Chinese & Japanese Ceramics & Works of Art

The Orient Gates presents a single-owner auction of Asian works of art - 63 lots of Chinese and Japanese porcelain, carved lacquer, cloisonne enamel and bronze - led by a magnificent garniture of three Japanese Imari baluster jars and covers with shishi finials (Lot 1). The Chinese porcelain runs deep in blue-and-white: Jingdezhen baluster jars and covers, ginger jars, prunus and dragon bottle vases, and Ming-style tianqiuping - alongside famille rose and famille verte enamels, Canton famille rose, and celadon and Longquan-style monochrome glazes, in hu-form, yenyen, meiping and double-gourd forms. Reign and seal marks appear in the Kangxi, Qianlong,...