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ORIENTAL CERAMICS GRAB THE HEADLINES AT SHREWSBURY AUCTION
21st NOVEMBER 2011
Oriental ceramics were back in the headlines at Shropshire’s leading fine art auction house when a Japanese Satsuma baluster vase sold for £4,000 last week.
The finely painted Kinkozan vase, made in around 1900, was entered in Halls’ £100,000 auction of antique furniture, ceramics, clocks and works of art in Shrewsbury by a Telford vendor, who saw part of his collection of Oriental lots sell for £15,000.
Certain Chinese items were also in demand, led by a jade boulder carving that sold for £2,900. Other leading prices included £2,600 for a Cizhou turquoise vase from the Ming dynasty, £1,700 for a Cantonese ivory brise fan from a Welshpool area vendor, £1,600 for a Longquan bowl from the Song dynasty, £1,500 for a De Hua blanc de chine figure of a dancing boy from the Qing dynasty, £860 for a set of eight 19th century Chinese carved ivory horses.
“The Chinese market is still buoyant but collectors are now targeting specific areas, such as jade, late mark and period porcelain and items of good quality from the Song dynasty,” said Jeremy Lamond, Halls’ fine art director.
“After a quiet period for the Japanese market, there are new signs of life, especially for quality Satsuma pottery, good metalwares, okimono and netsuke.”
Top selling lot in the furniture section was a Victorian figured walnut reformed Gothic fold-over card table by Gillow and Co in the manner of Bruce Talbert from a Shrewsbury vendor that made £2,900.
Two pieces of quality furniture from a Potteries vendor that once displayed ceramics at a leading London department store sold for £3,150. A George III satinwood pier table made £1,600 and a George III oak and elm farmhouse table made £1,550.
Other leading prices were £2,200 for a Regency Scottish mahogany sideboard by James Mein, Kelso, which was purchased by a descendant of the cabinetmaker who is now collecting his furniture.
A small collection of Victorian art furniture in the manner of Dr Christopher Dresser and Edward William Godwin from a property in the Welshpool area included an ebonised mirror back side cabinet that made £500.
In the clocks section, two recently made quality timepieces sold well. A Mathew Norman eight day ovale grande carriage clock made £800 and a pollard oak wall timepiece by B. J. Raggett, Shrewsbury sold for £320.
Lot 24: A Chinese Cizhou
turquoise vase that sold for £2,600.
