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A soft paste blue and white dish


18th century The dish has deep rounded sides with an everted rim and is painted in the center with an elaborately decorated flower pot on a stand containing pine tree, prunus, bamboo and a decorative rock. The cavetto is decorated with a diaper band interrupted by four geometric-shaped panels enclosing floral and cloud motifs. The rim is decorated with a cell border. The reverse is painted with four flower sprays and three lines around the rim and the foot. The base is inscribed with a six-character Chenghua mark within a double ring. 20.1 cm diameter   Provenance: A Dutch private collection, acquired prior to 1940   Two very similar dishes are illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Two, London, 1994, pl. 749, where the author refers to the flower pot as penjing - a flowerpot with miniature bamboo, prunus, pine trees and decorative rocks. The combination of bamboo, prunus and pine tree is often referred to as the 'Three Friends of Winter', suihan sanyou, symbolising longevity and endurance.
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PF 30 A Pair Of Famille-Verte Biscuit Figures Of A Boy On A Buffalo<br><br>清康熙 素三彩牧童臥牛 一對

PF 30 A Pair Of Famille-Verte Biscuit Figures Of A Boy On A Buffalo

清康熙 素三彩牧童臥牛 一對

Kangxi period (1662-1722)

Each is modelled in mirror image in the form of a boy lying on the back of a buffalo. Each animal, standing four-square looking to the right or to the left, is realistically depicted and glazed in a strong aubergine colour, the hooves dark brown below a narrow unglazed band. Each boy lies on his front, holding a ruyi scepter in one hand, his straw hat on his back.
Each is wearing a green tunic over yellow trousers, the smiling face in biscuit under black hair.

Length: 19.5 cm; height: 13.5 cm

Provenance: Feng-Chun Ma, Amsterdam

Published in Feng-Chun Ma, A Thousand Years of Hundred Boys in Chinese Art, 10th–20th Century (Hong Kong: CA Book Publishing, 2024), 108.

The herd-boy and the buffalo are depicted in a relaxed mood after their work is finished, ready to return home.

 

PF 30 清康熙 素三彩牧童臥牛 一對

水牛四足穩立，或向右或向左顧盼，造型寫實，通體施濃郁茄紫釉，蹄部呈深褐色，蹄上留一圈素胎。童子俯臥其上，一手持如意，草帽置於背後。童子身著綠色上衣與黃色長褲，面容含笑，以素胎呈現膚色，配以黑髮。
牧童與水牛神情閒適，正準備歸返家園。

長：19.5 公分；高：13.5 公分

來源：Feng-Chun Ma, Amsterdam

出版：馬鳳春《千年百子─十至二十世紀中國藝術中的嬰戲圖》(香港：CA Book Publishing, 2024)，頁108.
PAFE 12 A painting by Liu Xun<br><br>劉珣 寫意山水

PAFE 12 A painting by Liu Xun

劉珣 寫意山水

RAINY LANDSCAPE
Hanging scroll, ink on paper

Signed: 隆(隴)南 劉珣 寫意  (Liu Xun from Longnan, free brushwork); with two seals of the artist

109 x 56 cm 

Provenance: Mr. Carl Barkman, Dutch diplomat in Beijing in the 1960s

 

劉珣 《寫意山水》

此畫描繪煙雨山景。

屬款：隆(隴)南 劉珣 寫意

109 x 56 cm 

來源：1960年代駐北京之荷蘭外交官Carl Barkman收藏
 

 
WF 50 A parcel-gilt bronze group of Shoulao and deer

WF 50 A parcel-gilt bronze group of Shoulao and deer

17th/18th century 

The Immortal is seated sideways on his recumbent companion deer on a circular base, his right hand grasping one of the animal's thin antlers, his right hand holding a scroll. He is clad in long robes tied with a long string below his belly.
His hair is gathered in a knot at the back of his head suspending long ribbons covering his shoulders. The animal with one thin leg lifted and head turned back.
Areas of parcel gilding contrast with the deep brown bronze. The base is partly hollow and is finished with three pins which reveal that the figure was once attached to a larger object, probably a censer.
Height 11 cm

A very similar group, also part of a larger piece, was sold at Spink & Son, Ltd., 4th May 1979


 

 

 

Height 10.5 cm
WF 48 A celadon green and russet jade bangle<br><br>明 青玉褐沁手鐲

WF 48 A celadon green and russet jade bangle

明 青玉褐沁手鐲

Ming dynasty 

The rounded sides are carved in low relief with celestial animals including a turtle, a tiger, a snake, a bird and a hare pounding the elixer of long life, below 'ruyi' shaped cloud, the semi-translucent stone of a greyish-green tone with opaque and russet area encircling the sides.
8 cm across 

Provenance: A former Dutch diplomat in Beijing, acquired in the late 1950s

 

WF 48 明 青玉褐沁手鐲

圓環手鐲，以淺浮雕刻飾瑞獸紋樣，包括龜、虎、蛇、鳥及玉兔等，襯以如意形雲紋。玉質半透明，呈灰青色調，間有不透明及褐色沁斑環繞器身。

直徑8公分

來源：曾駐北京之荷蘭外交官於1950年代末獲得之舊藏

 
BF 77 An unusual blue and white 'Kraak' style dish

BF 77 An unusual blue and white 'Kraak' style dish

Kangxi period (1662-1722)

The small dish is painted in bright cobalt blue in the 17th century Ming style with a central roundel of a stylized tulip motif surrounded by a border of five bats divided by tulip heads. The well and everted rim is painted with radiating panels of further stylized tulips growing from a leafy stem divided by smaller panels of a flower spray and beaded panels .
The underside has two shaped panels enclosing a spray of tulip divided by a single flower spray.
Artemesia leaf on the base
Diameter 16.5 cm

It is rare to find a Kangxi dish which imitated the Kraak style so closely as the present example.
S 47 A blue and white and copper red snuff bottle<br><br>十九世紀 青花釉裡紅鼻煙壺

S 47 A blue and white and copper red snuff bottle

十九世紀 青花釉裡紅鼻煙壺

19th century
The cylindrical bottle with rounded shoulders is surmounted by a waisted neck with lipped rim, resting on a short tapered foot surrounding the recessed base. It is painted in underglaze-blue with a continuous scene of a river landscape with two houses, one on stilts, with a scholar visible in a room, and on the other side, a fisherman in a boat. The trees, wood, and plantation are executed in copper-red.

Stopper in stone, with gilt-metal rim.

Height 7.8 cm (without stopper)

 

S 47 十九世紀 青花釉裡紅鼻煙壺

壺呈圓筒形，折肩，束頸，口沿外撇，底承短而足圈內斂，足內凹底。通體以青花繪江岸山水，一側畫屋舍二間，其一為干欄式建築，室內可見一文人；另一側繪漁翁泛舟。樹林及植被以釉裡紅表現。

石蓋，口沿鑲鎏金金屬邊。

高7.8公分（不含蓋）

 

 
S 48 A blue and white snuff bottle<br><br>十八/十九世紀 青花團龍紋鼻煙壺

S 48 A blue and white snuff bottle

十八/十九世紀 青花團龍紋鼻煙壺

18th/19th century
The bottle is of baluster form resting on a recessed unglazed base, and is surmounted by a short waisted neck with lipped rim.
It is painted with six roundels of four-clawed dragons, each neatly placed within even distance from each other. The neck with a double and the foot with triple line border. Red stone stopper with gilt metal rim and spoon.
Height 6 cm (without stopper)

 

S 48 十八/十九世紀 青花團龍紋鼻煙壺

器呈鼓腹瓶式，底足內凹且未施釉，短束頸，口沿外撇。
通體繪飾六個圓形開光，內各繪四爪龍紋，彼此間距均勻、佈局整齊。頸部有雙線邊飾，足部則有三線邊飾。

紅色石塞，鍍金屬邊，挑匙。
 

高6公分 (不含蓋)

 
S 99 A fossiliferous limestone snuff bottle<br><br>十九世紀中 石化石灰石鼻煙壺

S 99 A fossiliferous limestone snuff bottle

十九世紀中 石化石灰石鼻煙壺

Mid-19th century

The bottle is of flattened rectangular form with rounded shoulders below a slightly waisted neck with a flat lip resting on a neatly carved oval footrim.
The smoothly polished stone has a dense pattern of mushroom-like fossil inclusions amid small circular roundels in gray, yellow and white on an opaque bluish-black body, causing a dramatic effect reminiscent of a moonscape, or the unfathomable sea, where the fossil inclusions unfurl like jellyfish, trailing through the depths.  

Agate stopper with gilt metal rim
Height 6.5 cm (without stopper)

See for fossiliferous limestone snuff bottles: Bob Stevens, 'The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles', 1976, Nos. 671-678, 681

 

S 99 十九世紀中 石化石灰石鼻煙壺

扁瓶式，肩部圓潤，頸部略收，口沿平整，橢圓形圈足雕工精緻。石質經細緻拋光，通體為不透明黑色，其上密布如菌類狀之化石內含物，間雜米色、灰色與白色的小型圓斑，形成宛如月表的視覺效果，亦如在深海中舞動的水母。

瑪瑙蓋，蓋沿鎏金。

高: 6.5公分（不含蓋）。

 

 
WF 114 A Gilt-bronze Brush Rest<br><br>十七至十八世紀 銅鎏金臥童筆架

WF 114 A Gilt-bronze Brush Rest

十七至十八世紀 銅鎏金臥童筆架

17-18th century

The brush rest is modelled as a smiling boy lying with legs crossed, his head resting on his left arm. His right arm rests at his side, and he holds an ingot in his right hand. His hair is tied in a double topknot, while he wears a tunic with an oval geometric pattern.

Length: 6.1 cm

Provenance: Feng-Chun Ma, Amsterdam

Published in Feng-Chun Ma, A Thousand Years of Hundred Boys in Chinese Art, 10th–20th Century (Hong Kong: CA Book Publishing, 2024), p. 206.

 

WF 114 十七至十八世紀 銅鎏金臥童筆架

筆架呈斜臥男孩之形，男孩身穿裝飾幾何圖案的上衣，頭枕左臂上，右手捧一元寶。

長6.1公分

來源：Feng-Chun Ma, Amsterdam

出版：馬鳳春《千年百子─十至二十世紀中國藝術中的嬰戲圖》(香港：CA Book Publishing, 2024)，頁206。

 
WF 114 A Gilt-bronze Brush Rest<br><br>十七至十八世紀 銅鎏金臥童筆架

WF 114 A Gilt-bronze Brush Rest

十七至十八世紀 銅鎏金臥童筆架

17-18th century

The brush rest is modelled as a smiling boy lying with legs crossed, his head resting on his left arm. His right arm rests at his side, and he holds an ingot in his right hand. His hair is tied in a double topknot, while he wears a tunic with an oval geometric pattern.

Length: 6.1 cm

Provenance: Feng-Chun Ma, Amsterdam

Published in Feng-Chun Ma, A Thousand Years of Hundred Boys in Chinese Art, 10th–20th Century (Hong Kong: CA Book Publishing, 2024), p. 206.

 

WF 114 十七至十八世紀 銅鎏金臥童筆架

筆架呈斜臥男孩之形，男孩身穿裝飾幾何圖案的上衣，頭枕左臂上，右手捧一元寶。

長6.1公分

來源：Feng-Chun Ma, Amsterdam

出版：馬鳳春《千年百子─十至二十世紀中國藝術中的嬰戲圖》(香港：CA Book Publishing, 2024)，頁206。

 
WF 113 A Gilt-bronze Brush Rest<br><br>十七至十八世紀 銅鎏金臥童筆架

WF 113 A Gilt-bronze Brush Rest

十七至十八世紀 銅鎏金臥童筆架

17th-18th century

The brush rest is modelled as a reclining boy with raised legs, his head resting on his left hand while holding the stalk of a double gourd, which has a sash tied around the
waist.
His right hand rests along his side, with a squirrel resting on his shoulder. Smiling, with his hair bound in a double topknot, the boy is wearing an apron with an incised circle pattern tied at the back. 
The bronze has a warm golden patina.

Length: 5.8 cm

Provenance: David Ketel (1913-2006). Former Dutch diplomat in Beijing, 1954-56 and 1960-62, acquired in the 1950s
                      Feng-Chun Ma, Amsterdam

Published in Feng-Chun Ma, A Thousand Years of Hundred Boys in Chinese Art, 10th–20th Century (Hong Kong: CA Book Publishing, 2024), p. 206.

 

WF 113 十七至十八世紀 銅鎏金臥童筆架

筆架呈斜臥男孩之形，男孩枕在其左手上，手持一葫蘆，右肩上倚著一隻松鼠。

長5.8公分

來源：1954-1956 與 1960-1962 年間駐北京荷蘭外交官David Ketel (1913-2006) 於 1950 年代獲得之珍藏
          Feng-Chun Ma, Amsterdam

出版：馬鳳春《千年百子─十至二十世紀中國藝術中的嬰戲圖》(香港：CA Book Publishing, 2024)，頁206。
WF 113 A Gilt-bronze Brush Rest<br><br>十七至十八世紀 銅鎏金臥童筆架

WF 113 A Gilt-bronze Brush Rest

十七至十八世紀 銅鎏金臥童筆架

17th-18th century

The brush rest is modelled as a reclining boy with raised legs, his head resting on his left hand while holding the stalk of a double gourd, which has a sash tied around the
waist.
His right hand rests along his side, with a squirrel resting on his shoulder. Smiling, with his hair bound in a double topknot, the boy is wearing an apron with an incised circle pattern tied at the back. 
The bronze has a warm golden patina.

Length: 5.8 cm

Provenance: David Ketel (1913-2006). Former Dutch diplomat in Beijing, 1954-56 and 1960-62, acquired in the 1950s
                      Feng-Chun Ma, Amsterdam

Published in Feng-Chun Ma, A Thousand Years of Hundred Boys in Chinese Art, 10th–20th Century (Hong Kong: CA Book Publishing, 2024), p. 206.

 

 

WF 113 十七至十八世紀 銅鎏金臥童筆架

筆架呈斜臥男孩之形，男孩枕在其左手上，手持一葫蘆，右肩上倚著一隻松鼠。

長5.8公分

來源：1954-1956 與 1960-1962 年間駐北京荷蘭外交官David Ketel (1913-2006) 於 1950 年代獲得之珍藏
          Feng-Chun Ma, Amsterdam

出版：馬鳳春《千年百子─十至二十世紀中國藝術中的嬰戲圖》(香港：CA Book Publishing, 2024)，頁206。