5 juillet 2017

Lot 84. A rare Chinese blue and white deep bell-shaped bowl, mid-16th century; 14.5cm dia. Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000. Hammer Price £ 2,600. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis The exterior painted with a continuous scene of figures and boats in a mountainous river landscape with houses and pagodas, the inner well with a medallion enclosing a similar design below a band of cranes and lotus. Provenance: formerly in the collection of Dr Arthur Spriggs, purchased from Sidney Michael in 1963 Woolley &... [Lire la suite]

 Lot 81. A Chinese Ge-type celadon vase, Qing dynasty, 38.5cm; Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000. Hammer Price £ 4,200. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis With a pear-shaped body and two chilong handles, all raised on a short foot and with a broad flaring rim, 38.5cm. Woolley & Wallis. Asian Art Works I. 16 May 2017

Lot 80. A small Chinese blue and white 'Landscape' bowl, Six character Xianfeng mark and probably of the period; Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500. Hammer Price £ 1,500. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis The body rising from a short foot and with a slightly flared rim, the exterior finely painted with a continuous mountainous scene with buildings by the water edge and a man in a sampan, the interior with a central roundel depicting a lonely figure on a bridge gazing at the moon, 9.5cm. Provenance: Sotheby's... [Lire la suite]

Lot 79. A Chinese blue and white 'Three Friends of Winter' jar, Late Ming dynasty;  14.7cm.  Estimate: £1,000 - 2,000. Hammer Price £ 1,300. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis The lobed ovoid body painted with a flock of sparrows among bamboo, pine and prunus, the shoulder with lappet decoration and the rim with key fret pattern. Cf. M Butler, M Medley and S Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, p.37 for a similar jar. Woolley & Wallis. Asian Art... [Lire la suite]

Lot 78. A Chinese porcelain guan-type hu-shaped vase, 18th century or earlier; 17.4cm Estimate: £5,000 - 8,000. Hammer Price £ 8,500. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis Of archaic bronze form, the pear-shaped body rising to a wide flaring mouth, the shoulder with two mask and ring handles, decorated with a pale celadon crackled glaze falling short of the foot revealing the brown biscuit underneath, a paper label for the E.T Hall Collection no.246. Provenance: Christie's London, The E.T Hall Collection of... [Lire la suite]

Lot 77. A small Chinese Longquan celadon archaistic vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 21cm. Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000. Hammer Price £ 4,000. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis The body moulded in shallow relief with taotie masks beneath a border of ruyi-heads, the rim with a band of lappets, the foot with plantain leaves. Provenance: Baerwald Collection, catalogue no.94, purchased from John Sparks by Otto Schiff Esq. on 1st July 1937. Woolley & Wallis. Asian Art Works I. 16 May... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 76. A Chinese blue and white baxian incense burner, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 19.8cm. Estimate: £8,000 - 12,000. Hammer Price £ 12,000. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis The cylindrical body painted with a continuous scene of the Eight Immortals celebrating Shoulao's birthday, all with their various attributes, Shoulao sits on a rock with an attendant and a deer, all between chevron borders and raised on three rectangular feet, a reticulated wood stand, (2) Provenance: a Scottish... [Lire la suite]

Lot 74. A large Chinese blue and white sleeve vase, Transitional period, c. 1640, 50cm. Estimate: £5,000 - 8,000. Hammer Price £ 10,000. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis The cylindrical body painted with a scene of a warrior receiving offerings, attended by two banner men in a landscape with elaborate rockwork and with a horse and groom beside a cliff face to the reverse. The neck and foot finely incised with double anhua lines and with lappets to the rim, mounted on a later gilt metal footm. Cf. C Jörg,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 73. A Chinese blue and white yenyen vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722), 46.5cm. Estimate: £3,000 - 5,000. Hammer Price £ 10,000. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis Painted in bright underglaze blue with four deer and four cranes in a rocky landscape, the rim and foot with dentil bands. Cf. Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghua Ci, pp.476-477, nos.307 and 308 and also C Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.98 no.88 for similar vases. Woolley & Wallis. Asian Art... [Lire la suite]

Lot 67. A small doucai conical cup, 18th century, 7cm. Estimate: £3,000 - 5,000. Hammer Price £ 10,000. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis Painted with an official and an attendant with a fan in a garden beside a red fence and ornamental rockery, the base with a six character Chenghua mark. Cf. J Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, pp.144-5, no.117 and 118 for a similar cup painted with three boys.  Woolley & Wallis. Asian Art Works I. 16 May 2017