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Click here to subscribeA pair of Ming or blue and white ceramic five-tube figurine vases. Each baluster shaped vase decorated with fret and lappets scrolling on the top of the bottle neck, two lions by pine trees below, figurines on the body depicting a scene of the master visiting friends, along with attendants carrying presents behind him and one carrying a guzheng leading the way, raised on an everted foot.Measures approx. 30cm tall.Private Gloucestershire collection.
19TH CENTURY CHINESE SCHOOL "Mother and two children with Guzheng or chinese zither, a garden unfolding in the background", oil on canvas, unsigned, 59.5 cm x 46 cm CONDITION REPORTS Has been re-lined. Clearly cleaned - see images under UV. There is some significant cracking and crazing throughout. There is a small area of flaking to the top left hand side panel of the window. Otherwise general wear and tear conducive with age and use - see images for more details
THREE CHINESE PORCELAIN SNUFF BOTTLES, 19TH CENTURY. To include a cylindrical famille rose decorated bottle featuring a man playing a guzheng, bottle with a white metal mount at the neck; A flattened ovoid bottle covered in a green glaze; Together with another bottle in the form of a flask with archaic dragons and twin looped handles. 6cm and 7.5cm tall. (3)Three small hairlines to the interior of the flask bottle neck, with possible filled section near the foot. The green bottle in good overall condition with only minor surface wear to note. The famille rose bottle with missing cover to metal mount.
Tang Dynasty, 618-907 A.D. A group of four gilt musician figures depicting court ladies comprising: two seated figures dressed in voluminous robes, wearing the traditional court attire and playing the pipes; a similarly seated figure playing a drum, with detailing to her necklace, arm rings and hair; a figure seated wearing a floor-length robe, voluminous sleeves, head tilted whimsically to one side, playing a guzheng; the facial features delicately modelled in a serene expression and the hair adorned with a headdress, each musician wearing a different facial expression; each accompanied by a custom-made display base. Cf. Prodan, M., The Art of The T'ang Potter, Thames and Hudson, 1960, for comparable examples (pl.VII p.16) and discussion; Wong, G., The Silk Road: Treasures of the Tang China, Singapore, 1991, pp.78-80, for comparable musician figures in a different medium; Congyun, L., Yang, Y., Gushan, Z., Imperial Tombs of China, Orlando, 1995, p.117, for representation of musicians on a Tang cup from Hejia; Michaelson, C., Gilded Dragons, Buried treasures from China’s Golden Ages, London, 1999, fig.39, p.71, 88, p.124, 90, p.126, 113, p.156; cf. images of Tang censer with representations of female musicians in Rastelli, S., Scarpari, M., Il Celeste Impero, dall'esercito di Terracotta alla Via della Seta, Milano, 2008, fig.83, p.182. 350 grams total, 60-75 mm high (730 grams total, 85-95 mm including stand) (2 3/8 - 3 in. (3 3/8 - 3 3/4 in). Late Sir Roger Moss OBE collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, lady. Accompanied by an academic expertise by Dr Raffaele D'Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate no.11188-185450. [4] Fine condition.
A BLUE AND WHITE 'MUSICIANS' DISH, KANGXI PERIODChina, 1662-1722. The shallow rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot to a wide everted rim, the broad floor filled with Daoist musicians and their attendants in the shade of a pine tree at a hillside, surrounded by a band of lotus flowers and Daoist emblems to the short cavetto, the gently sloping wide rim with additional Daoist figures framed within reserves against a geometric patterned ground.Provenance: Belgian trade, by repute from a local private collection.Condition: Fine condition with minor old wear and firing flaws, the rim with two hairlines, minuscule nicks to the foot.Weight: 1,412 g Dimensions: Diameter 39.5 cmIt is interesting to note that the Chinese musical tradition remained quite stable throughout the Qing dynasty before the New Culture Movement, as evidenced by the many similarities between the painting on the present dish and the musicians pictured in an old photograph taken in Shanghai during the 1860s (figure 1). The first major and well-documented flowering of Chinese music was for the qin during the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD), although this instrument is known to have been played already since before the Han period. Through succeeding dynasties over thousands of years, Chinese musicians developed a large assortment of different instruments and playing styles, including court, folk, and religious music as well as instrumental, opera, storytelling, and many other kinds. A wide variety of these instruments, such as guzheng and dizi, are indigenous, although many popular traditional musical instruments were introduced from Central Asia, such as the erhu and pipa. Musical instruments were traditionally classified into eight categories known as bayin. Traditional music in China is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale is pentatonic. Bamboo pipes and qin are among the oldest known musical instruments from China. 康熙時期青花開光樂者場景大盤中國，1662-1722年。折沿，斜圓腹，中央開光青花描繪文人園中松下奏樂賞玩場景；折沿上錦地開光描繪農家樂；斜腹上蓮紋。來源：比利時古玩市場，據説來自當地私人收藏。 品相：狀況良好，有輕微的磨損和燒製瑕疵，邊緣有兩條細裂紋，足部有微小的刻痕。 重量：1,412 克 尺寸：直徑39.5厘米
An old Chinese lacquered Guzheng, 150cm long, boxed, (lacking strings). Condition Report: Small cracks in various places. Cracks to both sides of decorated top of body, extending into top. Crack from top to bottom of main body. Some loss of lacquer near cracks. Has had some previous repairs. Some slight wear in areas of decoration.
Han Dynasty, 206 BC-220 AD. A group of three ceramic tomb figures representing female musicians; each is shown kneeling and wearing long sleeved robes painted in red to the upper part and with a black belt across the middle; each has their hair pulled up into a flat bun on the top of the head; one figure holds a guzheng, another a cymbal and another a pot-shaped wind instrument. 1.68 kg total, 17.5cm (7"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired before 1995; accompanied by a thermoluminescence test for one of the three musicians [3] Finely modelled.
A Chinese famille rose plaque, Republic Period (1912-1949), decorated with two women in a garden setting, one seated playing a guzheng while the other listens, an inscription to the top right hand corner, 18.6cm high x 12.4cm wide, together with a Chinese famille rose palette plate in the Straits style, also Republic Period, decorated with a stylised floral pattern on a green ground, with 'shou' character detail, the base with apocryphal four character Qianlong mark, 24cm diameter (2)
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