Three (3) Chinese blue and white porcelain items, including a lidded ginger jar depicting warriors and scholars in a landscape setting, a vase depicting a royal procession, and a small vase with blue and white figural decoration to the central body with carved celadon glazed designs around the top and base. Ranging in size from 5 […]
Lot 891: 3 Chinese Export Rose Medallion Pieces, Pitcher & Platters
Three (3) Chinese Export Rose Medallion porcelain items, including a tall water pitcher with a bamboo handle, a round charger, and an oval platter, each decorated with alternating polychrome enamel vignettes of court and landscape scenes, with birds, insects, and flowers, with gilt highlights throughout. Pitcher: 12 7/8 in. H. Round charger: 13 1/2 in. dia. Oval […]
Lot 890: Pair Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Moon Flasks
Large pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain moon flasks, with scholar and landscape decoration to the bodies, triple-tiered spouts and flaring round bases. 17 1/2 in. H x 12 1/2 in. W x 3 in. D. 20th century. PROVENANCE: The estate of Eleanor Jacobs, Nashville, TN. CONDITION: Overall good condition with some scattered firing […]
Lot 889: Chinese Export Rose Mandarin Porcelain Bowl, Scalloped Rim and 4 Chinese Blue & White Porcelain Items
1st item: Chinese Export Rose Mandarin porcelain low bowl, with deeply scalloped rim, the interior with alternating vignettes of figures and foliate with bird decoration, the exterior with figures engaging in various activities. 2 3/4 in. H x 10 1/2 in. dia. Late 19th century. 2nd-5th items: Grouping of four (4) Chinese blue and white porcelain […]
Lot 888: 2 Japanese Woodblock Landscape Prints Incl. Hiroshige, Famous Places in Edo
Item 1: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japan, 1797-1858) horizontal oban woodblock print entitled “Visiting the Fudo Temple in Meguro (Meguro Fudo mode)” from the series Famous Places in Edo, 1827-1839. Signed and sealed in the image, upper left, and titled to margin, upper right (under frame). With red feather-within-a-square stamp en verso, lower left, likely an unidentified collector’s mark. An […]
Lot 887: 2 Japanese Woodblock Prints, Hiroshige & Hokusai
1st item: Katsushika Hokusai (Japan, 1760-1849) woodblock landscape print, “Seaside Village in Winter,” from Hokusai shashin gafu (Hokusai’s Album of Realistic Pictures), 1814. Housed in a window mat. Sheet: 8 3/4 in. H x 13 1/4 in. W. 2nd item: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japan, 1797-1858) figural woodblock print, “Namazu: Shinra Saburo (Minamoto no Yoshimitsu),” section of harimaze sheet three from Gojusan tsugi harimaze […]
Lot 886: 2 Japanese Woodblock Prints, Mitsui Atsuo & After Kuniyoshi, Plus 2 Facsimiles of Early Prints
1st item: Mitsui Atsuo (Japan, 1900-2000) shin hanga color woodblock print, “Kawarasaki Gonjuro,” 1957, possibly a later printing. The actor Kawarasaki Gonjuro III holds an inro, with passages of embossing throughout. From the series Figures on the Stage (Butai sugata). Housed in a decorative window mat. Sight: 13 1/2 in. H x 9 7/8 in. W. Mat: 19 1/4 […]
Lot 885: 3 Chinese Scroll Paintings, Landscapes & Calligraphy
1st item: Ink and color on silk Chinese landscape scroll painting with buildings nestled within mountains and birds soaring throughout, late 19th/early 20th c. Mountains are described with long hemp fiber and axe-cut brush strokes typical of period. Inscription and seal to lower right. Housed in wooden box with calligraphic inscription. Image: 46 3/4 in. H x 14 1/2 in. W. […]
Lot 884: Two Chinese Door of Hope Dolls
Pair of two (2) Chinese “Door of Hope” Mission Dolls, each with finely detailed carved heads and hands, handmade traditional silk coats and skirts, and pointed silk shoes, supported on detachable metal stands. Each approximately 11 in. H. Circa 1930s-40s. Note: the Door of Hope Mission opened in Shanghai in 1901 as a Protestant Mission […]
Lot 883: Pair of Japanese Meiji Bronze Crane Candlesticks
Pair of Japanese Meiji period bronze candlesticks, each depicting a crane standing atop a turtle symbolizing longevity and happiness, with three foliate form candle arms and lotus blossoms to the bases. Unmarked. 21 in. H x 9 1/4 in. D x 7 in. W. Circa 1900. PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga area collection. CONDITION: One candlestick is missing […]
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