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Chinese large bronze censer
Late Chinese bronze censer of large size circa 1900...
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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Late Chinese bronze censer of large size circa 1900...
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Japanese 'bijin-ga' woodcut print, by Ikeda Eisen, also known as Keisai Eisen (1790-1848), of ‘kakemono-e’ format (vertical diptych) depicting an oiran (courtesan) standing beside a doorway...
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Pair of silver and copper wire cloisonné vases, Meiji (1868-1912), circa 1900; the spherical bodies with a blue ground and decorated with tree peonies entwined with wisteria and perching Japanese...
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Pair of Japanese lacquer tokkuri sake flasks and covers, 19th century, of wood covered in black polished lacquer (roiro), of pear-shaped form with bulbous bodies and slender waisted necks with...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink and polychrome colours against a gold leaf background, depicting Ding Lan serving a wooden statue of his father seated on a dais with offerings...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting Zeng Shen, having dropped the firewood he has gathered, and approaching his elderly mother, who is...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting a woman beside a river in which two carp swim, collecting water with a wooden bucket and ladle, looking...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting Meng Zong dressed in reeds digging in the snow for bamboo shoots on a bank beside a river, with a...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting Dong Yong, kneeling beside a small child gazing up at the Heavenly Weaver, who is sailing away with her...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting Wang Xiang swimming in a frozen river with two carp, in a desolate wintry landscape with a bare tree and...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting Laolaizi, dressed in brightly coloured clothes and jaunty cap, brandishing his rattle gaily with small...
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A fine silver-wired Japanese cloisonné eight-lobed twin-handled koro and cover, Meiji period (1868-1910), possibly by Ota Hyozo, the lobed body with liner and supported on three low feet, finely...
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Japanese Kano School painting, 17th century, in ink and polychrome colours against a gold leaf background, depicting T'ang Fu-jen suckling her mother-in-law in a pavilion garden with a pond amongst...
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Japanese bronze vase, Meiji (1868-1912), by the Nogawa workshop, with flattened circular body, tall columnar neck and supported on a tall everted foot, finely engraved, incised and inlaid with gold,...
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Large Canton enamel tray, Qianlong (1736-1796), of lobed form, painted in enamels with 'The Valentine Pattern'; the central roundel with a pastoral landscape with various trophies and symbols of...
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Extremely fine Japanese Satsuma earthenware vase of a shouldered ovoid shape by Okamoto Ryozan, Meiji Period (1868-1912), enamelled with in different colours with a cloudy mountainous landscape with a...
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Japanese four-case lacquer inro, 19th century, with inlaid decoration against a maki-e background depicting a mountainous landscape with a lakeside pagoda and flock of chidori (千鳥, plovers) in...
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Large fine Canton enamel lobed tray, Qianlong (1736-1795), c.1760, on four feet, decorated to the centre with a scene of an elegant pagoda garden with pine, flowering chrysanthemum and rockwork, in...
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Japanese wood and lacquer mimidarai (耳盥) basin, Meji period (1868-1912), with tall foot and two applied trilobed ear-shaped handles, decorated in black lacquer and ‘maki-e’ gold, with a...
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Japanese cloisonné vase with white metal mounts, c.1900, the copper body with an applied white metal rim and base plate decorated in a soft pastel palette of predominantly blue enamels with a single...
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Japanese tobacco pouch mount (mae-kanagu), the metal decorated with a ‘nanako uchi’ ground, inlaid with a design rendered in ‘iroe takazogan’ of a man holding a basket working in a garden....
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Fine Japanese tobacco pouch (tabako-ire), circa 1880, with an overall design of flowers against a background of meandering rivers, decorated to the front with a silver metal ornamental clasp...
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Framed Japanese polychrome nishiki-e woodblock print, 1864, by Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833-1904, also known as Ochiai Yoshiiku), ink on paper in vertical ōban format, signed ‘Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga’ and...
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A pair of Japanese cloisonné vases, Meiji period, each of elongated form with tapering foot, flat shoulders and trumpet rim, decorated against a dark ground with an inlaid enamel design featuring a...
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A pair of Japanese cloisonné vases, Meiji period, each of elongated hexagonal form with tapering foot, flat shoulders and trumpet rim, decorated against a dark ground with an inlaid enamel design...
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Set of six Japanese gilt-steel knives and forks with kozuka handles, circa 1880, the kozuka handles with gilt and engraved low relief decoration in shibuichi (copper silver alloy) with various motifs...
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Japanese kozuka (small blade handle), inlaid with three galloping kirin in gilt relief, against a dark ‘nanako’ ground....
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Japanese iron sukashi tsuba (sword guard with openwork detail), of circular ‘marugata’ form, carved and pierced with an asymmetrical openwork pattern of autumn leaves (momiji) around one central...
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Japanese lacquer portable water bottle with handle, 19th century, in wood decorated in black lacquer and gold, of tall rectangular form with each of the four sides painted in gold with birds in flight...
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Fine Chinese Transitional Chongzhen blue and white ovoid vase, circa 1640, painted in a very good underglaze blue with magnolia/spring orchid, chrysanthemum, lotus and prunus, with the magnolia...