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The Winter Auction Series — Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers

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Auction House:Gibson's Auctioneers & ValuersNumber of lots recorded:498
Sale Title:The Winter Auction SeriesLots with images:498
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:334
Date:17-Jul-2022
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A Royal Worcester twin handled covered vase by Charles Baldwyn, 1901, featuring swans in flight against a pale blue ground, with a moulded collar in salmon and gold colours and lug style handles with lion mounts, green backstamp underside, shape 1684, 26 cm high
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A rare large Royal Worcester ewer by Charles Baldwyn, 1901, featuring white doves in flight against a pale blue ground, with an extravagantly moulded high set scrolling handle in shot colours, and conforming moulded decorations to the neck and pedestal, black backstamp underside, shape 1309, 42 cm high
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A large Royal Worcester pedestal vase by John Stinton, 1914, an ovoid vase decorated with highland cattle in a misty landscape setting, with a gilded trumpet neck, flying handles and an enamel jewelled pedestal, puce backstamps underside, shape 1969, 41 cm high. Provenance: lot 283, Sotheby's May 2008
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A pair of large Royal Worcester vases by John Stinton, 1911, ovoid vases decorated with cattle in sublime highland landscape settings, with moulded details to the neck, pedestals, and ornate dragon mask handles with scale embellishments, puce backstamps underside, shape 2330, 32 cm high
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A pair of twin handled Royal Worcester vases by James Stinton, 1912, pear shaped vases decorated with colourful pheasants in misty landscape settings, signed J.Stinton to lower images, green backstamps underside, shape G995, 15 cm high
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A William IV rosewood library table, circa 1830, with two drawers to the skirt with carved embellishment above twin pedestals with centurion skirt and carved lobed details to spreading floriform bases with lion's paw feet, 73 cm high, 133 cm wide, 63 cm deep
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A Regency mahogany toilet mirror, early 19th century, with an ornate scrolled crest, turned supports and a conforming stretcher base with trestle ends, 73 cm high, 67 cm wide, 30 cm deep
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A large Victorian walnut and burr walnut cheval mirror, 19th century, with an arch framed mirror between carved and pierced supports to a shaped platform with trestle ends, extended whorl feet to the front, 166 cm high, 93.5 cm wide, 76 cm deep
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An impressive Victorian polychrome decorated tilt top centre table, by London cabinetmakers S&H Jewell, Holborn, mid 19th century, the satinwood surface decorated with an allegorical roundel enclosed by delicate swags and arabesques and a broad floral border to a gadrooned edge, an ornate pedestal and profusely carved legs terminating in bold ball and claw feet, brass maker's plaque to tilt top mechanism, 74 cm high, 115 cm wide, 95 cm deep
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A Royal Worcester lidded urn vase by Harry Davis, 1912, featuring Scottish blackface sheep in a highland landscape, with a gilded neck and cover, high looping handles with leaf terminals and moulded borders to the foot, puce backstamp underside, shape 2160, 26 cm high
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A Royal Worcester lidded pot pourri by Harry Davis, 1920, of bulbous profile featuring Scottish blackface sheep in a highland valley, with an ornate moulded and pierced neck and collar in white and gold colours and high set scrolling handles in shot colours, puce backstamp underside, shape 1515, 23 cm high
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A Royal Worcester lidded urn vase by Harry Davis, 1903, featuring Scottish blackface sheep in a misty landscape, with cream and blush scrolling handles with ornate moulded ram's head and wreath mounts, puce backstamp underside, shape 2311, 35 cm high
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A tall Royal Worcester lidded urn vase by John Stinton, 1925, featuring highland cattle by a mountain stream, with high set looping Grecian handles, and a moulded cover and pedestal base in gold and white colours, puce backstamp underside, 37 cm high
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A miniature Royal Worcester vase by Charles Baldwyn, circa 1900, featuring swans in flight against a pale blue ground, with moulded designs in salmon, cream and shot colours to the neck and pedestal, green registration and shape 1482 marks only underside, 16 cm high
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A lidded Royal Worcester pot pourri by Charles Baldwyn, 1901, the ovoid pot pourri featuring swans in flight against a sky blue ground, with moulded details to the domed cover and collar and high set scrolling handles, black backstamp underside, shape 1515, 24 cm high. Provenance: Sotheby's October 2011
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A large Royal Worcester covered urn vase by Charles Baldwyn, circa 1900, featuring swans in flight against a pale blue ground, with a moulded decorative collar and base in white and salmon colours, and ornate acanthus scroll handles, green backstamp underside, with partial date cipher to foot rim, shape 2010, 43 cm high. Provenance: Sotheby's May 2012
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A fold over mahogany games table in the French taste, 19th century, rectangular with red baize interior, having a dentil skirt with paterae embellishments, fluted legs and curved brass strung stretchers to a black marble urn finial, decorated throughout with cast neoclassical floral and pendant forms, 77 cm high, 91 cm wide, 47.5 cm deep. Maker's stamp of 'W. Walker & Sons, Bunhill Row, E.C' (London). Provenance: Purchased from L. J. Cook & Co., October 1999
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A miniature Royal Worcester cup and saucer attributed to George Owen, 1882, a delicately jewelled and reticulated double walled cup and saucer in powder blue and lilac colours with red and gold medallions; green backstamp underside, 5 cm high, 10.5 cm diameter
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A pair of Victorian rosewood fold over games tables, mid 19th century, each with a serpentine top and lobed corners raised on a rococo style birdcage base with scroll carved outswept legs, cherry red baize playing surfaces, 74 cm high, 93 cm wide, 46 cm deep
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A Regency mahogany cheval mirror, early 19th century, the ring turned frame with tiered annular finials, raised on outswept reeded legs with paw feet and brass casters, 164 cm high, 74.5 cm wide, 65 cm deep
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An unusual twin handled Royal Worcester vase by Harry Davis, circa 1910, the globular vase featuring Scottish blackface sheep grazing, with a gilded trumpet neck with stiff leaf decoration and distinctive high set vegetal bracket handles in cream and green shot colours, enamel gadroons to the foot, puce backstamps underside, 23.5 cm high. Provenance: Sotheby's May 2008, sold for $10, 800
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A small Royal Worcester lidded pot pourri by John Stinton, 1924, the lobed vessel with a pierced gilded cover and pointed finial, moulded pendant shapes in shot colours to the collar and continuously decorated to the body with highland cattle scenes, puce backstamp underside, shape 291/H, 16 cm high
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A large Royal Worcester twin handled urn vase by William Hawkins, 1903, elaborately moulded and enamelled with trailing grapevines encircling the neck and high set grape moulded handles, the rouge ground decorated with a painted reserve of peaches and figs amidst gilt enrichments, signed Hawkins below fruit, black backstamps underside, shape 2099, 22.5 cm high. Provenance: Elder Fine Art, September 2009
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A pair of Georgian mahogany and silk upholstered footstools, early 19th century, with reeded and turned legs, well upholstered in muted green, gold and cream silk with pendant trims, 45 cm high, 58 cm wide, 50 cm deep
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A set of seven Regency mahogany chairs, early 19th century, with gadrooned brass strung rails, carved mid rails and drop in seats, above turned and reeded legs with slightly splayed feet. Provenance: L. J. Cook & Co., October 1999
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A pair of Louis XVI style mahogany armchairs, French, 19th century, having square backs with scroll supports, fluted arm supports capped with paterae and conforming tapering legs, upholstered in russet velvet
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A large pair of Dresden style floral figural lidded urns, 19th century, carinate shaped pedestal urns profusely encrusted with polychrome flora and festoon draped cupids to the spiral moulded bodies, with Meissen style crossed baton and star marks underside, impressed numerals 243, 42 cm high
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A small Royal Worcester scenic pedestal vase by Harry Davis, 1903, the egg shaped vase decorated with a sublime lake and mountain scene, between an applied stiff leaf collar and matching base, signed H. Davis to lower body, green backstamp underside, shape 2235, 17 cm high
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A pair of French ormolu mounted lidded urns, 19th century, decorated throughout with floral festoons entwined in trellis, upon finely cast and fitted neoclassical gilt bronze bases, with similar removable collars, 44 cm high. Provenance: Harlequin Antiques Melbourne
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Two Victorian walnut gent's chairs, mid 19th century, spoon back chairs, one with an ornately carved and pierced crest, both with serpentine seats, carved cabriole legs with floral ornaments, whorl ends and brass casters, upholstered in gold, cream and russet striped silk
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An early Victorian metamorphic mahogany dumb waiter, circa 1840, the stretcher-based table with plank style supports containing a 'Rise and fall' mechanism, a centurion and tulip carved stretcher and cabriole trestle ends with whorl feet and brass casters, 78 cm high, 119 cm wide, 55 cm deep
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A large Royal Worcester footed rose bowl by Jack Southall, 1911, with a moulded neck, collar and base in gilt and shot colours, the body decorated with full blown roses, signed J. Southall below collar, puce marks underside, shape 191/H1554, 12 cm high, 24 cm diameter
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An impressive ormolu mounted rosewood bijouterie table, 19th century, in the neoclassical taste with bevelled glass enclosed by refined cast trims, the tapering ornamented legs united by a bead edged knot shaped stretcher, 80 cm high, 75.5 cm wide, 48 cm deep. Provenance: L. J. Cook & Co., June 2006
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A Victorian walnut stretcher-based table, mid 19th century, in the rococo revival manner, the serpentine top with quarter veneer panels raised on lyre form supports united by a conforming stretcher with outswept leaf capped legs, 71 cm high, 132 cm wide, 85 cm deep
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A pair brass inlaid beech chairs in the Regency style, the rail backs with inlaid brass decorations and gadroon details, inlaid details to the midrail, with cane seats and sabre legs
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A Royal Worcester scenic plate by Harry Davis, 1909, featuring Scottish blackface sheep in a misty landscape within a cobalt border decorated with jewelled swags and a tooled gilt rim, puce backstamp underside, signed Harry Davis lower right of image, design W7434, 22.5 cm diameter
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A Royal Worcester plate by John Stinton, circa 1921, a pastoral scene featuring cattle drinking at a river, enclosed by a raised gilt grapevine border, puce backstamp underside, 23 cm diameter
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A small pair of cobalt Royal Worcester scenic vases by Harry Davis, 1903, with white enamel and gold details to the neck, collar and pedestals, the bodies decorated with misty vistas within gilded rococo cartouches, signed H Davis to lower images, black backstamps underside, shape 2269, 22 cm high
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A small Royal Worcester reticulated jardiniere by Kitty Blake, 1908, of compressed form with a moulded collar and base in gold and shot colours, the body decorated with autumnal fruits and foliage, signed K. Blake below rim, green backstamp underside, 13.5 cm high, 16 cm diameter
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A Bohemian glass portrait vase, 19th century, the baluster vase with high set handles and gilt foliage embellishments featuring an enamel portrait medallion of a fashionable lady, 43 cm high
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A Royal Worcester floral lidded urn by Albert Shuck, 1903, featuring pink and white orchids against a suffused landscape, with a relief decorated collar and foot border in sage and cream colours, signed 'A Shuck' lower right, green backstamp underside, additional painted marks F100/124.74, 22 cm high
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A slender Royal Worcester lidded urn vase by Harry Stinton, 1956, the tapering amphora vase featuring highland cattle at a mountain stream, with high set scroll handles and a gilded pedestal base, black backstamp underside, shape 2710, 28 cm high
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A Royal Worcester vase by Harry Davis, 1922, featuring Scottish blackface sheep in a highland setting, with a moulded enamel decorated collar and high set vegetal handles, puce backstamp underside, shape H313, 33 cm high
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A Royal Worcester pastoral scene plate by John Stinton, 1913, the lobed plate with a profusely gilded ink blue and lilac border enclosing a star shaped reserve featuring cows in a meadow, signed J. Stinton below image, puce backstamp underside, design W9531, 22.5 cm diameter
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A Victorian rosewood bow front display cabinet, mid 19th century, with a thumbnail and bullnose extended top above a single door to a plinth base, with a velvet lined interior, 130 cm high, 49 cm deep
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A Royal Worcester named view dish by Harry Davis, 1909, the lobed oval dish with a profusely gilded ink blue and lilac border enclosing a shaped reserve featuring the ruins of Launceston castle, signed H. Davis below image, puce backstamp underside, Launceston castle in gold lettering, design W8546, 27 cm wide
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A Regency brass strung rosewood sofa table, early 19th century, raised on a turned pedestal and outswept sabre legs with brass shell and leaf capped feet with casters, two frieze drawers, faux to the reverse, 72 cm high, 88 cm wide (146 cm extended width), 69 cm deep
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A William IV stretcher-based rosewood silk upholstered stool, circa 1830, with a bowed 'X' form frame with simple carved tulip details, upholstered in crewel work embroidered cream silk, 45 cm high, 71 cm wide, 41 cm deep
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A Victorian burr walnut stretcher-based Sutherland table, mid 19th century, the oval table with boxwood stringing and inlay above turned side supports and outswept cabriole legs with leaf carved knees, scroll ends and porcelain casters, 70 cm high, 110 cm wide, 87 cm wide
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A Victorian burr walnut fold over games table, mid 19th century, with a book end veneer surface above a lobed fluted standard with four outswept leaf capped legs, green baize interior, 76 cm high, 90 cm wide, 40 cm deep
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A blue and white group of Pu Tai, 20th century, the jovial figure seated wearing a loose robe, holding a rosary in one hand and the neck of his sack in the other, four small boys seated around him and one climbing over his right shoulder, the details picked out in underglaze blue, the base with an impressed four-character mark, 26 cm high
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A blue and white baluster vase, 20th century, painted with a scene of Shou Lao seated on a terrace receiving gifts from attendants and legendary characters in a landscape of rocks and trees, 16.7 cm high
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A large blue and white vase, mark of Kangxi, of square section, painted with alternate panels of figures in lakeside scenes, and calligraphy, the trumpet mouth with bamboo shoots, the base inscribed with a six-character mark, 54.8 cm high
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A blue and white bowl, mark of Jiajing, painted on the exterior with a frieze of Buddhist lions and ribboned emblems, brown-edged rim, the base inscribed with a six-character mark, 15.8 cm diameter
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A Ming-style blue and white bowl, mark of Jiajing, the exterior painted with dignitaries and attendants in a continuous garden setting, the interior with a medallion of the three friends, the base inscribed with a six-character mark, wood stand, 24 cm diameter
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A blue and white dish, Qing dynasty, decorated with a band of shou characters encircling a central medallion, the base with an apocryphal six-character mark of Chenghua, 21 cm diameter
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A small blue and white bowl, mark of Yongzheng, the exterior delicately painted with bamboo canes extending to the rim, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character mark, 9.3 cm diameter
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A blue and white 'Phoenix' dish, mark of Guangxu, the interior with a central medallion of two phoenix among cloud scrolls, repeated around the exterior, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character mark, 18.3 cm diameter
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A Longquan celadon glazed ewer, Yuan dynasty or later, the pear-shaped body set with an upright spout opposite the loop handle, carved with sprays of lotus beneath the overall olive-green glaze apart from the footrim burnt orange in the firing, 15 cm high
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A grisaille and sepia decorated porcelain plaque, 20th century, painted with a scene of lakeside pavilions set among craggy cliffs with distant mountains, within a faux bois border, framed, 36 cm x 28 cm overall
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A grisaille and sepia decorated brush pot, 20th century, the cylindrical sides finely decorated with sages and an attendant relaxing among precious objects in a continuous garden setting of pine and bamboo, 19.3 cm diameter
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A grisaille and sepia decorated bowl, mark of Yongzheng, the exterior with arched bamboo canes growing from rock work, an inscription and three seals, the base inscribed with a four-character mark, box, 11 cm diameter
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An iron-red decorated 'Bats' dish, mark of Tongzhi, the interior with five bats encircling a shou medallion, the exterior with floral sprays in famille rose enamels, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character mark, fitted box, 20 cm diameter
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A pair of iron-red decorated dishes, marks of Jiaqing, the interior with five bats in flight, the underside with shou character roundels reserved on an iron-red ground gilt with floral scrolls, the base inscribed in iron-red with a six-character seal mark, 16.2 cm diameter
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A pair of iron-red decorated 'Chilong' dishes, marks of Yongzheng, each painted with archaistic chilong and lingzhi fungus stems within underglaze blue line borders, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character mark, 11.5 cm diameter
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An unusual trellis ground vase, mark of Kangxi, the tall neck set with two elephant-head handles, the sides with landscape panels and inscriptions reserved on the green and yellow wan-diaper ground, the base inscribed in iron-red on a gilt cartouche with a four-character mark, box, 34.5 cm high
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A large pink and green enamelled serving dish, late Qing dynasty, 19th/20th century, on bracket feet, the interior decorated with pink dragons chasing a flaming pearl among green clouds, 41 cm long
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A sancai decorated saucer dish, mark of Kangxi, the interior incised with dragons beneath the white glaze and enamelled in green, yellow and aubergine with fruiting branches, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character mark, 24.5 cm diameter
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An enamelled 'Lotus bud' waterpot, mark of Qianlong, decorated with fruiting branches and butterflies, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark, 10.3 cm high
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A green enamelled vase, mark of Daoguang, the sides decorated with stylised floral scrolls and formal borders, the narrow neck set with double iron-red scroll handles, the base inscribed in iron-red with a six-character seal mark, 28.5 cm high
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A famille verte beaker Qing dynasty, 19th century, the steep sides painted with Shou Lao seated beside his recumbent deer, 11 cm high
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A doucai enamelled 'Chicken' cup, mark of Chenghua, the exterior with chickens and chicks beside rocks and flowering plants, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character mark, 7.8 cm diameter
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A pair of doucai 'Honeysuckle' bowls, marks of Daoguang, each decorated with stylised scroll motifs around the exterior and repeated in a medallion on the interior, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark, 10.3 cm diameter
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A white jade carving of a scholar's rock, 19th/20th century, of irregular upright form with naturalistic hollows and protrusions, fitted wood stand, 12.5 cm high
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A pair of pale celadon jade pendants, Qing dynasty, each of elongated pebble form, one carved with fish and lotus, the other with a branch of gourds, fitted box, each 6 cm long
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A jadeite pendant and a beaded rosary, the pendant carved with a mythical beast climbing over a gourd with lingzhi and cash, the rosary of sixteen beads separated with a dzi bead, 6.5 cm long and 12 cm diameter
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A small soapstone seal, late Qing dynasty, the rectangular base surmounted by a seated Buddhist lion, one side with an inscription, the face with seal characters, fitted box, 5.2 cm high
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A pale celadon and russet jade carving, Qing dynasty, of a small boy holding a basket in one hand and clasping the leg of a deer skin draped over his back, carved from an area of russet suffusions in the pale stone, 7.5 cm high
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A celadon and russet jade 'Boy and lotus' carving, Qing dynasty, kneeling with legs and elbows bent and holding the stem of a large lotus leaf rising above his head, wood stand, fitted box, 4.5 cm long
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A jade pendant, one side carved in relief with a cockerel perched on a rock gazing at the sun, the reverse with an archaistic inscription, 6 cm long
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A jade mounted silver-backed hand mirror, 18th/19th century, the silver frame embossed and chased with precious objects and set with cabochons around the jade plaque carved with iris, the handle formed from a jade belthook joined by two silver bats, stamped 'Silver', box, 26 cm long
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A boxed set of five archaistic jade ornaments, comprising two arched pendants, huang, with incised decoration, a pair of waisted tubular beads, and a small rope-twist ring, fitted brass mounted wood box, the box 28.5 cm by 12.5 cm, the largest jade 10.5 cm
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A pale celadon jade 'Peach and monkey' carving, 19th/20th century, depicting three monkeys clambering over a fruiting peach branch, 11 cm long
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A celadon jade 'Boy and gourd' carving, the small boy climbing up a large double gourd growing from a branch in pierced relief bearing further gourds and foliage, 10.5 cm high
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A white and russet jade 'Bat and lychee' carving, Qing dynasty, the two fruit with a bat on leaves carved from a bright russet area in the otherwise white stone, 5.2 cm long
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Two white jade snuff bottles, each carved on either side in low relief with figures fishing in a lakeside setting, stoppers, boxes, each 5 cm wide
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A pale celadon jade reticulated plaque, carved in high relief with a dragon above waves, reserved on an openwork diaper ground, wood mount, the plaque 11 cm long, 16 cm long overall
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A carved bamboo 'Landscape' brushrest, Qing dynasty, 19th century, depicting sages standing beside rocky cliffs and pine trees, fitted wood stand with incised mark, 13 cm long
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A lapis-lazuli rosary bracelet, comprising eighteen beads divided by rose-quartz beads suspending a coral and enamel pendant with rock crystal tear-drop pendants, fitted box, the bracelet 13 cm diameter
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A wood bead bracelet, probably chenxiangmu, comprised of fourteen circular wood beads, 11 cm diameter
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A gilt decorated chenxiangmu bead rosary bracelet, comprising eighteen square-shaped wood beads suspending a pierced jade plaque and amethyst coloured tear drop pendants, inscribed pewter box, the rosary 26 cm overall. Compare with a bracelet in jewellery of the Empress and Imperial Concubines in the collection of the Palace Museum, p. 208. A similar bracelet sold Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 18 July 2018, lot 316
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A bronze censer, Qing dynasty, of oval section, the horizontally ribbed sides set with double square section loop handles, the base with a two-character mark Shu Yuan, 14.5 cm wide
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A collection of ivory and wood netsuke and carvings, 20th century, comprising four pieces including an intricate ivory carving of a crab, the largest piece 10 cm long
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A pair of lacquered wood figures of attendants, together with a gilt metal model of a hand, each standing figure holding an offering in both hands, the figures 36.5 cm high, the hand 28 cm long
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A cloisonne enamel vase, the squat globular body on a high foot, surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck set with double tubular handles, decorated in colours with fruiting peach branches and lotus scrolls reserved on the turquoise ground, the base incised with an eight-character mark reading Da Ming Wanli Jia Yin Nian Zao, 18.2 cm high
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A bronze censer, Qing dynasty, the rounded sides waisted below the lipped rim and set with two tabbed handles, the base with a six-character mark of Xuande in a rectangular recess, wood cover, 12 cm diameter
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A bronze censer, Qing dynasty, of squat bombe form, set below the flared mouth with double tapering loop handles, the base with an apocryphal four character mark of Xuande, wood cover, 21 cm diameter
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A carved gilt wood rectangular panel, intricately carved in high and pierced relief with dignitaries on horseback and attendants on foot, variously occupied on pavilion terraces and rocky paths among maple and pine trees, 43.5 x 30 cm
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Attributed to Qi gong, calligraphy, ink on paper, hanging scroll, inscribed and with three seals, wood box, 102 cm x 40 cm
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Attributed to Qi gong, rocks and bamboo, ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll, inscribed and with two seals, 127 cm x 66 cm
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