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A Chinese aloeswood bead necklace, 1300mm overall, contained in cylindrical lead box and cover, 5.75ins (140mm) diameter x 2.25ins (56mm) high £800-1000
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A Chinese lady's silvery metal and mother of pearl belt with fifteen oval links applied with calligraphy, 26ins (660mm) overall (stamped to buckle) £80-120
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A Chinese silvery metal filigree brise fan highlighted in gilt, the thin filigree sticks with floral sprays and with oval landscape cartouche and monogram to centre the sticks cast with figures, pavilions and flowers, 7.5ins (190mm) overall (19th Century - slight damage to thread) £400-600
Note: A similar example sold Bonhams Fine Chinese Art, London, New Bond Street, 12th May 2011, Lot 523. A similar example dated circa 1840 is in the Collection of the Peabody Museum, Salem, illustrated by C.L. Crossman - "The Decorative Arts of the China Trade", Suffolk, 1997, pl. 201
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A Chinese silvery metal and blue cloisonné square panelled teapot and cover, 5.25ins (133mm) high (stamped "Silver" to underside) £400-600
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A Chinese silvery metal circular fruit bowl with twin balled body and shaped rim, the exterior boldly embossed with chrysanthemums on a hammered ground, the footrim with three shaped panel supports, 10.25ins (260mm) diameter x 6.5ins (165mm) high (gross weight 38ozs - early 20th Century - rectangular seal mark to base - exterior surface dented and joint between two layers open on rim) £450-600
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A Chinese silvery metal dressing table set, the whole embossed and chased with dragons, by Tuck Chang of Shanghai, comprising - mirror, brush, clothes brush, comb, rectangular box on ball feet, 5.25ins (134mm) x 3.5ins (90mm), cylindrical box and cover, 2.625ins (65mm) high, pair of pillar candlesticks (incomplete), rectangular tray, 5.25ins (134mm) x 3ins (76mm), button hook, pair of glove stretchers and matchbox holder (incomplete) (combined weighable silvery metal 20ozs) £400-600
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A Japanese silvery metal rectangular cigarette case, the front engraved with the crest of the Japanese royal family, 3.125ins x 3.5ins, by Miyamoto Shoko (stamped to interior - weight 3ozs), in original black leather fitted case £250-350
Note: This cigarette case was presented to Gordon J. Green, Special Branch, New Scotland Yard, SW1 by Crown Prince Chichibu (1902-1953) when attending the Coronation of George VI in 1937, complete with two letters and some photographs
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An Indian silvery metal oval dish with shaped rim, the exterior boldly pierced and embossed with figures of elephants, logs, fruit and leaves, 9.75ins (248mm) x 8.125ins (205mm) x 2ins (51mm) high, and one other silvery metal circular jardinière embossed and chased with deer, leaves and floral ornament, 6ins diameter (152mm) diameter x 3.75ins (96mm) high (both unmarked - total weight 22ozs) £150-200
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A Chinese bronze two-handled censer, 5.5ins (140mm) diameter x 4.25ins (108mm) high (four character seal - 20th Century - polished) £300-400
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A Chinese bronze two-handled censer, 5.25ins (134mm) diameter x 3ins (76mm) high (four character seal - 20th Century - polished) £300-400
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A Chinese bronze two-handled censer with ram's head pattern handles, 3.5ins (89mm) diameter x 2.5ins (64mm) high (cast seal mark to base), and bronze stand for same £100-150
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A Chinese bronze two-handled censer, 5.25ins (133mm) diameter x 3ins (76mm) high, on three short feet, and a similar, 4.75ins (121mm) diameter x 2.25ins (57mm) high (both with six character seal marks - 20th Century - both polished) £350-500
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A Chinese bronze two-handled censer engraved with three clawed dragons chasing the Sacred Pearl, 6.25ins (159mm) diameter x 5ins (127mm) high, with six character mark and carved wooden stand, and a pair of small two-handled censers and covers, each 4.5ins (114mm) high (one with hardwood stand, a bell, 6.75ins (171mm) high, and a small circular dish, 3.75ins (95mm) diameter £250-300
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A Chinese bronze pomegranate pattern bowl, 5.25ins (133mm) x 3.75ins (97mm) high (signed to base) £200-300
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A Chinese bronze two-handled bowl and cover of shaped outline, cast with shishi, leaves and archaic symbols, the knop moulded as a bird in flight (detached - 19th Century), 7.25ins (184mm) wide x 6ins (152mm) high overall £100-200
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A Chinese bronze standing figure of a deity, 6.75ins (173mm) high (character mark to base) £150-200
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A Chinese bronze Gu vase of archaistic design with wide flared rim and spreading foot, 8.75ins (222mm) high £300-400
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A pair of Chinese cloisonné enamel square section vases with flared necks, decorated with dragons and fabled birds in compartments, 18.5ins (470mm) high (early 20th Century - slight damage) £200-300
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A pair of Japanese bronze vases cast with chickens and birds amongst branches, on four feet, 14.25ins (362mm) high (20th Century) £200-300
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A Japanese bronze cylindrical umbrella stand cast with a dragon and a tiger in relief, 23.5ins (60cms) high x 9ins (23cms) diameter (late 19th/early 20th Century - lacking base panel) £100-150
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A Japanese copper and bronze mounted fish or lobster basket with ring handle, 11ins (280mm) overall (with silvery metal oval seal - slight damage) £100-150
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A Japanese standing bronze figure of a fisherman with rod in right hand and fish in left hand, on shaped base, 11.5ins (293mm) high to top of figure and carved wood stand for same (seal mark to base - Meiji period) £700-900
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A Japanese cloisonné small jar, cover and inner lid decorated with dragons amongst clouds on a dark blue ground, 4.25ins (108mm) high (chipped) and a pot-pourri vase with pierced cover decorated with mythological bird, moths and flowers, 3.25ins (83mm) high £250-350
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A pair of Japanese cloisonné enamel vases of flattened baluster form decorated in coloured enamels with dragons and exotic birds, 4.25ins (311mm) high, and a pair of cloisonné vases of bottle shape with flared necks, 7.25ins (184mm) high £100-150
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A pair of Japanese cloisonné enamel slender baluster shaped vases decorated with exotic birds on rockwork with flowering branches on a dark blue ground, 7ins (178mm) high (one with small bruise to enamel and edge of foot ground) £300-400
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A Japanese bronze vase with incised decoration of flowering plants, rocks and birds with silvered and gilt detail, 9.25ins (235mm) high (19th/20th Century - nine character mark to base - drilled) £150-200
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A pair of Japanese bronze usubata vases, the ovoid bodies cast with figures of Samurai Warriors and flowers, each fitted with a wide usubata rim incised with birds and bamboo shoots, and on bulbous pedestal base, 9.25ins (235mm) diameter x 18ins (458mm) high £1000-1500
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A Japanese bronze prayer bell cast and hammered with hailstone patterns to the lower register, and with inscriptions, 18ins (457mm) diameter x 14ins (356mm) high (19th Century - no striker) £500-700
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A Thai bronze figure of a seated Buddha on lotus pattern base, 21ins (534mm) high (modern - weighted) £100-150
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A Chinese carved bamboo seated figure of Luohan with basket of fruit to one side, 4ins (102mm) high, (Qing Dynasty - 17th/18th Century) and Japanese wood box for same £1000-2000
Provenance: Sotheby's Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art London, 10th November 2010, lot 5
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A Chinese carved root figure of Guanyin seated on a wave with fish below and on rectangular base, 17.25ins (438mm) high (early 20th Century - headdress loose) £100-150
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A Chinese carved, painted and gilded wooden figure of a cross-legged monk with his right hand raised in blessing, on raised shaped plinth, 8.25ins (210mm) high, a similar of a seated figure with his hands in an attitude of prayer, 7.75ins (197mm) high, and four figures of Buddha, a bearded figure sitting with crossed legs, and a modern hardwood Oriental pen box, various £100-150
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A Chinese huanghuali cylindrical brush pot, 5.75ins (146mm) diameter x 6ins (153mm) high £800-1000
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A Chinese bamboo box and cover, the sides deeply carved with figures and phoenix within cartouches, 4.75ins (121mm) diameter x 6.5ins (165mm) high (19th/20th Century) £100-150
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A Chinese sandalwood card case and cover deeply carved with figures in a landscape with pavilions, 4.25ins (108mm) x 2.875ins (73mm) (19th Century) £70-100
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A Chinese blue silk robe embroidered with floral sprays and applied with panels embroidered with figures on a terrace and figures within a garden landscape £200-300
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A Chinese navy silk embroidered part altar frontal embroidered with dragons, bats and roundels, 16ins (406mm) x 42ins (1068mm) (late 19th Century) £200-300
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An Indian painted black silk panel decorated in colours with Ganesha and female attendants, 23ins x 52ins (late 19th/early 20th Century - slight paint damage - unframed) £300-400
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A Burmese prayer book formed from dried palm leaves, each leaf engraved with text, 19.5ins x 2.5ins, and 19th Century stained pine rectangular case for same, and one other Burmese prayer book formed of palm leaves with red lacquered wood "Covers", 19ins x 2.25ins £200-300
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P. De Tanner - "Chinese Jade, Ancient and Modern", first edition, published by Dietrich Reimer/Ernst Vohsen, Berlin, 1925 (two cloth bound volumes) £200-300
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A collection of over two hundred and thirty Sotheby's, Christies and other auction catalogues of Oriental Works of Art interest, dating from 1990 to 2007, various (the majority of catalogues retaining sale results lists), and a small selection of Robert Brandt and Roger Keverne catalogues £500-700
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John Thomson (1777-1840) - coloured engraving - Map of China, 22.5ins (572mm) x 20ins (507mm), in later gilt frame and glazed £300-400
Note: produced for 'Thomson's General Atlas' published by the author, Edinburgh 1815
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A Chinese embroidered and painted silk panel - Ship's portrait - "H.M.S. Newcastle, China Station 1913-1915", 9.75ins x 13.25ins, in maple frame and glazed (early 20th Century) £300-400
Note: H.M.S. Newcastle was a Bristol Class Light Cruiser, commissioned to replace H.M.S. Bedford on the China Station and was involved in protecting British interests at Shanghai during the 1913 Rebellion. H.M.S. Newcastle also served during the First World War and was scrapped in May 1921
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Chinese School - Watercolour on silk - River landscape with figures, ox drawn cart to bank and figure approaching in a junk, 7.75ins (196mm) x 10.25ins (261mm) (red seal mark), in oak frame and glazed £150-200
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Chinese School - Pair of paintings on silk - Temple scene with seated Emperor and an audience and landscape scene with Emperor on horseback and two fighting attendants, 19ins (485mm) x 15ins (383mm), signed, contained in black lacquer and gilt frames decorated with chinoiseries and inset with mirror panels, 31.5ins (800mm) x 27.25ins (695mm) overall, signed £800-1200
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Chinese Erotic School - Two paintings on silk - Two figures embracing on a canopied bed and two figures embracing on a couch, each 7ins (178mm) square, framed and glazed £800-1200
Provenance: Bertholet Collection, Holland
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Chinese School - Watercolour - Painting on pith paper of seated dignitary and his wife with attendants in an interior, 7.75ins (190mm) x 12.5ins (317mm) (19th Century), framed and glazed, five other glazed watercolours and a small collection of similar loose watercolours, various £200-300
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Chinese School - Coloured print - Glade with deer to foreground, 26ins x 53ins, in modern black frame and glazed £200-300
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