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September Art and Antique Auction — Cordy's

Auction House:Cordy'sNumber of lots recorded:814
Sale Title:September Art and Antique AuctionLots with images:149
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:543
Date:10-Sep-2013
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A rare Doulton Lambeth stoneware figure 'Mr. Squeers', designed by Leslie Harradine, c.1912, design H22, in buff stoneware. Restored rim and coat tail. Height 22.5 cm
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A Doulton Burslem Art Nouveau 'Luscian' ware vase hand painted by Leslie Johnson (act. 1900-1937), tall ovoid shape with two handles, decorated with a woman gathering flowers, signed. Printed marks and registration #995917, c.1933. Small rim chip restored, regilded inside mouth, handles repaired and regilded.
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A large and impressive Royal Doulton Lambeth vase by Florence Barlow (act. 1873 - 1909) and Frank Butler (act. 1872 - 1911), tall ovoid shape with trumpet mouth and spreading foot, the body decorated by Barlow in pate-sur-pate with sparrows perched upon the branches of a fruiting plum tree. The neck, lower body and foot decoratively sculpted and glazed by Butler with foliate designs. Incised artists' marks and impressed factory marks under the base. Dated 1883. Repair to foot. Height 42 cm
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A Royal Doulton bowl, decorated to the interior to a design by Herbert Betteley with a border of lotus flowers and butterflies in green, blue and yellow, the centre worked with a similar design in gilt, the exterior with pale yellow lustre glaze. Diameter 18 cm
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A large Royal Doulton 'Titanian' vase, ovoid shape, decorated with a phoenix bird in coloured enamels and gilt on a speckled and mottled jade ground, the body further enhanced with chinoiserie clouds. Height 18.5 cm
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A Royal Doulton 'Titanian' coffee can and saucer, each piece decorated with a stylised phoenix in colours and gilt on a soft mottled jade ground.
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A Royal Doulton 'Titanian' small bowl to a design by Robert Allen, circular with inverted rim, two small handles issue from the sides, decorated with a 'dash' green enamel border above panels enclosing floral garlands divided by vertical stiff leaves on a mottled blue/green ground, all highlighted with gilding. Diameter 10 cm
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A miniature Royal Doulton 'Titanian' baluster vase, with a rich mottled blue glaze. Height 5 cm
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A Royal Doulton 'Sung' flambe baluster vase with mottled and veined glaze effects, designed and decorated by Charles Noke and Fred Moore. Small surface scratch. Height 14 cm
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A small Royal Doulton 'Titanian' vase, of squat circular section painted with a pink rose on a rich deep blue ground. Diameter 9.5 cm, height 7.5 cm
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A Royal Doulton 'Titanian vase of tall slender baluster shape with mottled rich deep blue glaze effects. Height 21 cm
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A Royal Doulton 'Titanian' vase, double gourd shape, glazed with varied petrol-on-water effects in blues and greens. Height 15 cm
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A large Royal Doulton veined flambe baluster vase, with short neck and rich glaze effects. Height 28.5 cm
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A Royal Doulton chamber pot, in the Norfolk pattern.
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A Royal Doulton turkey platter, in the Norfolk pattern and with drainage tree.
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A set of four Royal Doulton graduated ashets, in the Norfolk pattern.
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A Royal Doulton tea set, in the Norfolk pattern with six trios, teapot, and another six extra large cups and saucers.
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A Royal Doulton dessert set, in the Norfolk pattern.
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A set of Royal Doulton egg cups on stand, in the Norfolk pattern.
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A Royal Doulton biscuit barrel, in the Norfolk pattern with a bamboo handle.
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A Doulton flambe vase, the squat form with free form neck decorated with the veined pattern. Height 12 cm
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A Doulton Lambeth stoneware ewer by Mark V. Marshall, decorated with stylised thistles, the flower heads swelling from the cylindrical body, the leaves in cobalt outlined with trailed slip, mottled brown glaze at the shaped rim and foot, the loop handle with a raised leaf pattern. Impressed factory marks and 'Art Union of London' along with incised artist's initials. Hairline at lower handle joint. Height 26.5 cm
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A fine quality Royal Doulton white bone china baluster vase painted with turkeys and country gentlemen, the moulded mask handles richly gilded. Rim faults. Height 20.5 cm
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A Royal Doulton figurine, 'The Judge', HN2443. Height 15.5 cm
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A Royal Doulton figurine, 'The Lawyer' HN3041. Height 22 cm
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A Royal Doulton figurine, 'Lady Elyse' HN2474, the young woman seated upon a tree stump, her long flowing green dress painted with yellow florals. Height 14.6 cm
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A Royal Doulton figurine, 'The Bachelor' HN2319, he sits in a rush seated chair darning a sock. Height 17.8 cm
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A Royal Doulton figurine, 'The Doctor' HN2858, the older gent seated wearing a black jacket holding a bottle of medicine, his bag open to his right. Height 19.1 cm
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A Royal Doulton figurine, 'The Captain' HN2260, he stands in formal naval dress, telescope to his left hand, chart to his right. Height 24.1 cm
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A Royal Doulton figurine, 'A Single Red Rose' HN3376, the young woman standing in a long flowing red dress, a single flower to her left hand. Height 20.3 cm
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A Royal Doulton figurine, 'Nanny', HN2221, she sits in a rocking chair attending to the paw of a teddy bear, further toys to the sides. Height 15.2 cm
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A Royal Doulton figurine 'Balloon Seller' mini size, HN2130, she stands with baby wrapped to her front, her balloons to her left. Height 8.9 cm
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A Beswick Beatrix Potter's Duchess with pie figurine, the black cat standing on its hind legs holding a pie. Height 10.1 cm
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A Royal Doulton 'Scaramouche' mini character jug D6564. Height 6.4 cm
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A Royal Doulton Mini 'Punch & Judy' character jug D6596. Height 6.4 cm
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A Royal Doulton small 'Gulliver' character jug D6563. Height 10.1 cm
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A Royal Doulton small 'Mikado' character jug D6507. Height 9.5 cm
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A Royal Doulton Mini 'Gulliver' character jug, D6566. Height 6.4 cm
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A Royal Doulton figure, 'Balloon Man', HN1954. Modelled seated with balloons to his left hand. Height 18.4 cm
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A Royal Doulton figurine, 'The Old Balloon Seller', HN1315, modelled seated with balloons to her left, a flower basket to her right. Height 19.1 cm
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A Royal Doulton 'Gandoff' figure, HN2911, signed to the base by Michael Doulton. Height 17.8 cm
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A Royal Doulton potpourri lidded baluster vase, painted with fruit signed Lindsey Till, the borders richly gilded on a circular stand. Height 13 cm
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A Royal Doulton Silicon Ware 'John Dewar & Sons' whisky jug with ancient Greek designs of birds and animals in colours of black on a dark buff ground. Stopper missing. Height 15 cm
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Three small Doulton figures, a Mr Litigate Toby jug, a Buzfuz figure and a Buzfuz bust. Heights 10.5 cm, 10 cm and 6 cm
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A small modern Moorcroft baluster vase decorated with the anemone pattern, height 9.5 cm, together with a small modern anemone pattern dish, diameter 12 cm. Both with green marks.
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A Royal Worcester cabinet plate, hand painted with a vignette of a castle on a rocky promontory, within a midnight blue and gilt border. Diameter 26 cm
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A small Dennis China Works vase designed by Sally Tuffin, ovoid, decorated with floral designs. Ltd. Ed. marks, designer and manufacturer's marks under base. Height 8 cm
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A Royal Crown Derby posies coffee set with cobalt blue borders, four coffee cans and saucers, coffee pot, cream jug and sugar basin, green marks.
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A Crown Derby lozenge shaped dish, c.1820, decorated to the interior with sprays of summer flowers, gilt borders, red Derby mark under the base. Rim restored.
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A vintage half doll, a flapper girl in a yellow bathing suit, attached via a piece of cork to a pair of china legs, on later wooden stand. Damage to the fingers of one hand. Height 19 cm
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A Lenci pottery figure of a kneeling girl with dog, c.1925, she is modelled nude, wearing a black and white checked beret, a book in one hand and a small dog lying by her side. Height 23.3 cm, painted 'Lenci Made in Torino Italy '. Designed by Elena Konig Scavini. Minor glaze rubs.
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A fine quality Clarice Cliff conical rose bowl, shape 401, on four solid triangular section feet painted in bright polychrome colours with the 'Gayday' pattern. Printed marks 1930s. Diameter 22 cm
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A Shelley Art Deco 'Mode' trio with blue, yellow and black patterns, together with a Shelley Art Deco Mode cup and saucer with green, blue and black decoration.
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A Poole 'Delphis' circular dish, decorated with an abstract design in yellow and red on a burnt orange ground, diameter 265; along with a Poole Delphis posy vase decorated with cruciform medallions on a burnt orange ground. Height 8.5 cm
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A large Beswick figure of a seated alsation dog. Printed mark and original paper label. Height 34.5 cm
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A Royal Stanley Ware 'Jacobean' fruit decorated candlestick. Height 25 cm
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A Lladro porcelain figurine, of a young baseball player. 'Collector's Society' mark. Height 21.5 cm.
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A Lladro porcelain figurine, young woodsman with fawn over his shoulders. Height 26.5 cm
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A Lladro porcelain figure group, a young woman and boy with ball seated on settee. Height 26.5 cm
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A Lladro porcelain figurine of a young girl seated with parasol and a small dog. Height 22 cm
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A large Lladro porcelain figurine of seated judge with gavel. Height 33 cm
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A Lladro figurine of a tall elegant young woman with Pekinese dog. Height 37 cm
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A Lladro porcelain figurine of a young girl with two white doves. Height 22.5 cm
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A Port Isaac Pottery Art Nouveau jardiniere, the 'watercolour' painted poppies on a terracotta ground, triple fired ceramic. Manufacturer's marks under the base. Diameter 22 cm
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A pair of Edwardian period German bisque porcelain figurines, a young woman and gentleman each standing within a bocage of finely modelled and painted china flowers and fabric leaves and supported on circular wood plinth bases. Original glass domes missing. Height overall 51 cm
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A pair of Zitan wood joss-stick containers, carved to simulate bamboo. Length (longest) 30 cm
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A pair of Zitan wood boxes, inlaid with ivory to the lids, circular serpentine shape, the base and lid of the same dimension, the lid laid with a stylised Shou rondel surrounded by five bats in flight all carved in low relief in ivory, each box with a four character Qianlong seal mark under the base. Diameter 14 cm
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A Japanese ivory snuff bottle, the front decorated with birds and lilies in a pond, the reverse with calligraphic inscription.
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A Japanese ivory netsuke, in the form of a road courtier, decorative detail to kimono, seal marks to base.
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A Japanese ivory netsuke in the form of a monkey sitting on the back of a giant rat.
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A Japanese Zitan wood plain rectangular small open box, mildly curved panelled tops, cutaway handles, good dark colour and patina, panelled base. 23 cm x 16 cm x 8 cm
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A 19th century small Japanese trunk enclosing a quantity of Meiji period ledger books, each hand inscribed and stamped, the box with original paper cover over the pine frame, metal fittings. 51.5 cm x 34 cm x 24 cm
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An old Japanese 'Soda Gazabi' sleeve catcher, the long wooden pole with three rows of spikes and six curved arms to the narrow end with further spikes, used in battle to remove horsemen from their mount. Length 250 cm
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A large Japanese anagama storage jar with typical dark brown glaze effects, a restrained band of decoration beneath the top edge. Height 45.5 cm
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A Japanese Sumidagawa shallow bowl, modelled with a child clambouring over its rim and reaching into the 'cracked ice' glaze to the interior, the exterior typically glazed in colour. Diameter 14 cm
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A Japanese porcelain tall bottle vase, baluster shape, decorated in polychrome, the neck and cover restored. With wooden stand. Height 37.5 cm
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A Japanese porcelain two-handled baluster vase with divided rim, raised and painted decoration of figures and floral forms in various colours with gilded rims. Height 30 cm
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Four Japanese porcelain Igezawa blue print plates, each variously decorated with flowers, landscapes or stylised patterns. Diameter 31 cm
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A Japanese golden 'tea-dust' vase of shouldered shape; along with a kakiemon bottle vase, decorated with an exotic bird and flowers. Heights 15 cm and 17 cm
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A modern Japanese Fukagawa porcelain bottle vase of tapering square section with restrained painted decoration of a leafy branch. Height 13 cm
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A large old Japanese Kutani porcelain covered vase, with original internal lid, painted in polychrome with a kingfisher, fish and flowers. Painted character marks on base. Height on wood stand 39 cm
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A modern Japanese Kutani potpourri jar, of beehive shape with pierced lid and four lug feet, painted with birds eating grain. Height 10.5 cm
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A Japanese Fukagawa porcelain bowl, decorated in the Imari pallet with dragons, diaper pattern and a large Shou character to the centre, marked under the base 'Fukagawa Sei' and with koransha orchid mark. Diameter 22.5 cm
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A Japanese stained and coloured ivory okimono netsuke of a figure with basket. Height 5 cm
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An exceptionally fine Japanese Meiji period carved ivory figure of a seated Samurai warrior in full formal dress with Tanto (short sword) to his belt, the finest carved detail to all aspects, he sits cross legged upon an ebonised carved stand with bamboo type frame which supports three separate objects including his long katana sword, finely woven helmet and side table, all of carved ivory, the figure signed 'Mitsukazu' to the reverse in characters, the stand labelled to the base 'this carving is from 'The…
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A Japanese stained and coloured ivory figure of a young woman with lamp. Height on wood stand 13.5 cm
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A pair of Chinese porcelain famille noir triple gourd vases, each decorated with flowering boughs of cherry blossom, the squat spherical bodies raised on circular spreading bases. Height 29.5 cm
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A pair of Japanese 'clear ground' cloisonne vases, by the Ando Cloisonne Co., of shouldered shape, each vase decorated with irises on a soft celadon ground, and marked under the base with the Ando quatrefoil mon, the rim and foot of each vase set with silver bands, the base marked with two stamped characters. Height 25.5 cm
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A cloisonne lidded box, squat spherical shape raised on three small feet, decorated with three 'window' panels revealing birds and butterflies in flight amongst flowers on a speckled gold ground, framed by trailing flowering tendrils on a russet ground, slight faults. Diameter 12 cm
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A large black ground cloisonne vase, shouldered shape, decorated with butterflies and flowers, stylised patterns at the shoulder and neck. Height 39 cm
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Four small carved ivory pieces, two horses, height approx. 70; an elephant on stand, height 55; and an African figure, height 11 cm
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Nine old Japanese ukiyo-e (woodblock prints), includes figures in a Royal carriage, samurai, geisha, etc., all printed in colours which remain strong. 38 cm x 25 cm, unframed.
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A Japanese ukiyo-e coloured woodblock print by Kunichika. Two figures, one a Samurai warrior. 33 cm x 23 cm
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A Japanese polychrome coloured ukiyo-e (woodblock) print by Kunichika, Samurai warrior. 33 cm x 23 cm
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A pair of Hiroshigi coloured ukiyo-e (woodblock) prints, birds and mountainous landscape, each 33 cm x 22 cm, signed in the block. Some foxing, in contemporary laminated wood frame under glass.
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A large old African rhinoceros horn, natural curved form. Outer curvature 780. Weight 2.8kgs. Provenance: Purchased in Tauranga 'In the 1950s' by our vendor's father-in-law and given to him c.1968. A signed and witnessed affidavit stating this and more is available.
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A large old ivory elephant tusk, with old ink stencil notations of measurements, game park numbers and 'City of Durban' to one end. Weight 12 kilos. Length 132 cm
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A Chinese carved ivory fishing boat, carved as a sampan with numerous figures upon its deck casting a finely pierced net from its bow; the net drifts below a broad range of sea-life whilst the figures prepare to receive its abundance. Raised on redwood stand carved to represent waves. Length 74 cm
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An old Chinese carved tusk, carved as a fishing sampan with numerous family figures on an open deck, the hollow part of the tusk finely pierced and carved to represent a net flung into the ocean, various fish swim across its upper surfaces. Raised on carved rosewood stand. Length 60 cm
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A Chinese ornately carved ivory elephant tusk, fully pierced and carved with scenes of figures within a landscape highlighted with trees and buildings completing daily tasks, the roofs and structures highlighted with inserted flags and tall finial, raised on carved ebonised long stand. Length 60 cm
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