World Record Price
Sold GBP 2,460,000 to a private US collector
Kangxi, c. 1720
Length: 39 inches (99 cm)
A large pair of animal figures well modelled in the form of crouching leopards, enamelled in yellow and black over biscuit porcelain, the mouth with iron red and the eyes with pale green, the tails detachable.
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Sold GBP 530,000 to a private US collector
Qianlong, c. 1740
Height: 25 ¾ inches (65.5cm)
A massive figure of Zhong Kui in famille rose porcelain. This extraordinar y figure is unrecorded. The quality of execution, both in the enamelling and the sculptural dynamism, especially in the folds of the robes, suggests that this was made for an imperial commission.
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Sold GBP 200,000 to a private Middle
Eastern collector
Qianlong, c. 1740
European Market
Height: 53 inches (135cm)
An important pair of famille rose soldier vases and covers. The term 'soldier vase' is supposed to have come about after a trade agreement between two Fredericks: Frederick Augustus I (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (known as Augustus the Strong) and Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Augustus the Strong was a keen collector of Chinese and Japanese porcelain, and went on to found the Meissen porcelain factory.
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Qianlong period circa 1745
Swedish market
Diameter of stand: 56 cm
Exceptionally rare and large famille rose topographical punchbowl, cover and stand for the Swedish market depicting the first visit of the Queen of Sweden to the new palace at Drottningholm.
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Qianlong, circa 1790
English Market
Diameter: 16 inches (41cm)
A rare famille rose European-subject punch bowl with two foliate panels depicting the Foundling Hospital on one side and the 'Grand Walk' in Vauxhall Gardens on the other, the rim with iron-red and gilt grapevine on a blue ground.
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to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Qianlong c. 1760
Height: 26cm; 10.25 inches
A chinese export model of a standing deer. The small number of Chinese export figures of deer recorded fall mainly into two main groups, Kangxi examples or later models from the Jiaqing period. However, the modelling of the bodies of this example is sophisticated and the porcelain material gives a date in the third quarter of the eighteenth centur y, circa 1760. Few other deer models are know from this period.
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Qianlong c. 1738
Dutch market
Cistern, height: 68.5 cm (27 inches)
Basin, length: 66 cm (26 inches)
A Chinese export famille rose baluster cistern and cover on flat base, with a thick rim and domed cover with finial, decorated in polychrome enamels with a Chinese archer in four elaborate cartouches, each with a shell above and a mask below, the masks connected by a floral garland.
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Yongzheng / Qianlong, circa 1735
European Market
Diameter: 24 inches (61cm)
Height: 15 inches (38cm)
Pair of large famille rose jardinières finely painted with ducks and cranes amongst water plants, the f lattened rim with a f loral border reser ved with panels of paired carp. Together with a pair of car ved giltwood stands.
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Qianlong period circa 1740
Dutch Market
Height: approx. 11 inches
A very rare garniture of three square section bottle vases and two stem vases with f loral decoration over a lilac diaper ground, probably from a design by Cornelis Pronk. A few single vases of this type have appeared at auction but this is the only known complete garniture.
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