W 696. A Chinese Celadon Jade
702. A Pair of Japanese Relief Decorated Enameled, Silvered and Gilded Bronze Baluster Vases, Meiji Period (1868-1912), tapering ovoid bodies with waisted flared necks, relief decorated with birds in flight amid seasonal flowering branches, the patinated bronze with enamel, silvered and gilt highlights, base inset with inscription cartouche, heights 11 3/4 in.
Snuff Bottle, well hollowed body of flattened globular form carved to the sides with ogre masks and fauxring handles, raised on an oval foot and issuing a cylindrical neck with a wide flat mouth rim, stopper, height 2 1/2 in. $300/500 W 697. A Chinese Agate Snuff
Bottle, well hollowed translucent globular body carved to one side with a horse lying recumbent amid lingzhi fungus, flat oval foot and tall cylindrical neck with a wide flat mouth rim, stopper, height 3 1/8 in.
$800/1200 703. A Pair of Japanese Mixed Metal Baluster Vases, Meiji Period (1868-1912), each tapering ovoid body with sloping shoulders and banded flared necks raised on an intrinsic tripod base, incised and inlaid around the body with cranes wading in water amid water reeds, each signed along the side, each base inscribed, heights 4 7/8 in.
700
$300/500 W 698. A Chinese White Glass
Snuff Bottle, well hollowed spade form body with a tall cylindrical neck and wide mouth rim raised on an oval foot, stopper lacking spoon, height 2 7/8 in.
$400/600 W 704. A Japanese Ivory
$300/500
Netsuke and Associated Chinese Ivory Stand, 19th c. or earlier, the netsuke carved in pouch form with stylized joined handles, height 1 1/4 in., width 1 1/4 in.; the stand carved in dish form, diameter 1 1/2 in.
W 699. After Sesshu Toyo
(Japanese, 1420-1506), early 20th c., a copy of the famous 1486 hand scroll called “Sansui Chokan” or “Landscape of the Four Seasons”, height 14 3/4 in., approx. length 54 ft., wood storage box.
702
$150/250 Provenance: With Benjamin Franklin March, Jr. (1899-1934), Curator of Asiatic Art, Detroit Institute of Arts (1927-1931); thence by descent in his family.
$800/1200 Provenance: With Benjamin Franklin March, Jr. (1899-1934), Curator of Asiatic Art, Detroit Institute of Arts (1927-1931); thence by descent in his family.
W 705. A Japanese Cloisonné
700. Japanese School, early 20th c., “Water Buffalo Resting beneath a Tree”, ink on paper, signed lower right, 10 in. x 14 1/2 in., mounted as a hanging scroll.
Enamel Baluster Vase, Meiji Period (1868-1912), ovoid body with a waisted flared neck tapering to a slightly splayed foot, decorated with shield cartouches radiating from a banded midsection, height 8 1/2 in.
$200/400
$200/300
Provenance: With Benjamin Franklin March, Jr. (1899-1934), Curator of Asiatic Art, Detroit Institute of Arts (1927-1931); thence by descent in his family.
W 706. A Japanese Stoneware
W 701. A Set of Four Japanese
Illustrated Albums, Meiji Period (1868-1912), each accordion fold album with eighteen double width images of flowers of the four seasons, each image inscribed and sealed, covers bound in pale blue silk damask, one album with loose piece of note paper inscribed “Koishi/Shoseki/Koseki”, each album height 9 7/8 in., width 7 1/4 in. (4 pcs.) $400/600 Provenance: With Benjamin Franklin March, Jr. (1899-1934), Curator of Asiatic Art, Detroit Institute of Arts (1927-1931); thence by descent in his family.
Teabowl, Chawan, rounded interior and sides with a brown glaze pooling toward an unglazed base and foot ring, base with impressed signature, height 3 in., depth 4 3/8 in.
703
$100/150 W 707. A Japanese Kutani Stoneware Bowl and Flask, the
bowl decorated to the interior with a bird and flowering branches, the exterior with vine sprays, height 2 in., diameter 6 1/4 in.; the flask of pinched ovoid form decorated with bird and flower panels, partially obliterated fuku mark to base, height 8 1/4 in. $200/300 W denotes the lot is illustrated at www.nealauction.com
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