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A Chinese bronze two-handled censer engraved with panels of Phoenix and flowers on three turned feet, 6ins (152mm) diameter x 5.5ins (140mm) high (20th Century - cast four character mark to base - two repairs to body) £100-150
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A Chinese cloisonné circular box and cover enamelled with stylised flowers and leaves on a pale green ground, 3.75ins (95mm) diameter x 1.875ins (47mm) high (some damage) £100-120
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A Chinese gilt brass and cloisonné panel of shaped outline, the coloured enamels with flowering sprays, leaves, sacred objects, fish and insects, with applied characters and with applied bats to the sides and cresting, and with inset polished hardstones to the border of the panel, 30.5ins (775mm) high x 18.5 ins (470mm) wide (modern) £300-400
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A Japanese cloisonné enamel bulbous vase decorated with chrysanthemums on a sand coloured and dark blue ground, 9.75ins (248mm) high (Meiji period) £300-500
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A Japanese cloisonné enamel slender baluster shaped vase enamelled in colours with a standing figure of the Goddess of the West and attendant on a mid blue ground, 14.5ins (368mm) high, with plated liner and domed foot (Meiji period - with damage and extensive restoration) £200-300
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A Japanese bronze vase cast with birds and insects amongst flowering plants, the leaves in different coloured metals, 9.75ins (248mm) high (polished) £100-150
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A pair of Japanese bronze two-handled inlaid vases, the central panels with Muntjac and flowering plants, 8.75ins (222mm) high £150-200
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A Japanese bronze two-handled vase and cover, the lobed body and neck cast with birds in prunus branches, 24ins (610mm) high (seal mark to base) (20th Century) £150-200
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A pair of Japanese brown patinated bronze two handled urns and covers, each 9ins (232mm) high (lids drilled - slight damage - Meiji period) £100-150
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A pair of Japanese bronze two-handled vases cast with single carp and waves, 9.75ins (246mm) high £200-300
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A Japanese bronze figure of dark brown patination - Woman carrying a basket, 11.25ins (285mm) high (element missing from left hand) £350-400
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A Japanese Shakudo pouch clasp, cast with Hakamadare Yasusuke about to draw sword on Fujiwara Hirai Yasumasa playing his flute, 2.75ins (70mm) x 1.5ins (37mm), signed Mitsunaga (Meiji period) £400-600
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A Japanese Shakudo Menuki, mounted as a buckle, cast with a Samurai astride a horse and an attendant, 1.375ins (35mm) x 1.25ins (32mm) unsigned (Meiji period) £200-300
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A Japanese dark Shibuichi pouch clasp, engraved in katakiribori with the frustrated rat catcher, 2.25ins (57mm) x 0.75ins (19mm), signed Haruaki (late Edo period) £200-300
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A Japanese bronze jardinière, the body with raised decoration of birds and flowering branches, 15.5ins (393mm) diameter x 13.5ins (343mm) high (Meiji period - some repair) £200-300
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A Chinese large dated cast iron temple bell of domed form with double headed dragon loop handle, cast in low relief with dragon and inscribed "Fengtiao Yushun. Guotai Minan" (Seasonal Weather. A Prosperous and Peaceful Kingdom) and "Bianen Xinshi He Dunyi Tang Jingfeng. Guangxu Shiqi Nian Mengxia Jidan" (Respectfully presented by the faithful followers from the Hall of Honesty and Righteous of the He Family from Bianen on an auspicious day on the fourth month in the 17th year of Guangxu corresponding to 1891) (Qing Dynasty - Guangxu period - dated 1891), 24.375ins (620mm) high £3000-4000
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A Japanese Tanto, the 8.25ins polished blade with visible hamon, signed "Seishinshi Masayoshi", with cotton bound shagreen Tsuka, pale horn mounts, and black and red lacquer saya, 13ins overall £400-600
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A Japanese Tanto, the 10.5ins polished Koto blade, signed "Kanenobu", with cotton bound shagreen Tsuka, dark horn mounts, and shagreen saya, 15.5ins overall £400-600
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A Japanese Tanto, the 11.75ins polished blade with some visible hamon, unsigned, the brown lacquer saya and Tsuka with engraved copper coloured metal mounts, and with leaf pattern mount to the tip of the saya, 18.5ins overall £300-500
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A Japanese Wakizashi, the 12.5ins highly polished blade, unsigned, with iron Tsuba and cotton bound shagreen Tsuka, and plain dark wood saya, 22.5ins overall, and a Japanese Tanto, with 10.5ins polished blade, unsigned, shagreen covered Tsuka, and plain dark wood saya, 16ins overall £100-150
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A Japanese Wakizashi, the 16.5ins polished blade with wave pattern hamon, signed "Norimitsu Saku", with bronze Tsuba and mounts, some applied with leaves, and with lacquer saya, 23.5ins overall £800-1200
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A Japanese Wakizashi, the 18.5ins polished blade with partially visible hamon, unsigned, with iron Tsuba cast with water landscape, cotton bound shagreen Tsuka, and dark wood saya inlaid with star motifs, 26.5ins overall £600-800
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A Japanese Katana, the 25ins polished blade with some original hamon, the cast iron Tsuba pierced with two warriors fighting, cotton bound shagreen Tsuka, and red and black striped lacquer saya, 36ins overall £500-700
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A Japanese Katana, with 28.5ins polished blade, signed "Moritaka", pierced cast iron Tsuba, cotton bound shagreen Tsuka, and plain black lacquer saya, 41ins overall £500-700
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A Japanese Shin Gunto Katana, by The Dairen Railway Factory, Manchuria, the 27.5ins polished blade with plain hamon, signed "Ko-a-Isshin Mantetsu Kin Saku" and dated "Showa Mizunoto Hitsuji Haru" (1943), with cotton bound shagreen Tsuka, and brown lacquer saya with pierced and cast metal fittings, 38ins overall £600-800
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A Japanese Wakizashi, with 14.5ins polished blade, unsigned, blue cotton bound shagreen Tsuka and plain black lacquer saya, 22.5ins overall £100-150
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A Japanese Wakizashi in Shirasaya, the 21ins polished blade with visible hamon, signed "Masashige", the wooden Tsuka and saya with Japanese inscription, 31ins overall £400-600
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A Japanese Wakizashi in Shirasaya, the 22ins polished blade with visible wave hamon, signed "Kanemoto", plain wood Tsuka and saya, 31ins overall £400-600
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A Japanese Wakizashi, the 20.5ins polished blade with visible cloud hamon, unsigned, the cast iron Tsuba applied in gold coloured metal with fence pattern, cotton bound shagreen Tsuka, and shagreen saya, 28.5ins overall £400-600
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A Japanese Wakizashi, the 22ins Shobu-Zukuri blade with shortened Nakago (Tang) showing partial signature, iron Tsuba cast with village scene, yellow cotton bound shagreen Tsuka, and plain black lacquer saya, 35ins overall £400-600
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A Japanese Shin Gunto Katana, the 25ins polished blade with Mount Fuji hamon, the shortened Nakago (Tang) showing partial signature "No Shu Seki Ju Watanabe Ama . . .?", cotton bound shagreen Tsuka and brown leather saya with gilt metal mounts, 37.5ins overall £600-800
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A Japanese Shin Gunto Katana, with 28.5ins polished blade with visible hamon, the shortened Nakago (Tang) showing partial signature "Hizen Kuni Osafune . . .?", cotton bound shagreen Tsuka, and dark brown leather covered saya with gilt metal mounts, 40.5ins overall £600-800
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A Japanese Shin Gunto Katana, the 26ins polished blade with visible hamon, signed "Yo-Shu Ho-Jo Ju Hiromasa saku" and dated 1943, cotton bound shagreen Tsuka and black lacquer saya with metal mounts, 38ins overall £600-800
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A Japanese Wakizashi, the 13.25ins polished blade with visible hamon, unsigned, iron Tsuba pierced and cast with sea and birds (evidence of original gilding) and metal mounts cast with clown and monkey, the lacquer saya with Hojo family Mon motifs, 22ins overall £800-1200
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A Japanese Wakizashi, the 19ins blade with partial polish, bone Tsuka and saya carved all over with numerous characters and with bronze coloured metal fittings, 30ins overall, and a Japanese Wakizashi, the 19.25ins polished blade with indecipherable signature, painted Tsuba and cotton bound shagreen Tsuka, blue lacquer saya with black metallic fittings, 29ins overall £100-150
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A Japanese Wakizashi in carved bone scabbard, with 18.5ins (470mm) blade, 33ins (838mm) overall, and similar Tanto with 7.5ins (190mm) blade, 16.25ins (412mm) overall £100-150
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A Japanese Wakizashi, the 21.5ins polished blade with visible hamon, apparently unsigned, iron tsuba and black lacquer tsuka and saya, 31ins overall (blade rusted and pitted, tsuba rusted and tsuka somewhat damaged) £80-120
Provenance: Mr Ronald Daubeny O.B.E., formerly of Linton Park, Linton, Maidstone, Kent and thence by family descent
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Three Far Eastern edged weapons, comprising - a 13.5ins water steel blade with carved hardwood handle, 17.5ins overall, an Indian Cavalry Tulwar of all steel construction with 29ins blade, 35ins overall, and an Indian punch dagger of all steel construction, 12.75ins overall £120-160
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A Chinese red cinnabar lacquer brush pot carved with two extensive landscapes of pavilion within watery landscapes, 5.5ins (139mm) high (square four character seal mark) £300-400
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A Chinese rosewood and silvery metal inlaid rectangular two-handled tray, the moulded rim with silvery metal mounted corners, the centre inlaid with a junk and a pavilion by a lake, 24.25ins (615mm) x 14.625ins (372mm) (20th Century - surface polish marked and inlay slightly lifting in places) £200-300
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A Chinese hardwood oval tray carved with a mount landscape with pinecone trees and pavilions, 16.75ins (426mm) x 16.25ins (414mm) (small chip to edge) £100-150
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A Chinese black lacquer octagonal box decorated in red and gilt with landscape scenes, dragons, kylins, flowers, and leaves, on four paw pattern feet, 15ins (382mm) x 12.25ins (312mm) x 5ins (127mm) high (one foot loose) £60-80
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A Thai or Siamese carved and painted wood face mask, 8ins x 6.5ins (late 19th/early 20th Century - extensive paint loss) £100-150
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A Chinese red and gilt painted rectangular stand, on cabriole legs, 12.5ins x 6.5ins x 7ins high (late 19th/early 20th Century) £100-150
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A collection of seven Chinese hardwood pierced and carved vase stands, the largest 6.75ins (172mm) diameter x 3ins (76mm) high £200-300
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A Chinese hardwood framed small table screen, the alabaster panel painted with figures in a landscape, the reverse with written characters and seal mark, 6.5ins (165mm) x 4.5ins (140mm), and hardwood stand for same, 9.375ins (238mm) high (late 19th Century) £200-300
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A Chinese hardwood framed rectangular table screen inset with white soapstone plaque, carved with exotic birds and flowers, 12.25ins (314mm) x 8.5ins (216mm) overall, and conforming stand precedent carved with scroll work, 12.75ins (324mm) high overall (20th Century) £200-300
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A pair of Chinese face screens each with circular silk panels, painted with birds perched on flowering branches with embroidered pink silk covered borders and handles, 9.75ins (247mm) diameter (19th Century - slight foxing and staining) £300-500
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A Chinese Hmong embroidered silk panel - Depicting life in a village, on blue ground within geometric borders, 47ins x 31ins, in grey painted frame and glazed (20th Century) £150-200
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A fine Japanese silk embroidered panel depicting a lion and lioness, by The Sozayemon Nishimura company, Kyoto and Tokyo, 16.25ins (413mm) x 24ins (610mm) in figured walnut frame and glazed (manufacturer's label to reverse - small tear to silk ground - Meiji period) £2500-3500
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