A few examples of appraisal values for
NANKING

• Nanking Lamps Chinese a pair of red
  Nanking Lamps Chinese a pair of red Nanking lamps each with pagodas in a landscape and mounted on gilt metal stands; oah 8.5 in.
• The Nanking Cargo - A Chinese
  The Nanking Cargo - A Chinese blue and white porcelain dish painted with a two storey pavilion and retreat above a smaller waterside pavilion on a rocky river back 8.75ins (223mm) diameter (gilt detail rubbed) an Imari porcelain tea bowl and saucer painted with the ''Fenced Pine'' pattern a blue and white porcelain saucer painted with the ''Blue Pine'' pattern 4.75ins (121mm diameter) and a selection of other Nanking Cargo wares
• A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN
  A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN NANKING CHARGER Circa 1750, finely painted with meandering blossoms and vines beneath a scalloped edge, decorated with a variation of the Nanking design water and pavilion scene enclosed by a delineated dark blue band featuring ruyi clouds, not marked.
• 19C CHINESE LANDSCAPE NANKING
  19C CHINESE LANDSCAPE NANKING PLATTER China,19th CenturyLarge oval platter with blue and white depiction of a town along a river.
• A Chinese "Nanking Cargo" Blue
  A Chinese "Nanking Cargo" Blue and White Porcelain Bowl c. 1750 the exterior sides painted with a continuous landscape scene comprised of rocks and trees base with a Christie's Amsterdam lot label designating this bowl as lot 3014 from the 1986 "The Nanking Cargo" auction height 3 1/4 in. diameter 7 1/2 in. wood stand. Note: In 1751 while on its way back to The Netherlands with cargo of Chinese goods loaded in Canton the Geldermalsen hit a reef and sank in the South China Sea. In 1986 much of the cargo was salvaged by Captain Michael Hatcher and subsequently sold at Christie's Amsterdam as "The Nanking Cargo" a term derived from 18th century auctions in which porcelain similar to the example above were sold as "Nanking ware".
• Chinese porcelain Nanking bowl,
  Chinese porcelain Nanking bowl, 19th c., 5"h x 9 1/4"l x 9 3/4"d
• BULBOUS NANKING PORCELAIN JAR W/
  BULBOUS NANKING PORCELAIN JAR W/ WOODEN CAP Bulbous Nanking porcelain jar with carved wooden cap having body with multiple figures of warriors and men of valor, the neck and foot with leaf and repeating raised relief design, late 19th C.; 13"H 10"DIA.
• Chinese Export Nanking porcelain
  Chinese Export Nanking porcelain dish, circa 1780 with river scene decoration, parcel gilt trim, 8 3/4 in. L., 10 1/4 in. W.
• A Chinese Imperial Railway Bond,
  A Chinese Imperial Railway Bond, Shanghai to Nanking, 1904 1904? ?????????????? 21.3 x 11.2 in — 54 x 28.5 cm
• CHINESE EXPORT "NANKING"
  CHINESE EXPORT "NANKING" PORCELAIN BOWL & PLATTERChinese Export Blue and White "Nanking" Porcelain Tureen Bowl and Platter , early 19th c., associated, each decorated with houses in watery landscape, bowl with foliate handles, h. 2 3/4 in., w. 12 1/2 in., d. 8 1/2 in.; platter l. 14 1/4 in. (2 pcs.)
• Chinese Export Nanking porcelain
  Chinese Export Nanking porcelain platter, circa 1770 river scene decoration, 12 in. W., 14 1/2 in. L.
• Chinese Nanking meat platter,
  Chinese Nanking meat platter, drain: coastal village scene, figure on bridge, triangle and network border, verso with floral sprays, 19th century, 2-1/2 x 16-3/4 x 13-1/2 in. Excellent condition, some scratches, firing flaws. The Estate of the Late C. David Williams, Atlanta, Georgia
• 30 pieces Chinese export porcelain:
  30 pieces Chinese export porcelain: Nanking pattern, coastal village scenes, with four Nanking-style pieces, 19th and 20th century, (30 pieces). The Estate of the Late Julia Lee Dodge Moor
• PHOTOS OF COLONEL PINGER TRAVELS
  PHOTOS OF COLONEL PINGER TRAVELS AND LINCHENG OUTRAGEChina/Japan, 1923, comprising: 83 black and white photos, 75 depicting the travels of Roland and Miriam Pinger and their two young sons, Roland Jr. and Edward throughout China and Japan, eight depicting the Lincheng Outrage and subsequent kidnapping of the Pinger family on May 6, 1923; 75 images depict various locations including the Forbidden City, Hong Kong, the Great Wall of China, Summer Palace, Ming tombs, Mukden and Kyoto, Japan, some with notes to verso, various sizes, one stamped "Copyright Photograph by Mactavish & Co., Ltd. Shanghai", largest 5 x 3-1/4 in.; seven images depict scenes from the Lincheng Outrage, including the derailed train and one portrait of Colonel Pinger at Pautzeku boiling dishes in the bandit camp, notes to verso, largest 4-1/2 x 3-1/8 in. Provenance: Private Collection, San Francisco, California Note: For an article on Colonel R.W. Pinger's experience in China, see article "A Pilgrimage to Pautzeku: Chinese Bandits Capture Ordnance Officer, Army Ordnance, Washington, D.C., January-February 1924, Vol. IV, No. 22". Lincheng Outrage: On May 6, 1923, twelve hundred bandits, mostly former soldiers under General Zhang Jingyao, led by Sun Meiyao derailed and attacked the "Blue Express" near the town of Lincheng on the Tianjin-Pukou Railway in Shandong Province. The bandits looted the train and killed a number of passengers. They took over 200 passengers hostage, including 25 westerners, most of whom were Americans. The hostages were forced on a ten day march to the bandits' mountain base at Pautzeku and were released after 37 days. Condition: slight bending to photos, some with toning/foxing, a few minor creases
• A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN
  A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN NANKING SERVING PLATTER 19th century, blue and white decoration of a river flowing between clusters of buildings along the shore, two diaper bands surround the scene, unglazed underside.
• CHINESE NANKING BLUE AND WHITE
  CHINESE NANKING BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN MUG 18th century. Painted to depict riverscape - 6 in. high.
• 11PC CHINESE NANKING PORCELAIN
  11PC CHINESE NANKING PORCELAIN PLATE GROUP China,19th CenturyIncludes a small leaf form dish, three medium leaf form plates, one kidney shaped plate, and six round plates decorated with landscapes and pagodas.
• PAIR CHINESE 'NANKING CARGO'
  PAIR CHINESE 'NANKING CARGO' CHARGERS Qing Dynasty (c.1750), China, blue underglaze porcelain, decorated with pavilions in a landscape inside a diaper ring, the scalloped rim decorated with fruiting branches, old auction labels to underside, 17"dia
• A small album of Chinese and
  A small album of Chinese and other photographs, early 20th Century, including temples, lacquer vases, a leopard 'that came to the circus at Foochow', monastery festival, river at Sanpan, English cemetery etc., approximately twenty two and a framed photograph of a man, the frame bearing label of Hang Ling Kee, No 11, Sze The Lee, Sin Seng Road, Hankow
• Chinese export porcelain Nanking
  Chinese export porcelain Nanking shaped dish 19th century Serpentine form with spearhead-edged diaper border centering a riverscape with a figure crossing a stone bridge. L: 7 1/2 in.
• PHOTOGRAPH OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK
  PHOTOGRAPH OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK (1887-1975) Guanghua studio Nanjing China. Framed. - 9 in. x 11 3/4 in. ???(1887-1975)???
• A Chinese Scroll Painting Xu
  A Chinese Scroll Painting Xu Beihong (1895-1953) depicting a general with an attendant inscribed De Gong Jiang Jun for De Lin (Li Zhongren) Kuomintang military commander dated 1943 and signed Beihong with one artist's seal in the left register. Height of image 51 3/4 x width 21 3/4 inches.
• 12PC CHINESE NANKING PORCELAIN
  12PC CHINESE NANKING PORCELAIN PLATE GROUP China,19th CenturyIncludes six small plates, two deep well plates, and four dinner plates all decorated with blue river village landscapes and grand pagodas.
• Chinese horizontal painting,
  Chinese horizontal painting, possibly a hand scroll, ink and color on silk, procession of soldiers escorting a high-ranking official to a parley with Mongols, an advance rider crossing the bridge between the two parties, signature in black and red seal lower left in section with Mongols, 18th or 19th century, each section 12-1/2 x 47-1/2 in. Two sections, trimmed and laid down on cotton cloth, mounted to wood frames, wear and loss to pigment, areas of repair and retouch, scratches, losses to silk. Private Collection.
• * (CHINA) SOONG MEI-LING (MME.
  * (CHINA) SOONG MEI-LING (MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK) Sian: A Coup d'Etat. Shanghai: The China Publishing Company 1937. 8vo original red silk lettered in gilt. Deluxe edition printed on hand-made bamboo paper signed by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek. Occasional spotting; spine lightly faded.
• Five Etchings Depicting Life in
  Five Etchings Depicting Life in China 19th Century Thomas Allom, illustrator Playing Shuttlecock with the Feet Hall of Audience Palace of Yuen min Yuen, Peking The City of Nanking Landing Place and Entrance to the Temple of Honan, Canton Han-Tsuen - Province of of Kiang-nan hand-colored steel prints on paper, framed Image visible: 5 x 8 in., 12.7 x 20.3 cm.
• Chinese Nanking Cargo Bowl
  Chinese Nanking Cargo Bowl Chinese export. A blue and white ceramic bowl with landscape decoration around exterior. Unmarked; ht. 3.5 (8.89 cm) dia. 7.5 in. (19.05 cm). Ex. Christie's Nanking Cargo sale 1986 Lot 2726 with original sticker. Condition: With flea bites to feet and rims. Also minor pock marks in glaze and surface scratches. Special Auction Notes: U.S bidders may pay with cash personal check money order bank check or wire transfer. Bidders outside the U. S. will be required to pay by wire transfer. No credit cards accepted. Bidders unknown to Cowan??Ts may be asked to provide additional personal identity or banking information.Please register early to allow sufficient time for bidder approval.
• Group of Chinese export Canton
  Group of Chinese export Canton and Nanking serving pieces 19th century Including a Nanking patterned oval platter, a Canton oval covered vegetable and an oblong Canton vegetable dish with boar's head handles, no lid. Platter L: 18 in. PROVENANCE: From a New Jersey Estate
• Four Chinese export porcelain
  Four Chinese export porcelain Nanking bowls late 18th century Of circular form, decorated with central village scene surrounded by two blue borders and a gilt rim. (4). Largest Diam: 5 3/4 in. PROVENANCE: From the collection of Harry Wetherstine, Germantown, Pennsylvania. One having minor chip to rim, all with minor hair-line cracks
• CHINESE SCHOOL, VARIOUS ARTISTS
  CHINESE SCHOOL, VARIOUS ARTISTS OF NANKING chinese, dated 1906 & presented to host mei ong ALBUM OF TWELVE LEAVES INSCRIBED AT THE GATHERING OF SCHOLARS AND OFFICIALS Various leaves, color and ink on paper and silk laid down, matted not framed, H: 11 in. provenance: Private Collection, Pittsburgh Descriptions provided in both printed and on-line catalogue formats do not include condition reports. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Interested bidders are strongly encouraged to request a condition report on any lots upon which they intend to bid, prior to placing a bid. All transactions are governed by Freeman''s Conditions of Sale. ,400
• PR CHINESE NANKING BLUE AND WHITE
  PR CHINESE NANKING BLUE AND WHITE COVERED TUREENS China,19th CenturyDiamond shaped tureens with river village landscapes to interior and lids, topped with pinecone shaped finials.
• 56 pieces Chinese porcelain: 47
  56 pieces Chinese porcelain: 47 Canton, eight Nanking, one lidded tureen with landscapes and floral decoration, 19th and 20th century; detailed listing available. Private Collection, Charleston, South Carolina.
• Nanking Cargo Shipwreck Chinese
  Nanking Cargo Shipwreck Chinese 18th Century B&W Soup Plate. Circa 1750- 9''- some cracks. Originally sold during Christie's 1986 Nanking Cargo Sale as part of Lot 4216.
• Chinese Nanyang School early 20th
  Chinese Nanyang School early 20th c. a "pokerwork" or pyrography album consisting of twelve double sheet landscape and bird-and-flower roundels each sealed inscribed in interior "gift of Hugh W Hubbard/ 3 December 1928" above the Benjamin March collector's seal each double sheet 9 3/4 in. x 11 1/2 in. silk bound cover sealed further paper cover bearing instructions: "Suggest this be offered to Dept. of Prints & Drawings. Museum of Art"; accompanied by a typed letter dated April 16 1929 from Benjamin March to Ralph M. Chait stating in part: "This album was given to me by a friend and I know absolutely nothing about the history or practice of the art as this example and yours are the only pieces of the kind I have ever seen"; together with Turn to the East by Caroline Singer and Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge Minton Balch & Company New York 1926. Provenance: With Benjamin Franklin March Jr. (1899-1934) Curator of Asiatic Art Detroit Institute of Arts (1927-1931); thence by descent in his family.
• Important Chinese Tianhuang Seal of
  Important Chinese Tianhuang Seal of Jiang Kong YinThis was one of the personal seals of Canton's famous Jiang Kong Yin (1864-1952) finely carved Tianhuang dragon seal the stone of a rich brown caramel color well carved as a Chinese dragon spitting out a pearl and resting atop a square base incised with the ''Jia Shen'' date (1944) and signed Kong Yin the face of the seal carved with four characters reading ''shi qing hua yi'' translated to ''poems have feelings and paintings have souls.'' measures 2.75''H circa 1940's.Provence: Purchased in the 1970's in Hong Kong by the consignor's grandfather from the nephew of one of the late Jiang Kong Yin's wives or concubines. Jiang Kong Yin was a student of Kang You Wei (1858-1927) and was addressed as ''Tai Shi'' (achieved the rank of ''er jia jin shi'' at the last Imperial examination ''ke ju dian shi'' of the late Qing dynasty). Jiang was selected by the Qing court for the official position ''shu Ji shi'' and attended the Imperial College ''han lin''. Jiang was an active politician during the late Qing and Early Republic of China period. In 1911 after the March 29 Guangzhou Uprising failed Jiang offered assistance on fundraising for the burial of the bodies of 72 young revolutionaries in Huang Hua Gang (as inscribed on one of the tablets at Huang Hua Gang Commemoration Park in Guangzhou). After that Dr. Sun Yat Sen and his wife Soong Ching Ling Made a special trip to meet Jiang and thank him for his assistance. Jiang was also a prominent scholar and author a well known foodie(food tasting expert) and best known for being the recipe creator fo the ''Tai Shi Snake Soup''.Property of a Palm Springs Florida Gentleman.
• Four Chinese Nanking plates 10"dia;
  Four Chinese Nanking plates 10"dia; together with six other plates/bowls of which four are marked "Made in China" Condition: Losses to gilt on rim, chips, cracks