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A CHINESE POWDER BLUE CHARGER WITH CENTRAL SCENE.
Kangxi.
With flowering branches painted in underglaze blue and red issuing from behind rockwork in a quatrefoil medallion, reserved on an overall powder blue glaze, Xuande mark to base, 35cm diameter.
£500-800
Literature: For a similar example with Chenghua mark see Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, III, p 1143, cat no 2742.
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A CHINESE "FISH TRANSFORMING INTO DRAGON" VASE.
Kangxi.
Of ovoid form, the rim bound with copper, decorated in underglaze blue and red, the waves incised, Chenghua mark to base, 16cm H.
£800-1,200
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A PAIR OF TURQUOISE GLAZED BUDDHIST LION DOGS.
Qing.
Covered in a turquoise and aubergine glaze, with moving eyes, one dog together with a pup, raised on a rectangular base, 31cm H. (2)
£1,500-2,000
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A CHINESE WHITE GLAZED BUDDHIST LION DOG AND PUP.
Qing.
Raised on a low rectangular base, the mouth open, the eyes highlighted in underglaze blue, 21cm H.
£100-200
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A PAIR OF TURQUOISE GLAZED BUDDHIST LION DOGS ON WOODEN STANDS.
Republican era.
Of stocky form with open mouths, raised on wooden stands, 31cm H.
Provenance: Acquired in Shanghai in the 1930s.
£300-400
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A PAIR OF GOLD PAINTED WOODEN LIONS.
Late Qing.
Excessively carved in high relief with swirling fur, the eyes raised skyward, the mouths opened to reveal large fangs, 38cm H.
£500-800
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A PAIR OF TURQUOISE GLAZED RECTANGULAR VASES, GU.
Qing.
With moulded floral and Buddhist emblem decoration, on fitted wooden stands, 19cm H. (2)
£400-600
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A CHINESE JUN TYPE VASE.
18th / 19th Century.
The high vase of elongated ovoid form, with twin mask handles, the glaze with purple splashes, 52cm H.
£200-300
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A CHINESE VASE.
Han.
Mounted as a lamp, the vase 36cm H.
£100-200
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A CHINESE OX BLOOD VASE.
Late Qing.
Of pear-shaped form, the streaky deep red crackle glaze thinning at the mouth rim and pooling at the foot, 35cm H.
£500-800
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TWO RED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLES.
Early 20th Century.
Of orange-red colour with brilliant red swirling inclusions, stoppers, 7.5cm H. (2)
£100-200
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A BRONZE GUANYIN AND CHILD.
Ming.
Seated with one leg raised to support the child, supported on a circular rockwork base, the eyes downcast in a serene expression, 26cm H.
£2,000-3,000
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A BAMBOO ROOT CARVING OF A GUANYIN AND CHILD.
Late Qing.
Carved with the upper body emerging from the gnarled wood, 14cm H.
£100-200
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A CHINESE JADE CARVING OF A GUANYIN AND CHILD.
Late Qing.
Carved standing, dressed in a trailing gown and supporting a vase in the left hand, beside a child supported by a lotus plant, 10.5cm H.
£250-300
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A PAIR OF CHINESE WALLPAPER PANELS
Qing Dynasty, late 18th / early 19th Century.
Depicting figurative scenes of a beauty and scholar engaged in various pursuits in a landscape setting, framed and glazed, 53.5 x 43.5cm. (2)
£600-800
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A CHINESE COLLAGE PAINTING.
Republican era, 1930s.
Hand painted and with collage made from cut up stamps, depicting a beauty holding a brush, seal to lower left, hua jing mark to lower left, 33 x 26cm.
£80-120
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A GREEN QUARTZ CARVING OF A LADY.
20th Century.
Dressing in a trailing robe and with one hand raised to the chin in contemplation, 20.5cm H.
£100-200
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A CHINESE SOAPSTONE CARVING OF A RECUMBENT LADY.
Late Qing.
The orange stone carved as a lady in a long flowing robe, her left hand holding a scroll, the head resting on her right hand, 9.5cm long.
£500-800
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A CHINESE SOAPSTONE EROTIC GROUP.
Late Qing.
Delicately carved and painted as a kneeling youth supporting a beauty on his back, his hands obscured beneath her loose fitting garments, the beauty with a demure expression, 14cm H.
£350-400
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A CHINESE SHIWAN WARE GLAZED MODEL OF AN ENGLISHMAN RIDING AN ELEPHANT.
Qing Dynasty, early 19th Century.
The figure with his legs crossed, and wearing a cape and top hat, raised on an elephant, the wrinkles modelled in relief and raised on a hollow base, 22cm H.
£500-800
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A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT PEWTER FIGURES HOLDING VASES.
Late 18th Century.
The figures, fashionably dressed with wigs and wearing red waistcoats, tight sleeves and a turned down collar, dress typical of the 1780s, the figures kneeling on a pierced decorative bases, 11cm H.
£2,000-3,000
Literature: For related examples see A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in the Decorative Arts, 1997.
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AN UNUSUALLY DECORATED CANTONESE CHAMBER POT AND COVER.
19th Century.
The exterior decorated with a continuous panel of beauties in a landscape below a border of flowers, butterflies and fruit, the dome-shaped cover with a knob finial, the inside decorated with grotesque European face below the text in English, "my choppy water", 19.5cm H.
£1,400-1,600
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A GRISAILLE DECORATED BOWL.
Qianlong.
The exterior painted with a scene based on a European image in grey and gilt, 7.5cm H.
£150-250
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A CHINESE EUROPEAN SUBJECT GLASS PAINTING.
Qing, 18th / 19th Century.
Depicting a scene of a horse and carriage with other European figures in a landscape, 72 x 33.5cm.
£200-300
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A JAPANESE SKETCH OF FOREIGNERS.
39 x 24cm.
£100-200
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A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE CHAMBER POT.
Qianlong.
Of bombé form with a flared rim, applied to one side with an ear-shaped handle, the body painted in enamels with flowers and fruit, 11cm H.
£400-600
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A CHINESE CANTON ENAMEL CONICAL BOWL
Qing Dynasty, Qianlong.
Of conical section, the interior with a central medallion containing a peach surrounded branches of fruit-laden melon plant branches together with a pair of crickets, all reserved on yellow ground and surrounded by a band of leafy scrolling foliage on a white ground, the rim with a metal band, the exterior vividly painted with a beetle on a fruiting pomegranate branch, the circular foot with a square qianlong nianzhi mark, 15.5cm diameter, 7cm H.
£1,500-2,000
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A CANTON ENAMEL DISH.
Qing Dynasty, 18th Century.
Decorated with beauties and a deer, within a border of flowers separated by scrolling foliage, 22.5cm diameter.
£2,000-3,000
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A CANTON ENAMEL DISH.
Qing, 18th Century.
Decorated with a beauty reclining on a gnarled hollow tree, and surrounded by three boys at play in a garden setting, within two bands of floral spray, the outer one with four panels of fruit, the reverse with a central blue dragon roundel on a yellow ground, 26.5cm diameter.
£2,000-3,000
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A CANTON ENAMEL CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER.
Yongzheng mark.
The body painted with phoenixes among scrolling flowers and foliage on a yellow ground, the cover surmounted by a bud finial and with cut-out lappets, Yongzheng mark to base within a painting of a peach on a leafy branch. 7cm H.
£400-600
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A CHINESE CANTON ENAMEL BOWL AND COVER.
Qing Dynasty, 18th / 19th Century.
The bombé-form bowl decorated with scrolling floral patterns on a pink ground with quatrefoil panels filled with flowers, surrounded by a band of black scrolling leaves on a yellow ground, the lower rim with a band of blue kui dragons, the stepped domed cover with quatrefoil panels filled with flowers, below a band of bats, and surmounted by a gilt bronze Buddhist lion dog, 12cm H.
£1,000-2,000
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A CHINESE BONE PAGODA.
Late Qing, 19th Century.
The five tiered building carved and pierced, rising up from a garden terrace, populated by trees and figures beneath a terrace, all within a glass dome, 45cm H.
£300-500
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A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER MODEL OF A BOAT.
Circa 1900.
Raised on a wave-form carved wooden stand and presented within a glass and wood case, 32 x 25 x 13.5cm.
£150-200
Literature: For further examples of silver boats see The Minor Arts of China III, Spink and Son Ltd, 1987, cat no 83-4.
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A CHINESE WHITE METAL TRIPOD CENSER.
Late Qing Dynasty.
The body supported by three slender feet emanating from mythical beast mouths, two rectangular loop handles rising from the shoulders, the globular body decorated with birds on a blooming plum blossom branch with an inscription on the reverse side, and flanked by lion mask heads with hanging loop handles, 29cm H.
£120-150
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AN ENAMELLED CHINESE EXPORT SILVER GOBLET.
Late Qing.
The body decorated with a pair of peaches, the two handles modelled in openwork as two bats nibbling a spray of lingzhi fungus, the peaches, bats and fungus enamelled in bright colours, two marks to base, beijing sanyuan and baozuyin. 15.5cm H.
£200-300
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A CHINESE WHITE METAL ENAMELLED BOX.
19th Century.
The top decorated with an egret and deer beside a lingzhi fungus spray and below a pie tree, attractively highlighted with blue, turquoise and aubergine enamels, the lobed sides with alternating pierced and enamelled flowers, 4.5 x 17 x 9cm.
£500-800
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A CHINESE HARDSTONE-SET ENAMELLED SILVER MAGNIFYING GLASS MOUNTED WITH A JADE BELT HOOK.
Late Qing Dynasty.
The pale celadon jade dragon belt-hook forming the handle, the circular glass framed in a stipple-decorated silver mount, with raised flowers enamelled in red, blue and turquoise, alternating with six hardstones, the belt 21cm long, the jade 10cm long.
£1,500-2,000
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A CHINESE SILVER MOUNTED RHINOCEROS HORN SWAGGER STICK.
c. 1900.
The silver decorated in repoussé with a scholar under a pine tree, 76cm long.
£800-1,200
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A JAPANESE SILVER RECTANGULAR BOX WITH PEONY DECORATION
Late 19th Century.
The top decorated in repoussé with peonies on a stipple ground, 15 x 8.5 x 4.5cm.
£550-600
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A PAIR OF CHINESE WHITE METAL CARD CASES.
Late Qing.
Each with carved and pierced floral decoration, 10 x 7.5cm (2)
£150-250
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A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER BOWL.
Circa 1920.
Raised on a tall cylindrical foot, with peonies decorated in repoussé in high relief with a circular panel enclosing the engraved initials "M.I.", 9.5cm H.
£300-500
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A CHINESE IMPERIAL SILK CARPET
Late Qing, or earlier.
A centrally positioned five clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl, with floral sprays and butterflies geometrically arranged on a yellow ground with floral borders to the sides and the top and bottom with rolling and cresting waves, 182 x 91cm.
£500-800
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A CHINESE IMPERIAL WOOL "NINE DRAGON" CARPET.
Late Qing, or earlier.
The nine five clawed dragons flying among clouds within a multicolour border of waves, 246 x 156cm.
£3,000-5,000
Literature: For a very closely related carpet described with the caption "18th Century (made for the Emperor Ch'ien Lung)" see A View of Chinese Rugs, Lorentz, 1973, pl 57.
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A CHINESE KESI EMBROIDERED PANEL CONTAINING A ROUNDEL OF BUDDHIST LION DOGS.
Ming Dynasty.
The central roundel with a Buddhist lion dog together with a pup chasing a ribboned ball, surrounded by floral sprays, all reserved on a red ground, mounted, 103 x 75.5cm.
Provenance: Linda Wrigglesworth Collection.
£2,000-3,000
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A CHINESE TEXTILE WITH A REPEATING BOYS PATTERN.
Late Ming.
Woven with rows of boys, the rows alternating between a repeated pattern of a boy looking right and with one looking left, 214 x 141cm.
£400-600
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A CHINESE TEXTILE HUNDRED BOYS KESI PANEL.
Late Qing, 19th Century.
Woven in polychrome silk with a main panel depicting the auspicious hundred boys motif with boys grouped into smaller scenes each engaged in a variety of activities including music making, art appreciation, kite flying, football, rowing, reading and fighting, all in a garden setting filled with rockery, trees and pavilions, all below a panel of birds on flowering branches, the two panels with a scrolling floral border, 182 x 152cm.
£400-600
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A PAIR OF CHINESE KESI BIRD AND FLOWER PANELS.
Late Qing, 19th Century.
Each finely woven with a variety of birds flying and standing on rocky outcrops, one depicting a peach tree, the other a plum tree, the latter with a deer in the foreground, 132 x 43cm. (2)
£1,000-2,000
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A CHINESE RANK BADGE.
Qing, c. 1860.
Depicting an egret, on a rock above waves, in front of a peach, pomegranate and finger citron, within a circular roundel, enclosed within a rectangular border, 26 x 28cm.
£100-200
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A CHINESE KESI WOVEN TEXTILE HANGING.
Qing.
The lower section with a shaped edge decorated with bats, peaches and other auspicious symbols, the overhanging rectangular flap with a ying yang below a lotus flower, 81 x 75cm.
£500-700
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A CHINESE DRAGON TEXTILE PANEL TOGETHER WITH A DRAGON AND PHOENIX TEXTILE.
Qing, Qianlong / Late Qing.
157 x 32cm / 82 x 60cm.
£600-800
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