Lot 780: 8 Chinese Porcelain Items incl. Panama Pacific Exhibited

Grouping of eight (8) Chinese or Chinese export porcelain items. 1st item: Paris Edme Samson Chinese Export armorial porcelain plate, in the Chinese taste, bearing the arms and motto (Abstulit Qui Dedit) of William Stafford Howard, 2nd Earl of Stafford. 9 1/2" dia. 19th century. 2nd item: Chinese Famille Verte bottle form vase, now fitted as a lamp, with fish, bat, and flowering branch decoration. Fitted with a gilt bronze cap and vase. 14 1/2" total H. 3rd – 5th items: Three (3) Chinese Famille Rose porcelain plates, all with figural landscape decoration. Two have Panama-Pacific International Exposition Exhibit US Customs labels, all with illegible retailer tags, and one has an inscription and red seal on the upper right. Ranging in size from 8 1/2" dia. to 9" dia. 6th item: Chinese porcelain covered dish with flower finial to the lid, iron red 5-toe dragon decoration, and red hallmarks on the base. 2 3/4" H. 7th item: Chinese blue and white porcelain snuff bottle, round form with 5-toe dragon decoration, a coral stopper, and four blue hallmarks on the base. 2 3/4" H. 8th item: Chinese Famille Rose porcelain snuff bottle, flattened vase form with figural landscape decoration and red seal mark to the base. 2 1/2" H. Items ranging in age from mid 19th to early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN collection.

CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition. 2nd item: The base has been drilled otherwise overall very good condition. Lamp functions at time of inspection. 3rd – 5th items: Plate depicting figures on bride with losses to gilt decoration on rim, otherwise overall very good condition. Remaining plates with losses to gilt decoration and minor fleabites to the rims. 6th item: Overall very good condition. 7th item: Fleabites to the base and rim, otherwise overall good condition. 8th item: Missing stopper, otherwise overall good condition.