SWORDERS
Sworders, established in a coffee shop in 1782, is one of the UK’s leading Fine Art Auctioneers, conducting two auctions of Chinese and Japanese ceramics, works of art and paintings a year to coincide with Asian Art in London. All lots will be on extended view at the London gallery, the sale will take place at our Stansted Mountfitchet Auction Rooms.
Asian Art Friday 5th November 10.00 am
At The Stansted Auction Rooms
Cambridge Road
Stansted Mountfitchet
Essex CM24 8GE
Tel: +44 (0)1279 817778
Stansted Auction Rooms, Cambridge Road, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, CM24 8GE
Sworders Fine Art (GES and Sons Limited), 15 Cecil Court, London, WC2N 4EZ
On view in London
Sat, 30th October 10.00 am-13.00 pm
Sun, 31st October 10.00 am-13.00 pm
Mon, 1st November 10.00 am-16.00 pm
Tues, 2nd November 10.00 am-16.00 pm
Weds, 3rd November 10.00 am-16.00 pm
Thurs, 4th November 10.00 am-16.00 pm
Online auction in Stansted Mountfitchet
Friday, 5th November 10.00 am-17.30 pm
Please note: all sale times and viewing times should be confirmed
Yexue Li
Phone +44 (0)1279 817 778
Email yexueli@sworder.co.uk
Website https://www.sworder.co.uk/
BUSINESS ADDRESS Cambridge Road, Stansted Mountfichet, Essex, CM24 8GE
A Chinese blue and white brush pot, Kangxi (1662-1722), of cylindrical form, painted with an emperor meeting officials in a courtyard, 17.8cm high 19.5cm diameter
A Chinese blue and white brush pot, Kangxi (1662-1722), of cylindrical form, the exterior finely inscribed with the text of the Shengzhu de Xianchen Song (Ode to the Finding of Virtuous Officials by the Divine Ruler) in kaishu script, finished with a seal mark reading Xi Chao Chuan Gu (Transmitting Antiquity from the Court of Kangxi), the base centred with a recessed circle enclosing a six-character Kangxi mark in underglaze blue, 14.5cm high 18.2cm diameter
A rare Chinese carved cinnabar lacquer treasure box, Qianlong (1736-1795), of square form with a gilt metal key fret border, carved on the top with a wan symbol centred with a shou roundel, surrounded by bats and fruiting peach branches above waves, each side with two panels with gilt metal handles in the shape of bats against a diapered ground with wan symbols, each right-hand panel opening to reveal a drawer, 21cm square
A Chinese jade moon flask, Mid Qing dynasty, the compressed circular body rising from a flared rectangular foot, flanked by a pair of scroll handles, well carved in low relief on each of the broadsides with a blossoming tree above rocks, the stone of mottled pale greyish-white tone, 12.2cm high
A Japanese shibayama-style inlaid box and cover, Meiji period (1868-1912), of rounded rectangular form, decorated on all sides with millefleur, including chrysanthemum, peony, hydrangea and other overlapping flowerheads and foliage, in various shades of mother-of-pearl and stained ivory, the interior of dense nashiji and the rims mounted with silver, signed on a red-lacquer tablet Masayoshi, 11.3cm long
