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553 A SMALL GROUP OF CHINESE PORCELAIN ITEMS LATE QING DYNASTY/REPUBLIC PERIOD
554 A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE PLATES 18TH CENTURY
Comprising: a near pair of famille rose bowls depicting the Eight Immortals, each with a six character Qianlong mark to the base, a famille rose bowl and cover decorated with many boys, with six character Jiaqing marks, and a rouge-de-fer bowl, cover and stand painted with mountainous riverscapes, the cover with a mark reading yun shan, 17cm max. (7)
The foliate bodies decorated to the well with a beauty seated in a veranda observing a young man in the garden behind her, the rims densely painted with stylised pomegranates, leaves and flowerheads, together with another famille rose plate with two pheasants and a white rabbit on a balcony, with large peony flowerheads beside them and a dividing screen, 23cm max. (3)
£300-500
£300-500
Provenance: from the estate of Anne Marie Wood, Warwickshire, acquired no later than the 1990s.
555 A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE BARBER’S BOWL AND A ‘PHEASANTS’ PLATE 18TH CENTURY The barber’s bowl brightly decorated with peony, daisies, pinks and lotus, the plate painted with a pair of pheasants perching amidst rockwork and peony, with floral sprays and a gilt scroll surrounding them, 27.2cm and 22.5cm. (2)
£500-700
556 THREE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE MUGS QIANLONG 1736-95 The largest painted with peony and fruiting lychee, the loop handle terminating in a gilt ruyi-head, another decorated with a scholar and ladies holding books and a musical instrument in a landscape, with an attendant holding a horse’s reins beside them, the smallest painted with the arms of Armstrong of Newcastle upon Tyne between floral sprays, with a gilt chain band encircling the rim, 15.9cm max. (3)
£700-900 Cf. D S Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, p.532 for another mug from the Armstrong service which dates from c.1750.
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