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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Meissen porcelain 'schmetterling' plate, circa 1730-3, with brown-glazed lobed petal rim, decorated in overglaze enamels to the centre with the kakiemon-style ‘schmetterling’ pattern, with a large...
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Chinese Famille Verte dish, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated in bright enamels to the central roundel with a figurative scene depicting the ‘beauty trap’ episode from Chapter 8 of the Romance of the...
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Japanese four-case lacquer inro, 19th century, with inlaid decoration against a maki-e background depicting a mountainous landscape with a lakeside pagoda and flock of chidori (千鳥, plovers) in...
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Chantilly 'red dragon' saucer dish, c.1740, of lobed form with gilt scalloped decoration to the rim, the basin decorated in predominantly red enamels and gilt with a central roundel of two confronting...
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A small Delft earthenware blue and white vase, late 17th century, in the Transitional style, of ovoid form with tapering foot and short rim, the body painted with a continuous scene of travellers in a...
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Pair of Chinese powder blue ground saucers, Kangxi (1662-1722), the rims with traces of gilt, each decorated overall with clusters of prunus blossom in reserve with iron-red detail, the reverse rim...
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Brinjal bowl with wooden stand, Kangxi (1662-1722), on a short foot with everted rim, the biscuit body decorated inside and out with ‘egg and spinach’ glazes of green brown and yellow, the base...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting Laolaizi, dressed in brightly coloured clothes and jaunty cap, brandishing his rattle gaily with small...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting Wang Xiang swimming in a frozen river with two carp, in a desolate wintry landscape with a bare tree and...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting Dong Yong, kneeling beside a small child gazing up at the Heavenly Weaver, who is sailing away with her...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting Meng Zong dressed in reeds digging in the snow for bamboo shoots on a bank beside a river, with a...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting a woman beside a river in which two carp swim, collecting water with a wooden bucket and ladle, looking...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting Min Sun kneeling before his father, who is seated inside a room that opens out onto a garden with rockwork...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink against a gold leaf background, depicting Zeng Shen, having dropped the firewood he has gathered, and approaching his elderly mother, who is...
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Japanese Kano school painting, 17th century, in ink and polychrome colours against a gold leaf background, depicting Ding Lan serving a wooden statue of his father seated on a dais with offerings...
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Pair of Japanese lacquer tokkuri sake flasks and covers, 19th century, of wood covered in black polished lacquer (roiro), of pear-shaped form with bulbous bodies and slender waisted necks with...
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Pair of silver and copper wire cloisonné vases, Meiji (1868-1912), circa 1900; the spherical bodies with a blue ground and decorated with tree peonies entwined with wisteria and perching Japanese...
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Japanese 'bijin-ga' woodcut print, by Ikeda Eisen, also known as Keisai Eisen (1790-1848), of ‘kakemono-e’ format (vertical diptych) depicting an oiran (courtesan) standing beside a doorway...
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Japanese bronze vase, Meiji (1868-1912), by the Nogawa workshop, with flattened circular body, tall columnar neck and supported on a tall everted foot, finely engraved, incised and inlaid with gold,...
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Japanese Kano School painting, 17th century, in ink and polychrome colours against a gold leaf background, depicting T'ang Fu-jen suckling her mother-in-law in a pavilion garden with a pond amongst...
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A fine silver-wired Japanese cloisonné eight-lobed twin-handled koro and cover, Meiji period (1868-1910), possibly by Ota Hyozo, the lobed body with liner and supported on three low feet, finely...
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Near pair of Chinese blue and white bottle vases, Kangxi (1662-1722), of bulbous form with tall columnar necks, the bodies and necks decorated in bright underglaze cobalt blue with a continuous design...
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Japanese Arita blue and white coffee pot and cover, late 17th century, of tapering conical form and supported on three feet, decorated in underglaze blue with a continuous karakusa scroll comprised of...
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Japanese Arita blue and white plate, c.1680, with foliate rim, decorated to the central roundel with a landscape scene, with a lone fisherman on a rocky outcrop beside a river, two houses beneath a...
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Japanese Kutani dish, 19th century, decorated with a landscape scene, with a pagoda amongst pine on a rocky shoreline, with a small islet and distant mountain visible across the water; the cavetto...
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Japanese Imari barber's bowl, 18th century, painted in iron red, black and green overglaze enamels and underglaze blue, decorated in the centre with an abstract design of a three-pointed star with...
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Japanese blue and white Arita charger, 17th century, decorated in underglaze blue to the central roundel with branches of fruiting pomegranate and buddha's hand citron amongst foliage, the rim with...
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A pair of Japanese Imari dishes, 18th century, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, overglaze enamels and gilt to the central roundels with a stylised landscape scene comprising clouds, a grassy river...
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Pair of Japanese Imari bowls, early 18th century, each decorated to the exterior with an ogee-shaped panel containing a landscape scene with two figures looking out from a bridge at a rocky waterfall,...
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Japanese Imari barber's bowl, c.1700, decorated with branches of peony and chrysanthemum with sprouting grasses issuing from rockwork, the wide rim with further peony and chrysanthemum gently curving...
