Guest and Gray have been dealing in early ceramics for over forty years. Nearly all the pieces in their collection date from before 1800.
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Porcelain & Ceramics
Chinese blue and white plate, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated to the central roundel with a scene from the drama ‘Xi Xiang Ji’ (‘The Romance of the Western Chamber’), in which the traitorous...
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Pair of Chinese famille verte plates, Kangxi (1662-1722), each decorated with a phoenix (fenghuang) with long tail feathers and bright plumage in flight over a peony garden, with butterflies and other...
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Pair of Chinese famille rose platters, Qianlong (1736-95), of oval form with foliate rims, decorated in overglaze famille rose enamels to the centre with a bouquet of flowers, the rim with further...
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Chinese famille rose charger, Qianlong (1736-95), decorated to the centre with a reserve panel with scrolling ruyi-head borders containing a ribbon-tied bouquet of peony and chrysanthemum, the cavetto...
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Chinese famille rose cockerel plate, Yongzheng (1723-35), decorated to the centra with a cockerel and two chicks fighting over a worm, beside a wall with flowering peony and prunus, the wide rim with...
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Chinese famille rose cockerel plate, Yongzheng (1723-35), decorated to the centra with a cockerel and two chicks fighting over a worm, beside a wall with flowering peony and prunus, the wide rim with...
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Japanese imari charger, 18th century, the central roundel containing a watery landscape scene; a rocky islet in the foreground with a small dwelling amongst flowering trees and plantain, beside a...
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Meissen Böttger white teapot and cover, circa 1715, with short conical spout and loop handle, the globular body decorated with ‘Irmingersche Belege’ applied flowering chrysanthemum and foliage in...
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Chinese biscuit egg and spinach incense burner, Kangxi (1662-1722), modelled as a potted plant in front of rockwork emerging from a lobed planter, decorated in brown, green, white and yellow overglaze...
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Pair of Chinese famille verte square tea caddies, Kangxi (1662-1722), with chamfered edges and standing on four feet, both decorated in overglaze enamels and gilt on two sides with lotus blossom and...
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Chinese famille verte lobed teabowl and saucer, Kangxi (1662-1722), of moulded form with fluted rims, the saucer decorated with a central floral medallion encircled by an iron-red geometric band with...
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Chinese famille verte laughing twins 'HeHe Erxian' biscuit group, Kangxi (1662-1722), the two boys with jovial expressions and seated upon an openwork rock-base studded with coins, the left-hand...
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Chinese famille verte biscuit figure of Guandi, the God of War, Kangxi (1662-1722), seated upon a stool in the form of a tatoie mask, his right leg and arm outstretched; wearing elaborate armour with...
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Chinese famille verte plate, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated in the centre with flowering boughs of peony and magnolia issuing from rockwork, with flying insects and a pair of birds, one perching and...
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Japanese Imari baluster vase and cover, 18th century, decorated in blue, red and green overglaze enamels with gilt highlights, the body with panels containing hoho birds and wisteria, and smaller...
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Chinese biscuit egg and spinach incense burner, Kangxi (1662-1722), modelled as a potted plant in front of rockwork and decorated in brown, green, white and yellow overglaze enamels...
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Chinese biscuit egg and spinach incense burner, Kangxi (1662-1722), modelled as a potted plant, with a white flower and green foliage in front of rockwork, issuing from a yellow planter with green...
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Chinese octagonal famille rose 'tobacco leaf' platter, Qianlong (1736-95), decorated with tropical scrolling foliage and scattered stylised flowerheads including passion flowers in bright enamels with...
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Chinese rare biscuit famille verte dish, mid-17th century, early Kangxi (1662-1722), painted in polychrome enamels on the biscuit in the famille verte palette with four galloping horses amongst...
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Chinese blue and white ‘landscape’ food vessel, Kangxi (1662-1722), of bombe form, the body decorated in a bright underglaze blue with two opposing chamfered panels containing river landscape...
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Chinese wucai baluster 'dragon' vase, Chongzhen (1627-44), painted with roundels containing scaly dragons chasing the pearl amongst swirling clouds alternating with roundels of phoenix amongst small...
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Leeds creamware coffee pot, possibly Melbourne, circa 1770, of baluster form with long curved moulded twist spout, narrow beaded bands and elegant rope-twist handle with floral palmette terminals; the...
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Chinese large blue and white ovoid jar, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated in a bright underglaze cobalt blue with with four alternating panels containing blooming peony and prunus issuing from rockwork,...
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Chinese Canton Rose Medallion chamber pot and cover, c.1840, with applied side-handle and surmounted by a gilt knop, richly decorated in polychrome overglaze enamels to the exterior body and lid with...
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A Staffordshire saltglaze double-lipped sauceboat, c.1760, with twin ear-shaped loop handles and a moulded scaly dolphin to either end, upon a spreading stepped foot, the body decorated in low relief...
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Chinese blue and white plate, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated to the central roundel with two European gentlemen greeting each other in a garden with grasses and prunus issuing from rockwork with birds...
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Chinese famille verte lamp base, Kangxi (1662-1722), of baluster form, the body decorated in overglaze enamels with a pheasant crouching on rockwork amidst branches of peony and magnolia blossom, with...
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Chinese blanc de chine libation cup, Kangxi (1662-1722), with flared rim, resting on moulded branches forming the foot from which arise raised sprigs of prunus...
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Italian Faenza soup plate, Ferniani factory c. 1760-1800, decorated in the centre with flowering carnations in a fenced garden, the cavetto with four floral-cartouches against a diaper ground, the rim...
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Italian Faenza soup plate, Ferniani factory c. 1760-1800, decorated in the centre with flowering carnations in a fenced garden, the cavetto with four floral-cartouches against a diaper ground, the rim...
