A black mille fleurs teapot and small tazza (footed dish). Guangxu mark and late of the period or early Republic. Clean and sharp designs.
Good condition with no cracks or hairlines. Enamel in good condition. Nice example of this design. Teapot and tazza hard to find.
A fine antique Canton export reticulated fruit basket with liner. Fine blue, orange peel, good hand painted detail. Great oval form. Approximately mid 19th century.
8.5" x 7.25 oval and 3.75" high. Very good condition save for one hairline as shown. Reticulation will stop the crack from propagating. Has a nice ring. Also a kiln bulge on the liner, but all glazed.
Circa 1860 Rose medallion (rose canton)platter or serving dish, with 4 medallions enclosing those wonderful birds, and with a central rondel. Nice borders. Good orange peel effect. No marks.
13" diameter. One tight line as shown. Otherwise in good condition with no damage or repairs. Nice ring.
Set of 18-19th century Chinese export famille rose armorial dishes in a nest of 3. Each bears the golden coat of arms of the East India Company with the pair of cute facing lions. Nice orange peel effect on fine quality porcelain.
The East India Company was established in 1600 as a monopoly company by act of Parliament. It was the earliest incorporated companies in the world and at one time it consituted 40% of w ...click for details
Early 1700s Kangxi/Yongzheng Chinese blue/white export plate with a hexagonal rim and deep bowl. The decoration is is in a style typical of the era with free and vigorous brushstrokes. And the subject matter is wonderful, a pair of frolicking doe or fawn with those wide open eyes. There is a big pine tree shadowing the rocks, and a pagoda in the background. This is a park scene, possibly one of the Imperial hunting parks, not just a garden. Ring of lapets inside the rim and a geometric border al ...click for details
A fun antique Chinese export silver belt with two fire breathing dragons on every link. 35 inches long with 38 links plus the oval buckle. That makes for 36 dragons in all. Full hall marks as shown. Very good condition with no damage. Great patina.
A fine and large Chinese export blue and white canton platter circa 1830 out of a fine New Bedford estate together with a few other old export items. Good orange peel effect, medium blue, beautiful!
14.6" by 11.6" in very good condition with no chips hairlines or repairs. Only a few rim frits and tiny chip under the rim hardly noticeable but signs of good age (see detail pic).
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A fun 19th century Chinese export tazza or stem bowl with the 1000 butterflies design. Nice thick enamel with highlights on the bottom and a band on the stem. Circa 1880. From an old New Bedford estate together with some cantons.
9" diameter and 3" high. No chips hairlines or repairs. A tiny loss to enamel and some glass frits, not readily discernible. Very good condition.
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A fine and large Chinese export blue and white canton platter circa 1830 out of a fine New Bedford estate together with a few other old export items. Good orange peel effect, medium blue, beautiful!
14.6" by 11.6" in very good condition with no chips hairlines or repairs. Only a few rim frits hardly noticeable but signs of good age (see detail pic).
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A fine 19th century rose medallion reticulated tray or plate. Nice squarish oval as these old one tend to be. No marks and orange peel. Circa 1860.
10 by 9 inches; center about 7.3 by 6.1 inches. No chips hairlines or repairs. A little fritting on rim barely noticeable. Original enamels nice and thick.
This is a gorgeous original 19th century Chinese heavily carved ebony etagere display unit. It has lots of open work and certainly plenty of carving. It is 60 inches tall, 49 inches wide and 14 deep. Very good condition, but has some quite small losses to the carved decorations and some shrinkage as is normally the case. This is a heavy unit in 2 parts. The lowest shelf is the base into which the top unit fits.
A 19th (nineteenth)century China trade album of 10 good sized export paintings. Each leaf shows a stage in the process of making silk... from boiling the cocoons, spinning out the individual strands, winding into a "spool", dying the silk, drying, and finally to the merchant who buys the finished spools. It is a cottage industry process.
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A gorgeous 19th century China trade marine oil painting portrait of the 3 masted clipper ship Unity of Boston under full sail. Excellent details, including riggings and sail. Good wave action, and there is another ship on the horizon. You can see the reefing lines on the sails. She is flying the American ensign. Unsigned, most likely by a port artist in Canton or Shanghai; about 1850.
