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Oil on panel depicting hens, unsigned, within a gilded frame, alpine painting monogrammed VSL, pencil and charcoal sketch of a still life nude, 12 tiles making up a decorative panel depicting birds and flowers, two Chinese reverse glass paintings in wooden frames, and a watercolour painting of a chair (7)
English painted pink wooden dolls house in the Gothic style with contents, the three storey dolls house with full height double bays each with arched windows and moulded detail, large wooden front door with castellated entrance and border to flat roof and carry handles to each side, the front opens in two wings to five rooms on three floors. Top right Bedroom: with metal bed and wash stand, Gothic style brass chair, side table and parian style doll (lacks one foot). Top left Bedroom: with wooden bed, cradle, soft metal bed and highchair, six various dolls (a.f). Middle floor Salon: with built in fireplace and shelves to either end with an assortment of ceramics, glassware and ornaments, gold metal rocking chair, brass Gothic style chair, various flowers, Chinese drapes and china head doll. Kitchen: two built-in wooden dressers, tinplate stove with a variety of stone and kitchen ware hinged door to Scully with a Bing painted tinplate larder, wooden benches and more, (condition: repainted and restored), 37” (94cm) tall, 30” (76cm) wide, 14 ½” (37cm) deep. Please note: For shipping and collection of this lot after the day of sale please contact Leigh Gotch at C&T auctioneers.
A set of three Chinese Export padouk chairs, circa 1735, after a design by Giles Grendey, each pierced and shaped back with an acanthus and shell carved top rail and a central vase splat, above a leather inset seat, on shell carved cabriole legs and claw on ball feet at the front, each 101cm high, 57cm wide, 56cm deep These chairs represent a fascinating early example of hardwood furniture of Cantonese manufacture made to an English design. As Carl Crossman explains in his The China Trade, this furniture may have been made to special order, perhaps for a member of the British East India Company posted in China or on Macao, another company outpost. The fact that furniture of this type and early date is a rarity, is supported by the Company's ledgers which only lists a few dozen pieces per year during the 1720's and 1730's. The current chairs also very likely formed part of a larger set. Other side chairs of this model have previously been sold: Christie's, New York, 21 October 1999, lot 174 (a single, $32,200); Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 4 April 1970, lot 149 (a single). In more recent times, a closely related single armchair was sold Christie’s New York, Two Distinguished American Collections, 4-5th March 2014, lot 520 (20,000). Other similar examples are illustrated in C.L. Crossman, op.cit., Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1991, pp. 231 and 233, pl. 83-85. The chair pattern directly copies an English prototype of the same date which can be attributed to the workshop of cabinet-maker Giles Grendey. A walnut armchair related to this design from the Percival Griffiths Collection, is illustrated in R.W. Symonds, English Furniture From Charles II to George II, 1929, p.149, fig. 95, later sold from the collection of Frank Crozer Knowles, Christie's New York, 22 October 1988, lot 243 ($220,000). For further related examples of Chinese Export chairs made to English designs and a discussion thereof, including a set of chairs made for Matthew Decker, a Director of the East India Company (1713-1743), see Adam Bowett, Early Georgian Furniture 1715-1740, Antique Collectors Club, 2009, pages 47-50. Please note: These chairs possibly incorporate Huang huali (wood).
BLACK JAPANNED CARLTON HOUSE DESK AND CHAIR 20TH CENTURY the superstructure with an arrangement of short drawers, cupboard doors and sloped compartments, above three short frieze drawers, raised on square tapered legs with spade feet, decorated throughout with Chinese figures, pavilions, and dragons; the chair similarly decorated (2) Desk: 122cm wide, 101cm high, 16cm deep; Chair 98cm high
A 19th century Chinese hardwood official's chair, with 'Shou' symbol splat back, 65cm wide x 96cm high. Provenance; property from the late Sir David Tang This lot has been imported from outside the UK for sale under the temporary admission scheme. Additionally Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer's premium but will not be shown separately on the invoice.
A Chinese Taoist bronze model of the Jade Emperor, typically designed seated in a huanghuali type chair and grasping a panel of jade, 23.5cm high with a similar model on a ogee plinth base, 25cm high, and a bronze Ming warrior, modelled seated, 21cm high (3) (at fault) CONDITION REPORT: Seated Jade emperor on ogee base- Reverse of figure extensively split and showing losses (see images). Hollow interior with casting remanent's. Body with splits and pierced holes. Grubby surface and commensurate wear. Right foot of base repaired. Other seated Jade emperor- Casting hole to reverse of figure. Hollow underside but filled top section. Some splitting and piercing to the body. Right hand side spindles and arm of chair missing. Tips of fingers broken. Lacking one side finial to head piece. A detachable wooden block has been placed to the underside of the figure in order for it to stand on a surface. Ming warrior- Appears slightly crude when compared to the other figures. Split section to dress between legs and further smaller splits. No obvious losses. The reverse of the base is rough and crude. Commensurate wear visible. See additional images for clarification.
Group of Chinese and Indian items to include a 20th century Indian painting of dancers in a garden setting with peacocks and palace beyond, 30.5cm x 21.5cm, two Chinese hard stone chops surmounted with dragons, each approximately 7cm high, a Chinese blue and white vase decorated with three figures in a garden, cut and mounted in white metal, 20.5cm wide and an Indian carved wood chair with brass and metal overlaid decoration, 102cm high,
A Chinese carved hardwood throne chair, early 20th CenturyThe shaped back carved with an openwork fiery dragon above a panel similarly carved and flanked by two armrests, both terminating in a carved dragon mask above a serpentine board seat and a conforming carved frieze, raised upon dragon mask carved front legs with scroll toes and plain outswept rear legs, 116cm high.
A Chinese carved hardwood throne chair, early 20th CenturyThe impressive carved back with an openwork fiery dragon above a shaped panel also carved with a dragon and enclosed by two arms, each terminating in a dragon mask above a serpentine board seat with a flower head and reed carved frieze, raised upon front legs carved with reeds and flower heads, upon scrolled toes with plain outswept rear legs, 122cm high.
A good Chinese Canton carved ivory card case, 19th century, finely carved throughout with figures, a boat, a seated noblewoman in a wheeled chair and pagodas amidst trees, flowering shrubs and flowers, the lower corners carved with pairs of peaches, pull-off cover, containing a folded piece of pink laid paper with stamped Mandarin seal, the paper inscribed 'Mandarin of Chung Chou', 4½ x 3in. (11.5 x 7.6cm.).* Condition: - Case: Very good condition, with no faults. - Paper: Tiny hole and folded in three.
A set of three George III chestnut 'cockpen' armchairs, circa 1800, in the 'Chinese Chippendale' taste, each moulded rectangular back and arms with trellis supports, each caned drop in seat above square section moulded legs surmounted by pierced corner brackets Provenance: By repute Courteenhall House, Northamptonshire.This type of ‘Cockpen’ chair, influenced by Chinese design, relates to a 'garden seat' pattern illustrated in the architect Charles Over's Ornamental Architecture in the Gothic , Chinese and Modern Taste, 1758 (pl. 9). In the 18th Century, this pattern may have been that referred to as 'diamond back' in an invoice for 15 'Mahogany chairs diamond backs' sent in 1761 to William, 5th Earl of Dumfries by the Edinburgh wright Alexander Peter (S. Pryke 'Cockpen Quest' Country Life 29 April 1993, pp.80-81)
A collection of Chinese silver menu/place card holders, to include one in the form of a dragon by Wang Hing, Chinese characters by Wang Hing and other makers, a filligree chair, a pierced dragon screen, a filligree sedan chair with character marks, a model of a barrow marked CS and a Torii gate (10)

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