Prices seem strong right across the board for high and low end items in and around all the current Asian art sales.
Top selling three lots in L & Ts sale…
CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL RECTANGULAR PLAQUE QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
One side enamelled with a pair of birds perching on flowering tree issuing from rockwork amongst other plants, against a navy blue ground, the reverse with a quaint walled garden surrounded by water with hills and a pagoda afar, surrounded by gilded borders, mounted on a fitted wooden stand.
17.2cm x 13.2cm
Sold for £50,000
LARGE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL FOLIATE CHARGER QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Supported on three tiny circular feet, the interior decorated with a large medallion further surrounded by two bands of archaic kui-dragons to the mouth rim, the exterior similarly decorated with two bands of entwined kui-dragons and lotus in scrolls.
38 cm wide
Sold for £23,000
FINE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE ‘MAGU’ CHARGER QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD, CIRCA 1730
The interior delicately enamelled with Magu, the goddess of longevity, holding a lingzhi spray, beside a boy attendant carrying a basket of peaches over his shoulder, and a stag with a peach in its mouth, the mouth rim gilded, the base with a wheel engraved Johanneum Inventory mark ‘N=183 I’
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