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LOW HIGH Lot Description Estimate Estimate Chinese enameled porcelain stick neck vase, with a yellow ground decorated with 1 magpies amid pink prunus, base with an apocryphal Guangxu mark, 14"h $ 250 - 450 (lot of 4) Chinese Peking glass bowls, one pair of pink hue and a pair of blue hue, each 2 carved with birds and flowers, 6.25"w $ 250 - 450 Chinese hardwood brush pot, cylindrical body with thick walls, the well fitted with a 3 central plug (with spliced pieces to the interior), 7.75"h $ 500 - 700 (lot of 2) Chinese Ge-type ceramic Longquan style tripod censer, with everted rim and 4 compressed body, with wood stand; together with an arrow vase, with a rectangular mouth and a flattened body raised on a tapering base, 4.75"h $ 300 - 500 Chinese hardwood document box, the shallow rectangular box with a circular lock plate 5 and ruyi form mount, 10.75"w $ 250 - 450 Chinese gilt lacquered box, the lid decorated with figures in a landscape, concealing five 6 stacked shallow tiers, 8.6"w $ 300 - 500 (lot of 2) Chinese Jian style ceramic tea bowls, each coated with a hare's fur glaze 7 stopping short of the unglazed base and foot, 4.75"w $ 500 - 700 (lot of 2) Chinese soapstone seals, each carved with a fu-lion in raised stance on a tall 8 plinth, underside carved, 3"h $ 250 - 450 (lot of 2) Chinese soapstone seals, the first of fan shape with a poetic colophon; the 9 second, a rectangular chop incised with a long inscription, with the seal script characters to the base, each with a wood stand, first: 2.5"w $ 300 - 500 (lot of 2) Chinese soapstone seals, one of a plain rectangular plinth; the other carved with 10 a mythical beast seated on its haunches, underside carved, 3.25"h $ 250 - 450 Chinese hardstone lion, featuring a stylized lion seated on its haunches, the translucent 11 matrix suffused with dark flecks, 3"w $ 300 - 500 12 (lot of 2) Chinese archaistic yellow jade toggle, in the form of a zoomorphic head; together with an ax having an aperture to the top above the flat splayed body, 7.5"h $ 250 - 450 Chinese amber prayer beads, consisting of 25 spherical beads including two small and one 13 large accent beads, overall: 6"l $ 200 - 400 (lot of 2) Chinese sancai glazed pottery dishes, with a floral rim and molded with lotus 14 heightened in brown on a patterned green ground, 6.25"w; Provenance: Acquired by the owner from Peking Cultural Relic Store in 1973 $ 500 - 700 (lot of 3) Chinese porcelain snuff bottles, one molded with a stylized fu-lion to either side 15 on a green ground; one cylindrical bottle with three birds, with apocryphal Qianlong mark; together with a crackle glazed meiping bottle, largest: 3"h $ 250 - 450 (lot of 5) Chinese enameled porcelain scholar's set, decorated with a bird perched on a 16 flower branch, consisting of a seal paste box; two brush washers of different form; a vase and a brush pot, bearing signature and sealed 'Shi Yuchu', largest: 5.5"h $ 300 - 500 (lot of 2) Chinese agate carvings, one of a chilong on a peach; the other of a dragon and a 17 cash coin, 3.5"h $ 200 - 400 Chinese blanc de chine porcelain figural group, with a lady holding a ruyi sprig, 18 accompanied by an attendant with a flower basket, 8"h $ 200 - 400 Page 1 of 68 Chinese jade bi-disk with wooden stand, relief carved with two meandering chilong on the 19 bi with raised boss to the reverse, 2.25"w $ 250 - 450 20 Chinese archaistic jade bi-disk, incised with taotie masks on one side, reversed with stylized dragons on a green matrix with dark and icy inclusions, 12"w $ 300 - 500 Chinese Cizhou style vase, the short trumpet neck with a foliate rim, the shoulder with 21 chilong in relief amid a shoulder painted with lotus, the tapering body with peony reserves amid a wave pattern, 14.25"h $ 250 - 450 22 Set of eight Chinese hardstone cups, of cylindrical form raised on a tapering foot, 2"h $ 250 - 450 Chinese Ge-type crackle glazed stoneware dish, with gradually flared sides and overall covered with a thick grey glaze suffused with a dense network of black crackles, raised on 23 a low foot with three spur marks on the recessed base, 6.5"w; Provenance: Acquired from Peking Cultural Relic Store in 1973 $ 700 - 1,000 Chinese qingbai glazed foliate rim bowl, the well incised with stylized flowers, raised on a 23A low tapering foot (hairline crack on bowl), bowl: 6.25"w; Provenance: Acquired from Peking Cultural Relic Store in 1973 $ 400 - 600 Chinese underglaze blue porcelain vase (yaoling zun), with a long cylindrical neck above a 24 bell shaped body decorated with a stylized phoenix, the base with a double ring mark, 7.5"h $ 500 - 700 (lot of 5) Chinese pewter set, consisting of a tea pot, coffee pot, sugar, creamer and a 25 rectangular tray, etched with a bamboo motif, the vessels of a fan shape set with hardstone handles, bottom marked 'China', tray: 13"w $ 400 - 600 Chinese underglaze blue porcelain dish, with a foliate rim, depicting fish and crabs amid 26 water reeds (hairline crack), 8"w $ 250 - 450 (lot of 17) Japanese items including two Imari lidded bowls; two tea cups; one fan shaped 27 and two circular dishes, sencha tea ceremony set: consisting of a teapot, five tea cups, yusamashi, marked 'Wazan'; a rectangular lidded box; a brush washer; together with a Chinese orange brush washer with green lions, largest: 9"l $ 200 - 400 (lot of 2) Japanese bronze yatate (portable writing set), Edo period, cast weasel on the ink well and handle, etched with ivy leaves and berries; together with a bronze vase by 28 Yamaguchi Seiyu (d. 1952), long stick neck, base with signature, tomobako with the title 'A Cry of Crane', largest: 10.25"h $ 150 - 250 Japanese bronze yatate (portable writing set), Edo period, with three scholars molded on 29 one side and plovers by the shore etched on the other side, approx. 20"l. Provenance: Property from the collection of Trotter’s Antiques, Pacific Grove CA $ 150 - 250 (lot of 2) Japanese blue-and-white porcelain, Meiji period; a sake serving vessel with long spout and handle, decorated with mountain and dragon above the waves; large 30 rectangular sake bottle with molded blue karajishi, peonies and a crane on the top, largest: 11"l $ 200 - 400 (lot of 4) Japanese cloisonne vase, having a small neck on the bulbous body, with a dragon holding a jewel on a black ground, colorful lappets with phoenix and kiri plants on the 31 shoulder; cloisonne tea pot; Arita vase with marking; together with a ceramic Satsuma Immortal, largest: approx 8"h $ 200 - 400 Page 2 of 68 Japanese cloisonne tray, 19th century, depicting a bird perched on a peony branch and a 32 butterfly, raised brass rim, 5.5"h x 9.5"w $ 200 - 400 (lot of 3) Japanese 19th century porcelain: large Imari sake bottle, square body with phoenix on rounded shoulder, flowers, trees and beauties in gilt and color on a white 33 ground; Hirado sake server, cranes above the waves in blue on a white ground; together with a small pouring vessel, largest: 11.5"h $ 200 - 400 (lot of 3) Japanese large Imari chargers, Meiji period; a phoenix in the center surrounded by flowers and fans in panels; flowers in the center with plum blossoms and quail in 34 panels, both with foliate rims; a flower basket in the center surrounded by garden and phoenix in panels, largest: 18.25"dia. Provenance: The collection of Trotter’s Antiques, Pacific Grove CA $ 200 - 400 (lot of 18) Japanese ceramics: blue-and-white dishes: two rectangular, one deep circular, and one footed with a foliate rim; a dozen transferware foliate plates and a bottle; a 35 rectangular three-tier covered box, blue-and-white miru pattern with one lilac on the top center, largest: 9.75"dia $ 200 - 400 (lot of 2) Japanese ceramic basin, blue-and-white transferware, center well decorated 36 with mountains, trees and the ocean with sailing boats; together with a turquoise colored vase of double-gourd form, both marked with seal on the base, largest: 12.25"dia $ 100 - 200 (lot of 7) Japanese ceramics, Meiji period: one Imari charger, the center with butterflies/flowers in blue-and-white, surrounded by reserves depicting phoenix/flowers 37 in gilt and color; two Imari bowls and two Nabeshima bowls; together with an additional two bowls/dishes, 20th century, largest: 7.25"dia $ 200 - 400 Chinese export porcelain bottle cooler, 18th century, with a foliate rim above a raised conforming band, flanked by shaped handles to the lobed sides, the body decorated with 38 a floral band above sprays of flowers, raised on a splayed foot, 8"h; Provenance: From the Ligonier, PA estate of Richard Mellon Scaife $ 800 - 1,200 39 Chinese export blue-and-white porcelain platter, the well decorated with birds, butterflies and various floral sprays, the rim with additional flowers within a foliate edge, 17.25"w $ 200 - 400 Chinese flambe glazed porcelain garlic head vase, with three raised bands to the neck and 40 a compressed body, 13.75"h $ 200 - 400 41 Chinese bronze vessel, with an everted rim above a low slung body with raised bands and zoomorphic handles, featuring a fish pattern to the well (losses to interior), 12"w $ 500 - 700 Chinese cloisonne enameled vase, with reserves of a pavilion on a blue ground with cloud 42 motifs, 15"h $ 50 - 100 Chinese white porcelain jar, the tapering body incised with peony scrolls below a key-fret 43 band to the shoulder, 15.75"h $ 150 - 250 (lot of 5) Group of Asian decorative items, consisting of a metal sculpture of persimmons 43A with wood stand; a Burmese sutra; a lacquered duck form box; a Chinese cinnabar style box with a landscape scene; and a Chinese wood fragment with a lion, 18"h $ 150 - 250 Page 3 of 68 (lot of 2) Chinese glazed pottery jars, Warring States, one with a tall rim and a short 44 tapering neck above a globular body with raised band pattern; together with an ochre ash glazed globular jar, with stylized lug handles to the shoulders, largest: 13"h.