Ceramic bottle vase, likely Japanese in the Chinese Ge style, with crackle glaze and double incised lines enclosing cobalt blue floral decoration around the neck. Small round paper label to underside for Yamanaka & Co., Fifth Avenue, New York. 10 1/2"H. Note: this bottle vase descended in the family of C. Frederick Childs (1875-1955), founder […]
Lot 337: 2 Chinese Porcelain Fruit Box Forms
Two (2) Chinese green orange peel glazed porcelain boxes in the shape of fruit, including one (1) melon form condiment bowl or dish having a naturalistic handle with applied branches and leaves to lid, terminating in four feet, the turquoise interior with five partitions (4 1/2" H x 9" dia.); and one (1) cooler bowl […]
Lot 336: 3 pcs Chinese Export Blue & White Celadon Porcelain
Three (3) Chinese Export blue and white on celadon ground porcelain items, including two (2) large floor vases with Fenghuang or Chinese phoenix depicted upon a rock amid flowering branches and stylized foo dog handles; and one (1) ginger jar having a decoration of three vases with flowering branches on stands and bud form finial, […]
Lot 335: Pair of Chinese Blue & White Gu-Form Vases
Pair of Chinese blue and white gu-form beaker vases, having flaring rims with foliate decoration to the rim and body. The mid-section and footed base each having four raised white glazed vertical dividers creating panels. The bases with eleven underglaze character marks. 8 1/8" H x 4 3/4" dia. 19th century. PROVENANCE: Private Bristol, Tennessee […]
Lot 334: 3 Chinese Export Blue & White Porcelain Plates
Three (3) Chinese Export blue and white porcelain plates. 1st item: Charger with a bracketed foliate rim and foliate central reserve. Stylized foliate decoration to the underside of the rim together with a blue underglaze six-character Chenghua mark to the base. 12 1/4" dia. Late 19th century/early 20th century. 2nd item: Plate in the "tobacco […]
Lot 333: 16 pcs Chinese Export Blue & White Tea Set, Parcel-Gilt
Sixteen (16) piece Chinese Export blue and white porcelain tea service with subtly reeded bodies, parcel-gilt accents, seaside landscape scenes, and geometrically patterned rims, including one (1) teapot with interlacing, naturalistic handle and gourd or fruit form finial to lid; four (4) tea bowls; five (5) teacups with naturalistic handle; five (5) saucers; and one […]
Lot 332: 6 Early Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Plates
Grouping of six (6) early Chinese Export Famille Rose porcelain plates. 1st item: Porcelain plate, having a reticulated and gilt rim, the center with a polychrome floral spray. Old retailer label en verso reading "McClean Antiques, Macon, Georgia". 9 1/2" dia. 2nd-3rd items: Two (2) porcelain plates, both with pink floral wave decoration to the […]
Lot 331: 4 Chinese Canton Enamel Items
Four (4) Chinese Canton enamel on copper decorative items, including one (1) four piece round form stacking box, having vignettes of scholars in interior settings, figures in garden settings, and landscape scenes, surrounded by scrolling foliate and diaper patterned decorations on a yellow ground, terminating in a round base with turquoise glaze and line decorations, […]
Lot 330: Chinese Reverse Glass Figural Landscape Painting
Chinese reverse glass figural landscape painting depicting a group of noblewomen along a shore, some holding flowering branches or precious objects and one seated behind a desk, each having red character marks to the side. A windowed, red building is depicted to the right with a walled complex, retreating paths, and additional buildings along a […]
Lot 329: 2 Chinese Canal Paintings, incl. Jie Wei Zhou, Huang Youwei
1st item: Jie Wei Zhou (New Mexico/China, b. 1962) oil on panel painting depicting a canal in China flanked by houses on each bank with an arched bridge spanning the water with trees visible in the background. Signed "Jie Wei Zhou" below Chinese characters, lower right. Auction tag affixed, en verso. Housed in a wood […]