Tuesday, December 22, 2009

CHINESE CERAMICS – (POLYCHROMES AND MONOCHROMES)

Besides the well known celadons (greenware) and blue-white (underglaze blue), Chinese ceramics include multicoloured (polychrome) and single coloured (monochrome) like white, black and brown glazed wares.
Polychromes I am pleased to display my oldest Chinese piece, a tricoloured bowl of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) from the recent salvaged “Tang Cargo”, a pair of Ching altar vases, 3 rare ceramic wall plaques and 3 increasingly popular Nonya (Straits Chinese/Peranakan) pieces. Apart from the Tang bowl, the others are family heirlooms.
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c21 Tang period (6-10c)bowl with floral pattern in brown-green (15.3x5) from the “Tang cargo” shipwreck.
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c05-06 prof 13in altar vases with 2 handles polychrome, Ching,  Kangzi mark (17-18c)
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c01 blackwood framed polychrome plaque, birds-flowers, ching 19c

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c02 blackwood framed polychrome plaque, landscape scenery, ching 19c
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c03 blackwood framed polychrome plaque with 5 medallions, ching 19c


c09 nonya kamching jar ching s800
c09 nonya kamching covered jar, ching 19c
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c07-08 pair of nonya kamquat covered jars, ching 19c

Monochromes.  These compose the white, black and brown glazed pieces. They are of bowls, tea-bowls, jarlets, a covered box and a kendi. They are mainly from the Song and Yuan periods (11-13c). The kendi (last photo) is probably a late 19c Ching piece.

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c15 bowl conical foliated  floral white 16.4x6.2 yuan 13c
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c16 bowl conical whorl white 16.6x6.3 song 12c
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c17 bowl flared creamish white glaze 17x7 yuan 13c
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c18 bowl alms yinyang fluted  creamish white 13.5x8 song13c
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c19 covered box lenticular blu wh glaze 10x6 shufu

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c20 jarlet globular white glaze 6.5x4.8 song 12c
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c22 bowl tea 2pelicans black glaze jizhou-ware 14.2x5.2 song fujian 12c
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c23 bowl tea black glaze jizhou-ware11.4x5 song fujian 12c
          OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA         c24 bowl tea hare-fur glaze jian-ware12.3x6.5 song fujian 12c  
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c26 jarlet globular olive glaze 6.5x5.5 12-13c

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c25 jarlet globular w 4 handles flaked olive glaze 8.5x8, 12-13c

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c28 kendi, spout and 5 ring handles honey-brown glaze 30x12 19c

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