Porcelain & Ceramics
Straw-glazed pottery figure of a cockerel, Tang (680-960)
Straw-glazed pottery figure of a cockerel, Tang (680-960), its wings and tail with incised feather detail...
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
Straw-glazed pottery figure of a cockerel, Tang (680-960), its wings and tail with incised feather detail...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Chinese Qingbai saucer dish, Song/Yuan dynasty, decorated in the centre with an incised foliate design....
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A Savona pierced footed dish, early 18th century, painted in various shades of blue wash with a landscape scene containing a tall villa with a smoking chimney, surrounded by sprays of flowers, the...
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Large Rose Imari Armorial ‘Provinces’ Charger, Yongzheng (1723-35), decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels including red, green, pink and gilt to the central roundel with an elaborate...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Chinese blue and white pedestal salt, Kangxi (1662-1722), of square form with waisted foot, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue to the top section with a fenced garden scene, depicting a young boy...
Art & Antiques
Baccarat pansy paperweight, 19th century, containing a sprig of pansy; the flower with yellow and burgundy petals issuing from a star-dust cane stamen, with several leaves and small flower bud....
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Baccarat pansy paperweight, 19th century, containing a sprig of pansy; the flower with yellow and burgundy petals issuing from a star-dust cane stamen, with several leaves and small flower bud, the...
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Baccarat pansy paperweight, 19th century, containing a sprig of pansy; the flower with yellow and burgundy petals issuing from a star-dust cane stamen, with several leaves, the base starcut....
Porcelain & Ceramics
A wucai baluster jar and cover, Shunzhi period (1644-1661), with wide shoulders and tapering foot, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and coloured enamels of red, green, turquoise, yellow and black...
Porcelain & Ceramics
Bow blanc de chine cup with crabstock handle and saucer, circa 1752, the saucer with gently lobed rim, both decorated in relief with applied sprays of prunus blossom....
Porcelain & Ceramics
Meissen teabowl, circa 1740, decorated in overglaze enamels and gilt with a continuous watery landscape scene, with two main figures standing amongst workmen, ropes, cargo and low shrubbery, distant...
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Rare Delft water bottle vase, circa 1750, London or Bristol, of bulbous form with narrow neck and flared rim, decorated in blue with a continuous pastoral landscape scene, with a man and his horse...
Porcelain & Ceramics
A framed Wedgwood jasperware muses plaque, 19th century, of rectangular shape and decorated in raised white relief against a black ground with a depiction of five of the Nine Classical Muses in...
Art & Antiques
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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Japanese drawing of two Chinese Immortals Lan Caihe and Li Tieguai, both standing and watching a small figure recede into the distance; Lan Caihe (藍采和) on the left and depicted holding a hoe in...
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Chinese circular bronze mirror, Han dynasty (206 B.C. - 220 A.D.), the centre with a hemispherical knob, with bands of dogtooth decoration....
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Small ribbed celadon jar, Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368)...
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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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Japanese bronze menuki, in the form of a running boar, the beast with outstretched hind legs, upturned snout and sharp tusks, the tusks and eyes in a paler shade, its body with bristle detail....
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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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Chinese famille rose figure of He Xiangu, Qianlong (1736-95), standing with a lotus bloom in her left hand, dressed in long flowing robes of blue with star and cloud roundel pattern, tied with a red...
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Massive Japanese Imari charger, early 18th century, Edo period, painted in underglaze blue, iron-red, green and black enamels to the centre with a pair of carp, one black the other red and gold, in a...