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An Anglo Chinese hardwood wall cabinet with shaped cresting, ball and spire finials, the shaped frieze above three open shelves the base fitted four drawers flanked by pair of shaped smaller recesses, 76cm wide, 104cm high, late 19th Century £80 - 120
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A good Chinese hardwood three piece display cabinet, the cornice finely carved with stylised shell, chrysanthemum blooms and trailing leafage, the upper super structure with series of shelves with floral trail borders and aprons, the base enclosed by a pair of doors carved with figures seated within trees, conforming scroll pierced apron and "table" base on squat square legs, 186cm high, 78cm wide, 32cm deep, late 19th / early 20th Century (faults) £1500 - 2500
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A Chinese hardwood coffee table, the rectangular top above a deep frieze carved with central floral filled urn, flanked by carved shaped brackets, panelled ends and square legs joined by stretchers, 110cm wide, 45cm deep, 46cm high, late 19th / early 20th Century £350 - 450
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A 19th Century Chinese lacquer four fold screen, each leaf with large panel decorated with hardstones, mother of pearl and lacquer with warrior figures in extensive wooded landscapes, the upper and lower panels conformingly inlaid, decorated with fruits, flowers, censers, vases and scrolls, gilt decorated red lacquer borders, the reverses with landscape and other scenes, 199cm high, 190cm wide, Circa 1850 £1000 - 1500
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A pair of late 19th / early 20th Century hardwood frames inlaid overall in mother of pearl with trophies, fish and stylised leafage, 100cm high, 30cm wide (faults) £180 - 250
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A Chinese hardwood occasional table, the circular top inset with rosso marble panel, reeded rim above a floral scroll pierced apron, the turned vasular column carved trailing leafage on three rudimentary outswept legs, carved florettes and stylised clouds, ball and claw feet, top 42cm diameter, 82cm high, late 19th Century £300 - 500
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A 17th Century Japanese blue and white jug of baluster form with tall neck and shaped spout, moulded handle, the body decorated with three floral filled panels on a stylised scroll ground, the neck with flowerheads and leafage, white metal hinged lid, 31cm high, Circa 1680 (faults to lid) £500 - 800
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A pair of Japanese baluster vases and covers, decorated overall in iron red and gilt with birds amidst flowerheads and leafage within formal borders, the domed covers conforming, 42cm high; a similar circular bowl decorated with peacocks amidst flowerheads and leafage, formal borders, 30cm diameter (3) £100 - 150
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Kinkozan - a satsuma pottery vase of urnular form with shallow spreading neck, the body finely painted with female figures in extensive mountainous landscapes, formal chrysanthemum bloom and hatched filled panels, Greek key borders, 18cm high, Meiji period, signed £150 - 250
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A Japanese satsuma pottery tea service comprising: teapot and cover, cream jug, lidded sucrier, two bowls, six cups and saucers and side plates, each piece finely decorated with prunus blossom and boughs, formal gilt circlet borders on a red ground, teapot 13cm high, late Meiji period, marked (faults) £150 - 250
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A Japanese pottery figure of Hotei, seated with staff in his right hand, 16cm high, signed £50 - 100
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A gilt metal mounted Japanese pottery censer with pierced domed cover decorated with phoenix above a pierced gilt metal collar, beaded borders, the swept handles on a compressed globular body decorated with figures in stylised landscapes, three rudimentary stilt feet, brass finial, 16cm high £80 - 120
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A Japanese cloisonné circular dish finely decorated with four white crane on a pale blue ground filled with flowerheads and scrolls, the reverse with wire scrolls, 24.5cm diameter, late 19th / early 20th Century (the reverse with faults) £100 - 150
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A Japanese cloisonné enamel box and cover of canted square form, decorated with panels of cranes amidst landscapes on a turquoise ground, Greek key and hatched borders, the cover with stylised chrysanthemum bloom and scrolling leafage, marked Gusouzhai-zang 'Old Bamboo-grove Studio collection', 6cm high, 20th Century £40 - 60
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A Japanese cloisonné enamel circular dish, the centre decorated with four stylised bats surrounding a circular filled mon on a leaf and flower trail turquoise ground, the rim with alternate leaf and flower lappets with Greek key edge, the reverse with butterflies and leaf trails on a similar turquoise ground, 19cm diameter, late 19th / early 20th Century £200 - 250
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A good pair of Japanese bronze candlesticks or vases, the bulbous central sections beneath waisted necks and bases, all detailed with stylised scrolls and leafage, pair of elephant mask handles, the bases with stylised waves on three beast mask headed scrolling legs, triple pendant aprons, circular feet, 22.5cm high, late 19th Century £100 - 150
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A Japanese bronzed white metal figure of a seated monkey holding an inro, 15cm high, early 20th Century (faults) £80 - 120
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A Japanese netsuke of two terrapins, 6.5cm wide; another of three rats, signed, 4.5cm wide, 20th Century £40 - 60
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Two identical Japanese bronze sumo figures their right arms stretched out, their left's with clenched fists, 19cm high, 14.5cm wide, signed Shusei (Akikiyo) saku. £300 - 500
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A large bronze model of two water buffalo, their heads butting, on a realistic rustic base, apparently unsigned, 76cm wide; together with a fitted hardwood stand carved with stylised waves, 79cm wide overall, Meiji period £1000 - 1500
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A Japanese iron sake pot, the squat cylindrical body relief decorated with stylised chrysanthemum blooms and leafage, arched handle cast with stylised flowerheads, maki-e lacquer lid with bronze chrysanthemum bud finial, 25.5cm wide, 20m high (faults) possibly Edo period £200 - 300
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A fine Japanese bronze inkwell cast as Hotei reclining against his Bag of Fortune decorated with precious symbols, the hinged lid bearing maker's seal for Miyao Eisuke, the hardwood base of rectangular outline with swept feet detailed in scrolling gilt, 13cm wide max., 12cm high, Meiji period £1500 - 2000
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A fine Japanese ivory fan, the guards decorated in abalone, red coral and gilt with flowers, leafage and insects, the segments opening to reveal a finely decorated panel of peacocks, finches, butterflies and dragons within a garden landscape, the reverse conforming, 50cm wide, Meiji period £1000 - 1500
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A Japanese fan, the ivory guards Shibayama decorated with figures, birds and blossom, the bamboo sticks with papered panels finely decorated with Samurai warriors in extensive landscape with battlements beyond, signed, 50cm wide (faults) £150 - 200
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A Japanese carved ivory figure of a snow wolf, 7.5cm wide; together with a hardwood stand, late 19th / early 20th Century (2) (faults) £70 - 100
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A 19th Century Japanese bamboo pot of cylindrical form, the pull-off cover relief carved to the top with figures in a wooded temple landscape, the rim relief carved with figures, temples and trees, the body conforming, 16cm high, 13.5cm diameter (faults) £100 - 200
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A Japanese rounded rectangular lacquered box, the lid with setting sun behind cloud and blossom filled tree, black ground, the interior three colour gold speckled with trays and panels, 20cm x 25cm, late 19th Century (faults) £20 - 30
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A pair of Japanese woodcuts - scenes of Imperial Palace and scene of HÈÈdÈ, after Keibun from the sketch book of famous places in Kyoto, signed: Keibun, seal: Keibun-in [The seal of Keibun], the other signed Suzuki Shonen (1849-1918), 19cm x 28cm, framed £60 - 100
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Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900)- Tokaido ichigan senryo Depicting Actor Ichikawa Kuzo II as Takebe Genzo at Minakuchi, from the series of Tokaido Highway - One Look worth a thousand ryo (Tokaido hitome senryo), from a series of a set of 55 prints; Utagawa Hiroshige III (1842-1894) - Kabuki Actor Ichimura Uzaemon XII (active 1820-1850), the former 35cm x 34cm the latter 29cm x 23cm, both framed (2) £60 - 100
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Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) - A pair of Japanese woodblocks, one titled Gojusantsugi meisho zue, hachi (number eight). Hiratsuka. "Hiratsuka (showing Mt. Fuji in distance). Pictures of Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Highway; Hiratsuka Station, Number Eight on the Tokaido Hignway"; the other Gojusantsugi meisho zue, niju-nana (number twenty-seven). Hiratsuka. "Kakegawa Station. Pictures of Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Highway; Kakegawa Station, Number Twenty-seven on the Tokaido Hignway", 35cm x 23cm, framed (2) £60 - 100
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A pair of Japanese full length portraits of Samurai?, gouache on cotton, 80cm x 25cm, framed (foxed) £100 - 150
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Japanese School, late 19th Century - eagle perched on a branch, signed, 34cm x 18cm; another of a long billed bird, watercolour, signed, 34cm x 18cm, framed (2) £80 - 120
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Henry Wilkinson - stalking, coloured etching numbered 24/180, signed in pencil lower right, 20cm x 26cm, framed £50 - 80
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A selection of books, all on the theme of clocks to include: Clocks and Their Value by Donald de Carle; Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World by G.H.Baille; Clocks & Watches by Eric Bruton; Chats on Old Clocks , by Arthur Hayden, etc (5) £30 - 50
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English School, late 20th Century - abstract, screen print, initialled and dated '72 lower right, numbered 2/150, image 34cm x 53cm, framed £10 - 20
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John King - A set of four prints, The Belvoir Hunt; The Opening Meet, Croxton Park; Away From Hose Thorns; Back to Clawson Thorns; Huic Holloa Walcot, signed limited edition prints numbered 47/250, published by Friends of the Belvoir Hunt, 37cm by 46cm max., framed (4) £60 - 100
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A collection of books to include: W.Carter Platts - The Young Angler ; Mrs Beeston's Cookery and Household Management ; Winston S. Churchill - The Second World War , volumes II - VI; The Children's Friend , Vol XXXV -1895; The New Penny Magazine 1899; Paul Brickhill - The Dam Busters; Kind Words - A Magazine for Young People 1876-7 ; Queen Alexandra's Christmas Gift Book - Photographs from My Camera ; Vladimir Sadilek - Our Mountains ; Favourite Animals (16) £20 - 30
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Winston S. Churchill - The Second World War, volumes II - VI, published Cassells & Co Ltd, with dust jackets; Paul Brickhill - The Dam Busters, published Evans Brother Limited 1952, sixth impression; The History of the London Rifle Brigade - maps; newspaper clipping from The Times dated 22nd December 1916 regarding medals awarded for 'Bravery in the Field' (8) £20 - 40
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R. Bonnington (by) J Cartwright (after) - a perspective view of Nottingham market place, published August 1812 by R. Bonnington, Nottingham, coloured aquatint, 48cm x 70cm, framed (faults) £40 - 60
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William Hogarth - A Midnight Modern Conversation, hand coloured engraving, 35cm x 48cm, framed £80 - 120
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W.Hogarth (by), Cook (after) - The Polling, hand coloured engraving, published London CG& J Robinson, Paternoster Row, April 1st 1801, 41cm x 53cm, framed £80 - 120
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W.Hogarth (by), Cook (after) - An Election Entertainment, hand coloured engraving, published by CG & J Johnson, Paternoster Row, October 1801, 41cm x 54cm, framed £80 - 120
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L. H. Patterson - The Pageant of Newark on Trent in Nottinghamshire, limited edition copy of 200, 1927, issued In This wise at the warrant of the members of the Carteret Book Club, New Jersey, hand cut paper; The Book of Nottingham written for the 94th meeting of British Medical Association held at Nottingham July 1926, including illustrations of The Great Hall, Thoresby, Rufford Abbey, Chatsworth, Newstead, Haddon, etc.; Rufford Abbey Nottingham - catalogue of The Rufford Collection including treasures acquired by the ancestors of the Saville family during three centuries, to be sold by auction on the premises by Messrs Knight, Frank and Rutley in conjunction with Messrs Christie Manson and Woods, 11th October 1938; Transactions of The Thoraton Society, 1930, calf bound, Rufford Abbey Estate 1148-1938, auction sale 22-25 November 1938, Newark Upon Trent - notes on the history of the ancient and loyal borough, souvenir book produced for the Royal visit to Newark 9th July 1928, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, portions of the estate of the Rt Honorable Lord Middleton: Portions of the Newark On Trent Estates date of auction 26th November 1924; Newark - Action for Conservation, 1968 (8) £100 - 150
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A George III book with hand written accounts of the Executors of the late Richard Haworth of Reeds in Rosendale, Lancashire, 1803, his last will and testament, accounts of goods sold, accounts of household goods and chattels of the late Richard Haworth, plus other entries; a further volume with the accounts of the Executors of the late Richard Haworth, further inventories, cash received and disbursements, 1809, Legacy note dated 7th May 1804, further volume with inventory, also hand written: Prevention of smut in wheat recipe, accounts of common work done, highway accounts, etc., one further mid Victorian volume: works (5 books etc.) £80 - 120
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C. Vernet (by and after) - a set of five reproduction prints: Going Hunting (2), Stag Hunting, Rod Fishing and Tilbury Walk, coloured prints, images 19cm x 27cm, framed (5) £70 - 100
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A selection of books to include: British Warships, The Royal Navy Completely Illustrated and Described, published London 1940; K.C.Edwards (ed.) - Nottingham and Its Region, Nottingham 1966; Reduced Ordance Survey around Nottingham, published by G.Richmond, Birmingham; The Place Names of Nottinghamshire; Nottingham Past and Present, Fifty Reproductions of Crayon Drawings by T.W.Hammond, etc (8) (faults) £40 - 60
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Undine , by F. De La Motte Fouque, adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, published London 1909; The English Struwwelpeter - Dr H. Hoffman, possibly the 1st edition, London; Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book , illustrated, printed Great Britain, Circa 1916 (3) (faults) £30 - 50
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A coloured etching of a Venetian lagoon with ships at sail, signed in pencil lower right, 17cm x 41cm, framed (discoloured) £20 - 30
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J S Parkinson - 2066 And All That, limited edition print numbered 2/100, signed by the artist in pencil and inscribed with title, 53cm x 70cm, framed £40 - 60
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A selection of books to include: A set of three: Diary of Samuel Pepys ; The Complete Opera Book by Gustav Kobbe; Opera Nights by Ernest Newman; The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; Vol I & II - The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G, and His Times by Alexander Ewald (8) £30 - 50
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