Fine Art, Asian & Antiques

Hugo Marsh Neil Thomas Forrester Director Shuttleworth Director Director Fine Art, Asian & Antiques Wednesday 5th May 2021 at 10.00 For information regarding this auction, please contact Special Auction Services Plenty Close Off Hambridge Road NEWBURY RG14 5RL Telephone: 01635 580595 Email: [email protected] www.specialauctionservices.com Nick Forrester Helen Bennett Antiques & Antiques & Fine Art Fine Art Due to the nature of the items in this auction, buyers must satisfy themselves concerning their authenticity prior to bidding and returns will not be accepted, subject to our Terms and Conditions. Additional images are available on request. Buyers Premium with SAS & SAS LIVE: 20% plus Value Added Tax making a total of 24% of the Hammer Price the-saleroom.com Premium: 25% plus Value Added Tax making a total of 30% of the Hammer Price 1. An interesting Chinese cast 11. An early 20th Century black 21. A South East Asian polychrome Our biannual Asian sales in the antique department aim to shine a light on the arts of Asia and to offer decorators pieces for creating bronze censer or food vessell of archaic lacquer bound photograph album, with wall cabinet opening to reveal a series an Asian interior. form with twin handled Taotie masks, a waterside and mountain scene, possibly of mythical mask heads, 43cm x 43cm x the raised design of mythical creatures of Mount Fuji, 42.5cm x 27cm 15cm The sale opens with an interesting large bronze twin handled ritual food vessel or burner, of archaic form with twin handled Taotie heightened with cloisonné enamel, the £30-50 £50-100 masks and cloisonné enamel. much patinated base removable and with reign marks, height 20cm, diameter 12. A walking stick inset with a blue 22. A South East Asian wall carving Lot 119 the attractively green glazed meiping vase is estimated at £800-£1200. The ceramics industry in China was typically centred 35cm, and white Chinese porcelain, having of architectural form with multiple around Jingdezhen yet the Chinese actually had many other regional kilns. Cizhou wares were predominantly Northern and in £1500-2000 a floral design with a key fret meander miniature crouching and winged deities, production from the late Tang to the early Ming. Although these were populist and not Imperial wares, such pieces reveal a nation pattern, length of cane 94.5cm 58cm x 42cm far advanced in it’s ceramic technology. 2. A group of Asian polychrome £60-80 £60-100 wooden panels, the largest 36cm x 15cm Ox blood glaze or ‘langyaohong’ was developed during the late Kangxi period. The addition of copper oxide was used in an attempt (group) 13. A table top camphor wood 23. A Chinese cast metal lamp to revive the Xuande copper red wares. Lot 182 is a later example of this which had been converted to a lamp. It is offered at £300 - £40-60 chest, with a carved phoenix and dragon base of cylindrical form with encircling £500. design, 19cm x 30cm x 20cm dragons chasing the flaming pearl, 3. A pair of Asian raised pierced £50-70 raised on a hardwood stand, height 89cm Although of European origin, there is a lovely set of Samson of Paris porcelain plates in the Yongzheng export style – lot 146. The plant pot stands, 28cm x 25cm £70-100 factory were masters at emulating the porcelain works of other producers. £50-100 14. A ‘Tsung Shung Chong’ cased We are now inviting entries for our November Asian sale and our quarterly fine art sale in July. secret compartment mah jong set, 24. A pair of Chinese cast metal 4. A 20th Century oriental stone with a design of dragons and mythical lamp bases with a design of phoenixes Other highlights in the general order of sale are lot 240 a post war glass bowl designed by Edward Hald of Orrefors, known as a graal, ware and celadon polychrome garden beast handle, with each side sliding to and dancing boys, height 50cm or 'grail' fish bowl. The inscription potentially dates the piece to 1948. Offered for sale at £150-250. set, comprising of circular pedestal table reveal the contents, which appear to £80-100 and four matching stools decorated with be a complete or near complete group Lot 269 provides a rather nice connection between the glass making industry and the ceramics, being a group of individually hand a foliate design, table diameter 68cm high of dominos and sticks and original 25. A pair of Chinese cloisonné painted Wedgwood plates manufactured for James Powell and Sons of Conduit Street. The Whitefriars glass company. Estimated at 71 cm instruction manual, 24cm x 40cm enamel vases of ovoid form, with a £100-£200. £100-200 £60-80 design of blossoming branches and ruyi head sceptres, height 17cm, together Order of sale 5. A Chinese hardstone figure of 15. A late 19th Century Chinese with a four footed brass stand, a brass galloping horses, height 22cm, length carved box table, carved with auspicious South East Asian plaque of the head of Lot 1 - 201 Asian art and Asian interiors 38cm, together with a stand (2) symbols and dragons, 72cm x 46cm x deity and a soapstone figure (5) £150-250 18.5cm, height when erect 56.5cm £60-100 Lot 202 - 294 Object d’art £300-500 6. A Japanese Meiji period sword 26. A selection of reference books Lot 295 – 383 Prints, Works on paper & Oil Paintings in ivory sheaf, with profusely carved 16. Two Asian table top screens, on the subject of Asian art, to include a decoration of Immortals, one holding a with inset samples of stone and mother mid 20th Century Japanese ‘The Masters Lot 384 – 488 Furniture staff with a phoenix, length 49cm of pearl, height 36.5cm, together with a View of Ikebana’, Owen Jones ‘The £200-300 pottery wall pocket of misshapen form Grammar of Chinese Ornament’ and Please note this is a non-attended auction. If you are not already registered to bid please do so, or email: mail@ of grey brown hue and novelty pair of ‘The Grammar of Japanese Ornament’, specialauctionservices.com 7. An Asian brass tripod mythical baoding balls (4) Anthony Du Boulay ‘Chinese Ceramics’ creature censer, with expressive face and £50-100 and others on samurai swords and void in mouth, probably Chinese early netsuke (group) Lot 363 20th Century, height 14cm 17. A cloisonné enamel covered pot £40-60 £80-120 in the form of a pumpkin, together with a sancai glazed Dog of Fo, height 19cm 27. A cast metal South East Asian 8. An Asian cast metal figure of a £30-50 Hindu figure raised on a lotus panel Buddhist lion dog playing with a brocade plinth, height 16.5cm ball, with curly tail and outstretched 18. A pair of Asian interior table top £80-120 tongue, height 18.5cm lamps raised on stands, height including £80-120 shades 85cm 28. A Chinese horn carving of the £40-60 immortal Shou Lao and staff, height 9. An Asian lacquered wood 22cm, vase with gilt decoration of butterflies 19. A pair of South East Asian £100-150 conjoined to garlands of plant life, gilt and polychrome figures of female height 40cm immortals raised upon dragons, one 29. An Indian desk stand and £40-60 with an entangled boy, height 59cm inkwell in the form of a leaf, with £100-200 profuse foliate decoration, 11cm x 24cm 10. An Asian lacquered metal vase £40-60 with inset mother of pearl decoration 20. A brush pot with carved design forming birds in blossoming branches, of a warrior on horseback, weighted to 30. A Chinese study of a peach height 23cm the base, height 39cm executed in mookite, with associations £40-60 £60-100 of longevity, 6cm x 4.5cm £100-200 2 www.specialauctionservices.com www.specialauctionservices.com 3 31. A Chinese jade carving of a 41. Two Meiji period Japanese ivory 50. A carved wooden artefact, of 60. A Chinese teapot of squat form 69. A Chinese glass snuff bottle with 79. A Japanese style metalwork leaf, possibly a snuff bottle, with cork okimono figures, one a male figure near boat shape with carved alternating with a design of five Immortals amidst a panel of fishermen in a boat and to the crab, of naturalistic form, diameter 13cm remnant, together with miniature stand, crouching by a bundle of flower cuttings, panels, 8cm x 20cm clouds, height 14cm, lacking cover if one verso goldfish, together with another £50-70 7cm x 4cm scissors in hand, dimensions 7cm x 9.5cm £70-100 was originally there with bees flying towards flowering £200-300 x 7.5cm, the other a study of a craftsman £70-100 branches and a mountainous landscape, 80. A Japanese style metalwork or trader, together with an Anglo-Indian 51. A Chinese cloisonné enamel tallest 7.5cm fish, being ridden by a rodent, height 32. A Chinese jade miniature turned ivory chess piece with puzzle ball covered pot with a central design of 61. A pair of metal mounted bone £50-70 6.5cm scholars desk brush rest, or objet d’art stem and two others (5) three conjoined fruits, diameter 9cm, miniature vessels of globular form, £50-70 with auspicious symbols and turned legs, £150-250 together with a Japanese covered pot height of each approximately 5.5cm (2) 70. An Chinese ink on paper scroll 3cm x 3.5cm x 6cm, with wooden stand with cloisonné enamel work, a copper £40-60 with a naturalistic design of branches 81. A Japanese style metalwork £300-500 42. A Chinese marine ivory carving and brass pill pot with a design of a toad of white flowers, with calligraphy and beetle, of naturalistic form, length 12cm of a lady with an umbrella, probably and artist’s signature to verso, a copper 62.

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