A small Chinese Yixing brush pot, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). In the form of a tree trunk, it was moulded in high relief of gnarled prunus branches, the clay of a beige tone, the body with a seal mark reading maolin. For a similar example bearing maolin…
A good Chinese stoneware meiping vase, decorated in a robin's egg glaze, Yixing type body. Stock number to base possibly for C.T. Loo, a prominent 20th century Asian art dealer.
Chinese Tung King Shun factory 4 piece tea service, Yixing pottery body with paktong dragon design overlay, impressed 'Tung King Shun factory Weihaiwei No.1' to base, internal rim chip to one lid.
A rare Canton enamel Yixing water dropper, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), 9 cm diameter. Provenance: The late Blumenthal collection. An important private collection, Qld., acquired from above in1979.
A Chinese Yixing Zisha sweetmeat dish set, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), 19th century, comprising eight shaped dishes of deep purple clay with enamel decoration of scroling peonies to the interior, and cracked ice on a blue ground to the rim. Each 2.5 cm high…
Three Chinese ornaments, including a Yixing clay Buddha head on stand, a small zitan wood landscape carving depicting sages under pine trees, and a square zitan wood stand, height 18.5 cm, (Buddha)
Two antique Chinese ceramic pieces each of Yixing clay type, including tea bowl, with hand painted script decoration, cracked, and a similar small jug with impressed decoration to rim, height 4.5 cm.
A Chinese inscribed Yixing bowl, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), 19th century, the foliate rim bowl with crackled white enamel to the interior and to the base, with a ten character inscription to one side, 6.5 cm high, 15 cm diameter.
A Chinese famille pottery figure of a dog, length 30 cm, height 20 cm possibly Yixing marked to base, yellow ground decorated with butterflies and floral,
A Chinese yellow Yixing tea caddy, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), circa 19th century, the square form large caddy decorated to the sides and lid with moulded shallow relief decoration of dragons and phoenix amongst clouds. Circular impressed seal mark to base.…
A Chinese Yixing Zisha wine ewer with warmer, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), 19th century, decorated with enamels depicting brocade balls between keyfret borders, surmounted by a qilong and with taotie mask handles. 13 cm high, 13 cm wide
A Chinese Yixing Zisha saddle-flask form wine container, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), circa 18th century, of flattened spherical form, with lugs for a strap, and a spout to one side. 15 cm high, 14 cm wide
A Chinese Yixing vase, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), circa early 20th century, the buff coloured clay vase embellished with applique blossoming plum branches in purplish brown clay, with an impressed square seal reading 'Wu Desheng' to the base. 33 cm high,…
A rare Chinese Zisha clay vase, painted and moulded, Yixing, Republic period, a dragon on the body flying in and out of clouds, a band on the short neck is picked out in gilt above the collar on the shoulder, height 32 cm
A Yixing, purple Sand snuff bottle of rounded form, impressed Qianlong seal mark to base, a recessed panel front & back painted in slip with a landscape, green glass stopper with metal rim, height 7 cm. Provenance: private South African collection
A Chinese Yixing carved lidded bowl, a six character Kangxi mark to base of double layered construction, the body with two large incised landscape panels and alternating reticulated floral panels below pierced lattice border, the cover with a plain knop…
Two Chinese painted yixing snuff bottle, Mid 20th century 7.7 cm, 6.5 cm (2). Provenance: Purchased at Kaynes in the late 1980s and early 1990s Compare a similar example to one of the bottles, see Verene Nicollier The Baur Collection Geneva, Chinese Snuff…
A Chinese yixing stoneware 'landscape' vase, moulded and carved in high relief with clay of different colours with a landscape with garden pavilions, the other side with a poem appreciating the scene, 8.8 cm high