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A good large Japanese bronze sculpture of a mother carrying an infant on her back, her left hand with fruit filled basket, offering the child some fruit, 64cm high, signed Genryusai Seiya zo
源龍斎誠谷造, 19th Century £1500 - 2500
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A Japanese bronze baluster vase, cast with geese both on the ground and in flight before a moon, 20.5cm high, signed Morioka Seiji-saku (Morioka Masaharu-saku) [Made by Morioka Seiji (Morioka Masaharu)] £50 - 80
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A Japanese bronze circular box and cover, the lid with kneeling figure within copper circular frame, a volcano beyond, gilt powder ground, foliate borders, the base conforming on three matted lotus leaf feet, silver plated interior, 13cm diameter, signed Shozan松山. £120 - 180
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A Japanese iron rectangular box with rounded corners, the pull-off lid applied silver cranes, silver and enamelled flowerheads and leafage, the interior silver plated engraved with crane before mountains and bullrushes, signed Masayoshi-koku 政義刻[Engraved by Masayoshi], 12cm x 8.5cm, 3cm high, (lacking feet and minor faults)
£80 - 120
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A pair of Japanese bronze two handled vases with waisted circular necks and stylised scrolling bird handles the bodies cast with finches amidst flowerheads and leafage, on three cast scrolling legs on a circular pierced foot, 40cm high, late 19th / early 20th Century £170 - 220
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A Japanese bronze vase, the urnular body embossed with four carp on four squat carp legs, 32cm diameter max., 34cm high, 19th Century (faults) £50 - 70
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Utagawa Kunisada III (1848-1920) - A Japanese coloured woodblock print of a samurai, titled 'Two Kabuki actors. Ichikawa Danjuro as Umeomaru. Onoe Kikugoro as Sakuramaru', signed Oju Kachoro Kunisada hitsu, dated May of Meiji 22 (1889), published by Tsutsumi Yoshibei, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, 36cm x 25cm overall, unframed (faults)
These men, named Umeomaru and Samuramaru, appear in a very popular Japanese Kabuki play called Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, and are two of a fictional set of triplets. £30 - 50
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Utagawa Kunisada - pair of Sumo wrestlers, signed, coloured woodblock, 36cm x 25cm; another with seated female figure playing a shamisen, 37.5cm x 25cm, both framed (2) £70 - 100
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A woodblock print, two part with bird of prey resting on a branch, signed, 21cm x 30cm overall, framed £25 - 40
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A fine gold Hirame sprinkled Suzuribako, the cover decorated with rocks, trees and flowers in two tone gold Hiramakie and Takamakie, the interior with similar decoration of bamboo, stylised pine trees and mountains, the centre with gilt lacquered black slate palette and gilt metal Suiteki cast with stylised pine tree within loose triple spreading fluted border, signed 象彦Zohiko, Kyoto, 24cm x 26cm, 5cm high £1500 - 2500
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An unusual bronze vessel / candlestick, the bulbous body cast leaf lappets, pair of horse head branches, set pair of nozzles flanking central larger nozzle, 11cm high £80 - 120
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An interesting white painted display table, Circa 1970s containing a large quantity of fragments of Persian pottery 14th to 16th Century, Roman glass, Egyptian Ushabti, ivory, coral, glass, turquoise glazed, carnelian, and other beads, terracotta figures, face fragments, gold coloured metal earring, green hardstone carved gourd, arrow and spearheads, etc. (qty), contained within a glazed top table on turned white painted legs with brass sockets and adjustable feet, 69cm x 43.5cm £800 - 1200
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An unusual 18th Century Persian? pen box, the body with painted decoration of male and female figures in extensive landscapes, the females with their hands cut off, religious temples to the ends, 24cm wide, late 18th / early 19th Century (faults) £100 - 150
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Two Persian book plates, each with central painted panel, one with an archer figure in a boat, the other with figures in a garden pagoda, text above, below and verso, gouache, pink line borders, 23cm x 14cm, loose leaves, late 18th / early 19th Century (2) £40 - 60
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A 19th Century silvered bronze figure of Garuda, depicted as a winged humanoid form on a waisted cylindrical base, 13.5cm high, later mounted on a carved boxwood column, 19cm high overall
Reputedly the mascot to a vehicle belonging to a Maharajah £100 - 150
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