Price guide to antique and vintage Chinese tiles.
Chinese ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns, to the sophisticated Chinese porcelain wares made for the imperial court and for export. Porcelain is so identified with China that it is still called “china” in everyday English usage. Reference: Wikipedia
A Relief-Molded Gray Pottery Tile of a drummer Song-Jin Dynasty The rectangular tile of baked unglazed buff pottery, molded in high relief, the flower adorned figure beating a drum on a stand. 13 3/4in (35cm) high
Sold for US$ 2,750 (£ 2,101) inc. premium at Bonhams in 2018
A BROWN-GLAZED ‘PAINTING AND POEM’ WEIGHT 18TH-19TH CENTURY The square tile is decorated to one side based upon the ‘Bird and Apricot Blossoms’ painting by the Five Dynasties’ painter Huang Quan, with a bird perched upon a flowering apricot branch amongst bamboo, with an apocryphal signature Chengdu Huang Quan, with two seals reading Huang and Quan. The reverse is inscribed with a Qianlong poem regarding the painting, inscribed and dated yiwei year with two seals reading Qian and Long. 4 in. (10.2 cm.) long
Sold for GBP 7,500 at Christies in 2017
Pair of Chinese Glazed Stoneware Fu Dog Roof Tile Finials Late Ming dynasty, 17th century Height 15 3/4 inches.
All ears broken and restored, scattered losses to tips of curled hair.
Sold for $750 (includes buyer’s premium) at Doyle New York in 2018
PAIR CHINESE GLAZED CERAMIC ROOF TILES probably Ming dynasty, depicting horses mid stride in green, yellow, and straw colored glaze h. 9 w. 10-1/2 d. 5 in.
Sold for $150 at Butterscotch Auction in 2018
Pair Chinese blue & white porcelain tiles, both with calligraphy upper left, 32″ h x 11-1/4″ w overall
Sold for $120 at William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals in 2018
Pair of Polychrome tiles depicting a Chinese man with signed Chinese text, 25 x 39 cm.
Sold for €300 at Veilinghuis de Jager in 2018
