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Asian Art — Webb's

Auction House:Webb'sNumber of lots recorded:259
Sale Title:Asian ArtLots with images:255
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:71
Date:11-Apr-2019
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A colour glass vase, ancient Chinese States, height 18 cm, depth 12 cm
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Two small pottery jars, Jin Dynasty. One of the jars has a fine light green glaze covering half of the finely grained body. The other black-glazed jar is oviform and rests on a short unglazed foot, with a short spout on the shoulder 2, height 6.5 cm, depth 8 cm, height 6 cm, depth 7 cm
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Two small Chinese pottery jars, Jin Dynasty. A pair of two Chinese ceramic/earthenware jarlets / miniature jars. One has a crackled celadon glaze, the other has a brown glaze 2, height 7 cm, depth 6 cm, height 8 cm, depth 6 cm
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A small celadon pot & a small celadon saucer, Jin Dynasty/Song Dynasty 2, height 5 cm, depth 7 cm, depth 8.5 cm
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A Chinese Ganzhou ware 'partridge feather' vase, Robustly potted with a tapering body rising to broad round shoulders, sweeping up to a short neck with rolled lip, the body liberally decorated with variegated cream-coloured splashes against a black ground mimicking partridge feathers, save for the knife-pared footring unglazed revealing the buff body, the base covered in a black matte glaze, height 18 cm, depth 10 cm
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A green-glazed flask in the shape of a leather bag, Liao Dynasty. Modelled after leather prototypes, the swelling body flattened at the top attached to a cylindrical spout with moulded rim and raised band at its base, covered with a thin bright green glaze over a white slip falling irregularly to expose the buff ware, height 21 cm, depth 12 cm
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A Cizhou bowl, a shallow bowl of grey pottery with a curved profile upon a wide base. It is cream-glazed inside and to the base on the outside which is decorated with five black totems, height 7.5 cm, depth 135 mm
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A Qinbai bowl, bowl moulded in the center with two fish swimming in the same direction under water, height 5.5 cm, depth 140 mm
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A Qingbai bowl, Song dynasty, height 5 cm, depth 120 mm
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A large Chinese blue and white Swatow ware dish, Ming Dynasty, Wanli period. potted in shallow inverted domical section, the interior surfaces adorned in radiating floral panels encircling the bird and flower roundel centering the interior well, the exterior sides unadorned. Good condition. Zhangzhou ware, height 7 cm, depth 375 mm
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A large Swatow ware plate, Ming Dynasty, Wanli period. Dish with the path to the Island of immortals, with 'split pagoda' motif in the center. A great, large size and highly collectible, height 9 cm, depth 380 mm
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A large blue and white porcelain plate, possibly Late Ming Dynasty, height 5 cm, depth 345 mm
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A large Swatow ware plate with floral design, Ming Dynasty, Wanli period. Porcelain with slip decoration under blue glaze, height 9 cm, depth 380 mm
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A blue glazed Swatow ware plate, Ming Dynasty, Wanli period. Stoneware with carved and incised decoration under blue glaze, height 9 cm, depth 380 mm
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain plate, Ming Dynasty, height 4 cm, depth 195 mm
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A Longquan plate, Song dynasty. Finely hand carved with two fishes, all under a pale olive finely-crackled glazed, height 3 cm, depth 110 mm
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A Qingbai plate, Northern Song dynasty. Hutian ware. This thinly potted dish features various hand painted flowers. The piece is covered in a bluish-white glaze, typical of Qingbai ware, with a bare rim, depth 17.5 cm
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A song style Yaozhou plate, a very rare Northern song style Yaozhou celadon peony plate. The center is crisply moulded with two large peonies and leaves on the front. The back is carved with stripes. In perfect condition. This piece is extremely rare and favored by collectors, height 3.5 cm, depth 14.5 cm
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A song style 'Boy' bowl, of conical form, supported on a narrow recessed base and low foot, impressed and combed on the interior with two boys and floral pattern, height 4.5 cm, depth 12.5 cm
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A large Chinese Longquan bowl, the bowl, with deep rounded sides, is carved on the exterior with overlapping petals and is covered overall with a soft sea-green glaze, height 13 cm, depth 220 mm
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A rare Longquan censer, Yuan Dynasty / Ming Dynasty, height 8 cm, depth 9 cm
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A small Junyao brush washer with three feet, late Ming Dynasty / early Qing Dynasty, height 34 depth 9.5 cm
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Two Chinese pottery goats, Han Dynasty. Sound and stable condition. Gray earthenware with a black slip and traces of red pigment 2, height 16 cm, width 16 cm
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A Chinese antique Deqing chicken head ewer, the northern and southern dynasties. With chicken-head spout, applied with black glaze while base left unglazed, height 22 cm, depth 16 cm
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A cocoon jar, former Han Dynasty. Jar made of grey pottery with an everted mouth above a ribbed neck and with a short flaring foot. Painted in red, cream, pale yellow and black pigments in a traditional shape, height 31 cm, width 31 cm
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A Chinese pottery jar, Neolithic age. A very attractive and unusual jar in the shape of an udder. Very typical linear scratched decoration and applied ornaments, height 33 cm
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A Longquan bowl, Southern Song dynasty. Bowl carved on the outside with deep rather irregularly-carved flutes. The inside shows two carved circles at the well and three carved rings near the rim. The bluish opalescent crackled, rather degraded, the celadon glaze has run down and partly covered the deep and slightly crooked footing. The latter has been trimmed with an upwardly sloping knife-cut. The base has been burnt red-brown in the firing. The bowl was fired on a fireclay ring three cm in diameter, the…
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A Yueyao bowl, early Northern song. This bowl has an incised Chinese character ' chi ' (= happiness or prosperity) in the well, with a carved and combed swirling decoration on the inside and a grouped linear carving on the outside. A fine brown-staining crackle shows in the yellowish-green glaze which extends unevenly to the foot. Presumably, it was the glaze, rather than the grey clay body, which contained the iron which stained the crackle. Where the glaze has not quite reached the foot the saw-tooth…
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A Henan jar, possibly Tang /Song Dynasty. Jar with a wide neck and the everted lip above an ovoid body with symmetrical shoulders. The clay body is covered in the dark brown glaze which in places does not reach the rough unglazed irregular base. The latter shows adherent patches, possibly spur-marks. The glaze on one side of the jar is pitted as though it had been lying for a long time on that side. It seems to be made of rather coarse grey clay with a generous plaster of slip on the outside. There is no…
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A model lamp holder, Han Dynasty. Oxford Thermoluminescence test number 666e67 is consistent with the dating of this object. Of grey pottery this article is shaped as an Armenian dwarf with a large-cheeked jolly face, wearing a tunic and peaked hat with a flaring back, kneeling on his left knee and clasping the column of the lamp holder with both hands. Under the brownish residue of a white slip, his tunic is decorated with a series of faded black triangles, squiggles, and slashes, as well as his eyebrows…
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A model ox, probably Sui Dynasty but possibly Tang, Modelled in red terracotta with cheerful features and standing four-square on stout legs on a circular base. The tail is thrown forward over the left rump. The folds of skin around the neck have been carefully carved. There are finger-marks inside the animal at the place where the flanks were moulded. There are paddle-scrapes on the back legs. The ox was probably moulded to rough shape and then covered with slip to give a smooth finish. This animal seems…
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A covered box, Han Dynasty. Box of grey pottery of a circular shape with painted ornamentation in red, ochre and white pigments. The center of the lid has a quatrefoil design while the outer part has a swirling trifoliate design in the same colours. There is a broad white band around the midriff. The lower half of the box has the same pattern of trifoliate floral design as is seen in no 74. The shaped base is slightly concave. For a similarly decorated box see Fig 38 of illustrated catalogues of Tokyo…
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A tripod Ding and cover, Han Dynasty. A ding of grey pottery decorated in red, white and ochre pigments. The cover has a flat circular rim, painted white, to act as a base when the lid is inverted. Within this rim is a quatrefoil design of red, white and ochre. Round the sides of the lid is a swirling trifoliate design with a broad white decorative band where it fits the body of the ding. The body of the vessel has two upright pierced and squared-off handles, one of which has been broken off and re-stuck.…
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A jar, Han Dynasty. Jar of green-glazed red earthenware on a short base with slender neck surmounted by a flared mouth. The globular body is decorated with two rows of ribbed bands. The mouth is also decorated with a carved band. The jar is covered in a finely crackled and partly decomposed silvery iridescent green lead glaze on the outside and within the neck, but not inside nor upon the base. The colour of the glaze on the interior of the mouth is greenish-yellow unlike the dark bluish-green of the…
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A model farmhouse, Han Dynasty. Model made of red pottery with two figures looking out from the windows under a tiled overhanging roof. The house is L-shaped with a little walled courtyard to complete the square. The courtyard has its own small windows in its walls. The main house walls have been crudely incised with lines apparently representing decoration rather than timber framing. The whole is covered in a whitish pigment. Compare this model with a similar farmhouse shown in figure 174 on page 259 of…
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A model stove, Han Dynasty. Red pottery stove of boat shape, slab-made, set upon a flat base. The object was originally glazed green overall (possibly over a white slip) but most of this glazing has now decayed or flaked. On the top of the stove are two round cooking-pots, one inset into a hole, the other standing just behind the heat-guard. A further round pot stands on the floor to the right of the fire-door. Two models of Han women stand, one to the left of the fire-door, the other at the edge of the…
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A model walled farmyard, Han Dynasty. Thermoluminescence test number 566k83 is consistent with the dating of this object. Model of red pottery with an overall green glaze which has degenerated and flaked in places. The model consists of a 3-sided walled enclosure containing a man in a sitting position operating a grain-pounding tilt-hammer housed above a mortar. Alongside the man is a circular grinding mill with two holes either side of the central fulcrum of the stone for the reception of the grain to be…
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A model mill, Han Dynasty. Modelled in green-glazed red-earthenware with four windows and a door. The low rectangular building is open on one side to show a treadle-operated grain-pounding tilt-hammer and mortar. The hammer itself was once free on its fulcrum but has become adherent with burial-earth. On the right of the mill, the floor is a circular bedstone complete with radial grooving. The mill has a separate upper millstone, or runner, with two moulded half-moon indentations on its top. This upper…
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A Cizhou figure of lady, Jin Dynasty (1154-1234), model of a lady, probably a servant, with both hands in front of her and a worried look on her face holding a draped cloth beneath a vase of flowers. The model is painted in black and brown with additional red and green pigments on a cream ground. This figure is remarkably well moulded, the profile, as well as the fore-and-aft view, are surprisingly good for so small a model. Models of this type are said to be rare in the song, much more common in the Tang…
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A model Well-Head, Han Dynasty. Model made of red pottery with arched pulley-support and a bucket with moulded bosses on the well's rim, all under an iridescent green glaze. The base and some of the inside of the well and bucket are unglazed. The square frame of the pulley housing shows a small pulley but no roof. The bucket originally had two outward-sloping handles but one has been broken and the other has been drilled. There are various chips and flakes. Compare well-heads in plates 190-193 of spirit of…
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A model Granary jar, Han Dynasty (25 - 220 Ce), Modelled as a granary (or silo) with a conical tiled roof and made of pale pink earthenware, the whole covered in a dark green lead glaze, including the base. There is a central circular opening at the top. The cylindrical body of the jar is decorated with three bands of three grooves around the sides. Residual burial earth is still adherent beneath the rim of the roof. The model is supported on three so-called 'Bear' feet, cast in a separate mould. The roof,…
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A Chinese polished bronze mirror, Tang Dynasty. The back cast with borders of bird, berries leaves and flowers around four seals. Provenance: The Dr. Francis De Hamel collection, height 1 cm, depth 11.5 cm
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A pair of Chinese Qianlong famille rose porcelain plates, decorated with painted enamel sprays leaves and flowers. Provenance: The Dr. Francis De Hamel collection, depth 16.5 cm
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A pair of early 19th century Chinese porcelain brush pots, Qing Dynasty. With moulded and finely painted enamel decoration (one repaired). Provenance: The Dr. Francis De Hamel collection 2, height 10.5 cm, depth 6 cm
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A Tang Dynasty camel, in a classic Tang style (618-906AD), elegant standing camel with arched neck, wearing a saddle and blanket on broad back, height 40 cm, width 28 cm
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A Tang Dynasty pottery, female figure, height 35 cm
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A Chinese black glazed jar, Song dynasty, height 23.5 cm, depth 25 cm
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A tortoise shell bowl, possibly Song dynasty, height 5.5 cm, depth 16 cm
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A stone carved Buddha, Northern Wei Dynasty or Northern Qi Dynasty, height 46 cm, width 22 cm
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A large Chinese blue and white porcelain brush pot, late Ming Dynasty / early Qing Dynasty. Of wide cylindrical form, the exterior is painted in a deep tone of underglaze-blue with a scene of courtiers, ladies, and sentries in a good send-off setting. Good condition, height 23 cm, depth 225 mm
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain plum vase, decorated with longevity peaches, height 32 cm, depth 18 cm
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain brush pot, height 15 cm, depth 10 cm
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An 18th century or 19th century Chinese blue and white porcelain jar, Qing Dynasty, height 18 cm, depth 17 cm
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A large Chinese blue and white porcelain case, decorated with sakumo and bats - on the auspicious implies, height 10 cm, depth 180 mm
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A large Chinese blue and white porcelain bowl, marks refer to Ming Dynasty, Chenghua period. Decorated with Chinese dragon and phoenix, height 10.5 cm, depth 21.5 cm
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A pair of blue and white porcelain cups and saucers, decorated with Chinese character 'Shou', representing long life in traditional Chinese culture4, depth 12 cm, height 4 cm, depth 9 cm
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A pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain cups, decorated with figures2, height 7 cm, depth 8 cm
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An 18th century Chinese export blue and white porcelain rectangular plate, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period. Decorated with pavilion pattern, W 24 cm, depth 17 cm
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A Chinese vase with two ears, Qing Dynasty. The vase has a compressed body raised on a slightly waisted foot with moulded edge and is covered overall with a very finely mottled, matte glaze of olive-green colour that also covers the base around the brown glazed rim. The foot is covered with a dark brown wash. Marks refer to Qianlong period, height 25 cm, depth 18 cm
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A peachbloom glazed beehive waterpot, Taibai Zun, marked of Kangxi period. Finely potted, classic domed 'Taibai zun' form, the slightly tapering sides rising to a rounded shoulder and short waisted neck below a lipped mouth-rim, the exterior evenly applied overall save for the rim and base with a crimson-red glaze, the recessed white base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark in three columns, height 8.5 cm, depth 12.5 cm
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A 19th century Chinese 'Shou' character decorated Peacock-Blue glazed jar, Qing Dynasty, height 18 cm, depth 20 cm
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A Chinese Red-glazed pot, late Qing Dynasty / early - Republic period, a Chinese copper-red glazed pot, with an inverted mouth, all under an even bubble-suffused rich liver red glaze stopping neatly around the foot, height 15.5 cm, depth 20 cm
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A Chinese Jun-klin red vase, height 16 cm, depth 7 cm
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An 18th century Chinese flambe glaze vase with two ears, mid Qing Dynasty. Impressive Chinese flambe porcelain baluster vase with figural kylin handles. Deep sang De boeuf oxblood glaze with iridescent flambe splashes, height 41 cm, width 20 cm
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A Chinese Ge ware style rectangular vase, Qing Dynasty, height 14.2 cm, width 8 cm, depth 8 cm
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A Late 19th century Chinese Sacrificial red glazed bottle vase, late Qing Dynasty. Stoutly potted, the globular body rising to slanted shoulders surmounted by a columnar neck covered with a rich jun glaze fading to cream at the mouth, height 21 cm, depth 12 cm
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A celadon bowl, covered in a thick crackled bluish celadon glaze, height 5.5 cm, depth 19 cm
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A Chinese Yixing green glazed water Vat, height 10 cm, depth 16.5 cm
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A 19th century Chinese white glazed 'High foot' plate, late Qing Dynasty. The glazing is old and shows kiln grit around the bottom. It would have been used to serve various food dishes, height 5.5 cm, depth 150 mm
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A blue glazed washer, Qing Dynasty, height 7.5 cm, depth 14 cm
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Two 19th century celadon bowls, 2, height 6 cm, depth 11.5 cm
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A small celadon vase, height 7.5 cm, depth 9 cm
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An 18th century Chinese indigo glazed censer, mid Qing Dynasty, height 12 cm, depth 25 cm
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A large 20th century Chinese porcelain vase, c.1980. Decorated with floral patterns and birds, height 45 cm, depth 20 cm
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A Chinese famille Noire enamel porcelain rouleau vases, finely, hand painted with a plum blossom tree and birds, height 41 cm, depth 15.5 cm
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A Chinese famille verte vase, late Qing Dynasty. Decorated with finely painted figures, height 29 cm, depth 11 cm
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An early 20th century Chinese Grisaille painted porcelain brush pot, possibly Qing Dynasty, Xuantong period, height 12 cm, depth 8 cm
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An early 20th century Chinese famille rose vase, the Republic period. Decorated with figures. The base has the Imperial Qianlong period mark, height 33.5 cm, depth 13 cm
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A Chinese famille rose rouleau vase with medallion design, height 41 cm, depth 14 cm
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Two Chinese Qian Jiang colour porcelain flat sided pots, marks refer to Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi period 2, height 6.5 cm, width 6.5 cm, depth 6.5 cm
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A Late 19th century Chinese pot, late Qing Dynasty. Rim and inside are glazed, height 4.5 cm, depth 75 mm
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An 18th century Chinese Canton famille rose mug, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period. A finely painted garden scene depicting figures, dog and floral patterns. T he handle of the cup is made of bronze, and was wrapped with bamboo, height 14 cm, depth 11 cm
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An early 20th century Chinese yellow glaze powder enamel coloured ground plate, in the center, Chinese landscape design with flowers at the edge of the water, a bird with a long tail on the branch to right and another sitting on the left. Good condition, height 7.5 cm, depth 450 mm
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An early 20th century fine and Brilliantly enamelled Black-ground famille rose bowl, late the Republic period, decorated with hand-painted Chinese dragon and flowers, height 4 cm, depth 100 mm
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A 19th century Chinese iron red glazed bowl, Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi period. Decorated around the exterior with peachs. The base is inscribed with an iron-red four-character reign seal marks of Tongzhi period, height 6 cm, depth 135 mm
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A Chinese famille rose plate, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period. Finely hand painted with a cute little boy riding an elephant, height 3 cm, depth 170 mm
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A 19th century Chinese Canton famille rose plate, fine quality and in good condition. Finely hand painted with flowers, butterfly and peacock. Square mark seal on base, depth 22 cm
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A Chinese famille rose plate, decorated with figures, depth 22.5 cm
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A large famille verte plate, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period. This shallow shaped dish depicts a scene with a single long-tailed bird and two small birds perched on a rocky outcrop in a blossoming garden. Four panels radiate out from the center and feature various blossoming trees and flowers, possibly referencing the four seasons. The base is decorated with sprays of flowers. With a leaf seal, surrounded by a double circle. The intermediate plate has a large crack which has been repaired, height 6 cm, depth…
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A yellow famille rose Guangxu plate, Qing Dynasty Guangxu period, depth 20 cm
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A pair of 19th century Chinese porcelain plates, Qing Dynasty. In the center, a stylistic blue and white pattern. Scalloped edge charger with gilt accents 2, depth 14.5 cm
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Two 18th century export Chinese famille rose plates, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period 2, depth 23 cm
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A pair of 18th century Chinese export famille rose plates, Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng period. Both have been repaired in the past 2, depth 23 cm
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A Chinese export famille rose plate, depth 23 cm
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An 18th century Chinese export famille rose plate, Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng period. The center is painted with famille rose enamels and a pair of magpies among peonies and magnolia blooms, depth 23 cm
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Two Chinese famille rose coloured porcelain plaques in wooden frame, a very finely hand-painted scene of a man watching two children playing with each other and a single man. The artwork is very detailed with vivid figures. Singed by Wang Qi (1884-1937) who was a master of ceramic arts in China and a member of the Zhushan eight friends, a famous group specializing in ceramic painting during the Republic period in Jingdezhen, China2, wooden frame: height 39 cm, width 25 cm, porcelain plaque: height 33.5 cm,…
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A Chinese famille rose plate depicting flowers, depth 23 cm
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An early 19th century porcelain pot, the Republic period. Marks refer to Chengmen, height 17 cm, depth 22.5 cm
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A Chinese famille rose flower pot and saucer, the Republic period. Decorated with flowers and birds, height 20 cm, width 20 cm
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Three early 20th century Chinese famille rose statues, early the Republic period, the Chinese porcelain famille rose figure of Fu, Lu, Shou - Prosperity, happiness, longevity. Marks refer to Deng Rongchang. He was a famous artist during the Guangxu period to the public period, height 38.5 cm
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