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Lot 895: Chinese Molded Dragon Vase and 3 Snuff Bottles

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Chinese Export molded porcelain vase with dragon, pearl and cloud decoration, incised seal mark and CHINA to underside, 6 in. H, together with 2 painted porcelain and 1 fruit carved hardstone snuff bottles, 2 1/4 in. to 3 1/4 in. H. All items early to mid 20th century.  PROVENANCE: The estate (Irrevocable Trust) of Waltraut H. Mizell, […]

Lot 894: Chinese Rose Medallion Square Vase plus Poem Jar

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1st item: Chinese Rose Medallion porcelain vase, square baluster form with gilt, foo dragon handles, 12 in. H. 19th century.  2nd item: Chinese Famille Rose jar and cover featuring hand enameled decoration of a beautiful woman in landscape setting, with calligraphy poem inscription to reverse. 13 in. H. Early 20th century.  CONDITION: 1st item: scattered minor surface wear, […]

Lot 893: Chinese Blue & White Porcelain Vase and 2 Plates

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1st item: Chinese blue and white porcelain sleeve vase decorated with a landscape scene. Underglaze Kangxi (1622-1700) reign mark to underside. 12 1/4 in. H. 2nd – 3rd items: Two (2) Chinese Export blue and white porcelain plates, 8 1/2 in. and 9 in. 19th century.      PROVENANCE: Private Middle Tennessee collection.  CONDITION: Vase in excellent condition. […]

Lot 892: 3 Chinese Blue & White Porcelain Jars

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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

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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

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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 888: 2 Japanese Woodblock Landscape Prints Incl. Hiroshige, Famous Places in Edo

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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

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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 […]