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The Spring Auction Series, Day 1; Fine Jewels and Watches — Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)

Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:503
Sale Title:The Spring Auction Series, Day 1; Fine Jewels and WatchesLots with images:496
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:365
Date:17-Nov-2014
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A blue and white globular vessel, Ming Dynasty, 16th century, well-painted with six figures in a fenced garden between cloud and lacquered borders the unglazed base slightly recessed neck reduced. 16.5 cm high. Provenance: The late Mrs Evans of Santa Barbara California, who collected Asian art over a lifetime, discovered by Gary Major Douglas in a hidden storage unit.
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A Chinese Wucai enamel jar, mid 17th century, decorated with a dragon and phoenix with unglazed concave base. 18 cm high. Provenance: The late Mrs Evans of Santa Barbara California, who collected Asian art over a lifetime, discovered by Gary Major Douglas in a hidden storage unit.
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A good Thai celadon bowl, Sukhothai period, circa 15th century, with foliate/rim, covered with a good bluish green crackle glaze firing ring on the burnt red unglazed base. 9.5 cm high, 28.4 cm diameter
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A large Longxuan celadon dish, late Song/Yuan Dynasty, 13th century, decorated in the centre with a carved and combed lotus flower surrounded by a petal-shaped cavetto the unglazed foot rim burnt brick red. 34 cm diameter
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A Korean celadon-glazed Kundika, Koryo/Choson Dynasty, 14th/15th century, covered in a finely crackled olive green glaze kiln grit to the flat base. 34 cm high. Provenance: A Private Canberra Collection
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A Korean celadon bowl, Koryo Dynasty, 12th-14th century, slip decorated in the centre with a lotus flower on an unctuous crackled celadon glaze. 7 cm high; 19 cm diameter variable together with a moulded Korean celadon bowl, Choson Dynasty, 15th/16th century, 7.5 cm high; 18 cm diameter. Provenance: A Private Canberra Collection
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A pair of Chinese gilt and polychrome bronze Buddhist guardians (Tienhuang), Ming Dynasty, 16th/17th century, each one finely cast standing in full armour on a rockwork platform base fitted wood bases. 34.4 cm high and 35 cm high. Provenance: The late Mrs Evans of Santa Barbara California, who collected Asian art over a lifetime, discovered by Gary Major Douglas in a hidden storage unit.
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A set of three kingfisher-feather inset hairpins, late Qing Dynasty, 19th century, each one in the form of a butterfly attached with tiny springs to a gilt-silver pin two with impressed seals to the back of the pin. 23 cm, 24.5 cm and 25.5 cm
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A rare kingfisher feather headband, late Qing Dynasty, 19th century, decorated with raised stylised flowers within copper wires. 6 cm high, 17 cm wide. Provenance: Gary Major Douglas, Houston, Texas, author and speaker with eccentric taste who collected for over 50 years.
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A rare kingfisher-feather and gilt-silver hairpin, late Qing Dynasty, 19th/20th century, in the form of a pair of phoenix, with six tiny coral and pearl tassels. 13 cm long, 6 cm wide. Provenance: Gary Major Douglas, Houston, Texas, author and speaker with eccentric taste who collected for over 50 years.
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A rare ladies blue gauze Summer Dragon court robe, circa 1875 with gold and silver couching 133 x 200 cm. For an earlier example see: Christie's HK 28 May 2014, Lot 3352, 'Imperial Textiles from the Collection of an American Gentleman'
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A highly-elaborate Chinese headdress, late Qing Dynasty, 19th/20th century, decorated with numerous kingfisher feather, pearl and hardstone fittings each one applied to a velvet backing over meshed fabric with pendant strings of pearl and hardstone. 18 cm high, 28 cm wide
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A pale celadon jade quatrefoil brush washer, Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911 in the form of an open flower with semi- translucent body supported on a flower-shaped base fitted hardwood stand 13.3 x 10.3 cm. Provenance: An old Melbourne Collection
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A rare pale celadon jade brush-rest, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, cleverly carved in the form of a group of ruyi fungus on a gnarled branch, the stone with a soft polish and caramel-coloured skin to some raised sections fitted leaf shaped wood stand. 16 cm long. Provenance: From a private Melbourne collection purchased in Hong Kong in the 1960's
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A Chinese celadon jade recumbent Bactrian camel, the well-polished jade with darker inclusions. 20 cm long. Provenance: From the Von Krenner collection, Bavaria, Germany
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A Chinese Exportfamille rose Coffee Pot, late 18th Century. 25 cm high
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A hardwood ruyi sceptre, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, inlaid with three pale green jade dragon plaques. 47 cm long. Provenance: The Phillips Collection, Queensland
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A Huanghuali document box, 17th/18th century, with original brass fittings the base in jichimmu wood. 13.5 cm high, 36.3 cm wide, 20.5 cm deep
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A lady's Chaopao 'piling' collar, late Qing Dynasty, circa 1875 from a lady's formal or state robe, framed with a pair of dragon's in gold thread above waves. 83 cm wide *For a complete lady's Chaopao in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession number: 35.84.4), where it is stated: 'Surviving examples of women's formal court robes are rare: not many were made, as women were not often included in court ceremonies'
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A large Taihu-type scholar's rock on a fitted hardwood base. 24 cm high, 38 cm wide, 24 cm deep irregular
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A rare Chinese flambe glazed vase, Qianlong Period, 1736-1795 with two raised rims on the neck and around the shoulder and a further large ring around the centre of the body, covered in a extraordinary transmutation glaze neatly stopped at the foot, the base with a brown wash. 30 cm high. Reference: 'The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty. Treasures in the Royalty' Page 98 shows a vase of the same shape, footrim and banded neck but with an overglaze red decoration, dated as Kangxi Period.…
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A Chinese bronze mirror, Eastern Han, 8-220AD with zoomorphic and geometric designs nine characters around the knop together with two other early bronze mirrors Diameters 18 cm, 16.3 cm and 10.5 cm. Provenance: An old Canberra Collection
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A Chinese bronze censor, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, in the form of a buffalo the rider serving as a cover. 27 cm high, 28.5 cm long. Provenance: An old Canberra Collection
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Two Cantonese ivory card cases, late Qing Dynasty, 19th century, each one finely carved with figures, trees, roses etc one 11 x 6.7 cm variable; the other 8.3 x 4.5 cm
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A Chinese green and brown jade bi-disc, Han to Six Dynasties, 2nd- 6th century, AD worked with a continuous archais design on both sides. 9 cm diameter
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A small chicken bone jade libation cup, probably Qing Dynasty decorated with an archaistic design on the exterior 8.9 cm long; 4.6 cm variable together with a pale celadon jade stylised winged beast 5.3 cm high; 6.3 cm wide together with a small white and brown jade carving of a crane on a fruiting peach branch 3.3 cm high; 3.9 cm wide. Provenance: Deceased estate, acquired in China 1980s
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An unusual large celadon dish, late Ming Dynasty, 16th/17th century, incised in the centre and on the cavetto, with carp among waves under a grey-green glaze the recessed base burnt brick red. 37.8 cm high
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A Chinese cinnabar lacquer lobed box and cover, 19th century, carved on the top with a village scene, scrolling finger citrin around the sides and metal inner rims. 5 cm high, 15 cm diameter at the widest
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A large and heavily cast polychrome iron figure of Amoghasidi, Ming Dynasty, 16th century, the bejewelled figure seated in elaborate robes holding two long lotus stems. 40.5 cm high. Provenance: The late Mrs Evans of California. Collected Asian art all her life and these pieces were discovered by Gary Major Douglas in a hidden storage unit in Santa Barbara.
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Three Longxuan bowls, Yuan and Ming Dynasty, 14th-16th century, comprising a deep lotus bowl 8.5 cm high; 15.7 cm diameter a smaller bowl with impressed flower head 6.5 cm high; 14 cm diameter and a finely-potted washer. 13.8 cm diameter
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A Longxuan celadon dish, 13th/14th century, a large lotus head in the centre and ribbed cavetto the unglazed foot rim burnt red recessed base. 33 cm diameter. Provenance: Donald Friend Collection, Bali
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A good pair of Chinese export paintings, Qing Dynasty, early 19th century, each one in oil on linen with a scene of ladies in a garden and in a garden terrace in gilt-wood frames 44 x 56 cm. Provenance: Diana Cameron Collection Tasmania Private Collection Tasmania Exhibited Van Diemen’s Land Folk Museum (Narryna), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart Tasmania 2013.
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A pair of Chinese Huali horseshoe-backed chairs. 97.5 cm high; 73 cm widest
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A Chinese square rouge marble inlaid carved rosewood pedestal, 20th century. 47 cm high, 42 cm wide, 42 cm deep
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A Japanese lobed rouge marble inlaid carved rosewood pedestal, late 19th/20th century. 101 cm high, 47 cm diameter
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A Japanese ebonised hardwood torchere, late 19th century, the shaped top with inset marble panel. 92 cm high, 39 cm wide
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A Chinese Fencai enamel vase, 20th century, with dragon handles very finely painted with a dragon and phoenix and exotic flowers Qianlong mark. 22.8 cm high. Provenance: Dryden Estate
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A Chinese green agate two-handled lidded jar, 20th century. 29.5 cm high
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Five Chinese hardwood stands three inset with marble. 36 cm tallest, 15 cm smallest three inset with marble
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A Chinese smoky quartz covered vessel, early 20th century, carved in deep relief with boys and dragons on the sides supported on four fruitform feet fitted stand and old fitted box. 21.5 cm high Provenance: The late Mrs Evans of Santa Barbara California, who collected Asian art over a lifetime, discovered by Gary Major Douglas in a hidden storage unit.
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A Korean celadon bowl, Koreo Dynasty, 12th/13th century, Slip decorated with three flowers in the centre and three stylised chrysanthemum roundels on the outside finely crazed greenish-blue glaze 8.5 cm high, 18.5 cm diameter. Provenance: The Phillips Collection, Queensland
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Two Chinese enamel and gilt metal filigree miniature vases. 6 cm high and 7 cm high
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A Chinese blue silk dragon robe, Qing Dynasty, late 19th century, embroidered with five clawed dragons in gold thread above a band of breaking waves in coloured silk. 108 cm long. Provenance: A Private Melbourne Collection
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A good blue ground and gold thread dragon robe, 18/19th century. 100 cm high, 90 cm wide
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CHINESE SCHOOL Qing Dynasty Figures in a traditional landscape watercolour on rice paper 60 x 40 cm (each)
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A Chinese blue and white Guan, probably Kangxi Period, 1662-1722 decorated with women and children at play old hardwood base. 21.8 cm high, 12.5 cm diameter at mouth
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A good Chinese inlaid lacquer and gilt low table, early 20th century
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A Chinese inlaid hardstone, lacquer and bone three fold table screen. 50 cm high, 55.5 cm wide, 1.5 cm deep
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A fine Chinese hardwood Kang table Qing Dynasty #3. 30 cm high, 81 cm wide, 50 cm deep
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A Chinese silver inlaid hardwood figure of Guanyin, Qing Dynasty, 19th century. 46.5 cm high
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An early Islamic pottery oil lamp covered in a turquoise glaze with silver iridescence. 9 cm high. Provenance: A Private Canberra Collection
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A Chinese painting, early 20th century, ink and colour on silk depicting figures in a river landscape framed and glazed. 71 cm high, 40 cm wide. Provenance: Bought 1949-51 by Major Henry Jacomb Foster, Australian Army
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A painted enamel dish, Qianlong six character seal mark and of the period finely painted in the centre and on the outside cavetto with peony scroll on a yellow background gilt copper rims. 16.5 cm diameter. Provenance: A Private Canberra Collection
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A rare Chinese Imari underglaze blue and iron red and gilt baluster vase Qing Dynasty, 18th century, 43 cm high
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A pair of Chinese blue and white peony and insect saucer dishes, Chenghua mark, Kangxi Period (1662-1722), 15.2 cm diameter
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A Chinese heavy bronze censor, late Ming Dynasty, 17th century, in the form of a Buddhist lion. 23 cm high, 25.5 cm long. Provenance: An old Canberra Collection
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A large Chinese embroidered panel, late Qing Dynasty, early 20th century, well-decorated with a pair of dragons above waves in silk and gold thread mounted. 94 cm high, 150 cm wide
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A Chinese embroidered skirt, late Qing Dynasty, late 19th/early 20th century, finely stitched in blue and white silk on a russet-coloured damask field. 83 cm long. Provenance: A Private Melbourne Collection
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A Chinese baluster vase, People's Republic, 20th century, painted with a continuous landscape and enscribed Deng Guojun red seal to base. 38 cm high
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A Chinese armorial plate, early Qing Dynasty, circa 1745 from the dinner service made for John, 5th Viscount Arbuthnott diameter 22.5 cm
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A Chinese monochrome glaze bowl, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, covered inside and out with an even blue glaze seal mark within a double circle to the base. 9 cm high, 19.2 cm diameter. Provenance: Phillips Collection, Queensland acquired 1970s/80s
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A Chinese jade figure of multi-armed deity, late 19th/20th century. 22 cm high
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A pair of Sancai pottery tomb figures, Ming Dynasty, circa 16th century, each one on a waisted hexagonal base 48 x 48.5 cm. Provenance: Martin Fung, Hong Kong
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A burnished pottery cocoon jar, Western Han Dynasty, 206BC-8AD The dating consistent with Wollongong University TL certificate no W2502. 32 cm high
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A copper red bowl, Qing Dynasty, 18th/19th century, the langyao glaze neatly stopped above the iron-burnt foot four character mark. 6 cm high, 13.3 cm wide. Provenance: The Phillips Collection, Queensland
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A pair of Chinese silk and cotton embroidered panels, early 20th century. 172 cm long
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A brown and white jade animal group, late Qing/Republic Period, 19th/20th century, fitted wood stand. 5 cm length. Provenance: The Phillips Collection, Queensland
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A copper red bottle vase, Republic Period, early 20th century, the glaze pooled around the foot rim. 20.5 cm high. Provenance: The Phillips Collection, Queensland
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A Chinese bronze cloisonne figured censer, late Qing dynasty. 28 cm high, 20 cm square
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A Chinese bronze and glass scholar’s object, 19th century. 18 cm high, 26 cm wide
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A Chinese carved agate censer, 20th century. 15 cm high
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A Chinese Dehua figure of Guanyin, 18th century, seated in long robes leaning on an armrest impressed four character mark. 23.5 cm high. Provenance: A Private Melbourne Collection
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A pair of Chinese polychrome ladies, Peoples' Republic, 20th century, each one very finely modelled, holding a sceptre in one hand the flat base with a russet burn. 42.5 cm high
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A pair of Chinese Huali square stools (Fangdeng), 20th century, each one with cane seats and hump back spandrels. 48 cm high, 59.5 cm wide, 59.5 cm deep
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A good Chinese hardwood wine table (Pingtouan), Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911 with floating panel, a shaped apron with pierced ruyi-heads and leg braces at each end. 81.5 cm high, 115.5 cm wide, 52 cm deep For a similar hardwood table see: Christie's New York, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 20 and 21 March 2014, Lot 2295
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A finely-potted blue and white saucer-dish, early Qing dynasty, early 18th century, decorated with a river landscape Chenghua mark Bluett & Sons label attached. Provenance: A Private Canberra Collection
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A Chinese baluster vase, Republic Period, 20th century, with stylised dragon handles very finely decorated in eight-shaped cartouche with genre scenes and birds and insects and precious objects on the neck all in enamels and gilt reserved against an iron-red background covered with delicate floral scrolls in gilt turquoise glaze on the base and inside the mouth Jurentang seal mark. 33.7 cm high
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A very unusual hardwood low table, 18th and 20th century, the top with a pierced apron inset in the centre with four early Qing Dynasty blue and white tiles surrounded by a border of Delft tiles standing on a four bamboo-form legs with an elaborate cross-stretcher support across the base Table 53.5 cm high Table top 100 x 86.5 cm. Blue and white tiles 23 x 22 cm each. Provenance: The Phipps family, USA, wealthy American industrialists known for their philanthropy, dynastic wealth, and involvement in…
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A Chinese pottery 'Guan' jar, Warring States Period, 475-221 BC with panel beaten design. 12.5 cm high
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A small blue and white jarlet, Yuan Dynasty, 1280-1364 with two shoulder lugs very finely potted in the form of a starfruit painted with floral sprays in alternate vertical segments fitted box 5.5 cm high Published John Guy 'Oriental Trade Ceramics in South East Asia' Exhibited National Gallery of Victoria, catalogue No 50. Provenance: R & V Tregaskis, exhibition 2004 Bodor Collection
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A Chinese celadon jar, late Ming/early Qing, 17th century, incised with stylised flowers under a translucent pale green crackled glaze kiln grit to the base. 21.5 cm high
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A conical Yueyao bowl, Tang Dynasty, 618-907 covered with a mottled buff glaze probably Shanglinhu Kilns '4 cm high; 14.2 cm diameter
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A Chinese Yaozhou celadon bowl, early Northern Song, 960-1279. 14 cm diameter
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A Qingbai boys bowl, Song Dynasty, 96-1279 standing on a high foot, the interior carved with three boys under a pale blueish glaze the exterior with a horizontal band of ribs 6.2 cm high; 12.4 cm diameter
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A Chinese Longxuan celadon washer, Southern Song, 1177-1279 covered in a good pale green glaze, apart from the slightly-recessed biscuit base. 12.6 cm diameter. Provenance: A Private Melbourne Collection
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A small Yaozhou celadon bowl, northern Song, 11th/12th century, covered in a bright translucent pale green crackled glaze. 10.4 cm diameter
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A fine Qingbai moulded shallow bowl, Southern Song, 1127-1279 decorated with two phoenix and exotic flowers around a central lotus medallion old adhesion to the rim from the original silver mount. 4 cm high, 18 cm diameter. Provenance: KY Fine Art, Hong Kong
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A Chinese hardwood opium bed, late Qing Dynasty, late 19th to early 20th century, with three shaped panels at the back and two side panels, each panel carved with various fruit, flowers and birds within recessed cartouche further carvings on the shaped apron supported on four short feet. 118 cm high, 196 cm wide, 124 cm deep, the seat 53 cm high
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A Chinese limestone weight, Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911 the handle in the form of a mythical beast on the flat, square stone. 25.8 cm diameter. Provenance: The late Mrs Evans of Santa Barbara California, who collected Asian art over a lifetime, discovered by Gary Major Douglas in a hidden storage unit.
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A kingfisher-feather phoenix brooch, late Qing Dynasty on silver gilt backing 4.3 cm diameter. Provenance: Gary Major Douglas of Houston, Texas, author and speaker with eccentric taste who collected for over 50 years.
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A Chinese hardwood painting table, Qing Dynasty with a shaped lower rail, supported on four round legs. 83 cm high, 178 cm wide, 79 cm deep. Provenance: The Phipps family, USA, wealthy American industrialists known for their philanthropy, dynastic wealth, and involvement in training of race horses, Most notably Secretariat.
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A Chinese six-panel wooden screen relief carved with dragons at the top the shaped medallions inlaid with precious objects in various hard stones 162 x 38 cm
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A pair of carved rose quartz and gilt metal figural lamps, Chinese/French, 19th century
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A collection of five Dehua libation cups, early Qing Dynasty, 17th/18th century, each one moulded with flowering prunus branches, one with metal mount to rim from 5.8 cm high to 8.4 cm high Sotheby's labels attached to three. Provenance: From a Private Melbourne Collection
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A Chinese bamboo summer vest, 19th century, *Refer Linda Wrigglesworth 'Orientations', November 1990, for a similar vest
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A Chinese blue and white saucer dish with European silver mounts Qianlong (1736-1796), 27.5 cm diameter
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A finely cast Chinese bronze censer and cover, Qing Dynasty, 19th century. 18.5 cm high, 18.5 cm long, 12 cm wide
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A cast gilt-bronze figure of Amatayus, nine character mark '23rd year of Quianlong' (1761), and of the period seated on a pierced rectangular pedestal before a flaming mandorla. 21.5 cm high
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An unusual rock crystal and gilt bronze mounted bowl, 19th/20th century, 9.5 cm high, 17 cm diameter
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A Chinese two-tiered hardwood stand. 24.8 cm high; 34.5 cm wide; 13.7 cm deep
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