Asian and Islamic Ceramics and Works of Art

A Burmese palm leaf manuscript, late 19th century, comprising twenty-nine leaves of Sanskrit script, with wooden boards, length 46cm, together with two nut vessels with metal rims, lengths 9.5cm.

A Straits Chinese black lacquer and red woven cane three-tier wedding basket and cover, late Qing dynasty, the top decorated in gilt with a figural scene, the sides with flowers, beneath an overhead handle, height 41cm.

A pair of Chinese brass figures of dragons, early 20th century, each modelled standing with scale decoration, length 34.5cm.

A Chinese blue and white export porcelain circular dish, Qianlong period, painted with a fenced peony garden within a rim of lotus sprays, diameter 37.8cm (restoration to rim), together with a blue and white porcelain plate, Kangxi period, painted with flowers, diameter 22cm (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 sang-de-boeuf glazed porcelain vase, mark of Qianlong but modern, of baluster form with flared neck, underglaze blue seal mark to base, height 38.5cm.

A Persian Qajar tin glazed earthenware bottle vase, 19th century, the ovoid body and girdled flared neck painted in shades of underglaze blue and black with recumbent deer, flowers and foliage, height 27.8cm (repaired neck and rim).

A Persian Qajar tin glazed earthenware circular bowl, 20th century, the interior painted with a design of turquoise and blue flowers and leaves within green leaf borders, diameter 17.5cm.

A pair of Chinese sancai enamelled biscuit porcelain Buddhistic lion jostick holders, Kangxi period, each modelled seated on a rectangular base, height 16cm (some faults and restoration), with wood stands.

A Chinese Ming style yellow and green glazed circular dish, mark of Zhengde but later, the interior decorated in anhua with three scattered vapours, the yellow ground underside with a pair of incised green dragons, flaming pearls and vapours, underglaze blue four-character mark within double ring to base, diameter 23cm (minor firing fault to rim).

A Chinese famille verte porcelain saucer dish, Kangxi style but later, painted with a battle scene, underglaze blue lingzhi fungus mark within double ring to base, diameter 28.4cm.

Two Chinese blue and white export porcelain circular warming plates, late Qianlong period, each painted with two figures crossing a bridge, pavilions and trees in a river landscape, diameters 23.5cm (minor faults).

A Japanese export porcelain figure of a recumbent tiger, 19th century, with crisply modelled facial detail and painted yellow and grey/black stripes, iron red painted six-character mark to base, height 9.2cm, length 20.5cm (minor chip to tip of tail)

A Chinese carved jade cicada pendant, late Qing dynasty, with carved and incised decoration, the stone of mottled brown, black and cinnamon tone, length 6cm.

A Chinese blue and white export porcelain square tile, Kangxi period, painted with scattered flowerheads within flower basket and scrolling leafy tendril borders, 18.2cm x 18.2cm, together with another similar tile painted with lotus and scrolling tendril border, 18.7cm x 18.7cm (minor 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.

Two Chinese blue and white export porcelain square tiles, Kangxi period, each painted with lotus within scrolling tendril borders, 20.2cm x 20.2cm and 20.5cm x 20.5cm (both chipped). 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 black inkstone, 20th century, of rectangular form, the cover carved in relief with a dragon, length 23.5cm.

A Chinese carved bamboo brushpot, decorated in relief with a continuous figural scene between a hardwood mounted rim and base, height 16cm, together with another bamboo brushpot, relief carved with a figural scene, incised two-character mark to side, height 16.3cm.

A Tibetan white metal mounted pale celadon jade snuff bottle, probably early 20th century, of flattened circular form, applied with floral embossed sides, height 6.1cm.

A Chinese aubergine glazed porcelain bowl, mark of Yongzheng but later, of steep-sided circular form with slightly flared rim, the exterior incised with a pair of dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst vapours, between ruyi-head and wave borders, the interior with character roundel, underglaze blue six-character mark within double ring to base, height 7.1cm, diameter 15.3cm.