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ORIENTAL and EUROPEAN CERAMICS and GLASS SECOND DAY’S SALE THURSDAY 24th OCTOBER 2013 ORIENTAL AND EUROPEAN CERAMICS AND GLASS Commencing not before 10.30pm Oriental and European Ceramics and Glass will be on view on: Saturday 19th October 9.00am to 1.00pm Sunday 20th October 2.00pm to 4.00pm Monday 21st October 9.00am to 5.15pm Tuesday 22nd October 9.00am to 5.15pm Wednesday 23rd October 9.00am to 5.15pm Limited viewing on sale day Enquiries: Andrew Thomas Enquiries: Nic Saintey Tel: 01392 413100 Tel: 01392 413100 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 553 554 556 551 A Silesian goblet the bell shaped bowl with cut stylised 557 551 decoration and bands of Two Bohemian overlay vases A Dutch light baluster wine printies set on a knopped one green and white overlay glass the bell shaped bowl and faceted stem and domed example of tear drop form engraved with a circular foldover foot, 20.5 cm high. decorated with a circular panel depicting a handshake £100 - 150 panel containing a female flanked by heavily laden grape 555 portrait and two similar panels vines and verso ‘De Gode A Netherlands ‘Façon de containing flowers on a gilt Vrindschap’, set on a hollow Venise’ wine glass the scrolling ground, 20 cm high inverted baluster stem and wrythen moulded conical together with a red and white domed foldover foot, 18.5 cm bowl with blue tinged rim with overlay example of footed high, mid 18th century. basal blade knop on a hollow tear drop form with triangular £200 - 400 inverted baluster stem and panels of flowers alternating 552 conical foot with blue tinged with tooled gilt panels, 23 cm A Dutch wine glass the rim, 16 cm high, 18th century. high. (2) pointed round funnel shaped £150 - 200 £200 - 250 bowl engraved with an anchor 556 below ‘Nach Glück’ set on A Bohemian green and a hollow baluster stem and white overlay vase the bowl domed foldover foot, 16 cm with petal shaped rim set on high. a trumpet shaped foot and £80 - 120 set with raised gold panels of 553 stylised foliage and blooms Two Dutch light baluster alternating with fret cut glasses each with pointed white panels reserved on a gilt round funnel shaped bowl scrolling ground, 23 cm high. on an annulated and inverted £300 - 500 baluster stem containing a series of tears on a conical foot, one engraved beneath the rim with drapes, pendant husks and flowers, 18.5 cm high each, mid 18th century, 557 tiny chips to feet. (2) £300 - 500 138 558 559 558 559 561 A Baccarat dated spaced A Lalique opalescent vase A Murano glass floor vase of millefiori paperweight set ‘Spirales’ the exterior moulded oviform the graduating blue to with a variety of coloured in high relief with scallop orange body with powder blue and butterfly canes and eight edged coils, 17 cm high, inclusions set with scattered animal silhouettes comprising stencilled R. Lalique France, large coloured canes, 50 cm two cockerels, stag, elephant, circa 1930. high. horse, monkey, dog and goat £300 - 400 £200 - 250 and on the flank ‘B 1848’ on 560 562 a bed of diced white latticinio A Lalique opalescent glass Tapio Wrikkala for Littala tubes, 7.5 cm diameter. vase ‘Avallon’ the exterior an art glass vase of tapering £500 - 800 moulded with birds amongst cylindrical form the heavy base fruit and foliage, 14.5 cm high, with inset blue spiral, 22 cm wheel cut R.Lalique, France, high, diamond point etched diamond point etched no.986. Tapio Wrikkala Littala. £500 - 800 £100 - 200 560 561 139 563 A Chinese porcelain vase of swelling cylindrical form with slightly spreading foot painted in blue with four panels bisected by ruyi heads and containing large archiastic masks on a fretted ground between bands of petal lappets beneath smaller line, cell and ruyi head borders, 35.5 cm high, Kangxi, glaze filled firing crack to neck. Bears paper labels for Edward James Collection, West Dean and Christies. Provenance; Sold in Christies dispersal of the Edward James Collection, West Dean, 3rd June 1986, lot 875 £1000 - 1500 140 564 565 564 565 A Chinese pale celadon A Chinese soft paste ‘chicken head’ ewer with porcelain Meiping vase double chicken head spouts painted in blue with two and bound handle the globular attendants in a garden pavilion body incised with flowers displaying a scroll to a scholar and foliage, the pale celadon and companion, 19 cm high, glazed body with darker green apocryphal six character mark 564 detail splashes, 23 cm high. for Kangxi. £300 - 400 £500 - 700 566 A Chinese blue and white wine teapot and cover of fluted beehive form with overhead handle and slender spout, painted with flowering shrubs and rockwork, Kangxi, 18cm high crack to handle, spout and finial. £150 - 200 567 A Chinese blue and white vase of ovoid form, painted with a continuous scene of an extensive water landscape with two figures, a horse to one side and an island in the distance, within two incised foliate bands, Transitional, 15.5cm 566 567 high restored. £100 - 200 141 568 571 569 572 570 572 A Chinese blue and white A pair of Chinese blue dish in the manner of Dutch and white saucer dishes 570 delft with moulded fluted rim, each painted with a central painted in bright blue with a medallion of a lady and a 568 large tiger, a cockerel, a deer dancing child in an interior, A Chinese blue and white and other animals in a rocky the exterior with bamboo yen-yen vase and one other landscape, a dragon amongst branches, floral seal marks the first painted with precious clouds above, flowerhead within concentric rings, objects, concentric ring marks, mark within concentric rings, probably 18th century, 20.5cm 28cm high badly damaged; Kangxi, 25cm diameter. diameter two small rim chips the second painted with a bold £300 - 400 to one, the other with kiln design of scrolling lotus, Kangxi, 571 imperfection and rim chip. 25.5cm high cut-down. (2) A pair of Chinese blue and £100 - 200 £100 - 200 white dishes painted with 573 two hunters on horseback in A Chinese famille rose 569 an extensive landscape, the cylindrical mug painted with A pair of Chinese blue and moulded barbed rims with a various figures in a garden or white saucer dishes with repeated design of scrolling lotus on terraces within underglaze fluted rims, painted with and precious objects, apocryphal blue cartouche and foliate peaches and pomegranates, six character Chenghua marks, panels, Qianlong, 13.5cm the undersides with auspicious probably 18th century, 23cm high. characters and floral sprays, diameter one damaged. £120 - 180 six-character Kangxi marks £200 - 250 within concentric rings and of the period, 16cm diameter. £200 - 300 142 574 576 574 576 578 Five Chinese porcelain spoon A collection of Chinese A group of Chinese celadon- trays of oval or hexagonal blue and white tea wares glazed wares including form four painted in blue with all painted with flowers and a small dish with incised a different landscape within foliage, including a fluted foliate design, Song dynasty, diaper or cell borders and teabowl and saucer, hatched 11.5cm diameter [paper label one with a central peony and seal marks; a pair of teabowls for Sydney L.Moss]; a small scattered blooms, each 12.5 and saucers, character marks; baluster jar and a cover, 6cm cm long, Qianlong. (5) and nineteen various teabowls high; and a ‘twin-fish’ bowl, £100 - 150 and saucers, mostly Kangxi, the cavetto moulded with two 575 minor damages (25). fish within a ring, the exterior A group of Chinese famille £200 - 400 moulded with ribs, 22cm rose tea wares including a 577 diameter cracked. (3) pair of teacups and saucers Three Chinese porcelain £100 - 200 painted with a lake landscape stands one of oval form with a boy riding a water painted in blue with a lakeside buffalo, deer and birds; a landscape within a diaper pair of saucers and matching border, 31 cm long slight cup finely painted with a lake glaze wear, a small oval stand scene with squirrels, peacocks painted with a pair of phoenix and geese cup damaged, one in a garden setting, 19 cm saucer with star crack; and a long slight chip and a small teabowl and saucer painted canted rectangular example with figures and floral sprays, painted with a pair of cranes in all Qianlong (9). a fenced garden, 19 cm long, £80 - 120 both within diaper borders, all 578 Qianlong. (3) £150 - 180 575 577 143 579 A large Chinese bottle vase: painted in iron red and gilt with lappet bands of chrysanthemum below further bands of stiff leaves and narrow lattice, 45 cm high, concentric ring marks to base, Kangxi. £1000 – 1500 144 580 A Chinese famille verte jar and cover of squat cylindrical form with domed cover the exterior enamelled with pairs of magpies amongst prunus, peony, chrysanthemum, foliage and rocks below narrow lotus panelled bands, 25 cm high, Kangxi, jar cracked and stapled. £500-800 581-584 No Lots. 585 A Chinese porcelain wine pot of pear shaped form enamelled in the famille rose palette with chrysanthemum and peony below a diaper band, 12 cm high, Qianlong, cover restored. £150 – 200 586 A Chinese porcelain oviform jar enamelled in the famille verte palette with a pair 580 of quadrilobed panels and subsidiary oval and leaf shaped panels containing household and precious objects reserved on a powder blue ground, 21 cm high, concentric ring marks, but probably early 19th century, together with a hardwood cover.
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