Asian and Islamic Ceramics and Works of Art

A Chinese hardwood stand, late 19th/early 20th century, the lobed top inset with a rouge marble panel within carved bead border, above a carved and pierced fruiting vine frieze, on Buddhistic lion shouldered legs united by stretchers and terminating in claw and ball feet, height 61.5cm.

A pair of Chinese Canton famille verte porcelain vases and covers, late 19th century, each baluster body painted with a continuous scene of figures in a large pavilion and garden, each cover with Buddhistic lion finial, unmarked, height 38cm, together with a graduated pair of Japanese Imari circular bowls, diameters 18.5cm and 24cm (faults and repairs).

A Chinese silk embroidered rectangular panel, early 20th century, worked in coloured threads with a lotus pond scene inhabited by kingfishers, ducks, butterflies and other insects on a magenta ground, with blue stitched three-line text to upper left corner, 64.5cm x 42.5cm, framed.

A Chinese Peking amber glass basin, probably late Qing dynasty, of circular form with everted rim, height 12.5cm, diameter 35cm.

A Thai gilt bronze figure of a standing Buddha, probably 18th/19th century, cast with right hand raised in abhaya mudra and left hand down to the side, the face with serene expression and elongated earlobes, his hair tightly curled and rising to a domed usnisa, height 64.3cm (usnisa flame missing), mounted on a lacquered turned wooden stepped plinth base, total height 89.4cm, together with an Islamic circular tray, decorated in low relief with a figural scene within foliate borders, diameter 63cm.

A Chinese blue and white porcelain brush pot, mark of Kangxi but later, of slightly waisted cylindrical form, painted with a pleasure barge in a river landscape opposing lines of calligraphic text and seal, underglaze blue six-character mark to base, height 15.4cm.

A Chinese famille rose porcelain cylindrical food jar with domed cover, Republic period, painted with opposing figural garden scenes, applied with bamboo handle terminals, the cover with gilt peach finial beside four black characters, red painted pseudo seal mark to base, height 22.5cm.

A Chinese famille rose porcelain food jar and cover, Republic period, of vertically ribbed drum form, the body painted with magpies amidst blossom opposing butterflies, the cover with figures picking gourds above blossoming branches, unmarked, height 16cm.

A Chinese Swatow blue and white export porcelain circular dish, Ming dynasty, painted with a central character within a rim of stylized foliage and rectangular panels, diameter 28.5cm, together with a Chinese famille rose porcelain stacking four-tier cylindrical box and cover, total height 10.7cm, and two blue and white crackle glazed brushpots, heights 10.5cm and 11cm (minor faults).

A Chinese famille rose porcelain vase, mark of Daoguang but later, the pear form body finely enamelled with blossoming branches emanating from rocks, beneath a yellow ground flared neck filled with polychrome lotus and scrolling tendrils, iron red enamelled seal mark to base, height 29cm, with a wood stand.

A Chinese famille rose porcelain brushpot, mark of Xianfeng but 20th century or later, the cylindrical body painted with a standing maiden, rocks and flowers, iron red seal mark to base, height 15cm.

A Chinese grey crackle glazed circular tripod censer of squat circular form, covered in a bluish-grey glaze suffused with a network of two-tone iron oxide crackles, height 5.7cm, diameter 12.5cm.

A Chinese porcelain supper set, 20th century, comprising nine dishes, each interior painted with blossoming prunus branches on a green ground, inscribed 'Decorated in Hong Kong' to bases, within a fitted hardwood box with glazed cover, width 27.5cm.

A Chinese silver and plated model of a naval gunship, early 20th century, mounted on a carved and pierced hardwood stand, height 30cm, within a hardwood and glazed rectangular case, on scroll legs united by stretchers, total height 44cm.

A Chinese blue and white porcelain circular dish, mark of Guangxu and possibly of the period, the interior painted with a pair of confronted dragons divided by a flaming pearl and vapours, repeated on the underside of rim, underglaze blue six-character mark to base, diameter 37.4cm.

A set of five Japanese Satsuma earthenware circular buttons, Meiji/Taisho period, each painted with children at play, diameter 2.8cm, and a Japanese Kutani wine cup, painted with chrysanthemum on a gilt ground, underglaze blue three-character mark to base, height 9.5cm.

A Chinese brown patinated bronze censer, probably late Qing dynasty or later, of gently flared form on a circular foot, cast with a band of floral medallions flanked by Buddhistic lion mask handles, cast seal mark to base, height 8.9cm.

A Chinese sang-de-boeuf glazed porcelain bowl, Qing dynasty, of circular form, covered in an oxblood glaze, height 9.5cm, diameter 15.5cm.

A Chinese yellow glazed porcelain circular saucer dish, mark of Daoguang and possibly of the period, underglaze blue seal mark to base, diameter 17cm.