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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Chinese lac burgauté square bowl, Kangxi (1662-1722), inlaid with mother-of-pearl, decorated with a continuous scene of three ladies in a garden with a pagoda amongst rockwork and trailing willow....
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Chinese inscribed lacquer plaque, 17th century, decorated on one side with a standing official in flowing robes with two attendants; one behind him holding a fan, the other kneeling in front bearing a...
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Chinese Canton enamel tea canister, Qianlong (1736-95), with chamfered corners, each of the four sides decorated with a panel containing various archaistic burners and ritual vessels with coral,...
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Canton enamel box in the shape of a butterfly, Qianlong (1736 - 95), its body and outstretched wings decorated in bright colours with radiating and swirling patterns, the rim with scrolling green...
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Pair of Chinese Canton enamel cups and saucers, 18th century, with chamfered corners, decorated in black highlighted in gold with pairs of chilong against dense foliate scroll with lines in pink, the...
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Chinese canton enamel rectangular box and cover, Qianlong (1736-95), each of the four sides with ruyi-head cartouches containing sprays of flowers including peony, reserved against a pale blue ground...
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Rare Chinese canton enamel twin handled cup, Qianlong (1736-95), with twin stylized chilong handles, of square cross-section form and raised upon short bracket feet, each of the four sides decorated...
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Chinese Lac Burgaute wine cup, Kangxi (1662-1722), inlaid with mother-of-pearl and decorated with a scene of phoenix flying through a garden with bamboo and peony issuing from rockwork, the stem with...
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Pair of Chinese canton enamel saucer dishes, Qianlong (1736-95), each decorated in the centre with a landscape scene containing the three gods of the Sanxing ('three stars'): Shou (壽) stading on the...
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Chinese canton enamel winepot, Qianlong (1736-95), of lobed hexagonal form with curved spout and tall loop handle, the body decorated with a continuous scene of ladies and children at play within a...
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Pair of Chinese miniature cloisonné tazza, 18th century, each with a shallow bowl on a short stem, decorated with flowerheads and foliate scroll against a turquoise ground, the bases of the bowls and...
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Chinese silver mug, late 19th century, of European tankard form with an ornate curved dragon handle and ribbing to the rim and footrim; embossed with a scene of scholars in a wooded grove amongst...
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Chinese Peking glass bottle vase, possibly 18th century, of bulbous form on tall flaring foot with a long cylindrical neck rising to a straight rim, the base with a Qianlong four character mark....
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Canton enamel octagonal platter, late 18th century, decorated in the centre with peonies, chrysanthemums and insects including a butterfly and dragonfly enclosed by a narrow blue band with florets and...
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A lac-burgaute box and cover, Qing dynasty, early 19th century, of oblong shape, the top finely inlaid with mother-of-pearl and gold foils against a black lacquer ground with children playing and...
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Chinese Canton enamel bowl and cover, c.1800, decorated in brightly coloured enamels with four panels containing an assortment of the ‘hundred antiques’ including two bronze ritualistic vessels,...
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Chinese Canton enamel dish, c.1800, decorated in brightly coloured enamels with an assortment of the ‘hundred antiques’, including two ritualistic bronze vessels, coral, feathers, a ruyi-head...
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Chinese Canton enamel tea bowl, 18th century, on a short foot with everted rim, decorated in enamels with large peony heads and scrolling foliage against a yellow ground, the foot encircled by a band...
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Pair of Canton enamel quatrefoil saucers, 18th century, of lobed form and decorated in bright enamels, the centres with scrolling foliage and peony heads against a yellow ground encircled by a narrow...
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Pair of Chinese miniature cloisonné vases, 19th century, of cylindrical ‘lantern’ form, decorated to the main mid-section with an interlocking wire design and birds and butterflies in flight...
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St. Louis miniature crown glass paperweight, 19th century, with a central millefiori cane and twisted white-trimmed red and green ribbons alternating with white filigree twists radiating outwards and...
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Baccarat close-packed millefiori mushroom glass paperweight, c.1850, the tuft comprising assorted brightly coloured composite canes spreading from an elongated stem into a mushroom shape near the...
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A Clichy swirl glass paperweight, c.1850, the glass set with alternating opaque blue and white arms radiating out from a central red and white pastry-mould millefiori eight-cog floret....
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Chinese boxwood ruyi sceptre, 19th/20th century, the body formed into a gnarled branch encircled by tendrils of vines and smaller fungi, terminating in a flat head of lingzhi fungus shape....
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Chinese jade pig, late Qing, the body carved into a recumbent animal with its head resting on its front hooves and hind legs tucked under its body, the tail curling around the left haunch, length: 2...
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Indian painting on paper of an elephant, circa 1800, depicting a prince seated on an elephant in a howdah with an attendant and driver, with inscriptions....
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Chinese Canton enamel tray, Qianlong (1736-95), of square form with chamfered corners, decorated with a European couple and baby upon a carpet beside a wine barrel, in a garden setting amongst...
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Small Russian bronze blessing icon cross, 19th century, the front with Christ crucified at Golgotha outside the city gate with the Father and Holy Spirit in the form of a dove above accompanied by...
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Chinese Canton enamel rectangular box and domed cover, Qianlong (1736-95), decorated with sprays peony, convolvulus, iris and various other flowers, framed by bands of scrolling foliage against a...
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Chinese Canton enamel square-section tea canister and cover, Qianlong (1736-95), decorated with four panels containing Oriental riverscape, separated by scrolling foliage on a pale-turquoise ground,...
