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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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...
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Japanese Arita Imari charger, 1690-1730, decorated in the centre with a small roundel containing three heads of peony and foliage, set within a pavillion garden scene with a veranda, a bamboo blind...
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Japanese Imari charger, 18th century, decorated to the central roundel with a landscape scene containing a small dwelling amongst trees and rockwork, with pine-clad mountains and clouds visible in the...
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Pair of Japanese imari baluster jars and covers, circa 1700, richly decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, overglaze enamels and gilt, the bodies each with large alternating panels containing either...
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Pair of Japanese blue and white vases, c.1700, Edo period, of ovoid form, each decorated to the body with ogee-shaped panels containing peony and seedheads issuing from rockwork with birds against a...
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Japanese Arita blue and white jar and cover, circa 1680, of hexagonal form with wide shoulders and tapering foot, the body decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with a continuous landscape containing a...
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Japanese blue and white Arita dish, circa 1700, decorated in the Chinese kraak style, the central roundel with a ho-ho bird perched upon a rock with another in flight overhead, amongst flowers and...
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Extremely rare Japanese Imari garniture, circa 1700, comprising three baluster jars with lids and two smaller beakers with trumpet necks; the pierced ogee-topped panels to the front of the bodies...
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Rare Japanese imari lacquered vase, circa 1700, the octagonal body decorated in black lacquer with applied decoration of birds and insects in a fenced garden with flowering branches of chrysanthemum...
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Japanese hexagonal Satsuma box and cover, c. 1900, signed 'Dai Nippon Satsuma-Yaki Tawara Koseki No i' and painted by Tawara Koseki, supported on six low feet, the sides alternately decorated with...
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Japanese satsuma lobed jar and cover, Meiji period, 19th century, decorated with two panels, one enclosing a shi-shi dog with branches of flowering peony issuing from rockwork, the other with swallows...
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Pair of Japanese Imari bottle vases, Edo Period, early 18th century, with slim tapering necks, the bulbous lower bodies decorated with two cartouches containing flowers and golden clouds, surrounded...
