Halls Fine Art Summer Fine Auction - Asian Art

Lot 149: £100 - £200

A QING PERIOD CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN TEAPOT AND COVER hand painted with polychrome figures and versus of script detailing the life of Wen Tianxiang, one of the three ‘Loyal Princes of Song’, 13cm high (with cover)

Lot 150: £200 - £300

A CHINESE PALE GREEN JADE PENDANT Ming/Qing dynasty as a dancing man in loose garments in Tang style, incised black details 6cm high and a totemic pale green jade wrapped lotus leaf, flower and tendril 8cm (2)

FOOTNOTE: See Angus Forsyth and Brian McElney, Jades from China, 1994, p279 Fig 181 for a translucent white nephrite dancing figure in similar pose dated to the Tang dynasty

Lot 151: £150- £250

A COLLECTION OF 18TH CENTURY AND LATER CHINESE PORCELAIN PLATES to include a pair of polychrome plates with detailed figural decoration, 20cm diameter, four (two large and two smaller) Cantonese export Celadonground plates, decorated in polychrome famille rose designs detailing birds, flowers and butterflies, 18 and 24cm in diameter, four famille rose dinner plates with flared borders, 23cm in diameter, together with a Japanese porcelain plate in the Imari palette (13)

Lot 152: £150 - £250

A JAPANESE MEIJI PERIOD FOUR CASE LACQUERED INRO the black ground decorated with a scene of a rider and mount along a hill-top path beside a waterfall with distant mountains, unsigned, 6.5cm long, 5.5cm wide

Lot 153: £60 - £80

A JAPANESE CARVED IVORY NETSUKE OF A BOY AND DARUMA DOLL Meiji period the young boy kneeling and embracing the egg shaped figure who wears a quizzical expression, fine black detailing, signed, 2.5cm high, 4cm long

Lot 154: £150 - £250

A LARGE MEIJI PERIOD LACQUERED LIDDED BOX the black ground decorated with a stream carrying shed autumnal foliage beside a rocky waterside, 12cm high, 38 x 26.5cm together with a smaller black lacquered box decorated with blossoming foliage, 4cm high, 24.5 x 22cm, accommodating a small loose internal tray, also together with four small Urushi lacquered footed bowls, with red grounds decorated with finely detailed blossom and willows, etc, 3cm high, 11cm diameter (maximum) (6)

Lot 155: £500 - £700

A GANDHARA GREY SCHIST FRAGMENT 2nd-3rd Century AD Part of a carved support for the throne of Buddha, depicting an Atlantid, the mature male with curly hair and beard, naked, kneeling with right hand raised, wings to the back, mounted on an associated hardwood stand. 18.5cm high (23cm including stand)

Lot 156: £150- £250

A MIXED SELECTION OF JAPANESE AND CHINESE WARES to include a Chinese export blue and white octagonal plate, 21.5cm, a Chinese blue and white saucer dish, 21.5cm, both Quan Long, a Chinese Imari tea bowl and saucer, a Batavian ware tea bowl and saucer, a Japanese blue and white saucer dish, 19cm diameter, Nabeshima style blue and white saucer dish, 15.5cm, an octagonal blue and white plate with cherry blossom decoration, a Kutani bottle vase, 23cm high, a small Japanese bowl, 5.5cm, together with a Wedgwood pearl ware Imari plate, 16cm.(11)

Lot 157: £400 - £600

A CHINESE PORCELAIN FAMILLE VERTE ‘LANDSCAPE’ PLAQUE Republic decorated in colours with a rocky landscape with trees and a house before a bridge and with a short poem to the top right hand corner about the autumn red leaves covering the mountains, dated to Spring of the ‘Year of Gengshen’ (1920), in varnished lacquer frame, the plaque 46cm x 19cm

Lot 158: £200 - £300

A THANGKA OF SAMANTABHADRA AND SAMANTABHADRI Tibet, 18th/19th century seated on a lotus throne in dhayanamudra and surrounded by attendants, the upper register against a midnight blue ground, the lower register against a green ground, gouache on cotton, unframed, 89cm x 61cm, the panel 118cm x 78cm

Lot 159: £100 - £150

A 19TH CENTURY CARVED WHITE MARBLE STUDY OF SHIVA carved and pierced in the round, the standing figure set before a detailed tapering fluted column with acanthus mounts and foliate capitol, 54cm high

Lot 160: £60 - £80

A JAPANESE CARVED AND STAINED BONE OKIMONO OF A GEISHA Meiji period she half kneels with her right arm raised and wearing traditional dress, incised details on rounded rectangular stand, incomplete, 9cm high and a smaller ivory figure of a standing geisha, 6cm high (2)

Lot 161: £300 - £500

A LARGE JAPANESE MEIJI PERIOD LIDDED BRONZE VESSEL of footed cylindrical form, the bowl ringed with three collars centred with a border in shallow relief decorated with breaking scrolling oceanic waves below arched geometric motifs, flanked by ringed loop handles mounted as beast’s masks, below a circular tablet cover also decorated with a border of breaking waves and a globular finial, opening to reveal a vacant interior, 24cm high, 26cm wide (maximum, including handles)

Lot 162: £400 - £500

A CHINESE PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY ON SILK Gu Yun (1835-1896) painted with pine trees, traditional houses and rocky mountains in pale natural colours, two seal marks and poem about Taoist rites referencing the mountains, Shaoxi stream, lotus pond and boat showing that Mr Gu Yun was overworked and very homesick the painting 80cm x 33.5cm the panel and frame 113cm x 49cm

Lot 163: £150 - £250

A MEIJI PERIOD JAPANESE FOUR CASE LACQUERED INRO uniting over a golden ground decorated detailed scenes of a woodland waterfall and stream, with flowers, trees and distant mountains, signed to interior, 9cm long, 5.5cm wide

Lot 164: £350 - £450

A CHINESE CLOISONNE FIGURE OF A COCKEREL Late Qing/Republic period Modelled standing, its head facing left, worked with brightly coloured feathers and red coxcomb. 24cm high PROVENANCE: A private Cheshire collection, the property of a gentleman.

Lot 165: £200 - £300

TEN VARIOUS CHINESE SCROLLS to include; a Chinese ink painting of a mountain landscape and small house in the foreground with calligraphy to the top middle and ‘Le Ching Liang’ written in Romanised script to the top back, the calligraphy stating ‘thirty-six years of the Republic of China’ (1948) and the name of the artist (Li Qingliang), two yellow silk black script panels with grey borders, originally from a three piece poetry set, gift for a person called Tao Jun who came to Chongqing City in Sichuan Province to govern the local people, a red fabric hanging scroll with gold writing, being an honorary scroll to compliment and welcome British Christian missionaries, referencing them travelling all over the world to bring teachings and culture, a black print of a boat on water, black silk scroll mount, top back bearing ‘Number 109’ and text with lines indecipherable but beginning ‘West Garden God..’, a long calligraphy scroll with a poem stating that ‘poetry is my good field’ referencing a love of poetry and text translating as ‘student Huang Jia Liang study book’, To Study is my Bright Field’ in Romanised script at the back, and four landscape and figure scrolls, late Qing/Republic (10)

Lot 166: £150 - £200

FIVE CHINESE FIGURAL JADE ARCHAISTIC STYLE CARVINGS 18th/19th century possibly elements from necklaces or burial fittings, to include two similar figures of Lu Dongbin, 3cm Buddha on a lotus throne, 3cm, Hotei, and a deeply carved figure of a boy, 2.5cm and a mottled russet jade burial cicada 2.5cm (6)

Lot 167: £80 - £120

A JAPANESE CARVED IVORY OKIMONO OF A MAN WITH A NOH MASK Meiji period he sits rubbing his forehead looking pained and with a short stick in his right hand planted squarely on the ground, a noh mask by his right side, his coat with feather detailing, 3.5cm high and another Japanese okimono of a geisha in traditional dress holding a hanetsuki paddle and fan, 5cm high (2)

Lot 168: £200 - £300

A CHINESE BLACK AND GREY JADE CICADA PENDANT probably Ming in archaistic style with cut folded wings and bulbous head, chip, 6cm and a triangular two cut russet and pale jade triangular plaque or pendant, possibly a burial fitting, 3.5cm (2)

Lot 169: £150 - £250

A PAIR OF CHINESE QINGBAI FUNERARY VASES Song dynasty each of tall swelling cylindrical form applied to the neck with animals, cloud scrolls and dragons and a circle of figures around the waist, unglazed bases 48cm high (2)

Lot 170: £100 - £150

A JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL WITH STRAIGHT SIDES decorated with a sea dragon and an air dragon chasing the flaming pearl, above a wave and red coral border, apocryphal six character Jiaqing reign mark to underside, 19th century, 12.5cm diameter together with a Japanese octagonal blue and white bowl decorated with pine trees in a landscape to interior, the exterior with floral meander, Fuku mark to underside, 19th century, 15cm