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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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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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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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 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 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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chinese ruby glass overlay snuff bottle, Qing dynasty, 19th century, in opaque white glass with ruby overlay carved in relief; the pear-shaped body decorated with a pair of qilong, their bodies and...
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Chinese Canton enamel ewer, circa 1800, the pear-shaped body rising from a short spreading foot to a tall waisted knopped neck, with a large loop handle and gently sloping s-shaped spout, brightly...
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Chinese blue and white four-sided bowl, Kangxi (1662-1722), of square cross-section with canted corners, each of the four sides decorated with a panel containing elegant ladies relaxing in a garden...
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Chinese blue and white kendi, Wanli (1573-1619), of round slightly depressed bulbous form, the body with stylised seedpods against scrolling foliage below a band of beribboned babao to the shoulders,...
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Chinese red overlay glass snuff bottle, 20th century, decorated with three monkeys and a tree....
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Chinese Peking glass snuff bottle, 19th-20th century, decorated with a leaping carp and waterbird amongst tall reeds and blooming lotus....
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Chinese Canton enamel tray, Qianlong (1736-95), of square form with chamfered corners, decorated with an elderly scholar watching two boys at play in a garden outside a pavilion, with stylized foliate...
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Pair of ribbed Chinese Canton enamel cups, 19th century, of lobed form and decorated in coloured enamels with flowers and fruit amongst curling tendrils...
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Chinese bowenite carved pendant, 19th-early 20th century, in the form of the 'shou' character surrounded by stylised cloud scrolls....
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Chinese lac burgauté lobed cup-stand, Kangxi (1662-1722), inlaid with mother-of-pearl, decorated with branches of flower blossoms and fruits....
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Pair of Chinese Canton enamel bowls and covers, Qianlong (1736-95), rising from a narrow yellow foot, decorated to the bodies and covers with rectangular cartouches featuring an assortment of the...
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Pair of green Chinese Peking glass bowls, late 19th century, each rising from a short foot and with an everted rim....
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Pair of green Chinese Peking glass bowls, late 19th century, each rising from a short foot and with an everted rim....
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Chinese Canton enamel tray, Qianlong (1736-95), of square form with chamfered corners, decorated with a narrative scene of two scholars in a landscape engaged in reading beneath a pine tree, with an...
