Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Tuesday, December 06 2011
Two Day Sale of Fine Art, Antiques and Collectables
Viewing Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 12pm-4pm, Monday 10am-7pm immediately prior to sale. Open on mornings of sale (Tuesday and Wednesday) from 8.30am until 10am for viewing. Sale starts promptly at 10am each day. Please remember that if you want to leave a commission bid or bid by telephone we need all instructions by Monday 6.30pm before sale.
A pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain baluster shaped jars and covers painted with figures in landscapes, the covers with moulded "Dog of Fo" finials, 14.25ins high (some damage)
Guide Price: £1500-2000
A 17th Century Chinese blue and white porcelain baluster shaped vase decorated with figures and parasols, on a terrace, 9.75ins (247mm) high (square seal mark to base in underglaze blue) - (rim chipped and fritted in numerous places)
Guide Price: £450-600
Lot 816 SOLD FOR: £ 480
A Chinese blue and white porcelain bulbous ginger jar, the shaped reserves with fan pattern panels decorated with figures on a terrace and various other utensils interspersed by floral ornament, 10.25ins (255mm) high, (leaf pattern mark in underglaze, blue to base - Kangxi period) - (rim extensively restored) and turned rosewood stand and with fretted and carved rosewood cover for same
Guide Price: £450-600
A Chinese Blanc-de-Chine porcelain standing figure of Guan Yin, holding a vase in her right hand, on circular base, 17.125ins (435mm) high (firing crack to base and fingers chipped and damged)
Guide Price: £200-300
A 20th Century Chinese porcelain baluster shaped vase decorated in colours with a river landscape and to reverse with character marks by Wang Yejing (1884-1952) of Ping Shan Studio, 15.5ins (394mm) high
Guide Price: £500-700
A Chinese Blanc de Chine porcelain libation cup of ovoid shape, the exterior moulded in relief with mythical beast, deer and leafage, 2.75ins high (70mm) x 5.5ins (138mm) overall, and hardwood stand for same, and one other Chinese Blanc de Chine cup with partly fluted body, moulded in relief to the exterior with Prunus blossom, 3ins (75mm) high x 3ins (75mm) diameter, and hardwood stand for same
Guide Price: £500-700
Lot 820 SOLD FOR: £ 180
A Chinese porcelain circular plate finely enamelled in colours in the "Jesuit" manner with a nativity scene, the borders with cornucopias of flowers and leaves and leaf scroll ornament, 9ins (230mm) diameter (chipped, cracked, broken, in three pieces and restuck)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 821 SOLD FOR: £ 980
A Chinese "Ysing" pottery "Red ware" teapot and lid of stylised leaf shape, 3.75ins high, an early 19th Century Chinese pewter and hardstone teapot in the shape of a temple gong with a poetic couplet in two-seven character lines to one side, 3.75ins high (damaged), and a 19th Century Chinese carved vessel with birds and prunus blossom, 4ins x 3.25ins high
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 822 SOLD FOR: £ 420
A Chinese porcelain blue and white "Sleeve" vase painted with chrysanthemums, pomegranates, leaves and birds, 14ins high (four character mark to base -damaged), a Blanc-de-Chine figure of "Guan Lin", 5.5ins high, a moulded vase with dragon handles decorated in the "Famille Verte" palette with women in a landscape, 9.25ins high, and a quantity of Oriental ceramics, various
Guide Price: £250-300
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Lot 823 SOLD FOR: £ 100
A Chinese blue and white porcelain saucer shaped dish painted with a four clawed dragon pursuing a pearl amongst clouds, the underside decorated with stylised waves, 11.5ins diameter x 2.25ins high (Kangxi period - unmarked - damaged)
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 824 SOLD FOR: £ 1900
Two Chinese porcelain brush pots in the "Famille Verte" palette, 5ins and 5.25ins high (damaged), and a Chinese blue and white bottle shaped vase painted with figures on horses and on foot within a landscape, 9.75ins high (blue concentric circle mark to base)
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 825 SOLD FOR: £ 270
A Chinese porcelain rice bowl and cover enamelled in colours with cloud motifs and circular panels containing characters on a yellow ground, bowl 8ins diameter (203mm) diameter x 3.5ins (90mm) high (six character mark to base - Qin Dynasty - Guangxu period)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 826 SOLD FOR: £ 190
An 18th Century Chinese porcelain baluster shaped vase with monochromed cracklelure glaze, and hardwood stand for same, 9ins high (damaged)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 827 SOLD FOR: £ 480
A Chinese porcelain baluster shaped vase painted with scrolling flowers and leaves on a turquoise ground, with fitted ormolu base (drilled for a lamp), 18ins high (neck reduced)
Guide Price: £200-300
A late 18th Century Chinese blue and white porcelain octagonal dish painted with a pagoda on an island within stylised moth and flower border, 9ins x 11.5ins, and a similar dish painted with a bridge, rocks, bamboo and peonies within a stylised border, 7.25ins x 10.75ins (minor chipping to both)
Guide Price: £350-500
Lot 829 SOLD FOR: £ 2300
A pair of early 20th Century Chinese Benjarong ware porcelain bowls and covers decorated in colours with deities, 7ins diameter x 7.25ins high
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 830 SOLD FOR: £ 1750
An early 20th Century Chinese porcelain Benjarong ware bowl and cover decorated in coloured enamels with deities, 5.5ins diameter x 6.75ins high (cracked), a Benjarong ware bowl similarly decorated, 7ins diameter x 3.25ins high, and a selection of similar wares, various
Guide Price: £200-300
A 19th Century Chinese blue and white porcelain jar and cover painted with an Oriental landscape, 8ins diameter x 8.75ins high (excludes height to cover), and a similar jar and cover, 6.5ins diameter x 6.25ins high
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 832 SOLD FOR: £ 520
A Chinese blue and white porcelain globular shaped vase painted with dragons amongst flowering shrubs, 5ins high (four character mark to base), a pair of Chinese bottle shaped vases painted in blue and white and later decorated in colours with dragons amongst flowering shrubs, 7ins high (red square seal marks to bases - damaged), and five Chinese vases, various
Guide Price: £150-200
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A small collection of 18th and 19th Century Chinese blue and white porcelain, comprising - plate with bamboo, fence and chrysanthemum pattern, 9ins diameter, a plate with a central vase with bamboo rock work and flowering shrubs, a small circular dish with a landscape, 6.5ins diameter, and eight other pieces, various
Guide Price: £200-300
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A Chinese Amorial porcelain circular bowl enamelled in the "Famille Rose" manner with floral sprigs and with armorial, 11.25ins (285mm) diameter x 5ins (127mm) high (Qianlong period - broken and restuck to rim)
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 835 SOLD FOR: £ 140
A Chinese porcelain baluster shaped vase decorated in the"Famille Verte" palette with flowering branches issuing from vases, and panels of script between formal borders, 23ins high (cracked)
Guide Price: £150-200
An 18th Century Chinese blanc-de-chine standing figure of Guan Yin (later fixed to a base with fitting for an electric lamp), 20.5ins high (damaged), and three other modern blanc-de-chine figures
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 836A SOLD FOR: £ 290
A Chinese blue and white porcelain dish decorated with birds amongst rockwork and flowering branches, 11ins diameter (six character mark to base)
Guide Price: £300-400
A Chinese porcelain brush pot decorated in Famille Verte colours with birds amongst branches, 5ins high, with hardwood stand
Guide Price: £1500-2000
A Chinese porcelain bottle-shaped vase decorated in colours in the 'Cantonese' manner with people in landscapes, 13ins high (restored)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 838 SOLD FOR: £ 420
A Japanese "Satsuma" pottery wine vessel and cover modelled in the form of a mythical bird, the whole decorated in blue, turquoise, orange and green, 6.5ins (165mm) high (unmarked - Meiji period - upper beak broken and restuck) Provenance : Purchased from Joyce's, 13 Quarry Street, Guildford, Surrey, 17th March 1962, and with copy of receipt indicating from the Collection of Sir Adrian Boult
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 839 SOLD FOR: £ 300
A Japanese "Satsuma" pottery wine vessel and cover modelled in the form of a mythical bird, the whole decorated in blue, turquoise, orange, green and yellow with a dragon and stylised pattern design, 6.75ins (172mm) high (unmarked - Meiji period) Provenance : Purchased from Joyce's, 13 Quarry Street, Guildford, Surrey, 17th March 1962, and with copy of receipt indicating from the Collection of Sir Adrian Boult
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 840 SOLD FOR: £ 130
A pair of 20th Century Japanese porcelain dishes of lobed outline painted with carp and blossom, 12.5ins diameter (signed to base)
Guide Price: £120-160
Two Japanese "Arita" blue and white porcelain baluster shaped vases decorated with pavilions within a mountain landscape, 10.125ins (254mm) and 10ins (252mm) high (circa 1700 - both slightly misshapen in firing and one with chip to rim)
Guide Price: £1000-1500
A pair of early 20th Century Japanese "Satsuma" pottery baluster shaped vases decorated with Immortals and figures in landscapes, 2.75ins high (seal marks to base)
Guide Price: £150-200
Two Japanese pottery miniature dishes of shaped outline painted in colours with flowers outlined in gilt, .75ins high (with red script marks to bases), and a Japanese porcelain double gourd vase decorated in overglazed enamels with children at play beneath a formal border, 3.75ins high (neck restored)
Guide Price: £100-150
A Japanese "Satsuma" pottery miniature tea kettle and lid decorated with bamboo in green and gilt, and with metal swing handle, 3ins high overall -square seal mark), a miniature "Satsuma" baluster shaded vase decorated with moths on a gold "net" background, 3.75ins high (seal mark - damaged), and two miniature porcelain panels
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 845 SOLD FOR: £ 260
A gilt brass mounted Japanese "Imari" porcelain baluster shaped electric table lamp, 25ins high
Guide Price: £200-300
A 19th Century Persian pottery dish painted with a stylised design in black on a turquoise ground, 10ins diameter (footrim pierced for suspension - chipped), and an 18th/19th Century Egyptian pottery bottle/shaped vase with ochre and white chequerboard pattern, 4.5ins high Note : A note with the vase states "Old Jug bought by visitor to near East in 1844"
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 847 SOLD FOR: £ 140
A pair of Chinese Peking mauve glass circular bowls with out-turned rims, 4.375ins (111mm) diameter x 2.25ins (58mm) high (one chipped), and a Chinese blue and white porcelain bulbous miniature vase with cylindrical neck decorated with birds and leaves, 6.125ins (155mm) high
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 848 SOLD FOR: £ 980
A Chinese carved rock crystal inkwell and cover carved in the form of a peach with leaf and branch pattern handle to side, 4.75ins (120mm) x 3.5ins (89mm) x 2.75ins (70mm) high
Guide Price: £800-1200
Lot 849 SOLD FOR: £ 360
A Japanese gilt lacquer and mother of pearl inlaid four-case inro, 2.25ins high, with attached ivory netsuke of a standing male figure, 2.25ins high (signed)
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 850 SOLD FOR: £ 100
A Chinese ivory basket and lid of shaped outline with pierced body and pierced high strap handle, 6.5ins high (damaged)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 851 SOLD FOR: £ 190
A 20th Century Chinese carved ivory puzzle ball and stand, 10ins high (incomplete)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 852 SOLD FOR: £ 3000
A good large 20th Century Chinese carved ivory puzzle ball of seventeen layers and smaller integrally carved puzzle balls, on a stand supported by a dragon, 12.5ins high, complete with a cloth covered box for same
Guide Price: £800-1200
Lot 853 SOLD FOR: £ 460
A 19th Century Chinese ivory brise fan carved with figures and a central shield shaped cartouche with the letter "H", 7.5ins (damaged)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 854 SOLD FOR: £ 400
A pair of carved 19th Century Chinese ivory panels with figures in landscapes, each 4ins x 2.5ins, framed, and a similar plaque, 3ins x 2.75ins, framed and glazed
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 855 SOLD FOR: £ 140
A Chinese carved ivory red and white chess set (incomplete and some damage), contained in a poker work box
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 856 SOLD FOR: £ 480
A pair of 19th Century Chinese ivory tusk sections carved with figures undertaking martial and domestic pursuits in landscapes on a reticulated ground, 3.75ins high (damaged), an ivory group of an elephant being attacked by three lions, on hardwood base, 3.5ins high overall, and a carved ivory model of a standing elephant, 2.5ins high (signed - damaged)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 857 SOLD FOR: £ 380
A 19th Century Chinese "Cantonese" ivory rectangular card case, the exterior boldly carved with figures and pavilions in a garden, 3.375ins (85mm) x 1.75ins (45mm), (with fine cracks running to two corners of the cover)
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 858 SOLD FOR: £ 2600
A Chinese ivory rectangular box finely fretted and carved with pavilions and figures within landscapes, 7.375ins (188mm) x 4.375ins (110mm) x 3.5ins (89mm) high (some damage)
Guide Price: £500-700
Lot 859 SOLD FOR: £ 1500
A 19th Century Chinese "Cantonese" carved ivory Brise fan the sticks finely pierced and carved with figures and pavilions in a garden scene, 7.5ins (slight damage)
Guide Price: £400-600
Lot 860 SOLD FOR: £ 500
A 19th Century Chinese "Cantonese" carved ivory rectangular card case decorated throughout with figures in landscapes, 4.25ins x 2.75ins (two small cracks to cover)
Guide Price: £200-300
An early 20th Century Chinese ivory mountain group carved and pierced with two figures looking at a lotus spray, the reverse with five figures walking towards buildings and two monkeys amongst rocks, 3.25ins high, and wooden stand for same
Guide Price: £800-1000
