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A HuANgHuAlI lOw TABle A PIeRced SIlVeR BASkeT
Qing Dynasty Impressed KW, possibly Kwan Wo
The rectangular top with inset ‘floating’ panel and faux bamboo edges The entwined swing handle above eight radiating segments each
and waist above an apron carved and pierced with fruiting vine and pierced with botanical specimens including bamboo, iris and prunus.
bamboo leaves, all raised on corner faux bamboo cabriole supports. 23.5cm diameter, weight 12ozt
30.5cm high, 82cm wide, 47.5cm deep
£800 - 1,200
£400 - 600
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214 A SIlVeR-gIlT FIlIgRee ANd eNAMel dRAgON,
A PAIR OF clOISONNé eNAMel BOwlS Early 20th century,
19th century Formed as a writhing dragon confronting a dragon-fish, the head and
Each decorated to the interior with eight winged horses, the well with fins of both animals decorated with coloured enamels, on carved and
band of the eight trigrams around double fish motif, the exterior with a lacquered wooden base formed as waves, the underside of one claw
crane and deer among the Three Friends of Winter (pine, prunus and applied with a plaque inscribed “silver 925”.
bamboo), the base within the footrim with pseudo Ming mark. 25.5cm high, 28.5cm wide
23.5cm diameter (2).
£300 - 400
£300 - 500
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Provenance A BuFFAlO HORN Jue-SHAPed VeSSel
Sheppard’s Irish Auction House, 26 September 2017, lot 801, 18th/19th century
catalogue note. ‘From the collection of Count Poul Oscar Moltke, The key-pattern rim carved with two chilong dragon appearing over
Danish minister to the United States in 1908’. the edge and a third below, a band of taotie mask design in relief
around the centre, on three splayed supports with further engraved
215 designs.
A HuAlI INceNSe BuRNeR STANd 8cm high
Qing Dynasty
The moulded square top with inset panel above shaped apron carved £500 - 800
with relief archaistic scrolls, raised on slender corner supports with
moulded edges, joined by hump-back stretchers and with incurving 219 Y
feet. A PAIR OF cARVed HARdwOOd VASe STANdS
20th century
91cm high, 30.5cm wide, 30.5cm deep Each with circular tops above a carved and pierced apron of archaistic
dragons raised on five dragon supports joined by a low undulating
£300 - 400 stretcher and raised on bracket feet, 23cm high, together with a single
low vase stand, 19cm diameter and a pair of miniature examples.
8cm diameter

£200 - 300

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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