Guest and Gray have been dealing in early ceramics for over forty years. Nearly all the pieces in their collection date from before 1800.
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Chinese famille verte dish, early Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated to the central roundel with large peony heads against a background of scrolling leaves, within a band of ruyi-heads, the cavetto with a...
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Chinese famille verte mustard pot and cover, Kangxi (1662-1722), on a raised flaring foot, with moulded handle, decorated with branches and sprays of flowering peony, between bands of assorted flowers...
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Pair of Chinese famille-verte hexagonal salts, Kangxi (1662-1722), of waisted form, the sides decorated with panels containing flowers and an assortment of scholarly objects, the underside of the rims...
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Chinese famille verte wall vase, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated with phoenix, cranes and other birds flying above a peony garden, where a further pair of phoenix, or fenghuang, perch amongst the...
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Pair of Chinese famille verte plates, Kangxi (1662-1722), each decorated with a phoenix (feng huang) with long tail feathers and bright plumage in flight over a peony garden, with butterflies and...
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Famille verte basin, Kangxi (1662-1722), of octagonal form, the central panel with blooming peony, chrysanthemum and sprays of cherry blossom, the deep cavetto with eight cartouches containing flowers...
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Chinese famille verte jar and cover, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated in fine enamels with two central panels containing brightly coloured peony and grass seed heads issuing from rockwork and insects,...
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Rare Chinese famille verte dish, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated with a central lotus-shaped roundel containing a lone figure with a stick walking in landscape, a bird flying overhead, bordered by a...
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Large Chinese famille verte dish, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated in the centre with a Buddhist lion holding a brocade ball under his right paw, surrounded by butterflies and birds in flight, with...
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Fine large Chinese famille verte baluster vase, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated in bright famille verte enamels, the body with four large panels containing baskets of flowers, against a liewen ground...
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Pair of Chinese famille verte baluster jugs, Kangxi (1662-1722), with early gilt copper mounts, loop handles and covers, the pear-shaped bodies with six moulded lappet panels containing climbing...
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A Chinese yen-yen vase with elongated neck, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated with branches of peony and grasses issuing from rockwork, flying insects overhead, the shoulders with broad band of floral...
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Chinese porcelain moulded bowl, possibly 18th century, mounted as an inkwell, the exterior of the bowl with moulded fretwork with panels of figures in various pursuits, the ormolu inkwell with a...
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Chinese famille verte figure of Guanyin, Kangxi (1662-1722), in a seated medatitive pose, her green wide-sleeved robe and mantle painted with flowers, scrolling leaves, ruyi heads and a diaper ground,...
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Chinese famille verte two-handled circular bowl and cover, Kangxi (1662-1722) with lion dog finial and moulded green lion head handles, the body and lid decorated with four panels containing orchid...
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Pair of Chinese famille verte tea caddies, Kangxi (1662-1722), of rectangular cross-section, painted with fine enamels, one of the longer sides of each caddy decorated with a girl strolling in a...
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Chinese famille verte dish, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated with a phoenix and two cockerels in a fenced garden with branches of peony issuing from rockwork and a jardinière containing prunus, bamboo...
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Rare Chinese helmet-shaped famille verte ewer, Kangxi (1662-1722), the body with three sections separated by green stippled flowerhead bands; the top two sections containing leafy sprays of flowers...
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Chinese famille verte gu beaker vase, Kangxi (1662-1722), of archaistic bronze form, the central bulbous section with ogee-shaped cartouches containing fabulous beasts in rocky landscapes,...
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Famille verte mustard cup and cover with metal mounts, mid-Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated in enamels to the body with blooming chrysanthemum and daisies, with insects and a bird in flight, a band of...
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Pair of Chinese famille verte plates, Kangxi (1662-1722), each decorated with a central stylised cruciform floral motif and four large lotus-leaf cartouches containing prunus, pine and bamboo issuing...
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Chinese blue and white moulded plate, Kangxi (1662-1722), with gentle scalloped rim, the central decagonal section containing a 'Long Eliza' holding a lotus while seated at a table with rockwork and...
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Massive Chinese famille-verte charger, Kangxi (1662-1722), the centre decorated with a basket of flowers within a florifel roundel containing lotus, peony and dianthus, surrounded by a lobed band of...
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Two exceptional Chinese famille verte figures of boys holding jars, Kangxi (1662-1722), the moulded figures standing upon solid bases, their hair worn in topknots and their faces with slight smiling...
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Chinese blue and white plate, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated in underglaze cobalt blue to the centre with gently curving lappets radiating outwards from a central spiral, encircled by two wide...
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Chinese blue and white plate, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with various floral sprays including peony, prunus, lotus and chrysanthemum, the reverse with three floral sprigs...
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Chinese blue and white Kangxi mark and period plate (1662-1722), decorated to the central roundel with a lotus emerging from the ground, surrounded by boughs of blossom and leafy sprigs, the rim with...
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Chinese blue and white saucer, Kangxi (1662-1722), the centre with a carp swimming amongst sea plants and flowers, the cavetto with three further carp, sea vegetables, plants and drifting seaweed, the...
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Chinese blue and white bowl and saucer, Kangxi (1662-1722), the exterior of the bowl decorated with two rows of petal-shaped cartouches containing assorted flowers including peony, with small lotus...
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Chinese blue and white bowl and saucer, Kangxi (1662-1722), Chinese blue and white bowl and saucer, Kangxi (1662-1722), the exterior of the bowl decorated with two rows of petal-shaped cartouches...
