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Fine Oriental & European Works Of Hannam’s Auctioneers Hannam’s Thursday 10 July 2014 10 July Thursday Hannam’s Auctioneers The Old Dairy Norton Farm Selborne Hampshire Fine Oriental GU34 3NB & European Tel: 01420 511788 Works of Art hannamsauctioneers.com Thursday 10 July 2014 Lot 40 Lot 22 Lot 1 Lot 78 Lot 2 Lot 41 Fine Oriental & European Works of Art Thursday 10 July 2014 at 11am Order of sale Oriental Works of Art (lots 1-266) European Works of Art (lots 301-542) Viewing times Monday 7th July 10am till 4pm Tuesday 8th July 10am till 4pm Wednesday 9th July 10am till 4pm Morning of sale from 9am Full catalogue & bidding (online and telephone bidding registration will close 24 hours prior to the auction) the-saleroom.com liveauctioneers.com Cover illustrations: Lot 8 (front), Lot 304 (back) The Old Dairy, Norton Farm, Selborne, Hampshire GU34 3NB Tel: 01420 511788 hannamsauctioneers.com Buying at Hannam’s Buying at auction is a simple yet exciting experience. We offer these Payment following ways to buy with us: You may pay with cash up to £10,000, cheque (only accepted Buying in Person upon prior arrangement), credit Customers wishing to attend the sale will need to register to bid on and debit cards, wire transfer sale day. We require your full name, address, telephone number and or bankers draft. Please note a in certain circumstances a bank reference. You will be issued with a handling fee of 3% is payable on numbered paddle which you will need to bid with. When the lot is all credit card transactions. Debit being sold, raise your paddle clearly so the auctioneer can see, and he cards are no extra charge. Credit will acknowledge your bid. The auctioneer with accept increasing bids or debit card payments must from interested parties until one bidder remains. The final bidder is the be made in person unless prior successful buyer. arrangements have been agreed upon. For further details contact Absentee Bid the office. You must pay for your For customers unable to attend the auction they may leave an purchase immediately following Absentee bid with the auctioneer, also known as a Commission or the sale. All funds must be Written bid. We are happy to execute these bids on your behalf and cleared before goods are released will purchase the lot as cheaply as possible, other bids and reserves for collection or delivery. We permitting. Forms are available in the saleroom during the viewing request purchases are collected period and in the back of the catalogue. Once completed can be immediately following sale. If you returned to the auctioneers office. Absentee and telephone bids are require us the store the items for offered as a free service and at the buyer’s risk, we cannot accept you, this can be arranged at cost liability for any failure to place such bids. with a member of staff. Telephone Bid Delivery Telephone bidding works in a similar way to Absentee bidding, Our recommended companies however a member of staff will telephone you just before your for national or internationally selected lot is due to come under the hammer. You will then be able delivery of items are Mailboxes to bid live over the telephone for the lot, with the member of staff Guildford and Essential Address. conveying your bid to the auctioneer. This facility is offered for all They will be happy to provide sales with the exception of Saturday Antique auctions. The minimum you with a quote for packing and lot value for a telephone bid is £500. Because telephone lines are shipping. Customers are invited limited, telephone bids must be booked at least 24 hours in advance to contact Mailboxes or Essential of the sale. Telephone bids are accepted at the sole discretion of the Address directly, or if you prefer, auctioneer. Absentee and telephone bids are offered as a free service we can request this on your and at the buyer’s risk, we cannot accept liability for any failure to behalf. place such bids, and bids are accepted at the buyer’s risk. Essential Address Hannam’s auctions are easy to view, and clients may view without 01276 684 840 any obligation or pressure to buy. Catalogues are available showing [email protected] estimated prices. Auctioneers are on hand to give advice and information on what you are buying. Mailboxes Guildford 01483 453131 Buyer’s Premium [email protected] For all sales, the buyer will pay the hammer price plus a buyer’s premium, unless stated by the auctioneer. Fine Art Sales: 20% + VAT on the commission. Catalogue produced by 2 hannamsauctioneers.com Oriental Works of Art 1 A CHINESE QING DYNASTY PORCELAIN ROULEAU VASE Guangxu, Kangxi Style, painted with landscapes and encased within panels of insects and foliage. 17.5ins high. See illustration on inside back cover. £300-500 2 A CHINESE MING STYLE WUCAI PORCELAIN MEIPING VASE possibly 18th Century, enamelled with a central four claw dragon. 13.5ins high. See illustration on inside back cover. £300-500 3 A FINE 19TH CENTURY CHINESE CARVED HONGMU DESK the top carved with a pair of birds perched amongst flowering vines, over a central shelf with twin panel doors, upon a base of one long and four short drawers. 4ft x 1ft 11ins. £3000-5000 Lot 3 4 A GOOD 19TH CENTURY CHINESE CARVED HARDWOOD ALTAR TABLE rectangular top with carved frieze depicting precious objects and urns containing flowers, upon square carved legs. 6ft 9ins x 3ft 5ins. £3000-5000 hannamsauctioneers.com 3 Lot 5 Lot 6 5 7 9 A CHINESE QING DYNASTY A LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY A 19TH CENTURY CHINESE CARVED MUTTON JADE FIGURE CHINESE EXPORT PLATE CARVED RED LACQUER BRUSH OF A RAM modelled with a Kangxi, decorated with a POT bearing Wanli marks to base, lingzhi fungus within its mouth. flowering tree, together with decorated with pagodas within 2ins wide. a mid 20th century elaborate landscapes. 5.75ins £200-300 painted hardstone screen. high. 8.75ins & 1ft 2ins wide. (2) Provenance: Private European 6 £40-60 Collection. AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY £300-500 CHINESE CARVED GREEN JADE 8 FRUITING POD of naturalistic A LOVELY CHINESE QING 10 form with lotus under carving. DYNASTY CARVED WOOD A MID 19TH CENTURY CHINESE 2.5ins wide. BUST OF LUOHAN possibly CARVED CANTON IVORY £200-300 18th Century, elegantly modelled BASKET AND COVER depicting with a sureen expression, upon a figures on horseback within later perspex base. Bust 12.75ins extensive landscapes in various high. pursuits, with vacant cartouche. Provenance: Private Local 10.25ins x 9ins. Collection. £400-600 £300-500 Lot 8 Lot 9 4 hannamsauctioneers.com Lot 10 Lot 11 11 14 17 A CHINESE REPUBLICAN A SET OF FIVE CHINESE REPUB- A CHINESE PORCELAIN PERIOD PORCELAIN FIGURE OF LICAN PERIOD WHITE METAL ENAMELLED CIRCULAR BOWL A BUDDHA modelled seated BUTTONS decorated with a 20th Century, finely decorated smiling, holding prayer beads, in portrait and foliage. 1.5ins with two birds perched amongst famille jaune robes. 9.75ins high. wide. (5) foliage. 5.25ins diameter. £200-300 £60-80 £200-300 12 15 18 A LATE 19TH CENTURY JAPANESE A CHINESE CANTON ENAMEL A PAIR OF CHINESE MEIJI PERIOD IVORY NETSUKE SNUFF BOTTLE AND STOPPER MONOCHROME PORCELAIN modelled as a young male bearing Qianlong marks to base, STEM CUPS bearing Wanli marks holding an axe, seated upon a 20th Century, decorated with to base, 20th century, of plain ear. Signed. 2ins high. landscapes. 2.25ins high. form. 3.75ins high. £100-150 £80-120 £80-120 13 16 A CHINESE CARVED GREEN JADE A LATE 19TH CENTURY JAPANESE SNUFF BOTTLE AND STOPPER MEIJI PERIOD IVORY NETSUKE possibly 19th century, bearing in the form of figures beneath hall mark to reverse, carved with a house, together with another a scholar. 3.25ins high. similar group. 1.5ins & 1.25ins £80-120 wide. (2) £200-300 Lot 16 Lot 17 hannamsauctioneers.com 5 Lot 19 Lot 20 Lot 23 Lot 24 Lot 29 19 21 23 AN 18TH/19TH CENTURY A 19TH CENTURY CHINESE A CHINESE MING DYNASTY CHINESE BRONZE CENSER with CARVED RED LACQUER DISH BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN twin buddhistic lions, inlaid in depicting a hut within an 16th/17th Century, modelled gold with opposing mythical extensive landscape. 5.5ins square. seated upon a recumbent birds and foliage. 8.25ins high. £80-120 elephant, traces of gilt £600-800 remnants and enamel to face. 22 8.5ins x 5.75ins. 20 A FINE EARLY 20TH CENTURY £300-500 A LATE 19TH CENTURY JAPANESE JAPANESE MEIJI PERIOD MEIJI PERIOD BRONZE FIGURE SHIBAYAMA SCREEN in the 24 OF A FISHERMAN modelled with manner of Masayuki, inlaid in AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY his catch upon his back, together mother of pearl, coral and horn, CHINESE PORCELAIN TABLE with another Japanese bronze depicting herons and an eagle SCREEN ON STAND Guangxu, fisherman. Signed. 11.75ins & within a landscape. Signed. painted with two figures within 8ins high. (2) 1ft 3.5ins x 9.25ins. a mountainous landscape, £400-600 See illustration on inside front cover. contained within a wood frame. £2000-3000 Porcelain 10ins x 5.5ins. £200-300 6 hannamsauctioneers.com Lot 30 Lot 35 Lot 36 25 30 35 AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY A CHINESE GE TYPE CRACKLE A RARE CHINESE QING DYNASTY CHINESE PEKING GLASS SNUFF GLAZED VASE Late Qing, with CARVED IVORY ARCHERS RING BOTTLE with amber finial and brown rim and baluster body. probably 18th/19th Century, of carved shoulders. 2.5ins high. 5.5ins high. cylindrical form. 1.25ins high. £80-120 £150-200 £80-120 26 31 36 A CHINESE CARVED WHITE A CHINESE PORCELAIN A CHINESE PORCELAIN CIRCULAR HARDSTONE CIRCULAR BANGLE CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER TEABOWL bearing Qianlong possibly Jade, of plain form.
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