Asian and Islamic Ceramics and Works of Art

A Chinese blue and white export porcelain octagonal warming plate, late Qianlong period, painted with a coastal landscape, width 26.5cm (minor faults), together with a Japanese blue and white porcelain dish, diameter 24cm (chips to rim).

A small group of Chinese blue and white porcelain, late 19th century, each piece painted with blossoming prunus branches, comprising a pair of vases of shouldered tapering form, height 35.5cm (repaired rims), a ginger jar, height 21.5cm (repaired), with carved and pierced wood cover, a smaller ginger jar, height 16.8cm (drilled hole near base), and a ginger jar and cover, underglaze blue four-character mark of Kangxi to base, height 15.5cm (chipped rim and cover repaired).

A group of Chinese porcelain, 18th century and later, including two pairs of famille rose saucers, iron red seal marks to bases, diameters 10.2cm and 10.7cm, a blue and white bowl, painted with prunus, diameter 11.5cm, and an Imari export porcelain saucer dish, painted and gilt with flowers, diameter 23.2cm (some faults).

A pair of Japanese Imari porcelain lobed dishes, Meiji period, painted with flowers, diameter 25.2cm (one cracked), together with two smaller Imari dishes, diameters 21.7cm and 21cm, a blue and white pierced hexagonal pot and a Satsuma earthenware vase (some faults).

A pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain vases, late Qing dynasty, each swollen cylindrical body and flared neck painted with birds flying amidst flowers between stiff leaf and lappet borders, height 45cm (one with missing section of rim, the other with minor faults).

A pair of Chinese erotic watercolour paintings, late Qing dynasty, each depicting a couple in amorous embrace, 17cm x 12.3cm, framed and glazed.

A Japanese Imari porcelain circular dish, early 20th century, painted with segmented panels of figures and flowers framing a ho-o bird roundel, diameter 40.2cm, together with a Satsuma earthenware vase, height 23.5cm, and a Chinese provincial blue and white ovoid jar, painted with two lines of text, height 8.6cm.

A Chinese polished bronze trumpet vase, 20th century, with lobed flared neck above cast dragon band, height 34.5cm.

A set of three Chinese Canton export watercolours on rice paper, 19th century, each painted with an ornithological study of two birds, 15.5cm x 21.5cm, hardwood framed and glazed.

A Chinese silk embroidered two-sided circular table screen, late 19th century, finely worked in coloured threads, both sides with a scene of two peacocks, sparrows, other birds and butterflies about blossoming branches on a cream ground, diameters 26cm, mounted within a European giltwood circular glazed frame with foliate column and tripod base, total height 50cm (minor faults).

A Chinese Qingbai style porcelain figure of Guanyin, modelled seated, covered in a translucent pale blue glaze, height 15.5cm.

A Japanese Satsuma earthenware vase, Meiji period, the swollen cylindrical body thickly enamelled and gilt with a bird and flowers in a landscape, beneath a flared neck filled with precious objects, gilt two-character mark above stylized iron red gourd shaped signature panel to side, height 12.5cm, together with a Japanese pottery gourd shaped vase with cream slip decoration on an oatmeal glazed ground, height 11.5cm.

A Japanese Satsuma earthenware cylindrical jar and cover, Meiji period, the body painted and gilt with a continuous scene of figures in a landscape, the cover with seated boy musicians, unsigned, height 19.4cm.

A Chinese sang-de-boeuf glazed bottle vase, 19th/20th century, covered in a streaky oxblood glaze, height 18.5cm.

A Chinese carved rhinoceros horn scholar's brush rest, Qing dynasty, of naturalistic rocky form with carved lingzhi fungus to front, weight 103g, height 5cm, length 8.2cm. Note: as this lot incorporates rhinoceros horn, it would be very unlikely that a re-export certificate would be granted beyond the UK. Customers outside the UK are requested NOT to bid on this item.

A Chinese famille rose porcelain ginger jar and cover, early 20th century, the stout ovoid body painted with a figural scene, iron red painted four-character mark to base, height 20.5cm.

A Chinese dark brown and gilt patinated bronze figure of a bixie, the mythical beast modelled in a crouching pose, length 11cm.

A Chinese blue and white porcelain circular saucer dish, Kangxi period, the centre and underside painted with flowers and scrolling leafy tendrils, underglaze blue pseudo seal mark to base, diameter 15.3cm (minor rim chip/fritting), together with a similar circular bowl/cover, Kangxi period, painted with alternating figural and precious object panels, diameter 15.1cm (rim chips).

A Chinese famille rose ruby back porcelain plate, mark of Qianlong, Qing dynasty, painted with two pheasants perched on rocks with peony and prunus, within a salmon and iron red cell diaper border, divided by precious objects filled vignettes, the ruby enamelled underside with turquoise centre, blue enamelled seal mark to base, diameter 21.3cm.