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2253
TWO ENAMELED PORCELAIN DECORATIONS
Qianlong marks, late Qing/Republic period
The first a celadon glazed deep dish painted in opaque famille
rose enamels with a pair of quail perched on garden rocks amid
flowering plants, the recessed base bearing the six-character mark
in underglaze blue seal script (tiny chip to rim); the second a slender
bottle vase painted in gilt on an iron red ground with shou and wan
characters along with various Buddhist emblems, the recessed base
bearing the six-character mark in iron red seal script (wear to gilt).
7 1/2in (19cm) diameter of dish
9in (23cm) height of vase
$1,000 - 1,500
2254
A CORAL RED AND FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED PORCELAIN
DISH WITH GOURD VINE DECORATION
Guangxu period
Painted in opaque enamels with flowering and fruiting gourds on an
iron red ground across the curving well and circular reserves on the
exterior walls of clouds and bats surrounding the characters fu, lu,
shou and xi rendered in gilt and bright enamels against a dense wanzi
diaper pattern in iron red on the lemon yellow ground that continues
on the recessed base centered with a ribbon-tied ingot, brush and
scepter enameled en suite.
6 3/4in (17cm) diameter
$1,000 - 1,500
PROPERTY FROM THE LOUIS AND EVELYNE BLAU COLLECTION
2255
A FAMILLE ROSE AND GILT-DECORATED BALUSTER VASE
WITH MILLEFLEUR DECORATION
Qianlong mark, 20th century
A pair of mock ring and animal-headed loop handles applied at the
shoulder and opposing quatrefoil reserves of young princes at play
on the walls surrounded by well-painted flowers and leaves on a gilt
ground, the recessed base bearing the six-character mark in iron red
seal script (wear to gilt).
7 7/8in (20cm) high
$1,000 - 2,000
PROPERTY FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE COLLECTOR
2256
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED BOTTLE VASES
Qianlong marks, Republic period
Each finished with a flared rim to the slender waisted neck above a
body of elongated oval shape, delicately painted with mirror images of
a cricket perched amid autumn chrysanthemums and leafy branches,
the base of each bearing the six-character mark in iron red seal script. 3 1/4in (8.3cm) high
8 5/8in (22cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000
2257
A PAIR OF POWDER BLUE AND FAMILLE VERTE LIDDED
GINGER JARS
19th century
Surmounted by cylindrical lids atop the slightly compressed
globular bodies, the exterior surfaces adorned in gilt-bordered
elaborate bird and flower reserves in varied sizes and shapes
surrounded by the deep mottled cobalt ground, the recessed
bases centered by double rings.
9 1/2in (24cm) high
$2,500 - 4,000
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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DORIS BRAUDE,
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA
2258
A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED OVOID VASE
Qianlong mark, Republic period
Surmounted by a wide curving mouth rim atop a narrow waisted neck
atop a body of baluster form, one side displaying a vibrant figural
tableau of a wizened elder and his three dutiful attendants, the deeply
recessed base bearing the four-character mark in iron-red (chip).
17in (43cm) high
$3,000 - 5,000
PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
2259
A GROUP OF FOUR VASES ENAMELED WITH SNOW SCENES
Including a pair of larger vases trimmed in a palette of black and iron
red enamels also used for the winter landscapes painted on the ovoid
bodies dated cyclically to wu-zi (1948) and inscribed as after the style
of porcelain painter He Xuren (1882-1941); the third of baluster form
and the fourth cylindrical, also similarly painted but each bearing the
signature of He Xuren (both with small chips).
9 3/4 to 5 3/8in (25 to 13.5cm) high
$1,000 - 1,500
2260
A PAIR OF UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND FAMILLE ROSE
ENAMELED PLANTERS
Late Qing/Republic period
Each of cylindrical form, painted with iron red bats in flight amid
rainbow-colored clouds above and below a band formed by three
pairs of facing dragons rendered in underglaze blue C-scrolls, the
colorless glaze covering all surfaces except the foot pad and the
recessed base centered with a circular drainage hole (lacking drip
pans, one planter with star cracks).
6 3/4in (17cm) diameters
$1,800 - 2,500
2261 NO LOT
2262
A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED ‘CHICKEN CUP’
Qianlong fanggu mark
Of elongated ovoid form painted in bright enamels to depict the
famous Tang trainer of fighting cocks, Jia Chang, as a boy stamping
his foot in front of a rooster guarding a hen and chicks beneath a long
poem in black enamel bearing the seals of the Qianlong emperor and
a cyclical date corresponding to 1776; the recessed base bearing the
six-character fanggu mark in underglaze blue.
$800 - 1,200
2263
A WUCAI-DECORATED BALUSTER VASE
Of pear form with a cupped mouth, painted in iron red, green, yellow,
black and aubergine with a fanciful depiction of Guanyin as a beauty
seated on a rock while Shancai presents her with a lotus; together
with a small blue and white drum shaped cricket box painted with a
band of insects flying toward a fruiting grapevine (lacking cover). [2]
6 1/4in (16cm) height of vase
$800 - 1,200