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LOT 2224
Chinese Tang Terracotta Foreign Groom
TANG DYNASTY, 618-907 A.D.
19 1/4 in. (3 kg, 48.5 cm high).
Wearing a cross-over horseman's jacket, tight trousers and a tall cap with a wide upturned brim; Iranian bearded facial features; repaired.
ProvenanceEx Cotswold, UK, collection, 1970-1990.
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LOT 2224
Chinese Tang Terracotta Foreign Groom
Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)
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Chinese Han Style Bronze Bear Finial
19th-20th century A.D.Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
In a seated position, one leg drawn up beside its body with left paw resting upon it, the other pushed out to the side of its body, the right paw resting upon it, large head with gaping mouth exposing teeth and tongue, pricked ears and bulging eyes, sagging breasts resting atop the creature's pot-belly, incised fur detailing and a short tail to the reverse; hollow-formed. 135 grams, 58 mm
Fine condition.
Acquired 1980-1990s. From a West Country collection. -
Chinese Song Jianyao 'Hare's Fur' Tea Bowl
Song Dynasty, 960-1279 A.D. or laterEstimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
With carination to the inner lip, conical body and narrow basal ring; the interior decorated with a lustrous blackish glaze with streaks of blue-silver 'hare's fur' markings. 241 grams, 11.3 cm wide
From a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s. -
Blue and White Porcelain Tek Sing Shipwreck Bowl
Sunk Belvidere Shoals, 6th February 1822 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Decorated with floral motifs to the interior and exterior walls, within plain circumferential borders; with original Nagel Auctions label, Stuttgart, Germany. 205 grams, 15.4 cm
Ex Nagel Auctions, Stuttgart, Germany, November 2000.
The Tek Sing (True Star) wreck is one of the famous recovery stories of the 20th century. Sailing from the port of Xiamen (then known as Amoy) in February 1822 the vessel Tek Sing was bound for Jakarta, Indonesia laden with porcelain goods and 1600 Chinese emigrants. The captain decided to pass through the Gaspar Strait, between the Bangka-Belitung Islands, and ran aground on a reef. The vessel sank in about 100 feet of water. The next morning, February 7, an English East Indian vessel captained by James Pearl, passing through the same waters, encountered debris and some survivors and managed to rescue about 190 of the latter.
