Asian and Islamic Ceramics and Works of Art

A Japanese watercolour painting, Meiji period, depicting figures in a walled interior with gilt clouds around, unsigned, 20cm x 23.5cm, framed and glazed.

A Chinese sancai glazed pottery figure of a cockerel, late 19th century, modelled standing on a naturalistic base, height 39cm (some faults).

A collection of forty-five Chinese wood stands, late 19th century and later, including two circular stands with carved and pierced scrolling tendril aprons, diameters 19cm and 15.5cm, two circular stands with carved and pierced aprons, diameters 17cm and 15.5cm, and a circular stand with shaped apron and five scroll legs united by a stretcher, diameter 20cm, diameters ranging from 2.5cm to 20cm.

A Chinese Canton carved walnut, late 19th century, decorated with figures, length 4.2cm, together with a carved and stained wood mouse and apple netsuke, and two metal insects.

A collection of Chinese Canton export mother-of-pearl gaming counters, mid to late 19th century, comprising sixty-four variously shaped fish, twenty-one various slender rectangular, fifteen elliptical, six rectangular, four shaped rectangular, four oval and fifty-one variously sized circular, the majority with incised decoration, within a black papier-mâché box with hinged cover.

A South-east Asian bronze figure of a seated bodhisattva, possibly 17th/18th century, modelled seated on a lotus throne, height 7.5cm.

A Sino-Tibetan bronze figure of Buddha, early 20th century, modelled seated on a double lotus throne, height 13.5cm, together with a Tibetan copper spherical prayer wheel, length 22cm.

A pair of Japanese Arita 'famille rose' porcelain charger dishes, early 20th century, each painted with a figural scene of women, flower pots and a large screen, within a flower and butterfly filled gilt ground rim, blue enamelled two-character mark to bases, diameters 45.5cm.

A Chinese silk embroidered rectangular altar panel, late Qing dynasty, worked in shades of blue threads with a formal design of flower pendants, 46cm x 213cm, together with a pair of Chinese blue silk embroidered collar/shoulder panels, worked in gilt and coloured threads with a crane flying amidst vapours, each length 33cm.

A Chinese watercolour hanging scroll painting, Qing dynasty, painted with a seated dignitary and his attendant watching the torture of a man bound to a pillar, 83cm x 24.5cm (surround damaged).

A Japanese silk embroidered hanging scroll, Meiji period, worked in coloured threads with a red-capped crane and peony on a blue ground, 113cm x 46cm, within a silk surround, together with a Japanese painting on silk depicting a half-length portrait of a samurai, 39cm x 29cm.

A group of five Chinese watercolour paintings, late 19th century, each depicting a botanical study, 25cm x 29cm, framed, together with a group of five Japanese prints, framed and glazed.

A Turkish wire thread embroidered peach silk rectangular altar panel, late 19th/early 20th century, worked with a border of foliage, 51.5cm x 128cm.

A pair of Chinese Canton famille rose bottle vases, mid-19th century, each typically painted with figural panels reserved against a gilt ground filled with lotus, scrolling tendrils and butterflies, height 40.5cm (both with faults and repairs).

A Japanese hanging scroll painting, early 20th century, painted with two figures beneath a tree, 112cm x 41.5cm (some faults).

A Chinese scroll painting, late Qing dynasty, depicting a scholar seated beneath a prunus branch, four lines of black text and red seal to right margin, 98cm x 42.5cm, within a silk surround.

A Chinese pale celadon jade belthook, 20th century, of typical serpentine form, carved and pierced with a chilong confronting a dragon mask terminal, length 14cm, together with a carved grey hardstone figure of a curled Buddhistic lion, length 5.1cm.

A collection of Chinese jade art reference books, including 'Jade of the East' by Geoffrey Wills, 'Chinese Jade of Five Centuries' by Joan M. Hartman, 'Chinese Jade throughout the Ages' by Stanley Charles Nott and 'Great National Treasures of China', Masterworks in the National Palace Museum' (some faults).