim, a 4 cm hairline in the body, the base overpainted.
- The vase in the middle in excellent condition.
- The vase on the right with a 3 cm glaze line in the mouth, only on the inside, not showing on the outside.
H 60 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase on the left with the base showing overpainting, otherwise in excellent condition.
- The vase on the right in excellent condition.
H 59 - 57,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair: one vase with several reglued breaks, one vase in excellent condition.
- The vase with the peacock in excellent condition.
H 39,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition.
Dia.: 18,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In very good condition with a ca. 5 mm superficial chip on the outer rim.
H 46,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With an M-shaped hairline on the rim, a star-shaped hairline in the body and a star-shaped hairline on the base.
H 24 - 21,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The jar on the left (the smallest) with a few very small superficial 1-2 mm chips to the rim of the lid. The jar in excellent condition.
- The jar on the right (the tallest) with the associated lid in excellent condition. The jar with chips to the rim of
Dia.: 27,7 - 24,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The blue and white plate in excellent condition.
- The pair of red, blue and white plates: one in excellent condition, one with a ca. 2 cm hairline.
H 17,6 - 16,6 cm (the teapot and the covered box)
Dia.: 25,5 cm (the plate)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The plate with a small chip on the rim.
- The teapot with erotic design in excellent condition.
- The jar and cover in excellent condition.
H 5,3 cm (the cups)
Dia.: 13 - 8,2 cm (the saucers and the cups)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The saucers: one in excellent condition, one with a small chip on the rim and four with a hairline of 2-3 cm each.
- The cups: three in excellent condition, one with a small chip on the rim, one with a 3 cm hairline and one reglued.
H 19,7 - 11,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- All four in excellent condition.
H 57,2 - 43 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The tallest pair with one vase missing a section to the low part of one of the handles, a chip to the underside of the rim and a hairline in the base. The second in excellent condition.
- The smallest pair with one vase in excellent condition and one with two hairlines in the base.
H 60,8 - 57,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The famille rose vase with ladies in good condition with a ca. 5 cm hairline in the base.
- The celadon vase with a ca. 2 cm hairline in the neck, around the handles, and a tight network of hairlines in the base.
H 58,5 - 58 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair of blue and white vases in excellent condition.
- The vase with deer and monkey in excellent condition.
- The vase with figures in excellent condition.
H 14,2 - 12,6 cm (the vases)
H 5,2 cm - Dia.: 7,4 cm (the cups)
The cups marked Guangxu.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Three pieces in excellent condition.
- One cup with a tight and hardly visible ca. 2,3 cm hairline.
H 27,7 - 27,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both with small losses to the tips of the paws, otherwise in good condition.
H 21 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a number of small superficial chips as shown in the pictures, otherwise in good condition.
H 19 - 15,5 cm
The jug marked 'Liu Jin Shun Zao'.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The jug in excellent condition with the base glazed very slightly uneven.
- The pair of parrot figures in excellent condition with minor superficial wear to the overglaze enamels on the base.
H 17,2 cm - L 14,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 29 - 14,3 cm (the largest and the smallest item)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The three models all in excellent condition.
H 43,2 cm (the tallest figure)
H 21,2 - 20,3 cm (the smallest figure with and without stand)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The famille rose figure in excellent condition.
- The blue and white figure with a small chip to the tip of the nose, otherwise in good condition.
H 45,4 - 44,2 cm (the tallest and the smallest figure)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The figure on the left in very good condition with normal minor superficial wear.
- The figure in the middle in very good condition with normal minor superficial wear.
- The figure on the right in very good condition with normal minor superficial wear.
H 23,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, with a small burst glaze bubble on the chin.
H 29,5 - 27 cm (with and without base)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With restoration to the upper left tip and both ends of the hat's ribbon, as well as to the beard. Otherwise in good condition.
The base marked '313 9-1923'.
The artist, native of the Fujian province, was a notable early Republic porcelain sculptor working in Jingdezhen.
The mark, reading from top right, says "Fu Jian Hui Guan (Fujian Club) You Chang Zi Zao (You Chang Zi Made)".
H 14,1 - 11 cm (with and without stand)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The figure in good condition with missing part between the right ear and the right shoulder of the figure.
- Glued to the base.
H 12 - 9,8 cm (with and without stand)
Condition: (UV-checked)
The figure in very good condition and glued to the base.
Dia.: 23,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In nearly excellent condition with a few minor baking anomalies on the rim.
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.
H 59 - 58 - 57,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase on the left in excellent condition.
- The vase in the middle with two small chips filled and retouched on the rim, otherwise in good condition.
- The vase on the right with surface wear on front and back.
62 x 60,5 x 17 cm (the complete screen)
34,5 x 18,5 cm (the left plaque)
38 x 25 cm (the central plaque)
35 x 25 cm (the right plaque)
Provenance: A French private collection.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The plaque on the left with a superficial chip to the top right corner.
- The plaque in the middle with a superficial chip to the bottom right corner.
- The plaque on the right in excellent condition.
- The wood with minor superficial wear.
H 59,2 - 57,3 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase on the left with a long crack running down of ca. 20 cm.
- The vase in the middle with both handles broken off and reglued, otherwise in good condition.
- The vase on the right with a small loss to the bottom tip of the right handle, otherwise in good condition.
H 41,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a small repair to one of the top corners, otherwise in good condition.
H 33,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a superficial chip on the outer rim, otherwise in good condition.
H 16,6 - 10,6 cm (the largest and the smallest item)
Dia.: 22 - 13,5 cm (the largest and the smallest item)
Dia.: 17,7 - 13,2 cm (the dishes)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The small covered bowl with birds with a chip to the peach finial and a baking flaw on the rim, otherwise good.
- The covered bowl with a crane with small chips around the rim and a chip on the finial.
- The saucer with a bird in excellent condition.
- The floral saucer in good condition with minor wear.
- The qianjiang cai saucer with a bird with a baking flaw on the rim.
- The jardinière with antiquities broken and reglued.
- The covered food bowl with a chip to the finial and the rim of the cover.
H 61 - 60,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Two of the three vases in excellent condition.
- The left vase with a restored chip to the top rim.
Dia.: 13,5 - 8,2 cm (the widest and the smallest item)
23 x 17,2 and 18,8 x 15,4 cm (both items on the background)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The qianjiang cai bowl with two birds with chips on the outer rim.
- The bat-shaped landscape bowl in excellent condition.
- The yellow-ground bowl broken and reglued.
- The bowl with two figures in excellent condition.
- The two sets of stacking bowls both in excellent condition.
H 10,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both covers in very good condition with typical superficial wear.
- One teapot with a small superficial chip to the tip of one spout.
- One teapot with a ca. 8 mm glaze line on the rim and a small superficial chip to the tip of one spout.
H 10,4 - 9,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The round famille rose teapot with a short silver mount on the tip of the spout, otherwise in excellent condition.
- The tapering square teapot with a superficial chip to the tip of the spout, a few small baking flaws throught and a few very small negligible superficial chips on the cover.
H 38,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a restored hole through the base, the seal possibly non-original. Otherwise in excellent condition.
H 7,4 cm - Dia.: 19,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, with a number of small superficial baking flaws.
H 26,5 - 26 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One cover in excellent condition, one with two small superficial chips on the rim.
- One vase in excellent condition.
- One vase with a ca. 6 cm hairline.
H 31,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 8,5 cm - Dia.: 19,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One bowl with a ca. 1 cm hairline on the inner rim, not showing on the outer rim. The rim with two restored chips of ca. 8 x 3 mm and ca. 10 x 2 mm.
- The second with a ca. 4 cm Y-shaped hairline running down the rim, not showing up to the naked eye but visible under UV-light. The rim with a superficial ca. 8 x 2 mm chip restored.
H 60 cm (the pair of Immortal vases)
H 57,5 cm (the famille rose vase with birds on blossoming branches)
H 57 cm (the blue and white celadon ground vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair of famille rose vases in excellent condition.
- The blue and white vase with a reglued break to one of the handles, otherwise in good condition.
- The vase with birds among blossoms with small chips on the rim and a hairline in the neck. In the body, on the back, a long vertical hairline.
H 7,7 cm - 22,1 x 16,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 58 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- A small superficial chip on the upper rim. Negligible superficial wear. Otherwise in excellent condition.
Dia.: 15,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a small filled chip on the rim at ca. 1 o'clock, otherwise in excellent condition.
Dia.: 32 - 20,3 cm (the largest and the smallest item)
19 x 14,2 cm (the oval bowl)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The famille rose plate with a small rim chip.
- The bowl with fruits in excellent condition.
- The bowl with roosters with a small superficial chip on the rim.
- The Canton rose bowl with bronze mounts with a reglued rim section.
H 18,7 - 13,6 - 11,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- All three in excellent condition.
The items marked Kangxi, Tonghzi and Daoguang.
H 58,2 - 57,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The landscape vase in excellent condition.
- The vase with a lady with playing boys also in excellent condition.
H 5,4 cm - Dia.: 33,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in excellent condition, with normal superficial wear to the enamels.
H 31,5 - 21,6 cm (with and without stand)
Dia.: 37 cm (the dish)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The dish with a tight glaze line on the underside, with related overpainting.
- The jar and cover both in excellent condition.
H 58,5 - 43,1 - 42,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The small vase with boys with peach and Magu on deer in excellent condition.
- The small vase with four ladies in a garden in nearly excellent condition with a 1 mm chip on the outer rim.
- The tall vase with 'ear' handles (2nd from the right in first image) in excellent condition, with a stamped red mark on the base.
- The tall vase with red lion head handles (far left on the first image) in excellent condition. This vase forms a pair with a vase from lot 102!
H 58,5 - 57,8 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
Condition: (UV-checked) (from left to right in first photo)
- (1) The vase on the far left in excellent condition.
- (2) The second vase from the left in excellent condition.
- (3) The third vase from the left with a few 1-2 mm chips on the rim and a tension line around the lower part of one of the handles. The base with a star-shaped hairline.
- (4) The fourth vase in excellent condition with some baking flaws.
H 60,5 - 58,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase on the left with a ca. 20 cm hairline on the side and losses to the enamel throughout.
- The vase on the right in excellent condition.
H 44 - 42,5 cm (the tallest vase with the lion head handles, the other three vases the same size)
Condition: (UV-checked) (from left to right)
- The vase on the far left in excellent condition.
- The second vase in excellent condition.
- The third vase in good condition with a tight star-shaped hairline in the base.
- The fourth vase in excellent condition.
H 60,5 - 58 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
Condition: (UV-checked) (from left to right)
- The vase on the far left with some dirt and baking irregularities around the rim but otherwise appearing in good condition.
- The second vase in good condition, with some superficial wear throughout.
- The third vase with a large circular crack in the body of ca. 25 cm.
- The fourth vase with a long vertical crack on the side of ca. 20 cm.
H 43,5 - 42,3 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase with the bird (on the far left) lacking the handles.
- The vase with two ladies with a deer (second from the left) with a hairline in the base.
- The vase with red lion handles in excellent condition. This vase forms a pair with a vase from lot 97!
- The vase with ladies by a table in excellent condition.
H 59 - 43 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The small round vase on the left in excellent condition.
- The tall vase in the middle in excellent condition.
- The square vase in nearly excellent condition with a superficial chip to the underside of one of the base corners.
H 45,5 cm (the tallest vase)
H 44 cm (the vases and covers)
Condition: (UV-checked) (from left to right)
- The rooster vase with a very small chip to the finial on the lid. The vase with a few superficial burst glaze bubbles and chips around the foot, otherwise in good condition.
- The vase with antiquities with a chip to the underside of the rim, otherwise in good condition.
- The covered vase with antiquities with a rim chip on the lid. The vase with a tight ca. 13 mm glaze line from the rim and a few very small superficial chips and burst glaze bubbles around the foot.
H 60 cm (the landscape vase)
H 33,2 cm (the pair of vases)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- All three vases in excellent condition.
22 x 16,2 x 9,1 cm
Condtion: (UV-checked)
- In good condition with a few small spots of superficial glaze loss, wear and baking flaws.
H 5,7 cm - Dia.: 11,9 cm
Condition:
- Both in excellent condition.
H 4,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
15,8 x 11,1 x 2,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 43,3 - 42,2 - 33,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase with two figures, on the right in the first image, lacking the handles and with related overpainting. The calligraphy worn.
- The monochrome red vase with a drilled hole in the base and a tension line in the base.
- The vase with wooden cover in very good condition with normal minor superficial wear.
H 30,8 - 12,5 cm (the tallest and the smallest item)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The famille rose vase in excellent condition.
- The lantern in excellent condition.
- The teapot with butterflies with the cover restored and a small chip to the inner rim.
- The large famille rose teapot in excellent condition, with later metal handles.
- The orange ground jug with a chip to the cover.
H 18 cm - Dia.: 23 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One in very good condition with a short hairline in the base.
- One with a Y-shaped hairline on the side.
H 13,4 - 9,4 cm (the tallest and the smallest teapot)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The teapot with birds (on the far left) with chips on the lid and small superficial chip on the spout.
- The teapot with antiquities (second from left) with a small chip to the tip of the spout and a baking flaw on the lid and on the foot.
- The tall famille rose teapot with a chip to the unglazed rim, otherwise in good condition.
- The teapot with figures in excellent condition. The lid with two very small rim chips.
H 41,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase with large figures in excellent condition. The associated cover with some small rim chips.
- The vase with censers with a baking flaw on the rim and two superficial rim chips. The cover with a tight ca. 4 cm hairline just below the finial.
23,9 x 17,8 and 23,6 x 17 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The qianjiang cai tray with small chips on the rim and superficial wear.
- The famille rose tray with a small number of very small superficial chips and superficial wear to the enamels.
Dia.: 25,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With two rim chips on the front and one on the back. The foot also with a chip.
H 21,5 cm - 19,8 x 19,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One with a hairline across the base, slightly extending upwards on one side. Otherwise in excellent condition.
- One with a horizontal hairline across the length of two of the side panels, just above the foot. Otherwise in excellent condition.
H 73 - 57,7 cm (with and without stand)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 28,4 - 19,8 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
Dia.: 23,7 cm (the dish)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- All pieces in excellent condition, except for the cover of the famille verte jar which is broken and reglued.
H 45,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With numerous hairlines throughout, the base drilled for electricity.
H 10 cm - Dia.: 21,5 cm (the bowls)
H 15 cm (incl. stand)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One bowl in excellent condition.
- One bowl with a 10 x 2 mm chip on the rim with a related 7 cm hairline.
H 44,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One vase in excellent condition, one vase in nearly excellent condition with two small superficial rim chips of 2-3 mm each.
H 44,6 - 34 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The tallest pair in excellent condition, a perfectly mirrored pair.
- The smallest pair also in excellent condition, an almost perfectly mirrored pair.
H 45,5 - 24,7 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
H 23,7 cm (the ginger jars)
Dia.: 32,8 cm (the dish)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One vase (the second from the left on the back row) with restoration around the upper 5 cm, probably a rim section broken out and restuck with related overspraying.
- All other pieces in very good to excellent condition.
H 15,8 - 14 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One vase without cover in excellent condition, the other with a superficial chip on the outer rim.
- Three lidded vases in excellent condition.
- Two lids in excellent condition, one with a small rim chip.
H 25,6 - 24,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One lid in excellent condition, one with a reglued rim section and a rim chip.
- The two vases with covers in excellent condition.
- One vase without cover with a baking anomaly on the outer rim where the biscuit is visible.
- One vase without cover with three vertical crazing lines somewhat more apparent than the regular crazing on this type of vase.
H 44,6 - 26,6 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The moon flask vase lacking the head of one of the dragon handles, otherwise in good condition.
- The Canton vase with a hole drilled through the base. Just above the foot, a small superficial baking-related glaze flake. The painting of fine quality.
H 35,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a few small burst glaze bubbles along the top rim, one somewhat more apparent and bigger. The body with a surface chip to the enamel and further minor superficial wear.
Dia.: 14,6 - 14,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One in excellent condition.
- One with a ca. 2 cm hairline, otherwise in excellent condition.
H 39,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One vase with a filled chip on the inner rim. The lower section with a ca. 13 cm hairline running up from the foot.
- The second vase with a ca. 15 cm hairline running up from the foot, with traces of old restoration. A triangular section broken out and restuck, just above the foot.
Dia.: 22,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The rim with numerous small chips, otherwise in excellent condition.
Literature:
D. Howard & J. Ayers, China for the West: Chinese porcelain and other decorative arts for export, London, 1978, vol. I, p. 228, no. 227.
The 'Brillante' was owned by Miguel Alves Sousa, a merchant based in Macao. The 'MAS' flag refers to the Sousa family. Probably this service was originally used on board of the ship. A great granddaughter of Sousa sold the service in 1928 in Hong Kong.
Compare:
A similar pair was sold at Northeast Auctions in 2012 for $3304 (link).
Dia.: 12,1 cm (the saucer)
Dia.: 7,3 - 5,4 cm (the cups)
H 5,9 - 4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The saucer in good condition with a few very small fleabites along the rim.
- The tea bowl in excellent condition.
- The coffee cup in excellent condition.
Literature:
J. Kroes, Chinese armorial porcelain for the Dutch market, Zwolle, 2007, p. 209, no. 122.
Dia.: 22,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a filled and retouched superficial chip on the underside of the rim at ca. 5 o'clock and another smaller one at ca. 12.30 o'clock.
- With a ca. 6 cm glaze line on the back, not showing on the front.
- A baking crack visible on the back, slightly showing on the front.
Literature:
J. Kroes, Chinese armorial porcelain for the Dutch market, Zwolle, 2007, p. 214, fig. 125b.
Compare:
A similar pair was sold at Northeast Auctions in 2010 for $3540 (link).
Dia.: 12,2 cm (the saucer)
H 6,4 - 4 cm - Dia.: 7,4 - 6 cm (the cups)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The coffee cup with two restored ca. 3 cm hairlines, the handle broken off and restuck with overspraying on both attachment points.
- The tea bowl with a ca. 8 mm glaze line on the outside only, not showing on the inside.
- The saucer with two hairlines on the rim of ca. 2,5 and 1 cm.
Literature:
D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1974, p. 573.
H 12,9 cm - L 19,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cover in excellent condition.
- The teapot with a restored hairline extending along the base from just underneath the handle, coming back up on one side through the coat of arms.
Literature:
D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1974, p. 384.
Dia.: 13,6 - 8 cm (the saucer and the cup)
H 4,7 cm (the cup)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The saucer in good condition with the gilding on the rim possibly retouched.
- The cup with a small rim chip filled and retouched, just above the handle.
Literature:
J. Kroes, Chinese armorial porcelain for the Dutch market, Zwolle, 2007, p. 318, fig. 352.
References:
Christie's, New York, 25 January 2011, lot 47, for a pair of related cups and saucers. (Sold USD 4.750) (link)
H 4 cm - Dia.: 12 - 7,9 cm
With a 'Suchow & Seigel' label.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cup in excellent condition with superficial wear to the gilding.
- The saucer in good condition with touch-ups to the gilding.
Literature:
J. Kroes, Chinese armorial porcelain for the Dutch market, Zwolle, 2007, p. 401, fig. 319.
Dia.: 11,7 cm (the saucer)
H 6,9 cm - Dia.: 5,9 cm (the cup)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The saucer with a number of small superficial rim chips, otherwise in good condition.
- The cup with the handle restuck, with related overspraying.
Literature:
D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1974, p. 500.
Dia.: 23 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With two rim sections broken out and restuck, the breaks restored.
Literature:
D. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, vol. I, p. 444. The arms are those of Gale of Scruton in Bedale, Yorkshire (motto: Spe Vivimus).
Compare:
A similar set of four famille rose armorial plates was offered at Bonhams, London (link).
Dia.: 22,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in good condition, with a few small chips on the outer rim, some showing old filling.
Compare:
A similar tureen on stand was sold at Christie's New York, 21-22 June 2011 (link).
Provenance:
Both plates with a 'J. Louis Binder Chinese Export Porcelain Collection' and a 'Matthew & Elisabeth Sharpe Antiques' label.
Dia.: 22,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a filled and retouched chip on the rim of ca. 20 x 10 mm, with related overpainting, with a ca. 3 cm hairline extending inwards.
Dia.: 22,6 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a few retouched rim chips and two tight hairlines.
Literature:
D. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, vol. I, p. 439.
Compare:
A set of similar dishes was sold at Sotheby's New York in 2016 (link).
H 4,8 - Dia.: 9,8 cm
This bowl was part of a large service offered to Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820), the wife of Dutch stadholder Willem V Prince of Orange.
The service, offered by the VOC, was dispersed after the French invasion of 1795.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With two restored breaks across, with related overspraying.
Literature:
J. Kroes, Chinese armorial porcelain for the Dutch market, Zwolle, 2007, p. 487-489, fig. 408.
Dia.: 22,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With two restored rim chips at ca. 4 and ca. 10 o'clock.
Dia.: 23,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The gilding on rim retouched, as well as a small rim chip of ca. 10 x 3 mm at ca. 8 o'clock.
Literature:
D. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, London, 1974, vol. I, p. 285.
Compare:
A similar pair was sold at Northeast Auctions in 2010 for $2280 (link).
H 63,6 - 54 cm (the garniture)
H 51 cm (the pair of vases)
Condition: (UV-checked)
The pair of vases: Both vases with glaze cracks. One of the vases with a crack to the bottom and running a few centimeters upwards. One cover with some cracks. The lion on top of both covers restored.
The garniture: The clock a little loose. The work of the clock marked 'Japy frères et Cie'. Some minor damage (partly due to the transformation of a vase into a clock). Needs a little cleaning.
H 22,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 28,3 - 3,8 cm (the tallest and the smallest item)
Condition:
- With numerous very small damages as to be expected, a few minor repairs and missing pieces. Generally in reasonable to good condition.
19,7 x 13 x 4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The one on the left with a very small touch-up to the top right corner. The top rim with numerous very small superficial chips and fleabites, some baking-related. Superficial wear and baking flaws throughout. Unglazed stilt marks on the back.
- The one on the right with a large superficial flake on the underside, slightly visible on the front top left corner. Superficial wear and baking flaws throughout. Unglazed stilt marks on the back.
Dia.: 21,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition.
The painting: 225 x 51 cm
The scroll: about 1320 x 57,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
In general in good condition. The painting with some wear, minor damage and some creases. The mount with some tears.
H 20 - 12 cm
The patinated green vase with a hole for suspension on the back, the top part removable. Signed by Habara Ichiyo (1914-1996). The brown patinated hourglass shaped vase signed by Aida Tomiyasu (1901-1987). The vases come with their signed and sealed tomobako (original wooden storage box).
Condition: (UV-checked)
Both vases in excellent condition.
Dia.: 53 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dia.: 20 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Three plates in very good condition.
- One with three superficial rim chips.
- One with one superficial rim chip.
- One with a negligible superficial 2 mm rim chip.
- The overglaze decoration with negligible minor superficial wear.
H 49,3 - 46,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The smallest jar, on the right, with scuff marks along the top rim and some chips along the foot, otherwise in good condition.
- The tallest jar, on the left, in very good condition with typical superficial crazing and negligible minor superficial wear.
Dia.: 22,7 cm
Condition:
- Four plates in excellent condition.
- Seven with normal small chips to the outer rim.
- One plate is restored.
Dia.: 23,5 - 22,5 cm (the largest and the smallest plate)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In good condition with a few small rim chips: lllllll
- With a few small rim chips and a hairline: lll
Dia.: 23,2 - 22,5 cm (the widest and the smallest plate)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition: l
- With small chips on the rim: lll
- Broken and reglued: l
- With a hairline and small chips on the outer rim: lllll
Dia.: 39,5 - 38,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition.
Dia.: 21,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One in excellent condition with superficial crazing and a baking flaw on the back.
- One in good condition with a few very small superficial 1-2 mm chips on the outer rim.
Dia.: 39,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One in excellent condition, absolutely perfect.
- The second with a restored rim chip of ca. 10 x 3 mm, otherwise excellent.
Both plates with a 'Geoffrey Waters London' label.
Dia.: 22,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In very good condition with typical fritting and very small chips on the rim.
Dia.: 11,3 cm
Literature:
D. Howard & J. Ayers, China for the West: Chinese porcelain and other decorative arts for export, London, 1978, vol. I, pp. 298-299, no. 292.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In nearly excellent condition with a superficial 2 mm flake on the outer rim.
H 13 - 12,2 cm (the tallest and the smallest teapot)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The Dutch-decorated Amsterrdams bont teapot with two small nibbles to the tip of the spout and a baking flaw to the underside of the handle. The lid with a 3 mm rim chip.
- The famille rose teapot with a baking flaw on the handle. The cover with the finial and two rim chips retouched.
- The Imari teapot broken and restored.
Dia.: 27,2 - 21,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair of famille rose plates: both in nearly excellent condition with a few negligible small superficial chips on the outer rim.
- The pair of Imari plates: both in excellent condition.
- The second largest Imari dish: in very good condition with a few negligible 1-2 mm chips on the rim.
- The largest Imari dish: with a hairline in the center.
20 x 17,5 x 9,7 cm (incl. stand)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both pieces in excellent condition.
H 19,2 - 14,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The teapot with chips on the handle and tip of the spout, otherwise in excellent condition.
- The jug with the handle broken off and restuck, the breaks retouched.
H 13,5 - 12 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The teapot with birds: the teapot in excellent condition, the lid with a very small touch-up to a chip on the rim.
- The teapot with floral design: with a tension line and a small chip on the handle, the cover in excellent condition.
H 8,5 cm - Dia.: 54 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, no damage at all!
H 8,9 cm - Dia.: 12 cm (without handle)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 12,8 - 8,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked) (from left to right)
- The landscape teapot with a small chip to the lid. The teapot with a tension line in the handle and a small chip to the tip of the spout.
- The second teapot with auspicious symbols with a small chip to the tip of the spout. The lid with a small rim chip and a 2 cm hairline around the finial.
- The chocolate jug with the spout restored. The lid with the finial and a large chip restored.
- The small blue and white metal-mounted jug with the lid reglued. The tip of the spout with a metal mount and the handle with a short tight tension line.
- The miniature jug and cover both in excellent condition.
H 12,7 - 11,5 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair of slender vases with flowers near a fence: one in excellent condition, one with a ca. 3 mm glaze flake on the rim and a burst glaze bubble.
- The prunus on cracked ice jar ('Hawthorne') in very good condition with a small baking-related ca. 3 mm rim chip.
- The floral ribbed jar (second from the left on the first image) with a large C-shaped hairline.
- The floral ribbed jar (fourth from the left on the first image) in excellent condition.
Dia.: 15,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, the rim with a superficial spot of baking-related glaze peeling.
Dia.: 16,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In good condition with a 4 mm superficial chip on the rim at ca. 9 o'clock.
H 6 cm - Dia.: 37,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, with normal superficial fritting on the rim.
H 6,5 cm - Dia.: 35 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In very good condition, with normal fritting and small superficial chips on the rim
Dia.: 9,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One in excellent condition.
- One in nearly excellent condition, with a ca. 3 mm hairline and a 1 mm fleabite on the rim.
H 15 - 5 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
Condition: (UV-checked) (from left to right)
- (1) The vase on the far left with two small rim chips.
- (2) In excellent condition.
- (3) With two ca. 10 mm hairlines from the rim.
- (4) With a chip on the rim with related vertical hairline of ca. 8 cm.
- (5) With reglued breaks in the upper section and a small fragment missing.
- (6) Broken in several pieces and reglued with a small fragment missing.
- (7) The cover lacking the finial. The vase with some fritting.
- (8) In excellent condition.
- (9) With two 4 cm hairlines.
- (10) In excellent condition.
- (11) With a chip on the rim.
H 21,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a tight ca. 4 cm hairline running down from the rim and a Y-shaped hairline in the base. Executed in a beautiful shade of cobalt blue.
H 21,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 9,6 cm - Dia.: 21 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a small filled and retouched rim chip and a ca. 3 cm hairline on the rim.
Dia.: 27,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In very good condition, with a few small superficial rim chips and fritting.
H 7,2 cm - Dia.: 15,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With two tight ca. 6 cm hairlines running down from the rim, quasi invisible to the naked eye. One extending downwards from a baking flaw on the rim. The rim with a few very small superficial chips.
H 6,6 - 4,1 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
Condition: (UV-checked) (from left to right)
- (1) The vase on the far left in excellent condition.
- (2) The second vase in excellent condition.
- (3) With a few small chips around the rim.
- (4) With a small superficial rim chip.
- (5) In excellent condition.
- (6) With a chip on the foot.
- (7) With a small rim chip and 4 mm hairline.
- (8) In excellent condition.
- (9) With a small rim chip.
- (10) In excellent condition.
- (11) In excellent condition.
- (12) With a small rim chip filled.
- (13) With a small rim chip.
- (14) In excellent condition.
- (15) In excellent condition.
H 7,5 - 4,1 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
Condition: (UV-checked) (from left to right)
- (1 & 3) The pair both in excellent condition.
- (2 & 13) The pair with small chips on the foot.
- (4) In excellent condition.
- (5 & 11) The pair both in excellent condition.
- (6 & 15) The pair both in excellent condition.
- (7 & 14) The pair both in excellent condition.
- (8) With a small tension crack on the rim.
- (9) With fritting on top and foot.
- (10) With small rim chips.
- (12 & 16) The pair both in excellent condition.
- (17) In excellent condition.
H 20 - 18,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase on the left with the neck reduced. The base and foot with a spider-shaped hairline.
- The vase on the right with the neck reduced and a superficial rim chip. A ca. 5 cm hairline in the lower section. The foot with a few very small superficial chips.
H 10,7 - L 16,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The lid with a two small superficial 3 mm chips on the rim and a glazed baking flaw on the rim.
- The teapot with the spout somewhat irregular from baking and further small baking flaws throughout. Most notably on the lower part of the handle, where a large glaze bubble popped.
H 11,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In nearly excellent condition, with two small chips to the unglazed base.
H 12 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The lid in nearly excellent condition with a small section of glaze loss on the underside of the finial.
- The teapot with the tip of the spout showing some restoration. The unglazed foot with a large chip.
Dia.: 9,5 cm
Condition:
- In excellent condition.
H 11,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both vase and cover in excellent condition.
H 8,7 - 5,1 cm (the tallest and the smallest salt)
Dia.: 9,6 - 9 cm (the hexagonal salts)
Dia.: 9,3 cm (the round salt)
7,4 x 7,4 cm (the square salt)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The round salt in good condition with a few small superficial chips around the rim.
- The square salt with a triangular section on the foot broken out and restuck, with a related hairline extending upwards. Two very small superficial chips to the corners.
- The smallest of the two hexagonal salts with a Y-shaped hairline in the center, a small superficial chip on one corner and a few very small superficial flakes on some of the other corners.
- The tallest salt with a filled triangular section on the foot, with a related ca. 6 cm hairline extending upwards. The rim with fritting and small chips around.
H 13,4 - 9,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- All three in excellent condition.
Dia.: 25,2 - 21,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair of small plates: one with two ca. 2 cm hairlines and one with a ca. 4 cm hairline.
- The pair of large plates: one with the rim slightly polished in a few areas and a few small superficial 2-3 mm chips on the outer rim, the second also with the rim slightly polished in a few areas and a few small superficial 2-3 mm chips on the outer rim, as well as a 3 cm hairline.
H 7,2 cm - Dia.: 10,8 cm (with handle)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in very good to excellent condition. One with a small spot of baking-related glaze loss on the handle, the other with a small baking flaw just next to the low section of the handle.
Dia.: 20,7 - 11,5 cm (the widest and smallest dish)
H 11,5 - 10,6 cm (the teapots)
Dia.: 7,7 - 7,3 cm (the cups)
H 4,3 - 3,3 cm (the cups)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The ribbed teapot with a 3 cm hairline, very small superficial chips along the rim and one to the spout.
- The teapot with the lid with a small chip to the lion's claw.
- The plate in good condition with a few negligible small nibbles on the rim.
- The cup with boy and lady with Chenghua mark in excellent condition.
- The pair of blue and white cups with figures in a garden in good condition with small nibbles on the rim.
- The blue and white cup and saucer, late Qing, with a few 1-2 mm chips on the rim.
- The pair of capucin ground cups and saucers: one cup and saucer in excellent condition, one cup and saucer both with a few small nibbles.
H 4,3 - Dia.: 7,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, with a negligible baking flaw on the rim.
H 22 - 18,2 cm (with and without base)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a section of one of the upper tips broken off and reglued, and a very small superficial 2 mm chip to one of the feet.
- The stand in good condition.
136 x 129 cm (four panels of 34 x 129 cm)
Mounted on board.
The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, also translated as The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety, is a classic text of Confucian filial piety written by Guo Jujing during the Yuan dynasty (1260–1368). The text was extremely influential in the medieval Far East and was used to teach Confucian moral values.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The panels in general in good to very good condition. The main scenes very well preserved.
- Especially borders with some minor damage and very minor dirt.
- In general some minor wear, scratches, small tears and traces of water.
Each painting: 24 x 22,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
Cover with one of the boards loose and wear.
Some minor dirt, minor creases and minor stains.
The horse painting: 89,5 x 40 cm - 187 x 60 cm (incl. mounts)
The landscape: 157 x 55,5 - 90 x 32,5 cm (with and without mounts)
The text: 175 x 48,5 - 113 x 32,5 cm (with and without mounts)
Condition: (UV-checked)
All three scrolls with some creases, furthermore in good condition. The landscape and the horse with some damage to the mounts.
The horse probably printed and heightened.
The largest: 127,5 x 63,5 - 193 x 83,5 cm (incl. mounts)
The smallest: 94 x 20 cm - 119 x 24,5 cm (incl. mounts)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The largest painting: in good condition, with some wear, some spots and some crease lines.
- The smallest painting: in rather good condition, with some stains, minor damage and some minor holes. The mounts with stains and very minor damage.
Work: 65,3 x 47,5 cm
Frame: 73,2 x 53,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
Some minor creases and stuck on another paper. Furthermore the work in very good and hangable condition.
Not inspected outside the frame.
Work: 38,6 x 33,1 cm
Frame: 53,2 x 43,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
The paper with very minor creases and very minor tears to the borders. Furthermore the painting in very good and hangable condition.
H 6,8 - L 8,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The teapot with a small chip on the rim.
- The underside of the handle with an impressed mark.
- The lid with a chip on the inner rim.
H 7,5 cm - Dia.: 16 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both bowl and lid in excellent condition.
H 20,6 cm - Dia.: 22,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cover in nearly excellent condition with a chip on the inside of the inner rim.
- The bowl in nearly excellent condition with a 2 mm glaze flake on the outer rim.
22 x 16 x 7,1 cm (the rectangular box)
H 6,7 cm - Dia.: 16,2 cm (the round box)
Condition:
- The rectangular box with the cover with a section showing tension cracks on one of the short sides. The adjacent corners and one opposite corner with wear on the inside. Further minor superficial wear and tension lines throughout. The box with small damages along the inner rim. The surface with normal minor superficial wear.
- The round box with the cover with a few short tension lines. The surface with normal minor superficial wear. Generally in very good condition.
63 x 40 cm (both panels)
Condition: (UV-checked)
In general in good to very good condition, with some very minor wear and some minor parts missing, especially some protruding parts. The fences on the back and the grille with minor damage;
H 30 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in good condition with superficial wear throughout.
H 17,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In good condition with typical superficial wear.
H 61 - 59,5 cm (with and without stand)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The bottom marked. Worn and some paint missing. Back of the head with a small hole due to a former hanging system.
H 18,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, the glaze slightly degraded from immersion in sea water.
H 26,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Possibly with a small rim repair, with normal minor superficial wear and some dirt adhered.
H 25 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 6 - 4,6 cm - Dia.: 22,3 - 19,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The dish with 1 fish on the left with the glaze slightly degraded, possibly from immersion in sea water. Superficial crazing throughout and one area of discoloration.
- The dish with 2 fish with a ca. 8 cm crack on the rim and crazing throughout.
H 20 - 5 cm (the tallest and the smallest item)
Dia.: 11,5 cm (the box and cover)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The lotus-cover jar with a ca. 3,5 cm hairline. The cover with two superficial rim chips.
- The jar with the round cover with a small 2 mm rim chip and two ca. 10-12 mm chips on the foot. The cover in excellent condition.
- The box with the cover in good condition, showing some superficial wear. The box with small chips on the outer rim and some superficial glaze loss.
H 4,4 - 4 cm - Dia.: 12,1 - 11,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
Both in excellent condition.
H 6,8 - 5,3 cm
Condition: (UV-ckecked)
The five snuff bottles in very good condition with natural inclusions of the stone and small superficial wear to the carvings.
The second snuff bottle with minor damage to the left side of the carving and at the front just above the bottom rim at the left side.
The snuff bottle in the middle with two very minor chips to the bottom rim.
H 15,2 - 2,3 cm (the vase and the smallest cups)
Dia.: 10 - 8 cm (the bowl and the bracelet)
Condition: (UV-checked)
All items in very good condition with the natural inclusions of the stone and minor superficial wear.
H 7,8 - 6,6 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
All snuff bottles in very good condition with the natural inclusions of the stone and minor superficial wear to the carvings.
The first one with hardly visible damage to the foot rim (a very small cut), the second with a superficial chip to the side, the third one with hardly visible chips to the foot rim, the fifth with missing spoon and a hardly visible small cut to the foot rim, the last one with connection stopper/spoon broken.
H 6,3 cm - Dia.: 30,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In very good condition, with typical fritting along the rim.
Dia.: 19,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The plate with the barbed rim with three superficial chips on the outer rim between 4 and 6 o'clock.
- The round plate with a filled rim chip at ca. 2 o'clock with related ca. 3 cm hairline. In the center, a Y-shaped hairline across.
H 6,1 cm - Dia.: 35,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In very good condition with typical small chips and fritting along the rim.
H 16 cm - Dia.: 30,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a large number of staple-repaired breaks, a few small missing sections filled and retouched.
H 8 cm - Dia.: 28,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a number of small superficial chips retouched around the rim, as well as a ca. 4 cm hairline at ca. 3 o'clock.
H 26 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a chip on the neck, with related 2 cm hairline, another hairline of ca. 3 cm and a few small superficial chips on the rim of the neck.
- Minor superficial baking flaws throughout.
H 5 cm - Dia.: 13,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The outer rim with one ca. 10 x 5 mm chip, another of ca. 4 x 2 mm and a further number of small superficial chips.
H 30,7 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition.
Dia.: 20,8 - 20,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition with typical small chips on the rim.
1) Dia.: 4,6 cm - H.: 4,8 cm
2) Dia.: 5,2 cm - H.: 4,4 cm
3) Dia.: 5,1 cm - H.: 4,4 cm
4) Dia.: 4,5 cm - H.: 4,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One of the cups without foot with a superficial 2 mm chip on the upper rim. The other 3 in excellent condition.
1) Dia.: 6,5 cm - H.: 3,3 cm
2) Dia.: 8,3 cm - H.: 4,4 cm
3) Dia.: 8,5 cm - H.: 4,4 cm
4) Dia.: 6,5 cm - H.: 3,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair of larger bowls: one in very good condition with a superficial 2 mm flake on the rim, the second with a few small superficial 2-3 mm flakes on the rim, otherwise in good condition. The glaze degraded from long-term immersion in sea water.
- The pair of smaller bowls: both in very good condition. The glaze degraded from long-term immersion in sea water.
Dia.: 14,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a few small chips on the rim, otherwise in good condition.
H 11,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in very good condition with negligible minor superficial wear.
H 6,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
In very good condition with some minor superficial wear. The connection between stopper and spoon very slightly distorted.
H 44,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
The body with a dent and some minor restoration. The normal superficial wear. Furthermore in good condition.
H 15,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With superficial wear throughout. On the back, a large section probably missing from the chair.
H 4 - L 9,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
In good condition with the normal superficial wear.
H 15,2 - 10,6 cm (the tallest and the smallest item)
All items marked '925' (925/000).
Condition: (UV-checked)
All four snuff bottles with some superficial wear and minor dents to the body. Furthermore the items in good condition.
Dia.: 11,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a restored straight break across from ca. 12 to ca. 6 o'clock.
Literature:
J. Kroes, Chinese armorial porcelain for the Dutch market, Zwolle, 2007, p. 299-300, fig. 215.
References:
- Rijksmuseum, Object number RP-P-OB-24.351, for the original engraving by Frederik Ottens which was used as a source for this saucer. (link)
- Sotheby's, New York, 25 April, 2008, The collection of Khalil Rizk, lot 185, for two related bowls. (link)
Dia.: 12,1 - 6,1 cm (the cup and saucer)
H 6,4 cm (the cup)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cup with a few small superficial chips along the rim, otherwise in good condition.
- The saucer with a restored break across, with related rim section filled and retouched at ca. 7 o'clock.
References:
A similar tea set was sold at Christie's, New York, Sale 15336, Jan. 18, 2018, Chinese Export Art Featuring 100 lots from Marchant, est 1925, Lot 100 (link).
H 16,2 cm - Dia.: 16,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The lid in good condition with two small superficial chips on the outer rim of ca. 3 mm and one of ca. 2 mm. The applied decoration very fresh and well-preserved.
- The jar with three small chips on the unglazed rim of ca. 8, 6 and 3 mm and one on the inside of the bowl. Otherwise in excellent condition, the applied decoration very fresh and well-preserved.
H 24,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 6,5 cm - Dia.: 14,2 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a section of ca. 1/4th broken out and restuck, the break retouched.
H 12,5 - 11,7 - 7 cm (the total height)
H 7 - 3 - 2,5 cm (without the pin)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The gilt silver and green jade pin with natural inclusions in the stone but generally in good condition.
- The kingfisher feather pin with small losses to the feathers on the pin, typical wear from use and the pin slightly bent.
- The enamelled silver pin with a stamped mark on the back of the pin. In good condition with normal minor wear.
The robe fragments: about 88 x 83 cm
The frame: 104 x 104 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
Both fragments a bit worn, some discoloration and some tears. Furthermore both in good to very good condition.
One fragment with some threads loose.
Not inspected outside the frame.
97 x 66 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
The painting in rather good condition, with a few small touch-ups, minor losses (mainly the red border), some crease lines and minor wear. The painting furthermore stapled on cardboard.
177 x 92 cm
Condition:
The carpet in very good condition, with the normal minor traces of use. Some minor damage to the edges, the fringes shortened and minor traces of worm.
182 x 96 cm
Condition:
The carpet in very good condition, with the normal minor traces of use. The fringes shortened and slightly damaged and very minor traces of worm.
135 x 77 cm
Condition:
The carpet in very good condition, with the normal minor traces of use. Some minor damage to the edges and the fringes, some very slightly discoloration, and very minor traces of worm.
228 x 78 cm
Condition:
Lacking the fringes and rebordered.
Minor traces of use and very minor discoloration.
Dia.: 13,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
H 20,4 - 14,2 cm (the tallest and smallest figure)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The boy with a restored break to the neck and to the tree branch, the right arm restored and the tips of the other hand's fingers.
- The pair of lions: one with the eyes restored, with touch-ups to two tips of the joss stick holder and a 3 mm chip. The second with the eyes restored, with touch-ups to the tip of the joss stick holder and lacking the lower part of the cub.
- The lion with the ball: with the eyes restored, with touch-ups to the tip of the joss stick holder, the leg with ball restored.
Ca. 10,1 x 10,1 cm (both dishes)
The sancai glazed dish with a Christie's label at the reverse.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition.
H 5,9 - L 12,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With one of the heads reglued.
- The rim with a few small superficial chips.
27 x 16 cm
The form based on a silver European model.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With small frits and chips along the rim retouched, otherwise in good condition.
H 11,5 - 11,1 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in good condition with minor superficial wear and baking flaws.
H 11,5 cm - Dia.: 22 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In poor condition, various restored breaks, chips, hairlines and touch-ups to the enamels.
Dia.: 38 cm (the charger)
Dia.: 22,7 - 22,3 cm (the dishes)
Dia.: 13,2 - 11,6 cm (the saucers)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The octagonal saucer with a large filled rim chip and two ca. 3 cm hairlines.
- The round saucer with rabbits in good condition with superficial crazing.
- The plate with two deer with fritting on the rim, with a rim section broken out and reglued at ca. 6 o'clock and a ca. 3 cm hairline at ca. 4.30 o'clock.
- The round famille verte plate with a rim section broken out and restuck and two 3 cm hairlines.
- The large flower basket charger with a section broken out between 5 and 6 o'clock and rim frits and small chips filled.
H 5 cm - Dia.: 8 cm (the cup)
Dia.: 13,4 - 12,8 cm (the saucers)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair of saucers: one in excellent condition, one with a tight ca. 3 cm hairline.
- The café au lait cup and saucer with a 2 mm rim chip on the saucer and a ca. 10 mm hairline on the cup. With a label for Marchant, London.
Dia.: 22,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, with minor superficial wear to the enamels.
Dia.: 28,5 - 22,7 cm (the plates)
H 9,9 cm (the vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase with a tight ca. 3 cm hairline, otherwise in good condition.
- The pair of plates: one in excellent condition, one with a small superficial 3 mm chip on the rim.
- The famille verte dish with a restored break across.
Dia.: 27,8 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In good condition with typical small chips and fritting around the rim. The central medallion with a superficial glaze scratch. A baking flaw on the rim.
H 34,5 - 16,5 cm (the vases)
H 10,5 - 6,3 cm (the jar and cups)
Dia.: 22,7 cm (the plates)
Dia.: 13,8 - 7,8 cm (the saucers)
Dia.: 9,2 - 8,6 cm (the bowsl)
Condition:
- The pair of vases in excellent condition.
- The small Republic vase in excellent condition.
- Three blue and white plates with small rim chips and one with a 4 cm hairline.
- Three Imari-style saucers in good to excellent condition, one with a hairline.
- Two Imari-style cups in good to excellent condition, two with a hairline.
- The famille rose cup and saucer with a hairline to the cup.
- The Imari-style bowl with a hairline.
- The Japanese Imari cup, the Japanese eggshell cup and saucer and the three small famille rose plates in very good to excellent condition.
H 7,8 cm - Dia.: 18,6 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition.
Dia.: 21,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in excellent condition, with negligible minor superficial wear.
Weight: ca. 291 gr. (the pair of dishes)
Dia.: 14 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition, with negligible minor superficial wear.
Dia.: 25,3 - 22,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The largest dish in excellent condition.
- The normal sized plates: one in excellent condition, one in nearly excellent condition with a 2 mm chip on the underside of the rim, and one with 5 small rim chips of ca. 2 mm each.
Dia.: 22,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- In excellent condition, the rim with a number of very small superficial chips, mostly to the underside, as well as some negligible minor superficial wear to the overglaze enamels.
H 16,7 cm - Dia.: 39 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With two large sections broken out and restuck, the breaks restored. The restoration very well executed and hard to spot. Bottom with minor glaze cracks.
Dia.: 22,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a few very small rim chips, two filled and retouched, otherwise in good condition.
Dia.: 28,2 - 22,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The central plate completely oversprayed, the extent of the restoration difficult to judge due to the nature of the repair.
- The pair of famille rose dishes with peacocks: one with two hairlines of ca. 6 cm and a 3 mm rim chip, the other with one hairline of ca. 6 cm. The enamels fresh and well preserved.
Dia.: 24,9 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One in excellent condition, no damage noted at all.
- One in nearly excellent condition, with a superficial 3 mm chip on the outer rim.
Dia.: 11,4 - 7,1 cm (the cup and saucer)
H 3,5 cm (the cup)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cup in excellent condition.
- The saucer with negligible minor baking flaws around the rim and a tight ca. 12 mm hairline.
Literature:
George C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, 1985, Torrington, pp. 68-69, pl. XXV.
Dia.: 13,9 - 9 cm (the saucer and the cup)
H 6,1 cm (the cup)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The saucer with two small superficial chips on the inner rim, otherwise in good condition.
- The cup with a tension line around the low part of the handle and a small negligible baking flaw.
Dia.: 11 cm
H 3,8 - Dia.: 7 cm (the cup)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The saucer in excellent condition.
- The cup with a reglued break across and a rim chip.
References:
Christie's, New York, Jan. 23 2008, The Hodroff Collection, Lot 256, for a similar set. (link)
H 3,4 - L 8,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a small filled and retouched chip on the rim, otherwise in good condition.
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 14 cm (the jug and cover)
Dia.: 22,5 cm (the plates)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One plate with a restored ca. 3 cm hairline on the rim at ca. 4 o'clock, a small filled and retouched rim chip at ca. 6 o'clock, a restored ca. 3 cm hairline and two small filled rim chips at ca. 9.30 o'clock. The center with a star-shaped hairline. Superficial wear throughout.
- The second plate with a small filled rim chip at ca. 1 o'clock, a rim section broken out and restuck between 8 and 9 o'clock with related overspraying and a star-shaped hairline in the center. Superficial wear throughout.
- The jug with the cover restored. A chip on the rim with related ca. 3 cm hairline retouched, with related overspraying. The tip of the spout with a burst glaze bubble. Superficial wear throughout.
Dia.: 23,4 - 23,3 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in very good condition, each with a negligible 2 mm flake on the rim.
Compare:
A similar plate was sold at Christie's, New York, Sale 1958, Jan. 23, 2008, The Hodroff Collection, Lot 347 (link).
Dia.: 38,5 - 20,5 cm (the widest and the smallest dish)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The blue ground famille verte plate with a tight ca. 2 cm hairline on the rim.
- The famille rose plate with an insect on a floral group with two ca. 3 cm hairlines, one invisible on the front. The rim with a few small superficial chips.
- The famille rose plate with a flowervase in nearly excellent condition with a few small 1-2mm chips on the underside of the rim.
- The famille rose charger with a restored ca. 6 cm hairline with excessive overspraying over the entire surface. The rim with a few small superficial 1-2 mm chips.
Dia.: 22,7 - 22,5 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The plate with the phoenix in excellent condition with negligible superficial wear to the enamels. No damage on the rim whatsoever.
- The plate with the rooster with chickens with two negligible superficial 1 mm chips on the outer rim. Two small sections of loss and some superficial wear to the enamels.
Dia.: 22,9 - 22,6 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The 3 round plates: 2 in excellent condition, one with a 3 mm rim chip.
- The pair of octagonal plates: one with 2 small chips on the outer rim, the other with a number of small chips on the rim.
Dia.: 23 cm
Provenance:
- Both with a Santos (London) label at the reverse.
- One with a label for the Elinor Gordon collection, USA.
Condition: (UV-checked)
- One with a ca. 10 cm hairline across the side of the central medallion and a few small superficial chips to the tips on the rim.
- One with a ca. 6 cm hairline from the rim at ca. 6.30 o'clock.
41,9 x 33,5 and 33,7 x 25,5 cm (the platters)
Dia.: 23,4 cm
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair of famille rose plates both in good condition with a few very small rim chips.
- The verte-Imari platter in very good condition with a small superficial chip to the outer tip of one corner, hardly worth mentioning. The central section with some superficial wear.
- The large famille rose platter in very good condition with a superficial 3 mm chip on the bottom rim. Minor superficial wear throughout.
H 23,5 - 16,3 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The blue and white jar on the far left with a horizontal hairline across most of the circumference.
- The blue and white jar with antiquities with the rim partly restored and a hairline in the rim.
- The blue and white jar with a rim chip and some tight star-shaped glaze lines on the inside. A star-shaped
- The Imari-style vase in good condition with chips around the foot.
H 10,4 - 3,5 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)
Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair of blue monochrome (nr. 1 and 13) vases with two very small rim chips each.
- Second from left (nr. 2) with small rim chip.
- Third from left (nr. 3) in excellent condition.
- Pair of vases (nr. 4 and 5): one in excellent condition, one with filled rim chip with 2,5 cm hairline.
- Covered vase (nr. 6) in excellent condition.
- Vase nr. 7 with fritting along top and foot rim.
- Pair of vases (nr. 8 and 9): one broken and reglued, one with filled rim chip with short hairline.
- Vase nr. 10 with two chips on top rim and two chips on foot rim.
- Vase nr. 11 in excellent condition.
- The brown vase (nr. 12) in excellent condition.