The Kentucky Gazette

High Prices for Old China.

[From the London Daily News, April 5.]

At the sale of the remarkable collection of Sevres china, belonging to Mr. Goding, which took place at the rooms of Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods on Thursday, the following were the prices of the principal lots: A pair of cups and saucers, gros bleu; painted by Dodin and Le Guay. £94 10s. large cup and saucer, by Dodin, £97 13s.; a Trembleuse cup and saucer, marbled in imitation of lapis lazuli, exhibited at Lincoln College, 1862, £79 16s; a square plateau, £57 16s.; a cup and saucer, £28 7s; a cup and saucer, green painted. with shepherd and shepherdess, and landscape, £99 15s; a cup and saucer, turquoise, richly gilt, exquisitely painted, with shepherdess catching birds and landscape. in two medallions. from the collection of the late Mr. Fitzherbert, and part of a cabaret in the collection of Sir Charles Mills, £159; a square plateau, 61 inches in diameter, painted with fruit, green, and Rose du Barry, £96 12s.; an oval plateau, gros bleu, painted by Aszelin, 12x9, £99 12s. a rosewater ewer and basin, bleu de Vincennes, £199 10s; a ditto turquoise bleu, £136 10s.; a ditto, Rose du Barry, with bands of green, painted with bouquets of flowers and fruit, in twelve medallions, from the Stowe collection, £121 16s., an eventail jardiniere and stand, turquoise ground, exquisitely painted with shepherd and shepherdess and flowers, in seven medallions, 7 inches high £682 10s.; a pair of similar shaped eventail jardinieres and stands, exquisitely painted with peasant after Teniers flowers and pastoral scenes; in six medallions, 7 inches high, from the late Sir Wathen Waller's collection, £1,890; a small vase, turquoise openwork, neck exquisitely painted with Cupids and trophies, in medallions, from the collection of the late Mr. B. Sneyd, £110 5.; a pair of oviform vases, gros bleu, painted with figures of Apollo and Narcissus, 12 inches high. £504; a pair of large oviform vases and covers turquoise, painted with camp scenes, in octagonal medallions, and feet of ormolu, from the collection of the late Capt. Ricketts. £610 10s.; three oviform vases, gros bleu, painted with nymphs in landscapes, in large oval medallions, by Dodin, 17½ inches high, the smaller 13 inches, £840; a large oviform vase, green ground, painted with Eastern seaport and figures, by Morin, from the collection of Mr. W. Angerstein, £336; a pair of vases of rare form, the sides and necks perforated, and surmounted by a group of flowers, the handles forming nozzles for lights, turquoise ground white and gold. painted with Chinese figures and flowers, 9 inches high, from the Duchess of Bedford's collection, exhibited at the Loan Collection, South Kensington Museum, 1862, £430 10s. The last lot of the collection was a pair of vases with covers and stands, the sides fluted in six compartments, the necks and covers pierced in open work to hold flowers; the vases in green ground, with Rose du Barry foliage, richly gilt, exquisitely painted with Chinese subjects and flowers in medallions, the necks and covers painted in gros bleu; green, and Rose du Barry, surmounted by incrustations of flowers in colors; the stands green, Rose du Barry, and gros bleu, richly gilt, 11 inches high. These unique and beautiful examples, which were formerly in the cabinet of the late Duchess of Cleveland and were exhibited at the Loan Collection at South Kensington, where the great prize of the sale; and after a competition such as has never been surpassed in interest and excitement, were finally knocked down at the enormous bid of 6,500 guineas (£6,825), made by a Mr. Watkins, acting on commission. The price. it need hardly be remarked. is one wholly unprecedented. It was whispered after the sale that these vases were purchased the late owners about 22 years ago for the sum of £300, which was at that time considered a very good price. The fine old Worcester china, which was sold after the Sevres, and which belonged to a different property, fetched high prices A set of five vases, deep blue ground, painted with exotic birds in medallions, sold for £451 10s a coffee cup and saucer, dark blue, painted with Watteau figures in medallions, for £81 17s.; a ditto, for £44 2s.; a tea cup and saucer, for £44 2s; a set of three vases, painted with exotic birds and flowers. for £73.10. The total of the sale, which consisted of 182 lots, amounted to £20.000.