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Fine Jewellery, Watches and Luxury Design / Fine Furniture, Silver, Decorative Arts — Shapiro Auctioneers

Auction House:Shapiro AuctioneersNumber of lots recorded:639
Sale Title:Fine Jewellery, Watches and Luxury Design / Fine Furniture, Silver, Decorative ArtsLots with images:632
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:463
Date:8-Dec-2020
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Collection of Chinese glazed porcelain snuff bottles, comprising seven bottles of various sizes and shapes, decorated with dragons and bright coloured glazes (7), height 8.5 cm (tallest). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Collection of Chinese porcelain snuff bottles, comprising seven bottles of various sizes and shapes, painted with grasshoppers, dragons and flowers (7), height 10 cm (tallest). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Collection of Chinese glass snuff bottles, of various sizes and shapes, comprising five interior painted bottles, a cameo glass bottle, a yellow glass bottle, and a wooden bottle (8), height 9 cm (tallest). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Three Chinese hardstone snuff bottles, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) and later, comprising an amethyst bottle carved as a fish, with coral stopper, stopper (A/F), an ovoid brown agate bottle carved with a dragon with amethyst stopper, and an agate bottle carved with fish and frogs amongst aquatic plants (3), height 8 cm (tallest). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Collection of Chinese interior painted glass snuff bottles, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) and later, comprising six bottles of various sizes and shapes, interior painted with figures and animals in landscapes and garden scenes (6), height 8.5 cm (tallest). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Three Chinese snuff bottles, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) and later, comprising a mother-of-pearl bottle decorated with a maiden on each side, a pale green jade bottle with carved figural decoration and loop handles, and a clear quartz bottle carved with flowers (3), height 7.5 cm (m-o-p). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Chinese carved jade plaque, depicting a wise man and attendant beside a tree, the lower part with a dragon, on carved wooden stand, stand (A/F), together with a carved ruyi sceptre on stand, a pendant, a lotus dish with frog, and a posy vase (5), 17 x 15 cm (plaque). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Assorted carved hardstone figures, comprising six lapis lazuli figures, two carved scent bottles, and a carved amethyst figure (A/F) (9), height 8.5 cm (Buddha). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Assorted jade, nephrite and hardstone items, comprising jade egg, eight jade baby bangles, horse figure, two covered jars, two small comports, a vase and two bowls, and a malachite vase (17), height 19.5 cm (vase). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Chinese nephrite Zodiac animals, each white metal animal standing on a nephrite hat-form support with applied dragon, framed, 37 x 47 cm
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Two Chinese porcelain vases, comprising a famille verte vase painted with figures in landscape, and a famille rose vase with two applied handles, painted with figures in garden to one side and fruits and flowers to verso (2), height 35 cm, 42.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Four Chinese famille rose vases, 20th century, comprising a pair of floral vases, and two vases decorated with figures in gardens, painted red marks to bases (4), height 24.5 cm, 24 cm, 23.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Two Chinese famille rose porcelain plates, decorated with flowers, together with a tea caddy, a rectangular box (sealed), a small plate and a bowl (6), diameter 23 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Pair of Chinese blue and white garden seats, of hexagonal drum-form decorated with blossoming branches and birds, together with a black garden seat (3), height 49 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Set of four Japanese woodblock prints, seaside with train, Racecourse, train, Street scene, early 20th century, depicting street scenes with figures wearing Western costumes, signed, framed (4), approx. 34 x 68 cm. Provenance: John Williams, Sydney. Private Collection, Sydney
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Set of four Japanese woodblock prints, the bridge, train station, Street scene with carriages, spring Street scene with bridge, early 20th century, depicting street scenes with figures wearing Western costumes, signed, framed (4), approx. 34 x 68 cm. Provenance: John Williams, Sydney. Private Collection, Sydney
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Japanese two panel folding screen, Meiji (1868-1912), decorated with cranes beside pine trees and flowers, framed (A/F), 168 x 189 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Lacquered ivory and Silver-mounted miniature Kodansu, Meiji period (1868-1912), decorated with peacocks, eagles and pheasants amongst trees on a diaper ground, with two sliding doors above two cupboard doors opening to reveal a fitted interior, over a long drawer, on a lacquer stand with ivory panels and gilded silver mounts, signed 'Takamasa' in a mother-of-pearl rectangular reserve, height 26 cm width 21.5 cm depth 10.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Japanese carved ivory okimono of a Takarabune, Meiji/Taisho period, the 'Seven Gods of good Fortune' standing on the open deck with their respective attributes, the hull of simulated wood planks with a ho-o figurehead, on a wood stand carved with simulated breaking waves, sail (A/F), height 37 cm width 43 cm depth 22 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Four carved ivory figures of immortals, each wearing an armour adorned in incised stylized cloud roundels, gripping their individual identifying implements in one hand, one figure restored (4), approx. Height 22 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Japanese carved ivory okimono of man on a horse, depicting a bearded man wearing a traditional robe on horseback, on wooden stand, height 26 cm (overall)
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Three Japanese netsuke, comprising two carved ivory netsuke and a carved boxwood netsuke of man holding a mask (3), height 4 cm, 4.5 cm, 4 cm
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Japanese carved marine ivory Okomino, depicting a man surrounded by children, together with a carved ivory netsuke of man carrying a small child on his shoulder (2), height 9.5 cm, height 8.5 cm
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Japanese carved ivory okimono of a couple eating, each figure depicted kneeling, eating and drinking tea, artists seal to underside, on wooden stand, height 8.5 cm width 12.5 cm
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Japanese carved ivory box, Meiji period (1868-1912), of circular shape, the lid carved with two monkeys, signed, diameter 6.7 cm
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Japanese carved bone Tanto, 20th century, of slightly curved form, carved in high relief with warriors, immortals and figures in various activities, restored, length 47 cm (overall). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Japanese Satsuma faceted vase, Meiji period (1868-1912), decorated with cranes and chrysanthemums, restored, together with another vase decorated with birds amongst flowers against an orange ground (2), height 46.5 cm, 30.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Assorted Japanese Satsuma porcelain pieces, Meiji period and later, comprising a plate finally painted with two figures walking through a bamboo forest, restored (A/F), a censer with two elephant form handles, a covered vase painted with pheasants amongst maple trees and flowers, and two mille fleurs bowls, signed (5), diameter 20.5 cm height 15 cm,. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Satsuma tea service, Meiji period (1868-1912), comprising a teapot, cream jug, sugar bowl, six cups and six saucers, decorated with a mountainous landscape with red pagoda, artist's seal marks to undersides, in fitted presentation box (15), height 14 cm (teapot). Provenance: Christies, 08/04/2003, lot 160A. Private Collection, Sydney
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Three Japanese cobalt ground Satsuma porcelain pieces, Meiji period and later, comprising a baluster vase decorated to one side with samurais in armour, and to the other side with ladies in garden, signed, together with a bowl and a hexagonal vase, decorated with figures in various indoor and outdoor settings (3), height 26 cm, height 6.5 cm diameter 15 cm, height 16 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Japanese Imari porcelain charger, Meiji (1868-1912), of circular lobbed shape, decorated with a dragon and a phoenix flying amongst clouds, diameter 46 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Japanese eggshell porcelain tea service, c. 1950, comprising a teapot, cream jug, sugar bowl, six cups, six saucers and seven dessert plates, all painted with winter scenes and floral motifs (22), height 21 cm (teapot). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Collection of Japanese Satsuma miniature teapots and vases, Meiji period and later, comprising two teapots (A/F), two vases, seven tea cups, seven saucers, two square dishes and two small plates (15), approx. Height 10 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Japanese black lacquer and gilt box, of rectangular shape, decorated with patterned fans, height 11 cm width 28 cm depth 26.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Japanese black lacquer and gilt tea chest, 20th century, of octagonal shape with metal mounts, together with another lacquered chest (2), height 44 cm width 45 cm depth 33.5 cm, 48 cm width 52 cm depth 43 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Japanese inlaid bronze vase, Meiji period (1868-1912), of slender form with two mask handles, inlaid in silver, gilt and copper to one side with an old man holding a staff in one hand, the verso with birds amongst fruiting branches, unsigned, height 37.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Assorted porcelain, comprising a Meissen plate, silver mounted Spode plate, Hutschenreuther porcelain three piece tea set, with silver overlay, two porcelain baskets with encrusted flowers, two ceramic covered bowls (one A/F), and two Mary Gregory glass bottles (11), diameter 30 cm, 32 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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Lladro, pair of porcelain table lamps, depicting Pierrot and a ballerina standing near a tree, printed factory marks to undersides (2), approx. Height 58 cm. Provenance: The Estate of, David Ross, Sydney
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Lladro, three assorted figures, man playing the mandolin, mandolin (A/F), a clown bust and a boy with a donkey, printed factory marks to undersides (3), height 34 cm (musician). Provenance: The Estate of, David Ross, Sydney
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