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A PAIR OF SANCAI
GLAZED ‘BUDDHIST
LION’ ROOF TILES,
MING DYNASTY
Ceramic with Sancai glaze
China, later Ming Dynasty,
16th/17th century
This corresponding pair of
figural ceramic roof tiles
shows a Buddhist lion
each. The beasts, depicted
in a slightly varied,
expressive manner, are
confronting each other
and glazed in brilliant
leaf green with yellow to
amber colored highlights.
Sancai (translated:
‘three colors’) is a lead
glazing technique, which
developed in China during
the Tang Dynasty (618-
907).

Shape: Figural shape
Dimensions: 36 cm
128 (height), 23 cm (length)
A QING DYNASTY FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT – each
PORCELAIN FIGURE OF DONGFANG SHUO Condition: Chipping and
Biscuit porcelain with partial white glaze and tricolor material loss
glaze in brown, yellow and green Provenance: Austrian 130
China, Qing Dynasty Private Collection A PAIR OF PURPLE-
BROWN MONOCHROME
This vivid porcelain figurine depicts Dongfang Shuo, a ᶨ⮵㖶ẋᶱ⼑晬䋭䒎䇯 YUHUCHUNPING VASES,
Daoist immortal, with a branch of peaches at his back ⑩䚠冯⸜ẋ䚠䫎炻㛸㕁 LATE QING DYNASTY
and a double gourd flask dangling from his right arm. ㎵⣙ The glaze of an intensive dark-
With his left index finger, he is pointing to his raised ⤏⛘⇑䥩Ṣ㓞啷 brown varying to purple when
foot. The face is unglazed with reticulation at the exposed to sunlight, the handles with an iridescent black
eyes, nostrils and ears. Estimate EUR 300,- glaze
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Starting price EUR 150,- China, 19 – earlier 20 century
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Shape: Figural shape
Dimensions: 24,5 cm (height) The vases are delicately potted in traditional pear- glaze on the exterior and thinning
Condition: Excellent condition shape form rising from massive, tapered feet to to a dark brown near the rim.
Provenance: Old Austrian Private collection, sprawling necks. The exteriors are evenly covered with Golden-brown speckles are found
allover the vase, yet the most
assembled in the 1930s to early 1950s a monochrome purple-brown glaze thinning to white interesting feature are the “secret
on several encircling bow-string bands. The interiors decorations”, only visible at closer
㶭ẋ䠔⼑㜙㕡㚼⁷ are covered with a transparent glaze, the bases show inspection. Blooming flowers and
⑩䚠㤝⤥ the purple-brown glaze and impressed Yongzheng six- birds can be detected amidst a
⤏⛘⇑䥩Ṣ侩㓞啷炻ᶲᶾ䲨ᶱ⋩⸜ẋ军Ḽ⋩⸜ẋ攻岤ℍ character seal marks. The shoulders bear two mock ring picturesque nature setting.
handles each, with molded mythical beasts.
Estimate EUR 300,- Shape: Yen Yen (phoenix tail) shape
Starting price EUR 150,- Shape: Pear shape / YUHUCHUNPING Dimensions: Height 39,5 cm
Dimensions: 40 cm (height) Condition: Small restoration to neck
129 Condition: Excellent with only very minor scratches to Provenance: Old Austrian Private
collection, assembled in the 1930s
AN ARCHAISTIC FAMILLE VERTE Shape: Libation cup shape glaze, old soiling, one vase with minor repair to inner side to early 1950s
PORCELAIN LIBATION CUP, KANGXI Dimensions: 9,7 cm (length), 4,2 cm of foot rim
Biscuit porcelain with tricolor glaze in (height) Provenance: Austrian private collection, assembled in Asia ⹟䅁ℕ⫿㫦湹慹慱沛⯦⮲
aubergine, yellow and green Condition: Chips to lower end of handle in and before the 1930s, remainders of old inscriptions by 柠悐㚱⮷ᾖ⽑ġ
China, Kangxi period (1662-1722) and some extremities of the chilong the collector to the bases ⤏⛘⇑䥩Ṣ侩㓞啷炻ᶲᶾ䲨ᶱ⋩⸜ẋ
Provenance: Old Austrian Private 131 军Ḽ⋩⸜ẋ攻岤ℍ
This Kangxi period miniature vessel is collection, assembled in the 1930s to Literature comparison: Oriental Ceramic Art, S. W. A MIRROR BLACK ‘YEN YEN’ BALUSTER
shaped as an archaic libation cup. It is early 1950s Bushell, Frederick Muller, London, 1981, page 201, glaze VASE WITH ‘SECRET DECORATION’, KANGXI Estimate EUR 200,-
decorated with Taotie masks and prunus number 32. MARK Starting price EUR 100,-
and at the beak as well as the handle are ⹟䅁Ḽ⼑“坕漵”ầ⎌㜗 Porcelain with white and black glaze and
golden-brown speckles
figural onsets in shape of chilong with ➟㝬⸽悐㚱攳⎋炻坕漵悐↮㚱㎵ 㘂㶭ᶨ⮵䳓墸刚慱尉俛䌱⢢㗍䒞 China, 18 – 19 century, six-character Kangxi
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almost humanoid facial features. On the ⤏⛘⇑䥩Ṣ侩㓞啷炻ᶲᶾ䲨ᶱ⋩⸜ẋ军Ḽ⋩ ⑩䚠㤝⤥炻慱朊䦵㚱∫䕽炻㰉嶉炻䒞嵛ℭ“怲䶋㚱⮷ᾖ⽑ mark on the bottom and possibly of the period
inside bottom is the Chinese character ⸜ẋ攻岤ℍ ⤏⛘⇑䥩Ṣ㓞啷炻ᶲᶾ䲨ᶱ⋩⸜ẋ⛐Ṇ㳚岤⼿炻⸽悐㚱啷 (1662-1722)
Shou (=longevity). ⭞㓞啷冲㧁䯥
Estimate EUR 200,- The black enamel is applied over the white
Starting price EUR 100,- Estimate EUR 1.000,-
Starting price EUR 500,-
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