383 A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ‘IMMORTALS’ VASE REPUBLIC PERIOD Brightly enamelled with the gods in a pagoda, standing in a log boat and drifting in clouds, the base with a six character Qianlong mark in iron-red, 16.5cm.
£300-500
384 A CHINESE ‘DOWAGER EMPRESS’ PATTERN CONG-SHAPED VASE SIX CHARACTER GUANGXU MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1875-1908 Painted en grisaille with the autumn pattern of hwamei birds, chrysanthemum and hibiscus blossoms against a turquoise ground, with two elephant handles and bands of key fret at the foot and flower sprays at the rim, 29.5cm.
£500-1,000 Cf. Chinese Ceramics, Selected articles from Orientations 1982-1998, R W Longsdorf, Dayazhai Ware: Porcelains of the Empress Dowager, pp.285-296, nos 5 and 20 for dishes with similar decoration. Also a pair of similar vases sold in these rooms on 21st May 2009, lot 746.
385 A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE HU-SHAPED VASE PROBABLY REPUBLIC PERIOD The body with elephant head handles decorated with small huts in a mountainous landscape on one side and a pair of magpies perched on a rock to the reverse, with poems and seals to the neck, the base with a four character Guangxu mark, 21.3cm.
£200-300
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