Asian and Islamic Ceramics and Works of Art

A pair of Chinese porcelain bottle vases, mark of Yongzheng but Republic style, each pear form body painted with a figure of a sleeping musician opposing lines of black text and three red seals, underglaze blue seal mark to bases, height 13.6cm.

A group of eight Chinese famille rose porcelain plates, 18th century, painted with various floral designs, one of octagonal form, width 24cm, the others circular, diameters ranging from 22.2cm to 23.5cm (all with faults). Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.

A Chinese polished bronze figure of Guanyin, late Qing dynasty, modelled standing wearing a long robe and holding a scroll, height 27cm, together with Chinese polished bronze model of a carp, length 20cm (minor faults), and two small bronze figures of Buddha and Guanyin, heights 3.7cm and 5.9cm.

A Chinese pale celadon jade jar and cover, 20th century, the domed cover carved in low relief with a dragon emerging through vapours rising to a head finial, the squat circular body decorated with lotus and scrolling tendrils, flanked by a pair of carved and pierced archaistic mask and loose ring handles, raised on three elephant mask feet, height 14.8cm, width across handles 18.2cm, with hardwood stand.

A pair of Chinese spinach green jade bowls, 20th century, each of thinly carved slightly flared circular form, the exterior carved in low relief with opposing sprays of birds amidst magnolia and prunus branches, the stone of spinach green tone with carboniferous inclusions, height 8.1cm, diameter 19.5cm, each with carved and pierced hardwood stand on five scroll legs united by a stretcher.

A Japanese bone mounted tanto dagger, Meiji period, with curved single-edged blade, the three-section bone scabbard (saya) carved in relief with figural scenes, fitted with a carved hardwood handle, total length 41.5cm.

A Chinese carved amber figure group, late Qing dynasty/20th century, modelled as a figure on horseback and tripod censer on rocks, the reverse incised with lines of text, height 5.8cm, length 7.7cm.

A Chinese carved amber figure group, probably late Qing dynasty, modelled as a monkey leaning back on a Buddha's hand citron, length 7.3cm (minor chips).

A pair of Chinese Qingbai type cups, each petal mounted bowl with everted rim, on a similarly moulded spreading foot, heights 12.5cm and 12.9cm (one with firing crack to footrim).

A Chinese famille verte export porcelain saucer dish, Kangxi period, the centre painted with chrysanthemum within a rim of further flowerheads, diameter 21.6cm (minor glaze fritting to rim and plugged hole to centre). Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.

A pair of Chinese Canton lacquered bamboo brushpots, mid-19th century, each gilt with opposing scenes of standing figures divided by lines of text on a dark brown/black ground, height 16.8cm (some faults).

A pair of Chinese blue and white export porcelain plates, Kangxi period, each painted with a pair of central dragons, underglaze blue pseudo seal mark to bases, diameter 21.3cm (one cracked, the other with rim repair), together with a Chinese Imari export porcelain bowl, Qianlong period, diameter 14.8cm, and two Imari export porcelain plates, diameters 22.3cm and 22.8cm (faults).

A Chinese blue and white porcelain vase, probably 20th century or later, the lobed ovoid body painted with four dragons emerging from crashing waves, height 30cm.

A Japanese silk and card boxed folio, titled 'Nippon Kotoki Taikan: Methods of Lighting in Ancient Japan', produced by the Japanese Illuminating Engineering Society in December 1930, length 38.3cm (outer box worn).

A Chinese blue and white export porcelain circular dish, 18th century, the centre painted with a pine tree, bamboo and chrysanthemum within a rim of ducks on lotus pond and blossoming stems, unmarked, diameter 37.8cm (repaired). Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.

A Chinese brown glazed circular dragon dish, the interior applied with a dragon clasping a flaming pearl in its teeth, the underside moulded with sprays of lotus, prunus and bamboo beneath a keyfret rim, diameter 15.7cm (repair to rim).

A pair of Chinese yellow glazed porcelain models of cockerels, early 20th century, each modelled standing with moulded plumage on a naturalistic base, impressed 'China' to undersides, height 22cm (beaks chipped).

A small collection of Chinese silk embroideries, late Qing dynasty, together with three Japanese silk kimonos.

A Chinese famille verte enamelled biscuit porcelain vase, late Qing dynasty, of swollen cylindrical form, moulded in relief with a crane amidst lotus on a turquoise ground, unmarked, height 20.3cm.