Early ceramics | Blue & white | Monochrome & Polychrome | Chinese works of art | Classical Chinese paintings | Chinese Contemporary and Modern Art | Japanese ceramics/works of art/paintings | Netsuke/inro       Fine neolithic black pottery stemcup Longshan Culture, Shandong province, 3rd millennium B.C. Very thinly potted, the steep-sided cup resting on a narrow stem with large cylindrical knop pierced with five rows of vertical slits, 20,6 cm Sold at Sotheby's London, 7th December 1993,lot no. 116       Rare neolithic pottery tripod ewer, li gui Longshan Culture, 3rd millennium B.C. the globular body resting on three legs and encircled by a rope-twist band, the tall cylindrical neck joined to the body with a broad strap handle and rising to the flared mouth to form a long spout, the speckled body buffed to a gentle sheen 33,5 cm Sold at Sotheby's London, 7th December 1993, lot no. 117       Two brown-glazed pottery vases, Hu Han dynasty Each encircled on the body with grooved borders and moulded with taotie mask handles, 33 and 34 cm       Green-glazed pottery ladle Han dynasty Moulded with a band of stylised waves, the green glaze with areas of iridiscence Length 13 cm       Two painted pottery ladles Han dynasty Each handle terminating in a dragonŐs head finial, painted in black and red pigment. Length 25 and 12 cm       Two painted grey pottery figures of soldiers Han dynasty Standing wearing black and white wide-sleeved coats over full short trousers and caps with red details, black boots , each with hands lifted and pierced with an aperture as if holding a spear 52 cm       A fine moulded earthenware sancai bowl Tang dynasty The outside moulded with florets on a seeded ground, glazed allover with green, ivory and ochre splashes Diam. 9,5 cm       Large painted pottery figure of a horse Early Tang dynasty Finely modelled, standing foursquare, the halter, chest and rump straps decorated with applied florets and hung with leaf medallions 55 cm SOLD       Two painted pottery figures of soldiers Tang dynasty Each standing with one hand resting on a shield, the other clenched as if to hold a spear, dressed in military armour, with traces of white slip and red pigment 43 and 45 cm       Pair of painted pottery figures of officials Tang dynasty Standing with hands clasped together, wearing long-sleeved tunics and butter- fly-formed hats, remains of red and black pigments and traces of gilding 58 cm       A pair of painted pottery figures of female polo players Tang dynasty Each rider with body in a lively position and arms upwards, the horses standing foursquare, one with head slightly turned to the right, traces of red, black and white pigments Height 36 and 37 cm       Three painted pottery figures of ladies Tang dynasty One pair standing carrying a bag, the other an expecting mother, with remains of red and black pigments 22-24 cm       Jizhou 'Prunus' resist-decorated vase Song dynasty Decorated in wax-resist technique with a prunus branch with brown-painted details, all on a dark brown ground Compare a similar vase illustrated by Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, 1996, pl.102       Small Longquan celadon square dish, Yuan dynasty Moulded with a square panel of a deer, the everted sides with cartouches enclosing a single character forming the rebus tian lu zhi mei, 9,5 cm An almost identical dish is illustrated by Medley, Yuan Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1974, pl. 68A. A similar dish was sold in Christie's New York , 23 March 1995, lot 353       Longquan celadon saucer dish Ming dynasty Of shallow form with barbed rim, carved in the centre and everted rim with floral designs 12,5 cm       Two Longquan celadon vases Yuan/Ming dynasty one pear-shaped with fixed double ring handles, the other of kinuta shape 16 and 13,5 cm       Small moulded yingqing vase Song dynasty Moulded with two bands of flowers, the tall neck with six- lobed flared flower- shaped mouth, the domed foot with further moulded petal border, all under a light blue glaze, 14,1 cm Sold at Sotheby's London, 7th December 1993, lot no. 194. A very similar vase waw included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition: An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1980, Catalogue, no. 50       Rare Yingqing flattened circular ewer Yuan dynasty Moulded on each side with a large cash-shaped panel enclosing a flowerhead below a petal-shaped border, all below a border of bosses, under a translucent bluish-white glaze, 12 cm high Provenance: Marchant & Son, London       Yingqing tripod censer Song dynasty the U-shaped body with everted rim supported by three dragon and claw feet covered with an even translucent bluish-white glaze, 8,5 cm high       Painted Cizhou jar Song dynasty Of slender ovoid shape, applied with four ribbed strap handles around the short neck and painted in dark chocolate brown slip with freely drawn leaves divided by multiple bands 25 cm high       Painted Jizhou box and cover Song dynasty Painted in iron-brown on the creamy white ground wit a flower head below circular bands SOLD       A rare gilt-decorated Jizhou bowl Southern Song dynasty (13th century) Painted in gilt with four cloud-shaped panels of auspicious characters surrounded by radiating lines on a dark brown ground Sold at Christie's Amsterdam A very similar bowl is illustrated in the Catalogue of the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath , Inaugural Exhibition, Volume 1 Chinese Ceramics, 1993, no 115. SOLD       A rare marbled bowl Song dynasty The curved sides rising from a rounded base, finely potted with cream and dark brown clays creating a radiating feathered pattern encircling a flowerlike centre, covered inside and out with a transparent ivory glaze Diam. 10,5 cm         A russet-splashed cizhou bowl Song dynasty Shallow form with wide spreading sides, covered inside and out with a lustrous black glaze attractively splashed in russet and stopping neatly above the short slightly waisted foot Diam. 13,5 cm         A white-rimmed bowl Northern Song dynasty Conical form, the rim with a white band, covered overall in a deep lustrous brownish-black glaze, with irregular pooling short of the footrim Diam. 11,8 cm       A Henan splashed black-glazed bowl Northern Song dynasty Shallow form with straight sides, the buff stoneware glazed inside and out with a brownis-black glaze splashed with russet vertical stripes, stopping irregularly above the slightly played foot Diam. 10 cm For a similar bowl see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, part 1, no 467       A fine black-glazed bowl Song dynasty of wide flared shape, partly covered with a lustrous brownish-black glaze leaving a star-shaped design on the white slip continuing over the rim to form another star-shape design on the outside covering further white slip falling in an even line with a few drops to expose the buff ware Diam. 15 cm         A 'Jun' tripod censer Yuan dynasty on cabriole legs, the shoulders with upright flared handles, both sides with a purple splash on the sky-blue ground, Japanese pierced silver cover, with Japanese wooden box Height 9 cm Provenance: Japanese collection       A very rare Cizhou painted turquoise-glazed vase Yuan dynasty The pear-shaped body supported on a splayed foot , the body painted in black on the turquoise ground with scrolling flower heads on a striped ground, the sloping shoulders with upright leaves, the long cylindrical neck with freely painted leafy sprays all divided by double or triple border lines, covered allover with a deep turquoise glaze Height 29 cm       Rare iron-brown-splashed Yingqing figure of an official Yuan dynasty Standing wearing long flowing robes, hands clasped together, wearing official's hat and robes highlighted with iron-brown details, 20 cm high An identical figure is in the British Museum and illustrated by Vainker in: Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, p. 126 , London 1991 Compare also similar figures in the Exhibition 'Iron in the Fire', Oriental Ceramic Society, Catalogue, nr 46.