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PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
5154
A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED SEATED
FIGURE OF GUANYIN
Republic period
The veiled figure seated in royal ease on a
double lotus flower support, her right leg
raised beneath the right hand holding a mala
and the left hand holding a vase, the unglazed
base stamped China in red pigment.
10in (25.5cm) high

US$1,000 - 1,500

5155
A WOOD-FRAMED POLYCHROME
ENAMELED PORCELAIN PLAQUE
Republic period
Depicting an elder enthroned in a garden
setting in front of a massive screen adorned
in auspicious subject matter and surrounded
5150 by the Three Stars of Happiness with
additional civil and martial attendants enjoying
calligraphy proffered by boy attendants,
the inscription including a poetic ode to
5150 PROPERTY FROM THE ROXIE forbearance and bearing the signature Runzhi
A SMALL FIVE-PANEL POLYCHROME MORADIAN TRUST and the cyclical date jisi (equivalent to 1929).
ENAMELED PORCELAIN TABLE SCREEN 19 1/8 x 13in (48.5 x 33cm) dimensions of
Republic period, signed Feng Datuo and 5152 plaque
Wang Yunquan 29 3/4 x 23in (75.5 x 58.5cm) dimensions of
Composed of a large central panel painted A POLYCHROME ENAMELED FIGURE OF frame
in brightly colored enamels with the immortal A POET
Molded with a pensive face, dressed in a
Shoulao and a female attendant, dated
cyclically to the ding-hai year (1947) and scholar’s cap and colorful layered garments, US$1,000 - 1,500
walking with partially rolled book in his right
signed [Feng] Datuo; flanked on each side by hand.
two narrow landscape panels, each signed 19 3/4in (50cm) high 5156
Wang Yunquan; the pieced softwood frames A QIANJIANGCAI ENAMELED
finished in black lacquer and hinged together LANDSCAPE PLAQUE MOUNTED AS A
(one plaque cracked; frames worn and US$800 - 1,200 TABLE SCREEN
repaired). Republic period
5 1/8 x 7 3/4in (13 x 19.8cm) sight Of horizontal format, the rectangular plaque
dimensions of center plaque PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF painted in soft colors with a traveler walking
2 3/8 x 7 3/4 in (6 x 19.7cm) sight dimensions JESSE MILES LEWIS across a bridge away from a mountain
of side plaques village; enclosed and sealed within a wood
13 1/2 x 21 38in (34.2x 55cm) overall 5153 frame supported in a reticulated wood stand
dimensions of screen AN ASSEMBLED GROUP OF (repaired).
POLYCHROME MOLDED CERAMIC 7 1/2 x 9 5/8in (19 x 24.5cm) sight
US$3,000 - 5,000 MODELS dimensions of plaque
Late Qing/Republic period
12 1/2in (32cm) height of table screen
Including a seven story pagoda; a square-
5151 sectioned pavilion with European style arches
A FAMILLE ROSE ENAMELED CELESTIAL and columns in the facades; three dragon US$1,000 - 1,500
ATTENDANT boats loaded with rowers, drummers and
Cao ming ji zao mark, Republic period coxswains; and two groups of figures standing
The young beauty depicted standing on narrow islets, the surfaces picked out in bright
a cloud bank, elegantly clad in layered colors (losses, chips, old repairs).
garments, ribboned sashes and shawls as she 6 1/4in (16cm) height of pagoda
lifts a covered vase in her hands, the surfaces 8in 20.3cm) length of longest dragon boat
intricately painted in gilt and bright enamels,
the unglazed interior wall of the hollow figure US$1,000 - 1,500
stamped with four-character mark in a single
horizontal line (repaired and retouched).
14 1/4in (36cm) high Due to the large number of pieces in this
lot, condition reports and photographs of
US$1,500 - 2,500 individual items will not be available.

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