09-19-201509-19-2015
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  • Rectangular Silver Box with Hinged Cover

    Rectangular Silver Box with Hinged Cover

    Lot: 180
    Sold for: $1,476$1,200

    Rectangular Silver Box with Hinged Cover, China, early 20th century, the cover decorated with a repousse and chased dragon and engraved with a three-letter monogram "CRH" in the center, the four more ...

  • Japanese Silver Flask

    Japanese Silver Flask

    Lot: 181
    Sold for: $2,706$2,200

    Japanese Silver Flask, Japan, Meiji Period, a silver flask cast and chased with dragons and scrolling clouds, with an attached screw cap, Konoike mark and Jungin seal (pure silver) on base, 4 x 4 x more ...

  • Gilt-silver Ruyi Scepter

    Gilt-silver Ruyi Scepter

    Lot: 182
    Sold for: $4,305$3,500

    Gilt-silver Ruyi Scepter, China, the face decorated with the "Eight Buddhist Treasures", bats, and shou characters, a trellis band around the sides, the reverse chased with bats, auspicious cloud more ...

  • Silver Hair Ornament with Kingfisher Feather

    Silver Hair Ornament with Kingfisher Feather

    Lot: 185
    Sold for: $615$500

    Silver Hair Ornament with Kingfisher Feather , China, of lotus flower and scrolling leaf design with a crane, in two layers, the cut feathers pasted on stiffened support outlined with slivers of more ...

  • Small Gilt-bronze Treasure Box

    Small Gilt-bronze Treasure Box

    Lot: 187
    Sold for: $984$800

    Small Gilt-bronze Treasure Box, Japan, 19th/20th century, rectangular, with two drawers, resting on four bracket feet, a ruyi-shape handle on top, a floral bud-shape knob on each drawer, decorated more ...

  • Bronze Vase

    Bronze Vase

    Lot: 188
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    Bronze Vase, China, Ming dynasty (1369-1644),bottle-shape, with twin arched dragon handles each with an attached oblong ring, depicting a kuei dragon band at the narrow neck and a band of roiling more ...

  • Large Bronze Censer with Chilong Handles

    Large Bronze Censer with Chilong Handles

    Lot: 189
    Sold for: $615$500

    Large Bronze Censer with Chilong Handles, China, Ming dynasty-style, compressed globular with a short waisted neck and a flat mouth rim with straight sides, resting on three plain animal feet, the more ...

  • Bronze Tripod Censer and Stand

    Bronze Tripod Censer and Stand

    Lot: 190
    Sold for: $22,140$18,000

    Bronze Tripod Censer and Stand, China, 19th century, bombe-form with stylized chilong handles, the tripod stand in the shape of a lotus leaf with three fittings for censer feet, two-character mark more ...

  • Covered Bronze Censer

    Covered Bronze Censer

    Lot: 191
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    Covered Bronze Censer, China, square with flaring sides on four bracket feet, two slightly curved rectangular handles to two sides, the domed cover divided in four sections, each with an openwork more ...

  • Bronze Tripod Censer

    Bronze Tripod Censer

    Lot: 192
    Sold for: $8,610$7,000

    Bronze Tripod Censer, China, Ming dynasty style, the globular body of the censer carved with pairs of Buddhist lions, floral and geometric motifs with twin handles and supported on three legs, more ...

  • Bronze Hand Warmer, Shou Lu , with Cover

    Bronze Hand Warmer, Shou Lu , with Cover

    Lot: 193
    Sold for: $369$300

    Bronze Hand Warmer, Shou Lu, with Cover, China, rounded rectangular form with a swing handle attached on side supports, resting on a short foot, the pierced cover with geometric and floral motifs in more ...

  • Bronze Hand Warmer with Handle

    Bronze Hand Warmer with Handle

    Lot: 194
    Sold for: $431$350

    Bronze Hand Warmer with Handle, Japan, 19th century, lobed rectangular, with a banded handle, the body made of five separately cast and joined parts, the sides decorated with molded five Japanese more ...

  • Carved Spinach Green Jade Table Screen

    Carved Spinach Green Jade Table Screen

    Lot: 195
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    Carved Spinach Green Jade Table Screen, China, 19th/20th century, depicting three scholars seated in a mountain pavilion situated on top of a rocky promontory surrounded by the "Three Friends of more ...

  • Carved White Stone Table Screen

    Carved White Stone Table Screen

    Lot: 196
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    Carved White Stone Table Screen, China, a horizontally long rectangular plaque, decorated in relief with a dragon and a phoenix against a reticulated ground in a raised lobed rectangular reserve, more ...

  • Table Screen with Turquoise Composite Plaque

    Table Screen with Turquoise Composite Plaque

    Lot: 197
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    Table Screen with Turquoise Composite Plaque, China, 20th century, the rectangular plaque depicting two horses by a river, inscribed with a poem, ht. with stand 7 1/2 in. more ...

  • Porcelain Table Screen

    Porcelain Table Screen

    Lot: 198
    Sold for: $1,968$1,600

    Porcelain Table Screen, China, 19th/20th century, a round plaque depicting a qilin standing on a rock rising from crashing waves, with blossoms floating on the waves, framed by a square rosewood more ...

  • Wood Openwork Ruyi Scepter

    Wood Openwork Ruyi Scepter

    Lot: 199
    Unsold  

    Wood Openwork Ruyi Scepter, China, carved as a gnarled pine tree with fissured bark, climbing vines, and pine needles, some details in openwork, with a conforming box, ht. 14 1/4, head dia. to 2 5/8 more ...

  • Bamboo Brush Pot

    Bamboo Brush Pot

    Lot: 200
    Sold for: $677$550

    Bamboo Brush Pot, China, decorated in relief with a continuous Daoist landscape with rocks, bamboo, pine trees, and immortals, signed "Zhu Jun zhi" on body, ht. 5 5/8, mouth rim dia. 4 3/8 in. more ...

  • Huanghuali Bitong Brush Pot

    Huanghuali Bitong Brush Pot

    Lot: 201
    Sold for: $3,567$2,900

    Huanghuali Bitong Brush Pot, China, 19th century, cylindrical,with a slight curve, the fine-grained wood with a warm, honey color, large original plug to bottom, ht. 6 1/4 in. Provenance: more ...

  • Huanghuali Bitong Brush Pot

    Huanghuali Bitong Brush Pot

    Lot: 202
    Sold for: $492$400

    Huanghuali Bitong Brush Pot, China, 19th century, cylindrical, imitating a section of bamboo with four double-lined bands from the rim to the foot, the wood a dark, reddish-brown with a fine grain, more ...

  • Bamboo Holder

    Bamboo Holder

    Lot: 203
    Sold for: $246$200

    Bamboo Holder, China, decorated in relief with a continuous landscape with rocks, trees, water with a bridge, and figures, signed, ht. 6 1/2 in. more ...

  • Wooden Brush Rest

    Wooden Brush Rest

    Lot: 204
    Sold for: $492$400

    Wooden Brush Rest, China, 19th/20th century, possibly zitan, depicting a craggy mountain with five peaks, lg. 5 5/8 in. Provenance: Collection of Christopher and Roberta Bickford more ...

  • Portable Wood Seal Paste Case

    Portable Wood Seal Paste Case

    Lot: 205
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    Portable Wood Seal Paste Case, China, near square with rounded corners, the case decorated with a meander band inlaid in silver around the rim, the cover decorated with an archaic-style chilong and more ...

  • Four Coconut Shell Wine Cups

    Four Coconut Shell Wine Cups

    Lot: 206
    Sold for: $123$100

    Four Coconut Shell Wine Cups, China, 18th/19th century, carved with birds, plum blossoms, pine trees, and scholar's rocks, lined with silvered copper, a double ring carved into the recessed base, more ...

  • Set of Ten Bamboo Cups in a Box

    Set of Ten Bamboo Cups in a Box

    Lot: 207
    Sold for: $5,843$4,750

    Set of Ten Bamboo Cups in a Box, China, 20th century, each wine cup carved with Chinese poems from the Tang and Song dynasties, some signed and dated dingyou year (1957),four Chinese characters "Ya more ...

  • Soapstone Chop

    Soapstone Chop

    Lot: 208
    Sold for: $984$800

    Soapstone Chop, China, near square, surmounted with a carved shishi lion seated with a cub on her back, russet brown stone, with a wood stand, in a conforming box with metal finishing, chop ht. 2 more ...

  • Duan Stone Covered Inkstone

    Duan Stone Covered Inkstone

    Lot: 210
    Unsold  

    Duan Stone Covered Inkstone, China, rock-shape, with undulating outlines, resting on four short feet, decorated with a crane on a shishi dragon carved in cameo style on the cover, a shishi dragon more ...

  • Duan Inkstone and Case

    Duan Inkstone and Case

    Lot: 211
    Sold for: $2,460$2,000

    Duan Inkstone and Case, China, angled gourd-shape, the inkstone, of gray-green stone, decorated with carved dragon design in the well, with an inscription reading "Kangxi nianzhi" on the base, the more ...

  • Inkstone and Box

    Inkstone and Box

    Lot: 212
    Unsold  

    Inkstone and Box, China, 20th century, the rectangular ink stone carved with a poem in seal script above the circular shallow well, with a fitted wooden box carved with a pair of four-character more ...

  • Graphite Brush Rest

    Graphite Brush Rest

    Lot: 213
    Sold for: $246$200

    Graphite Brush Rest, China, in the shape of a scholar's rock, with a conforming lacquered wood stand, stone ht. 5 3/8, wd. 7 3/8 in. more ...