Antiques & Collectors Items
The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Tuesday, May 22 2012
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.
Lot 1 SOLD FOR: £ 10000
A pair of Chinese ivory rectangular table screens, finely carved and stained with scholars at leisurely pursuits and with calligraphy to reverse, each panel 8ins (203mm) x 4.25ins (108mm), 10.75ins (272mm) high overall (Qing Dynasty -19th Century - some losses and repair) Provenance: Frederick Evans Collection - copy of photograph showing Screens in Lounge of Flat in Tietsin, circa 1940
Guide Price: £2000-3000
Lot 2 SOLD FOR: £ 4400
A Chinese ivory rectangular panel, carved with a scholar and an attendant amongst the "Three Friends of Winter", pine prunus and bamboo, 3ins (76mm) x 12.25ins (312mm) (Qing Dynasty - late 19th Century - minor age cracks)
Guide Price: £2000-3000
Lot 3 SOLD FOR: £ 11000
A good Chinese carved ivory rectangular battle scene panel, 4.75ins (121mm) x 12ins (305mm) (Qing Dynasty - late 19th Century) and silver inlaid hardwood stand for same Provenance: S. Marchant & Son Ltd; 1966
Guide Price: £2000-3000
Lot 4 SOLD FOR: £ 3000
A pair of Chinese ivory hexagonal vases and covers, each carved with panels containing a scholar and calligraphy, reserved against fruiting vines and squirrels, the covers set with lion-dog knops and inscribed with apocryphal Qianlong marks, 9.5ins (240mm) high, on wooden stands (Qing Dynasty - late 19th Century - some minor repairs)
Guide Price: £3000-4000
Lot 5 SOLD FOR: £ 2400
A Chinese ivory two-handled vase and cover, carved with Shoulao, immortals and attendants within a garden landscape scattered with pagodas, 10.5ins (265mm) high (Qing Dynasty - 19th Century)
Guide Price: £800-1200
Lot 6 SOLD FOR: £ 2000
A Cantonese ivory rectangular box and cover, carved with figures amongst pavilions in a garden landscape, 8.75ins (223mm) x 3.75ins (95mm) (Qing Dynasty - 19th Century - top repaired and crack to base)
Guide Price: £2000-3000
Lot 7 SOLD FOR: £ 960
A Cantonese ivory card case, carved with figures at leisure within garden terraces, 3.75ins (95mm) x 2.25ins (57mm) (Qing Dynasty - 19th Century - repair to cover)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 8 SOLD FOR: £ 720
A Cantonese carved ivory fan, with silk panel embroidered with birds amongst branches, 10.25ins (256mm) (Qing Dynasty - 19th Century) and an early 19th Century ivory carved brieze fan, set with a monogram, 10.75ins (275mm) (both damaged)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 9 SOLD FOR: £ 2000
A Japanese carved ivory standing figure of Damo, 8.5ins (214mm) high, signed (Meiji period)
Guide Price: £2000-3000
Lot 10 SOLD FOR: £ 1250
A South East Asian ivory carving of a standing Buddha, on wooden stand, 11ins (280mm) high (late 19th/early 20th Century)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 11 SOLD FOR: £ 2100
A Chinese ivory carving of a soldier on horseback, 7.75ins (190mm) high (Qing Dynasty - 19th Century) Provenance: Bluett & Sons Ltd, 11th June 1971 (invoice available)
Guide Price: £600-800
Lot 12 SOLD FOR: £ 2200
A South East Asian carved ivory figure of an Acolyte, modelled with a string of beads, 9.25ins (233mm) (20th Century)
Guide Price: £800-1000
Lot 13 SOLD FOR: £ 420
A Chinese carved ivory figure of a scholar, on wooden stand, 7.75ins (197mm) high (Ming Dynasty - with later replaced head)
Guide Price: £500-600
Lot 14 SOLD FOR: £ 7500
A Chinese carved ivory figure of a scholar holding a pearl, 7.5ins (190mm) high (Qing Dynasty - 17th Century - head detached and restored) Provenance: Bluett & Sons 1974 (copy of catalogue available)
Guide Price: £400-600
Lot 15 SOLD FOR: £ 200
A Chinese ivory carving of a seated lady in Archaistic style, 5.75ins (146mm) high (early 20th Century - some damage) and hardwood stand
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 16 SOLD FOR: £ 820
A Chinese carved ivory standing figure of a Maiden holding a basket of peaches, 6.25ins (159mm) high (Qing Dynasty - late 19th Century), a Chinese ivory figure of a Daoist immortal carved in the Ming style, holding a tablet, 6.375ins (164mm) high (Qing Dynasty - age cracks), and an ivory figure of a man, his left hand across his chest, 6.25ins (159mm) high
Guide Price: £600-800
Lot 17 SOLD FOR: £ 1850
A Chinese carved ivory figure of a Maiden, 5.625ins (142mm) high (late Ming Dynasty - damaged)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 18 SOLD FOR: £ 1000
A Chinese carved ivory standing figure of Guanyin, 10.75ins (274mm) high (17th Century)
Guide Price: £1000-1500
A Chinese carved ivory figure of a Scholar holding a flower, 7ins (178mm) high (Qing Dynasty - seal mark to back), and a Chinese carved ivory standing figure of Guanyin, holding a basket of fruit in her right hand, 7ins (178mm) high
Guide Price: £1000-1500
Lot 20 SOLD FOR: £ 980
A Chinese ivory figural snuff bottle and stopper, carved in the form of a boy and squirrel, on wooden stand, 3.625ins (93mm) high (Qing Dynasty - late 19th Century) and a South East Asian ivory figure of a seated Buddha, 4.5ins (115mm) high (late 19th/ early 20th Century) Provenance: The Buddha purchased from Louis Joseph, 29th November 1963 (invoice available)
Guide Price: £400-600
Lot 21 SOLD FOR: £ 920
A Chinese stained ivory figure of Guanyin holding a vase with a deer at her side, 6.125ins (158mm) high (Qing Dynasty - 18th Century)
Guide Price: £1000-1500
Lot 23 SOLD FOR: £ 500
A large Chinese ivory tusk, carved with a procession of water buffaloes and cloud motifs, on hardwood stand, 33.25ins (844mm) overall (first half of 20th Century - damaged and repaired)
Guide Price: £600-800
Lot 24 SOLD FOR: £ 500
A Chinese rosewood framed eight-fold table screen, each panel inset with silk, painted with ladies in garden scenes, each fold 40.5ins (1030mm) x 8.75ins (220mm) (silk panels damaged)
Guide Price: £500-800
Lot 25 SOLD FOR: £ 290
A Chinese blackwood octagonal stand with re-entrant joints, 13ins (330mm) square x 25ins (635mm) high
Guide Price: £100-200
Lot 26 SOLD FOR: £ 980
A lady's Chinese navy blue silk three-quarter length informal robe, embroidered in colours with birds, "Pekin knot" peonies and other flowers (late 19th / early 20th Century)
Guide Price: £400-600
Two Japanese hanging scrolls on silk, one painted with plovers, the other with prunus blossom, 42.75ins (1080mm) x 16.25ins (410mm), with boxes, and a Chinese landscape scroll (damaged)
Guide Price: £100-200
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Lot 28 SOLD FOR: £ 3800
A pair of Chinese Cinnabar lacquer rectangular trays, each carved with prunus blossom floating on a wave strewn ground, within key-fret borders, the corners carved with a bat, on bracket feet, 6.5ins (164mm) x 4.5ins(114mm) (Qing Dynasty - Qianlong period (1736-95))
Guide Price: £2000-3000
Lot 29 SOLD FOR: £ 1050
A small Chinese hardwood box and cover of naturalistic form, carved to simulate the bough of a gnarled tree, 3.5ins (88mm) wide (Qing Dynasty - 19th Century)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 30 SOLD FOR: £ 100
A Chinese hardstone carving of birds amongst trees, on hardwood stand, 6.25 ins (159mm) x 3.5ins (89mm) high (20th Century)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 31 SOLD FOR: £ 1150
A Chinese hardstone brush rest, with green, pink and blackened inclusions, carved in the form of a four peaked mountain, 3.125ins (79mm) x 1.85ins (48mm) high (Qing Dynasty - 19th Century)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 32 SOLD FOR: £ 2200
A Chinese red hardstone dragon and bamboo pendant, 2.5ins (63mm) and two small Chinese white jade figural seals, 1.75ins (45mm) and 1in (25mm) high Provenance: The seals purchased from Fulham Road, 1962
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 33 SOLD FOR: £ 980
A Chinese stained jadeite single strand graduated bead necklace, with silvery metal and rose diamond set clasp, 720mm overall
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 34 SOLD FOR: £ 2700
A Chinese jade double gourd shaped vase and cover, the stone of white/russet tone, carved with leaves and birds, 6.25ins (158mm) high x 3.125 (79mm) wide (damaged)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 35 SOLD FOR: £ 7500
A 19th Century Chinese celadon jadeite belt hook, carved in the form of a dragon with a cub, 3.875ins (98mm) overall (Qing Dynasty - Qianlong period (1736-95) Provenance: Louis Joseph, 1962
Guide Price: £2000-3000
Lot 36 SOLD FOR: £ 8000
A Chinese jadeite "Fanghu" shaped vase, after a Shang Dynasty bronze ritualistic vessel, with emeral green and spinach green inclusion, on hardwood stand, 5.625ins (142mm) high (Qing Dynasty - late 19th Century) Provenance: Frederick Evans Collection - copy of photograph showing vase in lounge of Flat in Tientsin, circa 1940
Guide Price: £4000-6000
A 'Mogul' style celadon jade carved 'pilgrims flask' vase, carved with stylised flowers and lotus pattern base, 5ins (128mm) high Provenance: S. Marchant & Son Ltd, 1962
Guide Price: £6000-8000
Lot 38 SOLD FOR: £ 1250
A Chinese celadon green jade two-handled vessel, carved with stylised Shou characters, 4.375ins (112mm) across handles x 1.125ins (28mm) high(Qing Dynasty - 19th Century)
Guide Price: £700-1000
Lot 39 SOLD FOR: £ 9500
A Chinese jade bamboo-shaped spill vase, of pale green tone with a brown inclusion, carved with a phoenix and a peony, on wooden stand, 3.875ins (98mm) high (Qing Dynasty - Qianlong period (1736-95) - applied S.Marchant & Son Ltd paper label to base) Provenance: S. Marchant & Son Ltd, 1974
Guide Price: £8000-12000
Lot 40 SOLD FOR: £ 47000
Two Chinese porcelain blue and white slender baluster shaped vases, each painted with scholars on a terrace, 18.75ins (476mm) and 18.5ins (470mm)high (Qing Dynasty - Kangxi period (1662-1722) - apocryphal Chenghua marks in underglaze blue, one bearing a 'Duveen' paper label - one cracked and restored) Provenance: Crighton, 1967
Guide Price: £6000-8000
Lot 41 SOLD FOR: £ 3600
A Chinese blue and white and copper red porcelain bottle vase, decorated with figures in a landscape, 16.5ins (420mm) high (crack to body) Provenance: S. Marchant & Son Ltd, 1965
Guide Price: £700-1000
Lot 42 SOLD FOR: £ 3000
A Chinese blue and white 'soft-paste' porcelain Meiping vase, painted with sprigs of pomegranates, finger citron and peaches, all within lappet borders, 6.25ins (160mm) high (Qing Dynasty - Qianlong period (1736-95))
Guide Price: £500-800
Lot 43 SOLD FOR: £ 4100
A Chinese blue and white porcelain and copper red Meiping vase of heavy potted form, decorated with sprigs of peaches and pomegranates, all within stiff leaf and petal borders, 8.25ins (210mm) high (Qing Dynasty - 18th Century - neck chipped)
Guide Price: £1500-2000
Lot 44 SOLD FOR: £ 5000
A Chinese blue and white porcelain bottle shaped vase, painted with sprays of bamboo, pomegranates and peonies, all within double line borders, 14.5 ins (370mm) high (Transitional period, circa 1640)
Guide Price: £1000-1500
Lot 45 SOLD FOR: £ 1900
A Chinese blue and white porcelain deep bowl, painted to interior with scholars in a landscape, 6ins (154mm) diameter x 2ins (50mm) high (Qing Dynasty - 17th Century) Provenance: S.Marchant & Son Ltd, 1968
Guide Price: £800-1200
Lot 46 SOLD FOR: £ 400
A pair of Japanese Arita blue and white porcelain plates, decorated with children in a landscape within foliate moulded borders, incised with leaping hares, 8.625ins (218mm) diameter (Edo period - early 18th Century) Provenance: S. Marchant & Son Ltd, 1968 (invoice available)
Guide Price: £400-600
Lot 47 SOLD FOR: £ 1400
A Chinese blue and white porcelain stem cup, painted with pomegranates and bamboo, 3ins (75mm) diameter x 3.625ins (92mm) high (Transitional period - circa 1640 - with applied S.Marchant & Son Ltd paper label - small chip to rim) Provenance: S. Marchant & Son Ltd
Guide Price: £500-800
Lot 48 SOLD FOR: £ 920
A Chinese porcelain underglaze blue and copper red 'Carp' dish, painted with carp and foliate scrolls, 4.5ins (115mm) diameter x 1.625ins (41mm) high (Qing Dynasty - Kangxi period (1662-1722) - bears apocryhal Xuande Dynasty six character mark - the rim ground) Provenance: S. Marchant & Son Ltd, 1964
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 49 SOLD FOR: £ 5500
A Chinese blue and white porcelain cylindrical brush pot, painted with figures beneath flowering trees within incised borders, 3.125ins (79mm) diameter x 5.5ins (141mm) high (Transitional period - circa 1640 - rim ground)
Guide Price: £1000-1500
Lot 50 SOLD FOR: £ 2900
A Chinese porcelain polychrome enamelled 'Dragon' bowl, 8.625ins (220mm) diameter x 3.5ins (92mm) high (Qing Dynasty - Kangxi period (1662-1722)) Provenance: Sydney L. Moss Ltd, 1st July 1964 (invoice available)
Guide Price: £300-400
Lot 51 SOLD FOR: £ 2000
A Chinese 'bianco-sopra-bianco' porcelain 'Prunus' dish, enamelled and incised in white with prunus tree, 9.5ins (242mm) diameter x 1.75ins (44mm) high (Qing Dynasty - 18th Century)
Guide Price: £300-500
