Rapport d'état

H 21,7 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Top rim polished, with a small chip just below it.
- Minor wear to the handles.

H 23,2 - 22,9 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Both covers in very good condition.

- Both jars in good condition. Both with a branching hairline to the bottom (only visible on the outside).

- The top rim of the 'Song Zi' jar with a chip on the inner side (not visible from the outside) and a hardly visible negligible hairline (ca. 1cm).

H 23,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The vase in very good condition, with a negligible glaze line on the inside of the top rim. Negligible glaze losses to the trunk of one of the elephants and baking flaws.

- Top rim most probably slightly retouched.

H 16,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition, with negligible superficial wear and negligible baking flaws. 

Dia.: 34,4  - 30,2 cm

 

Prov.:

- The 'antiquities' charger with a 'Galeries Stampaert' label.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The '100 boys' charger: in good condition, with a negligible glaze chip and a small chip to the underside of the top rim. Some wear.

- The 'antiquities' charger: some wear, a restored chip to the top rim at 11 o'clock and a small restored restored chip to the underside of the rim. 

Dia.: 31,5 - 29,7 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Both dishes in very good condition, with minor superficial wear.

- The rim of the famille rose dish with negligible baking flaws.

 

H 38,2 - 36,4 cm 

Condition: Both appearing in good condition.

H 62,4 - 61,2 cm (both vases with base)

H 58 - 56,9 cm (both vases without base)

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The 'animated landscape' vase in good condition with minor superficial wear, traces of use and a baking-related rim chip to the bottom.

- The 'palace garden' vase in good condition, with minor superficial wear and a branching hairline to the bottom. The neck with a negligible baking error. 

H 57,4 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- One excellent, one with a chip on the rim and a Y-shaped hairline on the base.

H 62,3 - 58 cm (with and without stand)

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Both vases in very good condition with baking flaws, especially to the bottom rims (see additional pictures).

- The right vase with hardly visible and negligible fritting to the top rim.

- One of the stands in very good condition, one restored. 

H 61,3 - 60,9 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Both vases in very good condition with negligible superficial wear.

H 44,1 - 35,6 cm (the tallest and the smallest vase)

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The pair: one excellent, one with a glaze line on the base.
- The single: excellent, but slightly wobbly.

H 25,9 - 15 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The Buddha on the left side in good condition, with some superficial wear. The right feet with a hairline. Some baking flaws (neck of the Buddha and the rim).

- The Buddha on the right side in good condition, with some superficial wear. Minor glaze chips (right feet, right hand, right elbow, left ear).

H  62 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a crack along the base, extending upwards on both sides.
- Losses to the overglaze enamels.

H 29,5 - 29,2 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- One of the vases in good condition; with a negligible baking flaw to the inner top rim and a superficial chip to one of the ears.

- The other vase in good condition, with minor chips to the top and bottom rim.

H 14,8 cm - Dia.: 11,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In good condition, with minor superficial wear and a small 3 mm chip to the top rim. Negligible baking flaws. The body with four star-shaped hairlines, only visible on the inside.

H 21,9 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The set in very good condition.

- One cover excellent, one cover with a negligible chip to the inner rim (not visible from the outside).

- Both jars with negligible chips to the inner rims (not visible from the outside)

H 46 - 35,2 - 29,2 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Rouleau vase on the left: restored rim chip.
- Covered vase in the middle: vase and cover good.
- Vase on the right: small chips and important fritting around the foot.

H 8 cm - Dia.: 17,8 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The bowl in quasi excellent condition, with a short hairline of ca. 4 mm to the rim and small superficial chip to the base rim.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 碗進乎全品，口沿一處約4毫米的衝線和圈足上一個小飛皮。

H 44,7 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
-  A hairline along the upper rim, further related tension lines, otherwise good.

H 20,5 cm 

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition.

H 12,2 - L 14,4 cm (the teapot and cover)

Dia: 23,3 cm (the dish)

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The dish generally in very good to excellent condition, with minor superficial wear and some baking flaws.

- The cover of the teapot with a superficial rim chip of ca. 6 x 2 mm, otherwise in excellent condition. The teapot in excellent condition, with minor superficial wear.

H 13,1 - L 17 cm

 

Condition: (UV-ckecked)

- One quasi excellent with minor wear around the base.

- One in very good condition with minor glaze losses along the rim. 

H 28,3 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition, with a negligible baking flaw at the top of the tree.

H 28,6 - 27,8 cm (the tallest and the smallest hat stand)

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

-  Both 'Buddhist lions' hat stands in good condition, with minor superficial wear and some baking flaws. The hat-stand with the grey-eyed Buddhist lion with minor scratches.

- The hat stand with the birds among blossoming branches: in very good condition, with minor superficial wear and negligible baking flaws to the top rim.

- The fourth hat stand: with a Y-shaped hairline starting 2 cm of the bottom rim running upwards up to the height of the rocks. Minor wear and some scratches; 

 

H 35,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The top rim with a 10 x 4 mm chip, a smaller 4 x 4 mm chip, two small burst glaze bubbles and a vertical firing flaw of 2 cm.

- The body with a vertcal hairline of ca. 11 cm.

H 52 cm - Dia.: 62,5 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Generally in very good condition, with minor superficial wear and some scratch mark.

- With a horizontal mark, ca. 12 cm underneath the top rim, where the phoenix is located.

- A number of small polished glaze bubbles.

- The outer top rim with a superficial chip, probably caused by an impact.

- The inner top rim with a ca. 1 cm glaze line.

 

H 40,7 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
First vase and cover
- The cover in quasi excellent with a small superficial chip to the base rim.
- The vase with six hairlines of ca. 3 cm to the rim.

Second vase and cover
- The cover with a superficial chip to the finial and a tension line of ca. 7 cm on the inside, invisible on the outside.
- The vase with four hairlines of ca. 3 cm and a break reglued of ca. 5 x 3 cm to the rim.
- A star-shaped hairline of ca. 7 cm to the base.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
第一個將軍罐
- 蓋子進乎全品，底邊一個小飛皮。
- 罐子口沿六條約3釐米的衝線。

第二個將軍罐
- 蓋鈕一個飛皮，蓋子內一條約7釐米的衝線，不透。
- 罐子口沿四條約3釐米的衝線和一個已經粘合的約5 x 3釐米的磕崩。
- 罐子炸底約7釐米。

H 20,5 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In excellent condition, with minor superficial wear.

Dia: 23,2 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- 2 in excellent condition.
- 2 with chips on the rim.
- One Samson plate broken and reglued.
- One Samson plate excellent.

H 32,8 cm - Dia.: 35,7 cm 

 

Condition: (UV)checked)

- With losses to the enamel, especially in the light blue areas (top rim and bottom freeze, see additional pictures).

- The body with a hairline of ca. 18 cm (in the middle of the hairline a star-shaped hairline).

H 7,4 cm - Dia.: 20,2 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In good condition, with negligible superficial wear.

H 7,1 cm - Dia.: 16,2 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In good condition, with negligible superficial wear and minor baking flaws.

H 6,6 cm - Dia.: 14,1 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In excellent condition, with negligible superficial wear.

H 6,2 - L 45,5 - D 38,5 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Top dish with superficial wear and a surface pit, otherwise good.
- Basin with a restored section on the outer rim of ca. 10 cm long.

H 16,7 - L 17 cm (the largest teapot)

H 8,6 - L 18,9 cm (the smallest teapot)

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

From left to right:

(1) In very good condition with a negligible superficial chip to the rim (not visible from the outside).

(2) In good condition, with minor wear. The cover with a small baking flaw.

(3) The teapot in good condition with a superficial rim chip. The bottom side of the spout with a negligible chip. Cold-painted cover not original. Some wear.

(4) In general in good condition. The bottom side of the cover with two chips (not visible from the outside). Negligible chip to the spout.

(5) In general in good condition. Cover with a negligible chip, hardly visible. Spout with a very negligible baking flaw. The right side of the branch-shaped medallion with a baking flaw. 

H 39,3 cm

Condition: One handle broken and reglued.

H 20 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.

H 44,3 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The bottom with a star-shaped hairline and overpaint. 

- A negligible baking flaw to the top rim, hardly visible.

- The body with a X-shaped hairline (the middle of the hairline more or less 11 cm above the bottom rim). Only visible from the outside.

H 41,7 - 40,2 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The yenyen vase in good condition, with minor chips to the top rim and some wear. The bottom with hairlines and overpaint.

- The famille rose vase with one of the ears restored. Furthermore in very good condition. 

H 41,7 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In excellent condition, with negligible superficial wear, especially to the gilt decorated top rim.

H 25,2 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.

H 42,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition with a negligible, hardly visible glaze chip to the top rim and a negligible 3mm chip to the bottom rim. 

H 61,1 cm (incl. the mounts)

Condition: Very good, but with the base pierced for use as a lamp.

H 44,7 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a ca. 8 cm hairline to the body, and minor superficial wear.

H 5,9 cm - Dia.: 12 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.

H 9,1 cm - Dia.: 15,8 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.

H 14,3 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The vase in very good condition, with a small scratch on the neck (only visible with UV-light, not with the naked eye).

- The inside of the neck with a baking flaw. 

H 25,8 cm (the vase)

H 19,9 - 19,6 cm (the Buddhist lions)

H 12 cm (the jar and cover)

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The green vase with a restored break, located in the top section of the neck with related overpainting.

- The lioness generally in good condition, with some superficial losses of the glaze. 

- The male lion with numerous glued breaks and retouches.

- The jar generally in good condition, with minor superficial wear, some firing flaws and two very small superficial chips of the unglazed top rim. The cover with a superficial chip from the unglazed inner rim and superficial wear to the enamel glaze.

H 6 cm - Dia.: 12 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.

H 46,3 cm

Condition:
- Numerous small losses to the overglaze enamel throughout.

H 36,5 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- One vase and one cover in excellent condition.
- One vase and one cover each with a small superficial rim chip.

Dia.: 20,5 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.

Dia.: 13,2 - 12,6 cm (the largest and the smallest saucer)

H 7,5 cm - Dia.: 8 cm (the largest cup)

H 7,2 cm - Dia.: 7,7 cm (the smallest cup)

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Two saucers and four cups in excellent condition

- One cup in nearly excellent condition, with a firing flaw.

- One cup in very good condition, with a small superficial rim chip.

- One saucer in nearly excellent condition, with a few negligible burst glaze bubbles.

- One saucer in very good condition, with a number of very small superficial rim chips.

- One saucer with a 2 cm hairline from the rim and a small superficial rim chip.

- One saucer with four hairlines varying from 1 to 2 cm.

 H 18,6 cm

The cover and the jar enamelled with boys at play in a garden and figures riding on a mythical beast (qilin) surrounded by boys playing musical instruments and holding a canopy depicting the auspicious scene of 'qilin delivering another worthy son'.

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cover excellent, with a few negligible superficial flakes to the inner rim.
- The jar good but with a small flake just below the rim.

H 34 cm (with base)

Dia.: 23,6 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in very good condition with some typical minor superficial chips around the rim.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 整體狀況非常良好，玉插屏口沿一圈多處典型小飛皮。

H 20,7 - 16,2 cm (with and without base)

H 20 - 16,4 cm (with and without base)

 Condition: (UV-checked)
- A few natural crack lines throughout.
- Both figures with a few chips to the hands, robes, hairpins and stands.
- Both figures with the head broken and regleud.
- One stand broken and reglued.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 兩個塑像多處自然開裂，手、衣服、髮髻和底座都有飛皮和磕崩。
- 兩個塑像都頭斷，後黏合。
- 一個底座斷，後黏合。

Ref.:

- A similar pair of meiren figures sold at Christie's, New York, Sep. 20, 2005, lot 35 (USD 42.000, link).

H 21,6 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The head of the arhat with restored breaks, with related recouching and reattached to the body. One foot restored, with related overpainting and glued to the leg. The robe of the arhat with a glued chip and some lacking chips.

-The lion with some lacking chips from the extremities. The tails with glued breaks. The two front legs reattached and restored with related retouching.

H 10,2 cm

Weight: 252 g

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The bird of the cover with the tail and wings glued. The tips of both wings missing.

- The vase with a number of retouched area and some natural tension lines.

H 39,5 - L 48,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Both horses in general in good condition, with the usual wear, traces of use and with not to little disturbing very small flaking or minor damage (see additional pictures; the horse on the right side esp. the saddle and the buttock on the back right, the horse on the left side esp. the sides of the saddle). The left horse furthermore missing the crest in the mane.

 

H 37,8 - L 41 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Both incense burners and lids in good condition, with superficial wear, small superficial losses of the enamel and minor impact marks

L 21 - 20,5 cm

Total weight: 712g

 

The mark of the artisan workshop is a 'Tu Yi Sheng' (徐義生) mark, a Shanghai-based workshop. Sing Fat (盛發), the retailer of the set, operated in both Canton and Shanghai in the early 20th C.

The decoration shows a dragon chasing the flaming pearl, a recurrent motif in Chinese art, with the pearl representing the attainment of wisdom, power or immortality.

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Generally in very good condition, with minor superficial wear and normal traces of use. A few mother-of-pearl handles with natural tension lines.

H 13,1 - L 27,8 cm 

Total weight: 504g

 

The teapot most porbably made by a Chinese silversmith operating in either Thailand or Vietnam.

Condition: (UV-checked)

- With minor superficial wear and normal traces of use. The inner rim of the cover slightly deformed.

H 61,3 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The lamp base generally in good condition, with superficial wear and normal traces of use. The pewter pillar with horizontal scratch marks, most likely caused by turning the brass dragon. The top section with a number of breaks of the brass ornament.

H 27,4 cm - Dia.: 37,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The vase with the usual superficial wear. 

- Above the bottom rim a large spot coroded, with some holes in the vase.

- Minor chip to the top rim. 

H 18,5 - L 16 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Generally in very good condition, with normal superficial wear and traces of use.

H 7,3 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Generally in very good condition with normal superficial wear.

- The interior showing some small old pewter repairs.

H 18,7 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Generally in very good condition, with normal superficial wear and traces of lacquer and gilding.

- Between the robe and the base a casting flaw, as visible on the photo.

H 41,7 - 18,8 cm (the tallest and the smallest figure)

Condition:
- Blanc de Chine: small part reglued to the stick in the hands.
- Large wood group: a number of small chips throughout.
- Pair of wood carvings: minor superficial wear.

H 83,5 - L 98,6 - D 48,9 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The side table in general in very good and stable condition, with a nice patina.

- Some traces of use and the usual wear.

- One leg with a small crack in the wood.

H 182,3 - L 326  cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The room divider in general in good condition, with minor wear and traces of use all-over. Minor touch-ups.

- Small missing parts, hardly touching the central scene (especially to the feet, the side borders and the top).

- Small cracks in the lacquerware all-over.

- See additional pictures.

H 119,5 - L 90 - D 64,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In general in good condition, with the usual wear, traces of use and minor restorations. 

- The dragon-shaped roof ornaments most probably renewed. Idem back. 

- Right side of the roof with two small missing parts.

- Carved ornaments intact. 

- The third column starting from the left side with two small missing parts. 

Work: 170,5 x 47 cm

Frame: 191,5 x 67,5 cm

 

Inscribed on the left side of the white falcon bird, just on the margin of the passe-partout: '南岭外叟绘' or 'Painted by the old man on the southern mountain', above a red seal.

 

Condition: (UV-checked) (not inspected out of the frame)
- Two horizontal tears in the upper half.
- A further few minor superficial tears throughout.
- Superficial wear throughout the entire surface: staining, minor superficial losses to the polychromy, superficial discoloration throughout.

The painting: ca. 109,5 x 61 cm 

The scroll: ca. 166,5 x 74,8 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The general appearance of the painting rather good, but with creases and restorations all-over (see additional pictures).

- The scroll with minor spots and traces of use.

The painting: ca. 232 x 39 cm

The scroll: 671 x 43 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition, with negligible to minor signs of paper aging, such as yellow spots.

- The right part of the scroll (signature on the yellow ground) with some minor creases.

The painting: ca. 140 x 33,5 cm

The scroll: 168,2 x 48,2 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In perfect condition, with minor signs of paper aging, such as yellow spots.

The painting: ca. 135,5 x 34 cm

The scroll: 229 x 49,5 cm 

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In good condition, with staining, especially at the ends and the side edges, barely in the painting.

- With minor wear, some traces of use and some dirt (e.g. right top corner of the painting).

The painting: ca. 69 x 64 cm 

The scroll: 183 x 73,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition, with minor superficial wear and some negligible traces of use. 

Work: ca. 78,2 x 28,5 cm

Frame: ca. 89,5 x 39,4 cm 

Condition:
- Numerous creases throughout, as well as a number of tears. Please refer to the additional images.

Work: 36,6 x 22,4 cm

Frame: 38,8 x 24,6 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Generally in very good condition, with normal superficial wear and some spots of discoloration.

- The frame with visible scratch marks.

Work: ca. 78 x 42,5 cm

Frame: 100,7 x 73 cm

Condition:
- The left one with a number of horizontal folds or crease lines, otherwise fairly well preserved.
- The right one with normal minor wear.

Oblong. 

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Spine and cover with minor wear and minor traces of use. 

- The binding of the book comes loose, as a consequence some loose pages.

- Negligible traces of use, one page with a tear. 

249,5 x 170 cm 

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The pictorial animal rug in good condition, with the normal superficial wear.
- Needs some cleaning.
- The fringes at one side shortened. 

H 28,2 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The top rim with a ca. 10 cm hairline that runs downwards with related overspraying.

- Some baking flaws and minor superficial wear.

H 66,1 cm (incl. the mounts)

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The vase in very good condition with a drilled hole to the base.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 花瓶底打洞。

H 22,3 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- A few spots of glaze loss and superficial chips around the lower rim and base rim.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 花瓶下側邊沿和底邊多處飛皮和剝釉。

H 29 - 28,7 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The bottle on the left with minor superficial firing flaws. One side with three superficial chips underneath the green glaze. A hairline across the bottom running 2 and 7 cm upwards at both ends.

- The other bottle in nearly excellent condition, with minor superficial firing flaws and wear.

 

H 15,5 cm - Dia.: 11,5 cm 

 

Ref.:

- See Christie's, Amsterdam, June 14, 2007, Lot 273, for a Dutch silver beaker of this type (link)

Condition: (UV-checked)

- One restored break with related extensive overpainting.

Dia.: 24 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- All five plates with some superficial rim chips and superficial glaze loss from the rim.
- Two plates with each a hairline of ca. 5 cm.

Dia.: 23 - 22,2 cm  

Condition: (UV-checked)
- All eight plates with rim chips and losses of the glaze from the rim.
- Two plates with each a hairline of ca. 5 cm.

H 8,8 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The left vase with two very small superficial chips of ca. 1 mm from the foot rim.

- The other vase with some superficial baking flaws and a very small superficial 1 mm chip from the foot rim.

H 11,3 cm - Dia.: 23,2 cm

H 11,1 cm - Dia.: 23 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both bowls with a few superficial chips and spots of glaze loss to the rim.
- One bowl with three hairlines of ca. 3 cm to the rim.
品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 兩個碗口沿多處飛皮和剝釉。
- 其中一個口沿三條衝線。

Dia.: 36,2 cm 

Condition:
- A reglued rim section and a ca. 5 cm hairline.
- Small chips and fritting on the rim.

H 10,5 cm - Dia.: 21,5 cm (the largest bowl)

H 7 cm - Dia.: 15 cm (the smallest bowl)

Condition: (UV-checked) (from left to right, 1st photo)

1) In excellent condition, with minor superficial wear.

2) With a 5,5 cm hairline and a 6 cm hairline running down from the rim.

3) The rim with a number of restored superficial chips and a section of 7 x 3 cm broken out en restored, with minor related retouching.

4) With a number of small superficial rim chips and minor superficial wear.

5) Three hairlines of 2, 2,5 and 3 cm and minor superficial wear.

H 8,2 cm - Dia.: 11,3 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- With normal superficial wear and minor superficial firing flaws, otherwise in excellent condition.

H 26,5 - 5,3 cm (the tallest and the smallest item)

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The smallest jar with a superficial chip to the rim, a arc tension line to the base rim and a star-shaped glaze line on the inside, invisible on the outside.
- The small jar in excellent condition.
- The pair of 'Bingmei' jar in excellent condition.
- The dragon vase with a horizontal baking line of ca. 6 mm in the middle and a few typical superficial chips to the base rim.
- The phonix vase in excellent condition.
- The flower vase with silver mount with a few chips and spots of glaze loss above the base rim.
- The 'Gu' vase with three drille holes to the base and neck, two refilled chips to the rim, the top part broken and reglued.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 小水盂口沿飛皮，圈足一個重皮，內一個雞爪不透。
- 小罐子全品。
- 一對冰梅罐子全品。
- 龍紋花瓶中間一條約6毫米的窯線，圈足幾處典型的飛皮。
- 鳳紋花瓶全品。
- 銀鑲口花瓶底邊一圈飛皮剝釉。
- 花觚脖子斷裂後粘合， 口沿兩處修補的飛皮，脖子兩處打洞，底打洞。

H 4,6 cm - Dia.: 9,3 cm (each bowl)

Dia.: 19,4 - 13,4 cm (the largest and the smallest plate)

Condition: (UV-checked)
- One shipwreck bowl with three hairlines.
- One shipwreck bowl in very good condition.
- The cup stand with a 3 cm hairline and a number of small rim chips.
- The dish with three cranes with a hairline to the center and a baking flaw on the rim.
- The Swatow dish in good condition.

Dia.: 47 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- A restored break across, with related overpainting and overspraying. The break is situated between 9 and 3 o'clock.

H 8,9 cm - Dia.: 27,1 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Some typical baking flaws throughout.
- Some superficial chips and a hairline to the rim.
- A superficial chip to one leg.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 爐身多處典型縮釉，爆釉。
- 口沿多處飛皮和一條衝線。
- 一條足有一個磕崩。

Dia.: 38 cm

 

The decoration shows dragons chasing the flaming pearl, a recurrent motif in Chinese art, with the pearl representing the attainment of wisdom, power or immortality.

Condition: (UV-checked)

- With baking flaws and crazing of the glaze throughout with some discoloration.

- The rim between 1 and 2 o'clock an area of ca. 8 x 4 cm restored, with related overpainting.

H 6,1 - 5,6 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The left vase generally in very good condition, with minor superficial firing flaws. The bottom on the interior with some glaze lines, invisible from the exterior.

- The other vase with a burst glaze bubble just under the top rim and a number of superficial chips of the foot rim, otherwise in excellent condition.

H 9,7 cm - Dia.: 22 cm (the B/W bowl)

H 6 cm - Dia.: 12,2 cm (the monochrome bowls)

Condition: (UV-checked)
- All three in good condition with minor fritting on the rim.

Dia.: 20,8 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- With baking flaws and fritting on the rim, otherwise good.

Dia.:  23,1 - 19,5 cm (the largest and the smallest dish)

H 4,3 cm - Dia.: 14,1 cm (the bowl) 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The largest 'deer' plate with a few superficial chips to the rim.
- The 'dragon' plate with some short hairlines of ca. 2-4 mm to the rim and the rim polished.
- The 'cloud and crane' plate in excellent condition.
- The 'flower and bird' plate with four hairlines and a break reglued to the rim.
- The 'phonix' plate with a few small superficial chips to the rim.
- The 'cabbage' saucer with a few typical glaze loss to the rim.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 鹿盤口沿多處飛皮。
- 龍紋盤口沿多處短小衝線，磨口。
- 雲鶴盤全品。
- 花鳥盤口上四條衝線和一處破裂。
- 鳳紋盤口沿多處飛皮。
- 白菜盤口沿多處典型剝釉。

H 24,7 cm (with base and cover)

H 21,4 cm (the jar)

Condition: (UV-checked)

- A vertical hairline of ca. 12 cm.

- A star-shaped glaze line on the interior, invisible from the outside

- A horizontal ca. 4 cm glaze line, only visible from the exterior

- A number of glaze lines on the interior, which a partly visible from the exterior.

- The bottom with firing flaws and one of which glaze bubble burst.

- The cover and stand in good condition, with minor superficial wear

Dia.: 23,7 - 23,3 cm (the largest and the smallest plate)

Condition: (UV-checked)
- One plate with a minor superficial chip to the rim.
- Two plate with a few superficial chips to the rim.
- One plate with a hairline of ca. 15 cm.
- One plate with a few superficial chips and a hairline of ca. 3 cm to the rim.
- One plate with a star-shaped hairline of ca. 10 cm in the middle.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 一個盤子口沿一個小飛皮。
- 兩個盤子口沿多個飛皮。
- 一個盤子口沿一條約15cm的衝線。
- 一個盤子口沿多處飛皮和一條約3釐米的衝線。
- 一個盤子炸底約10釐米。

H 18,5 - 16,1 cm (the tallest and the smallest figure)

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Two lady figures with a few minor superficial chips and short baking lines.
- One lady figure with a few retouchings and superficial chips to the ear, hands and corner of the stand.
- The scholar holding a boy figure with a few superficial chips and retouchings to the hands and a glaze line above the stand.
- The three celadon scholar figures with a few superficial chips, retouchings and hairlines to the hands, necks and feet.
- The couple figure with a few superficial chips, retouchings and hairlines to the hands, necks and stand.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 兩個女性塑像有幾處小飛皮和驚釉。
- 一個女性塑像在手指，耳垂和底座上有飛皮，磕崩和修復。
- 抱子男性塑像在雙手上有飛皮和修復痕跡，褲子上有驚釉。
- 三個青釉學者塑像在雙手，脖子和腳上都有飛皮，修復和衝線。
- 夫妻塑像在雙手，脖子和腳上都有飛皮，修復和衝線。

H 7,4 cm (the butter tub on stand)

L 16,6 - D 13,5 cm (the stand)

H 6,4 - L 12,6 - D 9,7 cm (the butter tub)

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The butter tub on stand in very good condition, with the usual negligible and minor baking flaws.

- The cover with a hardly visible negligible superficial (glaze) chip at 2 o'clock (ca. 2 mm).

H 22,7 cm - Dia.: 32,4 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Generally in very good to excellent condition, with minor superficial wear and firing flaws.

H 41,5 - 40,5 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The later cover of the left vase with a restored chip of ca. 2 x 1 cm with related retouching.
- The left vase with the half of the circumference of the neck restored, the exact extent of the restoration hard to determine.

- The later cover of the right vase with a restored chip and and a section of the rim of ca 12 x 3 cm restored.
- The other vase with a hairline from the top rim running towards the middle of the vase. Another 5 cm Y-shaped hairline from the top rim running down. Almost the half of the circumference of the neck restored, the exact extent of the restoration hard to determine.

H 17 - L 13,2 cm (the jug)

H 12,4 -L 14,5 cm (the covered bowl)

H 11,2 - L 16 cm (the largest teapot)

H 10,3 - L 15,3 cm (the smallest teapot)

 

Condition: (UV-checked) (from left to right, 1st photo)

- The teapot with the spout broken of and glued. The cover in excellent condition.

- The finial of the cover with glaze loss. The teapot with a horizontal hairline of ca. 10 cm just above the foot. The tip of the spout with some glaze loss.

- The bowl with a 6 cm hairline and some glaze lines. The interior with extensive firing flaws. The cover generally in good condition, with a number of superficial chips of the unglazed rim.

- The ewer generally in good condition, with minor superficial wear and glaze loss of the handle. The cover with a chip from the underside of the rim. The silver mount with a glued break, where it meets the cover.

- The teapot with the handle broken of and reattached to the body. With a number of retouched chips and burst glaze bubbles.

H 12,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The figure in general in good condition, with the usual superficial wear and minor damage to the base.

H 16,4 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The sculpture in good condition, with the normal superficial wear. Minor damage to the base.

L 19,9 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- In good condition with typical inclusions to the stone.

H 16,2 - L 16,8 cm 

 

Ref.:

- Quite similar stirrups can be found in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no. 2007.181 (link) and acc. no. 2007.182 (link).

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Both stirrups in good condition, with wear and minor traces of use.

H 44,4 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The sculpture in very good condition, with the usual superficial wear. One small missing piece to the tiara.

H 50,5 cm 

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The figure in very good condition, with the normal superficial wear.

- Small chip to the underside of the bottom rim and minor casting flaws.

H 85,5 cm (the pedestals with jardinière)

H 58,6 cm (the pedestals without jardinière)

L 58 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- One jardinière with four hairlines, some firing flaws a few superfial chips.

- The other jardinière with some firing flaws, a chip of ca. 9 x 3 cm of the underside of the top rim and a few small chips from the foot.

- Both pedestals with superficial wear, firing flaws and a few superficial chips.

H 30 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- In good condition with minor superficial wear.

H 24,6 - 6,9 cm (the tallest and the smallest figure) 

L 11,3 cm (the vajra)

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The tallest: excellent.
- Second tallest: superficial encrustation, head broken off and restuck, damage to the base.
- Third tallest: casting flaws, damage to base.
- Fourth tallest: casting flaws, minor damages.
- Smallest: good.
- Vajra: good.

H 31,5 - 41,8 cm (with and without base)

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In general in very good condition, with typical small superficial chips and negligible wear and traces of use.

H 24 - 21 cm

 

Both vases come with their tomobako (original wooden storage box).

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Both vases in excellent condition with minor superficial wear of the feet.

H 8,7 cm - 8 cm (each inro)

H 10,5 cm (the figure)

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The Buddha figure: in good condition, with minor superficial wear and small chips to the bottrom rim. Usual small cracks in the wood.

- The inro: the wood with three small cracks starting from the bottom rim running upwards, the top medallion most probably replaced. Some superficial wear.

- The gilt lacquered inro: some chips and wear to the gilt lacquered decoration all-over.

H 76,9 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- With losses and wear of the lacquer, as visible on the photos.

- The applied dragon with losses of the extremities, mainly around the head and paws. The tail with a large missing chip from the underside. A number of tension/glaze lines through the dragon.

H 22,3 - 6,4 cm (the tallest and the smallest item)

Condition: (UV-checked) 

- All in excellent condition, with minor superficial wear to the gilded and overglaze design.

Dia.: 27 cm

 

In 1734, the Dutch East India Company commissioned Cornelis Pronk to produce designs for a set of China plates. This porcelain, so-called Chine de commande, was produced in China, then shipped to Europe and sold there. Pronk made four different designs, of which 'The Parasol Ladies' was most popular. The Dutch East India Company ended the deal in 1740 because the production and shipping from China proved too costly. The original watercolour for the design is now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (link). The design was quickly adopted on Japanese porcelain.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In nearly excellent condition, with minor superficial wear. The rim between 1 and 2 o'clock with a superficial negligible firing flaw.

H 20,9 - L 14,3 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The base in good condition, with minor superficial wear.

- The trunk of the elephant broken an restored, a small hairline on the right back leg of the elephant, one of the front legs with a baking flaw.

- The saddle broken and restored, with overpaint, and a small chip to the left top of the mask.

H 7,7 - L 29,5 - D 22,9 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The bowl on foot in very good condition with the usual minor superficial wear, especially to the gilt border. 

- A normal negligible baking flaw at 10 o'clock. 

Dia.: 37,7 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition with minor superficial wear.

H 22,3 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The vase with the birds among blossoming branches: the bottom rim with glaze chips and a hairline running from the top to the shoulder (ca. 3 cm). Negligible baking flaws. 

- The vase with the butterflies among blossoming branches: the top rim with a negligible glaze chip and a minor chip. Negligible baking flaws.

H 6,2 - L 24 - D 23,9 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The bowl on foot in very good condition with the usual superficial wear and minor losses to the enamels.

H 56,6 - 56,2 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- One vase with two vertical hairlines of ca. 10 cm to the rim and a glaze line of ca. 20 cm in the middle on the inside, invisible on the outside.
- Another with one vertical hairline of ca. 10 cm to the rim and a hairline of ca. 30 cm in the middle.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 一個花瓶口沿兩條垂直的約10釐米的衝線，炸肚約20釐米（不透）。
- 另一個花瓶口沿一條垂直的約10釐米的衝線，炸肚約30釐米（透），耳上一個磕崩。

H 4,6 cm - Dia.: 9,1 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 全品。

H 46 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Chip to the tail of one lion handle.
- Hairline to the base.
- Small chip on the rim.

H 7 cm - Dia.: 13,4 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.
品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 全品。

H 45,4 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 全品。

H 7,2 cm - Dia.: 16,5 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In excellent condition, with minor superficial firing flaws.

H 9,7 - L 17,3 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Teapot and cover both in excellent condition.

H 13,8 - L 15,8 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Teapot with a repaired section to the rim.
- Cover with the finial restored.

H 92 - 91 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Both vases with firing flaws and some areas of glaze loss.

- The left vase with various glued breaks of the neck and some related retouching.

- The other vase with various glued breaks of a section of the top rim and some missing pieces. 

H 48,6 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 全品。

H 37,4 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.

H 28,7 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- A hairline to the base.
- A few small chips to the reticulated panels.

H 20,9 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.

H 15 cm - Dia.: 19,1 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent, with a few baking points around the inner rim.

Dia.: 21,9 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.
品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 全品。

Dia.: 18,2 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Three short tight hairlines of ca. 3 mm to the rim.
品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 盤子口沿三條約3毫米的衝線。

Dia.: 26,9 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Three plates with a few superficial chips to the rim.
- Three plates with a few superficial chips and a hairline of ca. 2-3 cm to the rim.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 三個盤子口沿多個飛皮。
- 三個盤子口沿多處飛皮和一條約2至3釐米的衝線。

H 18 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Three hairlines and a circular tension line to the rim.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 瓶口三條衝線，一個重皮。

61,1 x 41 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The plaque in very good condition with some superfical dirt and negligible fritting to the borders. 

H 43 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- In quasi excellent condition with two small superficial chips to the rim.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 進乎全品，口沿兩處飛皮。

H 45,5 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The bottom with a star-shaped hairline, only visible from the outside, and a baking flaw.

-The body with a vertical hairline of ca. 18 cm, only visible on the inside.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 花瓶炸底15釐米，不透。
- 花瓶炸肚18釐米，不透。

H 57,9 - 57 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 一對全品。

 

H 30,2 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition.
品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 一對全品。

H 57,8 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In nearly excellent condition, with minor superficial wear and some firing flaws.

- The top rim with a tight hairline which is 2 mm visible on the top side and 1 cm from the underside.

H 58 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Generally in very good condition, with minor superficial wear and some losses of the enamel design, mainly the white enamel.

- The underside of the top rim with a small superficial chip of ca. 4 x 4 mm and another smaller ca. 2 x 2 mm chip.

H 43 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The cover with a few superficial chips and a circular tension line of ca. 3 x 2 cm to the rim.
- The vase with some superficial crazing throughout.
- The vase with a small superficial chip to the rim and some spots of glaze loss above the base rim.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 蓋子口沿下方幾處飛皮，上方一個約3 x 2釐米的重皮。
- 罐子多處驚釉。
- 罐子口沿內側一個小飛皮，底邊多處剝釉。

H 24,5 cm (the Nanking jar and cover)

H 17,2 cm (the famille rose jardinière)

H 13,2 cm - Dia.: 26,1 cm (the qianjiang cai tureen and cover)

H 9,5 - L 16,8 cm (the iron-red teapot)  

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The large bowl on the far left: excellent.
- The covered jar (second from left): cover broken and reglued, jar excellent.
- The teapot: small chip to the tip of the spout, cover broken and reglued.
- The qianjiang cai covered tureen: cover excellent, tureen with a superficial glaze flake on the underside of the bowl.

 

H 47 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The top rim with a number of chips and glaze losses.

- One rim chip with four related short hairlines running downwards.

H 9,5 cm - Dia: 21,3 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent, with some spots glaze crawling.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 全品，幾處縮釉。

H 34,6 cm - Dia.: 40,5 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- A few baking flaws throughout.
- A star-shaped hairline of ca. 10 cm above the base rim.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 幾處窯傷，窯粘。
- 缸下面位置一個三角衝，約10釐米。

H 28,8 - L 33,5 - D 23,5 cm (the tureen and cover)

H 4,1 - L 36,5 - D 28,5 cm (the stand)

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The stand with a small reglued glaze flake on the rim.
- The cover in good condition with minor superficial wear.
- The tureen in good condition with minor superficial wear.

H 17,4 - 11,6 cm (with and without handle)

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The porcelain in very good to excellent condition, with minor superficial wear. 

- The metal mounts with minor superficial wear.

H 52 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Generally in good condition, with minor superficial wear and some firing flaws.

- One missing foot.

- A number of small superficial chips from the rim of the underside of the robe.

- The sleeve of the arm holding the ruyi scepter with a firing flaw, with a related ca. 8 cm hairline. The edge of the sleeve just under de hand another firing flaw with a related 1 cm hairline.

- Two tips of the tassels of the scarf missing.

Dia: 30,9 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In excellent condition.

H 58,5 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Good, but with a ca. 10 cm hairline running down from the rim.

Dia.: 23,7 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both plates with normal superficial wear, some firing flaws and a minor small superficial rim chips.

H 23,4 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Excellent.

H 44,4 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- A drilled hole to the base.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 花瓶底打洞。

The decoration shows a dragon chasing the flaming pearl, a recurrent motif in Chinese art, with the pearl representing the attainment of wisdom, power or immortality.

H 32,4 - 32 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both covers with a chip on the underside of the rim.
- One vase with a tension line on the upper rim and one on the inside of the neck.
- One vase excellent.

H 12,1 cm

The decoration shows dragons chasing the flaming pearl, a recurrent motif in Chinese art, with the pearl representing the attainment of wisdom, power or immortality.

Condition: (UV-checked) 

- The left jar in excellent condition, with normal superficial wear.

- The other jar in nearly excellent condition, with a superficial 2 mm chip of the top rim.

H 45 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
First vase:
- One baking flaw on the foot rim.
- A star-shaped glaze line of ca. 4 cm in the middle of vase.

Second vase:
- Excellent.

H 26,4 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Some wear to the overglazed enamel design.
- Two superficial chips to the inner rim.
- One superficial chip and a section retouched of ca. 6 x 1 cm to the base rim.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 傷彩。
- 内口沿兩個飛皮。
- 底足一個飛皮和一處約6 x 1釐米的修復。

Dia.: 20,1 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Both in excellent condition.

H 31,2 - 27,3 cm (with and without base)

 

The opposite side decorated with birds among blossoming branches. 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The edges with some superficial small chips, firing flaws and burst glaze bubbles, as visible on the photos.

- The wooden stand generally in very good condition, with normal superficial wear.

H 60,7 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- A repair to the upper part of one of the handles, otherwise excellent.

H 39,9 - 39,5 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
First vase and cover
- The cover with a break reglued of ca. 5 x 3 cm to the rim.
- The vase with a star-shaped glaze line of ca. 6 cm to the base on the inside, invisible on the outside.

Second vase and cover
- Excellent.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
第一個將軍罐
- 蓋子磕崩，後修復。
- 罐子底部炸底，不透。

第二個將軍罐
- 全品。

H 33,8 cm (incl. the stand)

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The vase in good condition with glaze cracks all over the body. Minor superficial wear. 

- Not drilled. 

Dia.: 35,5 cm (the charger)

Dia.: 27 cm (the plates)

Condition: (UV-checked)
- One small plate with two hairlines and a few superficial chips to the rim.
- Another small plate with a few superficial chips to the rim.
- The large plate with a hairline of ca. 15 cm in the middle and some typical superficial chips and glaze loss around the rim.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 一個小號盤子口沿幾處飛皮和兩條衝線。
- 另一個小號盤子口沿幾處飛皮。
- 大號盤子炸底約15釐米，口沿飛皮剝釉一圈。

H 12,6 cm - Dia.: 10,7 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Generally in good condition, with minor superficial wear and firing flaws. 

- The outer foot rim with five superficial chips of various dimensions and losses of the glaze.

- The centre of the bottom with a firing flaw, with related glaze lines, which are invisible from the interior.

Dia.: 22,5 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Generally in good condition, with minor superficial wear and some firing flaws.

- Around 1 o'clock a 1 cm glaze line, invisible from the backside.

- Another 1,5 cm glaze line around 2 o'clock, as well invisible from the backside.

Dia.: 23,9 cm 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The left plate with a number of superficial rim chips, a few are retouched. A restored c-shaped hairline around 7 o'clock running towards 8 o'clock, with related overpainting. The centre of the plate with a number of hairlines restored with extensive overpainting on the front and backside.

- The other plate generally in good condition, with minor superficial wear. The rim with numerous small superficial chips on the front and backside.

H 13,1 cm - Dia.: 10 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)

- With minor superficial wear and some losses of the enamel design.

- The inner top rim with a superficial 2 x 0,8 cm chip and  a circular tension line caused by an impact.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 筒身部分傷彩。
- 口沿一個磕崩約2 x 0.8cm和一個重皮。

H 7 - L 12,3 cm (the largest teapot) 

H 6,8 - L 9,7 cm (the smallest teapot)

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The teapot and cover on the right side in very good condition.

- The teapot and cover on the left side: a chip and some fritting to the inner rim of the cover (not visible from the outside). The teapot with negligible chips to the top rim, negligible baking flaws to the bottom and minor wear. 

- The teapot and cover in the middle: in good condition, with negligible fritting (to the tip of the spout and the inner rim). Faint circular hairline through the handle. 

H 8,2 cm - Dia.: 17,7 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- One bowl with a hairline of ca. 15 cm extending downwards from the rim to the base, with related overpainting and overspraying.
- Another bowl with a break restored of ca. 7 x 4 cm to the rim, with related overpainting and overspraying.

品相報告：（已用紫外線光檢查）
- 一個碗口沿一條約15釐米的衝線，從口沿一直到碗底，UV光下可見相關聯的復繪和噴繪痕跡。
- 另一只碗口沿一處約7 x 4釐米的破裂，後粘合，UV光下可見相關聯的復繪和噴繪痕跡。

Dia.: 26 cm

 

Richly enamelled after sketches of Indonesian insects and flora by the famous woman botanist Maria Sybilla Merian, blue and gilt inner border and the rims with Pronk style scrollwork in a distinctive palette.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In nearly excellent condition, with minor superficial wear of the gilded and overglaze enamel design. A negligible superficial 1 mm chip of the brown glazed rim.

Dia.: 22,3 cm

 

Prov.:
- One of the plates with a Christie's label at the back.

Condition: (UV-checked)
- One plate in excellent condition, with minor superficial wear.
- The other plate with a 6 cm hairline between the outer border and the central medaillon.

H 10,1 cm - Dia.: 23,5 cm

 

Condition: (Uv-checked)

- One of the bowls with glaze flaking to the top rim, and two hairlines (8 cm and 1 cm).

 -The second bowl glaze flaking to the top rim and two chips with a related hairline of 5,5 and 9 cm. The body with a negligible baking flaw.

Dia.: 11,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The left saucer: negligible superficial wear, two superfical glaze chips on the rim at 7.30 and 8.30 o'clock.

- The right saucer: minor superficial wear, three small hairlines (one of 7 mm at 5.30, one of 2 cm at 7.30, one of 2 mm at 10 o'clock), negligible 1 mm chip at 6 o'clock and negligible fleabites at 11 o'clock.

 

148 x 108 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The rug in good to very good condition, with minor wear to the both sides (left and right) and minor traces of use.

483 x 220,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The rug in general in good condition with the usual wear (esp. to the central medallion) and traces of use. 

- Some minor restorations.

- The rug would benefit from a cleaning.

296 x 250 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The general appearance of the wall tapestry is good. A detailed inspection reveals that numerous small to medium restorations can be seen over the entire surface.

- The narrow edges of the tapestry have largely been renewed.

- Some small tears: tree on the left side, left top corner, and mainly in the foreground of the scene.

348,5 x 157,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition.

 

 

300 x 296 cm

 

Carnival is a dramatic development of Paul Smith's classic stripes, drawing inspiration from film transparencies and the vibrant movement of carnival dancers. The pattern is layered and complex presenting a challenge for the weavers in Nepal.

 

Interior photos by Kato Peeters.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition, with negligible traces of use.

183,5 x 120 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition.

H 192 cm - Dia.: 100 cm

 

The 'Cabana' is a storage unit arranged around a central column supporting five shelves. The structure, made in aluminum and other metals, is entirely concealed by dangling lengths of fire-proofed raffia.

 

The Campana Brothers, Humberto and Fernando, are among the icons of contemporary furniture design. Since 1983, the Brazilian siblings have achieved both national and international recognition and popularity thanks to their ingenious designs and creativity. The brothers (Humberto Campana, b. 1953 and Fernando Campana, b. 1961) created Estudio Campana in 1984 in São Paulo. From the very beginning, collaboration with local communities, factories, and industries have been an important part of their activities. In view of this mindset, it comes as no surprise that there is a huge emphasis on handcrafted and artisanal work. Via their pieces, the Campana Brothers institute conversation around ethical production, sustainability and social awareness into some of the world’s most alluring interiors.

Estudio Campana is recognized for its intriguing and one-of-a-kind pieces. There is no better evidence of their overflowing creativity than listing their current activities: the studio operates in the areas of architecture, landscaping, scenography, fashion as well as special projects and commissions. Their creative process raises everyday materials to nobility, bringing not only creativity to design but also Brazilian characteristics - the colours, the mixtures, the creative chaos - the triumph of simple solutions, in an artistic and poetic way. Campana pieces are part of permanent collections of renowned cultural institutions such as Centre Pompidou and the Musée Des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, MoMa, New York, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo and Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein. They have worked with Alessi and Fontana Arte on limited edition pieces, and their studio crafts its own unique handmade pieces. Those special editions are included in the permanent collections of renowned cultural institutions as well.

The São Paulo-based studio is acknowledged internationally as pioneer of disruptive design, which led them to create a ground-breaking language in their field. Proudly rooted in Brazilian culture and traditions, their works carry universal values in their core, such as freedom and human dignity, through the search of our identity from life experiences. In 2009, the Campana Brothers founded Instituto Campana, in order to preserve their ever-growing collection for future generations and to promote design as a tool for transformation through social and educational programs.

Their unique designs have earned them numerous awards, including the Ordre des Arts et Lettres from the Ministry of Culture in France and the Order of Cultural Merit in Brazil. Their work has been the subject of several exhibitions, including the 2008 exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York (link).

 

Interior photo by Kato Peeters.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition, with negligible superficial wear.

H 91 - L 201 - D 50 cm

 

Tiberio Matelassè designed by Ferruccio Laviani for Emmemobili is a sideboard made of veneered panels with elements in veneered multilayer wood, worked on matelassé effect. The base in burnished hand-brushed brass and inner parts in the same veneer of the structure. 

Born in 1960, Ferruccio Laviani is part of a generation of Italian designers who rose to fame in the 1990's by joining the Memphis Group (movement founded by Ettore Sottsass in the 1980's). The architect really launched his international career by participating in the Memphis “12 Newcomers” (1986) and “Living on Earth” (1987) collections. He soon started prestigious collaborations with Achille Castiglioni or the Foscarini and Kartell brands, for which he created, among other things, the Bourgie lamp and the Max table, two of his greatest successes.

 

Interior photos by Kato Peeters.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition, with minor superficial wear.

H 88,7 - L 132,8 - D 67,5 cm 

 

The chest of drawers is beautifully signed 'P. Flechy' and marked with the 'poinçon de jurande'. Pierre Flechy became master in 1756.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The chest of drawers in good to very good condition, with the usual superficial wear and minor traces of use.

- The left top corner of the marble top with glued breaks and related retouching. The marble top not original.

- The bronze mounts 18th and 19th C. (e.g. the small connections on both legs).

- Left top drawer with a missing piece of veneer (not visible when the drawer is closed).

- Between the two top drawers a 'secreet' (secret drawer).

 

H 9 cm (the vase)

H 6,7 - L 25,2 cm (the bowl)

 

The bowl with the impressed number '821'.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Both items in excellent condition, with the usual negligible superficial wear (esp. to the handles of the bowl).

H 27,7 cm 

 

The base with the Boch Frères stamp, the name of Charles Catteau and the decor number 'W. 1138'. The number '1036' inscribed, referring to the shape of the object.

 

Ref.:

- A quite similar vase is part of the collection of the Koning Boudewijnstichting and can be dated 1928 (link).

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The vase in very good condition, with minor superficial wear and a scratch in one of the black side panels. 

H 13,9 cm

 

The base of the flower holder with the Boch Frères stamp, the decor number 'D.1183' and the numbers '3' and '24'. The number '1025' inscribed, referring to the shape of the object.

 

Ref.:

- A similar flower holder is part of the collection of the Koning Boudewijnstichting (link).

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The flower holder in very good condition, with minor superficial wear. The cover with two small hairlines (ca. 2 and 1 cm).

Dia.: 22,8 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition, with minor wear on the rim as to be expected.

H 32,1 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Presenting well, with an attractive glaze. A number of typical small superficial chips throughout.
- One lizard handle on the side with a restored break to the neck.
-  The other lizard handle with a visibly reglued break, the upper part above the reglued break a later replacement. Some related overspraying in that section.
- Originally composed of two pieces, but at some point both have been fixed together with some related overpainting.
- Two breaks to nozzles restored: one on the upper half and one on the lower half.

 H 10,4 - L 12,1 - D 8,9 cm 

Weight: 393 g

 

The base inscribed with the numer '255'. 

Founded in 1810, VM (Vincenz Mayer) was almost as well known as Rothe. The address was Stock-in-Eisen-Platz 7 in the first district of the inner city of Vienna. They made all the Imperial Austrian Orders, along with some smaller pieces such as the Marianna Cross and Red Cross decorations. They also made insignias for various countries, such as Greece, Romania and Serbia. The stars often had a large circular plaque on the reverse with the name and an imperial Austrian eagle. The badges and the stars have initials “V.M” often on more than one location of the piece. After the death of Vincenz Mayer in 1865, his three sons, Vincenz, Joseph and Franz successfully took over the business. Their mark can often be identified as a “VMS” which is usually framed. Their products were of such high quality, they were appointed K.u.K. (royal and imperial) court jewellers and later chamber jewellers to the Emperor and Empress. Due to the economic crisis following the First World War, V. Mayer's Söhne closed in 1922.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The box in good condition, with the usual negligible superficial wear and minor traces of use.

45,5 x 36,4 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The icon in general in good condition.

- Some superficial wear and traces of use (esp. scratches in the borders).

- Minor wear and small negligible chips to the borders. Small gaps (esp. right elbow saint). 

- Some retouchings. The UV-light shows foremost the typical UV-light colour.

- Two small cracks at the bottom side.

53,5 x 44 cm

 

The icon also shows the passion cycle.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The icon in general in very good condition.

- The UV-light shows foremost the typical colour, with esp. some touch-ups and retouchings in the borders.

- Minor superficial wear and a small scratch in the right bottom corner. 

H 52 - L 41 - D 25,5 cm

 

Provenance:

- Part of the internationally renowned collection Charles Maeyaert (1934-2022): Charles Maeyaert received his accordion training with Wilfried Danneels in Bruges. Afterwards, he took lessons with Pierre Kindt. During his military service, he and his twin brother François started an orchestra, The Supplies, with which they took part in international and national competitions. Afterwards, the accordion disappears for a while, only to fully focus on his accordion career from 1985 onwards. In the years that followed, he created a collection of accordions that has hardly any equal.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition, with minor superficial wear.

H 37 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition with minor superficial wear and negligible traces of use.

H 48,5 - L 39 - D 23 cm 

 

Provenance:

- Part of the internationally renowned collection Charles Maeyaert (1934-2022): Charles Maeyaert received his accordion training with Wilfried Danneels in Bruges. Afterwards, he took lessons with Pierre Kindt. During his military service, he and his twin brother François started an orchestra, The Supplies, with which they took part in international and national competitions. Afterwards, the accordion disappears for a while, only to fully focus on his accordion career from 1985 onwards. In the years that followed, he created a collection of accordions that has hardly any equal.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition, with minor superficial wear. Some inlay missing. No belts.

H 42 - L 39,3 - D 22,5 cm

 

Provenance:

- Part of the internationally renowned collection Charles Maeyaert (1934-2022): Charles Maeyaert received his accordion training with Wilfried Danneels in Bruges. Afterwards, he took lessons with Pierre Kindt. During his military service, he and his twin brother François started an orchestra, The Supplies, with which they took part in international and national competitions. Afterwards, the accordion disappears for a while, only to fully focus on his accordion career from 1985 onwards. In the years that followed, he created a collection of accordions that has hardly any equal.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In good condition with minor superficial wear. 

- Small missing pieces (a.o. mother-of-pearl). No belts. 

- Minor damage to the carvings.

H 41 - L 40,1 - D 21,3 cm

 

Provenance:

- Part of the internationally renowned collection Charles Maeyaert (1934-2022): Charles Maeyaert received his accordion training with Wilfried Danneels in Bruges. Afterwards, he took lessons with Pierre Kindt. During his military service, he and his twin brother François started an orchestra, The Supplies, with which they took part in international and national competitions. Afterwards, the accordion disappears for a while, only to fully focus on his accordion career from 1985 onwards. In the years that followed, he created a collection of accordions that has hardly any equal.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

 - In good condition, with minor superficial wear.

- Small missing pieces (a.o. mother-of-pearl). No belts.

H 46 - L 38,8 - D 23 cm

 

Provenance:

- Part of the internationally renowned collection Charles Maeyaert (1934-2022): Charles Maeyaert received his accordion training with Wilfried Danneels in Bruges. Afterwards, he took lessons with Pierre Kindt. During his military service, he and his twin brother François started an orchestra, The Supplies, with which they took part in international and national competitions. Afterwards, the accordion disappears for a while, only to fully focus on his accordion career from 1985 onwards. In the years that followed, he created a collection of accordions that has hardly any equal.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In good condition, with minor superficial wear.

- Small missing pieces (a.o. mother-of-pearl). 

- Wear to one of the corners and the bellows.

 

 

H 37,2 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The 'Zorba' with hardly visible negligible fritting to the inside of the top rim. The bowl reattached to the foot and repolished. 

H 46,8 - L 42,3 - D 24,5 cm

 

Provenance:

- Part of the internationally renowned collection Charles Maeyaert (1934-2022): Charles Maeyaert received his accordion training with Wilfried Danneels in Bruges. Afterwards, he took lessons with Pierre Kindt. During his military service, he and his twin brother François started an orchestra, The Supplies, with which they took part in international and national competitions. Afterwards, the accordion disappears for a while, only to fully focus on his accordion career from 1985 onwards. In the years that followed, he created a collection of accordions that has hardly any equal.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In general in good condition with minor superficial wear. Negligible damage to the corners.

- Small missing pieces (a.o. mother-of pearl inlay). No belts.

H 55 - L 39,5 - D 22 cm

 

Provenance:

- Part of the internationally renowned collection Charles Maeyaert (1934-2022): Charles Maeyaert received his accordion training with Wilfried Danneels in Bruges. Afterwards, he took lessons with Pierre Kindt. During his military service, he and his twin brother François started an orchestra, The Supplies, with which they took part in international and national competitions. Afterwards, the accordion disappears for a while, only to fully focus on his accordion career from 1985 onwards. In the years that followed, he created a collection of accordions that has hardly any equal.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In general in good condition, with five missing buttons. No belts. 

- Minor superficial wear and negligible missing pieces.

 

H 45,5 - L 41,2 - D 23,5 cm

 

Provenance:

- Part of the internationally renowned collection Charles Maeyaert (1934-2022): Charles Maeyaert received his accordion training with Wilfried Danneels in Bruges. Afterwards, he took lessons with Pierre Kindt. During his military service, he and his twin brother François started an orchestra, The Supplies, with which they took part in international and national competitions. Afterwards, the accordion disappears for a while, only to fully focus on his accordion career from 1985 onwards. In the years that followed, he created a collection of accordions that has hardly any equal.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In general in good condition, with minor superficial wear and negligible missing pieces.

- No belts.

H 37,5 cm

 

The glass shade signed 'Muller Fres Luneville'. The Muller brothers, founders of the Muller Frères glass factory in Lunéville, were French art glassmakers from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco eras.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Both the table lamp and the glass shade in good condition, with minor superficial wear and minor traces of use.

- One of the three tendrils broken. 

H 23,3 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In good condition, with the usual superficial wear and minor traces of use.

H 60 - L 53 cm

 

The dial and the work marked 'Lerolle frères à Paris'. The worked with the number '121' and 'P.Ltre'.

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The bust loose from the base and most likely a later addition. 
- The black marble with a few small superficial chips from the edges and some hairlines.
- The numbers of the dial plate lacking. One of the pointers as well.

H 39,5 - 27,5 cm

 

The work inscribed with the number '1126'.

The crouching Venus by Coysevox is part of the Louvre collection (Paris, Louvre MR 1826). The original model of Venus taking her ritual bath dates from the third century BC and was most probably made by the Greek sculptor Doidalsas of Bithynia.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The both candlesticks in good condition, with the usual wear and minor traces of use. One of the bobèches with minor damage to the top rim.

- The springs tested with the key and tension is present.

- The clock with wear.

H 52,2 cm

 

The dial marked 'E. Schmoll - Rue Turenne - Paris'. Schmoll (°1849, Chantilly, Oise, France) was a famous bronze maker active in Paris in the last quarter of the 19th C. As the name suggests, he was of Jewish origin. He married Blanche Bloch on July 6, 1881.

The work inscribed with the number '134750',  with the 'Japy Frères & Cie - Med. d'Honneur' mark and further marked 'C. Ch.'.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The clock in very good condition with the usual minor superficial wear (e.g. the dragon's snout, right side of the bronze frame of the dial).

-  The springs tested with the key and tension is present.

- Negligible wear to the signature on the dial.

H 37,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition, with minor superficial wear and negligible small chips to the top rim. 

Tile: ca. 48 x 22,5 cm 

Frame: 61,5 x 34,1 cm 

 

Condition: (UV-ckecked)

- The plaque in nearly excellent condition with the normal negligible superficial wear.

- A hardly visible negligible chip at the underside of the top right side.

H 91 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The sculpture in general in very good condition, with minor wear to the bronze mounts.

- The right hand with a negligible hairline.

- The right foot with three toes that were broken off and reattached.

- The attachment of the left leng strenghtened. 

H 55 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The sculpture in general in rather good condition, with the normal wear and traces of use.

- Staff restored, minor usual cracks in the wood.

- Base of a later date.

- Wings, arms, etc. reattached. 

- Old traces of wood worm. 

Work: 56,5 x 35 cm

Frame: 69,5 x 48 cm

 

The painting monogrammed 'PML' on the driftwood lower center. The work had previously been attributed to Pieter Mulier II (ca. 1637-1701), but Marijke C. de Kinkelder confirmed in 2011 that the work is painted by Pieter Mulier I. The work has also been included in the RKD database (link).

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting in good and hangable condition.

- The UV-light shows foremost the typical colour of the old varnish, with some minor local touch-ups in the sky. 

- The usual retouching along the joint.

- Negligible wear to the borders due to the framing.

 

Work: ca. 172,3 x 110,5 cm

Frame: 188 x 125,5 cm

 

Condition:

- The painting in general in good and hangable condition.

- Relined, due to a number of small holes and tears in a few places in the original canvas.

- With UV light, some restorations can be seen, at least in two different phases, but barely in the central scene (mainly in the sky on the left side and the top). Contours of the chains and rocks reinforced. 

 - Hardly any or no overpainting in the important figures (sea monster, Perseaus and Andromeda): tip of the horse's left wing, both Andromeda's knees, and the cloak near the right hand.

- See also the additional pictures.

Work: 64,2 x 48,9 cm

Frame: 81 x 66,7 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in general in good and hangable condition, with some touch-ups and minor flaking paint.

- The UV-light shows foremost the typical colour of the varnish.

Work: 39,5 x 31,2 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in good and hangable condition, with touch-ups all-over.

- The UV-light shows foremost the typical colour of the varnish, with touch-ups all-over (esp. top border, cloud between the face of the Madonna and the heads of the angels on the left top side and the left bottom half of the robe of the Madonna (restoration of scratches in the plate).

- The red rob with overpaint.

 

Work: 80 x 63,5 cm 

Frame: 86,2 x 70 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting in general in good and hangable condition.

- Relined.

- The usual negligible damage to the borders due to the framing.

- A little worn.

- Several larger zones with overpaint can be seen under UV light, but barely or not in the face and the hand. 

Work: 23,2 x16,9 cm

Frame: 33 x 27,3 cm

 

The right bottom corner most probably with a monogram and the date '1662'.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting in good and hangable condition.

- The panel is bent.

- The UV-light shows foremost the typical colour of the varnish. Minor overpaint and small retouches, especially to the borders (see UV-light pictures).

 

Work: 32 x 26,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting with some superficial wear and minor traces of use (e.g. scratch in the left top corner, negligible flaking tree left, central foliage and left bottom corner).

- The UV-light shows foremost the typical colour of the varnish, with retouchings to the borders and the road between the trees. Older touch-ups in the sky.

- In our opinion, the painting would benefit of some cleaning.

Work: 85 x 53 cm

Frame: 92,5 x 60,4 cm

 

Provenance:

- Private collection, Belgium.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting in good and hangable condition, in a period but worn frame.

- Gesso prepared back of the panel.

- Typical and usual minor damage to the borders, especially left bottom corner.

- Some minor touch-ups, especially the tree stump under the peacock.

- Between the dog and the chicken a repaired lacuna, but barely visible.

- Hardly any repairs can be seen under UV light, but the old varnish does light up.

- Some old retouching in the sky.

- The painting 'upholstered' by Frans II Francken (1581-1642) and the setting by Adriaen van Stalbempt (1580-1662). (Dr. Klaus Ertz)

Work: ca. 92,2 x 77,2 cm

Frame: 102,5 x 88 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in good and hangable condition, with touch-ups all-over (in particular, the outlines and accentuation of the architecture on the left). 

- Repair of a small hole in the front column and therefore relined. 

Work: ca. 221 x 205,5 cm

Frame: 232,3 x 217 cm

 

The work bears the signature 'J.P. de Roose', presumably referring to Jacob Paulus de Roose, who became a free master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1729/1730. However, his oeuvre is completely unknown (only one work can be found in the RKD, link). 

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In good and hangable condition (considering the size of the painting, it is actually in very good condition).

- Relined.

- The UV-light shows foremost the typical colour of the varnish, with touch-ups and restorations all-over, hardly touching the central figures (with the exception of the mantle of Simon Stock).

Work: ca. 180 x 136 cm

Frame: 182,5 x 138,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in good and hangable condition.

- Relined.

- Faint network of craquelures.

- Connection between the two parts of the canvas accentuated.

- The UV-light shows foremost the typical colour of the varnish. Minor touch-ups in different phases.

Work: ca. 85 x 56,3 cm

Frame: 93 x 63 cm 

 

Ref.:

- A very similar painting (Southern Netherlands, ca. 1650) is part of the collection of the Alte Pinakothek, Munich , inv./cat.no 10682 (link).

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting in good and hangable condition.

- Panel consists of two parts, with retouching along the joint. Right top with a rather small hairline.

- The UV-light shows foremost the typical colour of the old varnish. Some local touch-ups.

- Small and local upheaveling in top zone.

Work: ca. 36,5 x 36 cm

Frame: 66,3 x 66,3 cm

 

The work made in Brussels on the 7th of July 1972.

 

Provenance:

- Private collection, Belgium.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition.

- Hardly visible negligible wear/damage to the paper in the central zone about 7,5 cm from the bottom (see also photo 14).

- The paper with a hardly visible 1 cm crease in the left upper zone (12,5 cm from the left and 9,5 cm from the top).

- Not inspected outside the frame.

Work: ca. 20,3 x 14,8 cm 

Paper: 24,6 x 18 cm 

Frame: 42 x 32 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition.

Work: ca. 24 x 17,5 cm

Paper: 65 x 51 cm

Frame: 87,5 x 68 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in good and hangable condition.

- A water mark in the left bottom corner.

 

Work: ca. 87 x 58 cm

Paper: ca. 88,8 x 58,5 cm 

Frame: 110 x 78,3 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- All three in very good and hangable condition.

Work: ca. 29,8 x 23,8 cm

Paper: 65,5 x 50,5 cm

Frame: 87 x 68,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in good and hangable condition, with a water mark in the right bottom corner.

- The paper slightly wavy.

 

Work: ca. 34,5 x 26,7 cm

Frame: 87 x 68,5 cm

 

The etching 'met de hand bijgewerkt' (touched up by hand) by the artist himself.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition.

 

Work: ca. 100 x 63,8 cm

Frame: 131,2 x 96,3 cm 

Work: ca. 89,5 x 59,5 cm

Paper: ca. 98,5 x 71,5 cm

Frame: 112,7 x 87,7 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition.

Work: 90,6 x 59 cm 

Paper: ca. 102 x 67 cm

Frame: 111,5 x 76,7 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in good and hangable condition.

- A small crease in the paper in the right bottom corner, not touching the scene.

 

Work: ca. 174 x 85 cm

Paper: 178,5 x 90 cm

Frame: 208 x 119 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition.

- The paper with minor wrinkling. Light discoloration.

- Not glued to the background.

- Negligible small defects to the paper: negligible part missing top right and bottom right (bot hardly visible), left top corner with negligible wear. 

Work: ca. 30 x 23 cm

Frame: 66 x 57 cm

 

'Michel Buylen (Ghent, °1953) is a multi-faceted and headstrong painter, who never ceases to astonish with both his amazing virtuosity and his new take on centuries-old subjects; such as the nude (or the naked?), the child, the landscape, the sea as an obligate abstraction and the portrait as compromise and confrontation. Michel Buylen is anything but a conventional artist. Aided by acrylic, he succeeds in retranslating life, in all its diversity and nuances, enriching it with his own vision.' (link)

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition.

Work: 114 x 74 cm

Paper: ca. 135,6 x 99 cm

Frame: 150,7 x 113,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition.

- Negligible superficial folds in the lower left corner, outside the plate.

Work: ca. 35 x 25,5 cm

Paper: 56 x 37,5 cm

Frame: 87 x 68,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in good and hangable condition.

- Edges of paper with light discoloration.

- Small creases in the paper at the plate edges.

 

 

Work: ca. 60,7 x 47,5 cm

Paper: ca. 63,2 x 49,2 cm 

Frame: 89 x 75,1 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition, with a small crease on the left top side.

Work: ca. 90 x 61,5 cm 

Frame: 119,5 x 90,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition, with some negligible foxing.

Work: ca. 199,4 x 98,7 cm 

Paper: ca. 228 x 123 cm

Frame: 238 x 133,2 cm

 

With the blindstamp of the printer Vigna Antoniniana Stamperia d'Arte, Rome.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition.

Work: 39,5 x 39,5 cm

Frame: 47,5 x 47,5 cm

 

Herman van Nazareth (pseudonym of Herman van Aerde, °1936, Evergem) occupies a unique position in the South African art scene. Due to his discourse, which is a protest against dehumanisation, he can be considered a precursor of humanitarian commitment in art (link).

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangeble condition, with negligible wear.

 

Work: 62 x 50 cm

Frame: 70,5 x 58,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in good and hangable condition with some retouches in both bottom corners and negligible traces of wear and use.

Work: 140 x 100 cm

Frame: 162 x 122 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting in very good and hangable condition.

Work: 61,4 x 50,5 cm 

Frame: 66,7 x 55,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition, with a negligible and hardly visible miniscule spot of flaking paint in the left top corner.

- Most probably 1970's-1980's.

Work: ca. 96 x 72,8 cm

Paper: ca.98 x 75 cm

Frame: 122 x 100,5 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition.

Work: 69,9 x 59,8 cm 

Frame: 80,3 x 70,6 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition.

- The canvas wavy because of the thick layers of paint and in each corner a negligible hole from a thumb tack (probably an earlier hanging system).

 

Work: ca. 50 x 40 cm

Frame: 68 x 58 cm

 

"Clement Serneels was the son of a Spanish mother and Flemish father. He went to school in Brussels. In 1936 while at the Academie he won a government scholarship for a one year painting trip to the Congo. On his return to Brussels he had an exhibition of his Congo paintings, it was a sell-out. He then left once again to continue working in the Congo. In 1939 during World War II he settled at Lake Kivu, Congo. Then in 1945 Clement visited South
Africa and stayed for some months in Cape Town. He had sell-out exhibitions in both Cape Town and Johannesburg. In 1948 he revisited South Africa and had another successful exhibition in Johannesburg. From there he took his work on an exhibition tour of Mexico and the USA. From 1951 – 1960 he continued to live at Lake Kivu in the Congo, although continuously making visits to Europe and holding exhibitions in Brussels and Lisbon. Following upheavals in the Congo, Clement Serneels moved to Johannesburg in South Africa where he established himself as a successful artist." (link)

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition.

- Negligible, hardly visible, miniscule spots of flaking paint (bottom, left side).

- Board with a negligible dent (left side, ca. 12 cm of the top). 

Work: 60,9 x 50 cm 

Frame: 76,4 x 66,7 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting in general in rather mediocre and hangable condition.

- Some old retouches.

- Several holes in the canvas have been restored (see also the reverse), in particular a tear near the chin/neck.

Work: ca. 30,7 x 20,6 cm

Frame: 43,7 x 33,2 cm

 

The reverse of the canvas with 'Bradford'.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting in good and hangable condition.

- The UV-light shows foremost the typical colour of the varnish, with some retoucing in the lower left corner.

Work: 38,9 x 36 cm 

Frame: 52,5 x 50,2 cm 

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting in very good and hangable condition. 

- The left bottom corner with a small, hardly visible negligible spot of flaking paint (4 mm).

- A hardly visible small part of the paint in the right bottom corner and the start of the 'white' zone at the right side slightly lifting. 

 

Work: 100,5 x 65 cm

Frame: 122 x 87,5 cm

 

Early in his career, Ludovic Janssen was given the title 'Le peintre de la Campine', a title he shares with Emile Van Doren (1865-1949), a landscape painter from whom he received advice in Genk. It is possible that Janssen discovered the Limburg Kempen thanks to his teacher at the Liège Académie, Evariste Carpentier (1845-1922). Carpentier was an important promoter of Genk as a painting place. Under his impulse, many art students from Liège found their way to Genk, including, in addition to Janssen, Albert Sirtaine (1868-1959), Armand Jamar (1870-1946), Léon Jamin (1872-1944) and Valérie Pholien (1873-1961).

 

Prov.:

- The painting was part of the 'Exposition Internationale' in Liège in 1939.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in good and hangable condition with some craquelures in the sky and a small spot of flaking paint in the middle of the right side.

- The text under the paper impossible to read without damaging the paper.

 

Work: 25,9 x 18,2 cm

Frame: 33,5 x 25 cm

 

The reverse with an old (auction) label bearing the number ‘25’. Possible traces of a signature on the left bottom side.

The painting in the genre of works from the eighties of the 19th C. by James Ensor (1860-1949).

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in good and hangable condition.

- Minor retouches, esp. left bottom corner, some parts of the dark middle part and two spots on the right pig.

- Could benefit of some cleaning

Work: 51 x 41 cm

Frame: 71,5 x 61,5 cm

 

On the reverse written in pencil the words 'Riddersporen' and the year '1943'.

The Belgian painter Anna De Weert (1867-1950) was the granddaughter of the famous writer Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck (1805-1847) and the niece of painter Felix Cogen (1838-1907). She was a student of Emile Claus (1849-1924) and she is considered as belonging to 'De Latemse School'.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in very good and hangable condition, with minor touch-ups in both corners (not at all touching the central scene). In the left top corner a small restored tear.

 

Work: 59,5 x 50,2 cm

Frame: 82 x 72,3 cm 

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In good and hangable condition, with a minor dent in the canvas (in the walker).

- Frame with some damage.