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A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED PORCELAIN ELEVEN-PIECE TWO PORCELAIN SEAL PASTE BOXES
SWEET MEAT SET IN A CIRCULAR WOOD COVERED BOX 19th century and later
Late Qing/Republic period Both of compressed spherical form, the first painted in yellow and
Five of the dishes forming a butterfly surrounded by six dishes to dark brown enamels and carved to the exterior of the box and cover
make a circle: each painted in bright enamels on a gilt ground with a with blooming prunus branches and butterflies against a black
millefleur pattern across each shallow well on a colorless glaze that enameled ground, the interiors and the recessed base covered
extends onto the short exterior wall, leaving each flat base unglazed; in turquoise blue (small hairlines to rim); the second unglazed,
the fitted wood box and cover also well-preserved. sensitively carved to the top of the domed cover and to the exterior
13 1/2in (34.2cm) diameter of the porcelain set walls of the box with bees hovering around leafy branches bearing
14 1/4in (36.2cm) diameter of the fitted wood box and cover large fruits of lychee (chips).
3 9/16 and 3 5/16in (9.1 and 8.5cm) diameter
$1,200 - 1,800
$1,500 - 2,000
PROPERTY FROM A PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLECTOR
Provenance
6255 Collection of Brooks & Dorothy Cofield
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED PORCELAIN BOWLS
Republic period Enameled box:
Each molded with a flared rim and carefully painted on the exterior Retrospection Antiques, Portland, Oregon, acquired 18 June 2003
walls with opium poppies in bloom around a crab apple tree with its Biscuit box:
flower-filled branches continuing onto the interior walls, the recessed Warren E. Cox Collection, New York
base displaying a double ring in underglaze blue. Stevens Estate, Wilmington, Delaware
5 1/2in (14cm) diameter Pook & Pook Auction, Downingtown, Pennsylvania, acquired 2004

$1,200 - 1,800 6258
A FAMILLE JAUNE AND MILLEFLEUR GU-FORM VASE
Provenance Late Qing/Republic period
a Portland Estate The globular mid-section enameled with stylized lotus scrolls against
Frederick’s Antiques, Lake Oswego, Oregon, acquired 2009 a yellow ground, set between the trumpet neck and spreading foot,
Collection of Brooks & Dorothy Cofield similarly painted with a dense pattern of overlapping flowers and
leaves against a gilt infilled ground, the base inscribed with six-
6256 character seal mark in iron-red.
A PAIR OF UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND FAMILLE ROSE 9 3/8in (24cm) high
ENAMELED PORCELAIN BRUSH POTS
Qianlong marks, 19th century $1,000 - 1,500
Of square form, the identical pair painted on side walls with panels
depicting scenes probably from the Ming dynasty novel Jin Ping Mei Provenance
(The Golden Lotus), framed by foliate scrolls painted in underglaze Retrospection Antiques, Portland, Oregon, acquired 18 June 2003
blue, iron-red, and gilt, the rim of each heightened in gold, the center Collection of Brooks & Dorothy Cofield.
of the turquoise glazed base bearing the six-character mark in seal
script (some surface soiling). PROPERTY FROM A BAY AREA PRIVATE COLLECTOR
3 3/16in (8cm) high
6259
$1,000 - 1,500
A MINIATURE FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED PORCELAIN, VASE
Haoran Tang mark
Provenance Of ovoid lantern form, painted with four ancient sages and their
ex-San Francisco Bay Area Collection attendants standing amid cranes and pine trees in a Daoist paradise
Jeffrey Allen Gallery, Tigard, Oregon with a distant palace rising from waves, the rose enamel ground
Collection of Marilyn Murdoch, Portland, Oregon on the shoulder also used within the banding around the foot, the
Collection of Brooks & Dorothy Cofield recessed base bearing the three-character mark in underglaze blue
standard script.
Compare a single square brushpot, of similar size and decoration 4in (10cm) high
style, with a Jiaqing mark and of the period, sold by Sotheby’s, New
York, sale 9437, 19 September 2015, lot 1039.
$1,000 - 1,500
6260
TWO ENAMELED PORCELAINS
The first a turquoise blue glazed recumbent beast, modeled with its
head turned to rear, holding a lingzhi branch in its half-open mouth,
the details well rendered; the second designed as a dragon hook, the
underglaze blue and gilt painted dragon head terminus facing a wide,
arching shaft, decorated to the top with leafy scrolls, butterflies, and
seasonal flowers painted in colored enamels and underglaze blue
with gilt heightened details, the underside executed with a raised
button and bearing a Qianlong nian zhi mark in seal script.
2 1/2 and 4in (6.4 and 10.2cm) long
$1,000 - 1,500

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