Asian and Islamic Ceramics and Works of Art

A pair of Chinese famille verte export porcelain plates, Kangxi period, each painted and gilt with ducks on a lotus pond, the rim filled with underglaze blue flowers and leafy stems within iron red and gilt border, diameter 22.8cm (minor rim chips).

A pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain vases, mark of Kangxi but late 19th century, each hexagonal baluster body painted with dragons amidst peony, underglaze blue four-character mark to base, height 29.5cm.

A Chinese blue and white porcelain crocus or tulip vase, mark of Qianlong but late 19th century, the lobed bulbous body painted with Buddhistic lions amidst vapours, beneath five circular apertures, the central tapered neck with further vapours below a lotus moulded bulbous mouth, underglaze blue four-character mark to base, height 24.5cm.

A Japanese Arita Imari porcelain dish, 18th century, the centre painted with fruiting pomegranate branch within a segmented border filled with landscapes and flowers, the rim underside with foliate roundels and scrolling leafy tendrils, underglaze blue four-character mark to base, diameter 32.5cm (hairline crack and small chip to rim).

A Chinese Canton export tortoiseshell circular snuff box and cover, mid-19th century, finely carved in relief with figures, pagoda and boats, diameter 9.5cm (repair to rim and later applied thumbpiece).

Two Chinese blue and white 'rice grain' export porcelain plates, mark of Guangxu and probably of the period, each painted and gilt with pavilions in a coastal setting, each 'rice grain' rim enamelled with turquoise, green, iron red and gilt foliage, iron red enamelled six-character mark to base, diameters 24.8cm and 21.1cm (minor rim chips and smaller plate with small firing crack to rim).

A pair of Chinese Imari export porcelain plates, Kangxi period, each painted and gilt with a fenced flower garden within a flower-filled rim, diameter 22.8cm (minor rim chips).

A Chinese Imari export porcelain saucer dish, Kangxi period, painted and gilt with a scroll shaped panel filled with flower basket and flowers, diameter 22.2cm, together with a Chinese Imari export porcelain plate, Kangxi period, diameter 22.3cm (hairline crack to rim), and a famille rose export porcelain plate, Yongzheng period, painted with birds and flowers, diameter 22.7cm (minor rim chips).

A Chinese Nanking Cargo blue and white export porcelain plate, Qianlong period, painted with flowers and rocks, diameter 22.8cm, bearing Nanking Cargo paper label.

A pair of Chinese armorial export porcelain circular saucer dishes, Yongzheng period, each painted and gilt with the arms of the Frederick family, Baronets of Westminster, within rouge de fer borders, diameter 22.3cm. Note: Sir John Frederick, who was created a Baronet in June 1723, was born in March 1678 and with a number of others was an early promoter of the South Sea Company. A similarly decorated dish is illustrated and discussed on page 202 of 'Chinese Armorial Porcelain' by David Sanctury Howard. Provenance: commissioned by Sir John Frederick (b.1678), and thence by family descent.

A Chinese armorial export porcelain circular dish, Yongzheng period, painted and gilt with the arms of the Frederick family, Baronets of Westminster, within rouge de fer borders, diameter 32.5cm (repaired). Note: Sir John Frederick, who was created a Baronet in June 1723, was born in 1678 and with a number of others was an early promoter of the South Sea Company. A similarly decorated dish is illustrated and discussed on page 202 of 'Chinese Armorial Porcelain' by David Sanctury Howard. Provenance: commissioned by Sir John Frederick (b.1678), and thence by family descent.

A Chinese laque burgauté rectangular box and cover, late Qing dynasty, delicately inlaid in mother-of-pearl with two cranes standing beside a blossoming branch, the sides with scattered flowers, on a black ground, length 5.5cm.

A Chinese jade carving of a Buddhistic lion, probably early 20th century, modelled in a crouching pose with head turned back, the stone of pale grey tone with black and brown inclusions, length 7cm.

A Japanese Satsuma earthenware circular plate, Meiji period, painted and gilt with a pair of peacocks perched in the branches of a blossoming tree, within a polychrome and gilt simulated brocade rim, gilt and black signature to base, diameter 21.8cm.

A pair of Chinese blue and white export porcelain circular dishes, Kangxi period, each painted with a central flower basket within a rim of four blossoming branch panels, diameter 28.1cm (one with hairline crack to rim, both with typical glaze fritting to rims).

Chinese export silver filigree card case, late 19th century, in the form of a book with sprung hinged lid, decorated with a rectangular panel of dragons and vapours within foliate borders, weight 36.8g, length 8.3cm, together with a Japanese export silver stamp case, the hinged lid decorated in relief with a dragon roundel, weight 28.7g, length 4.2cm

A pair of Japanese Satsuma earthenware bottle vases, Meiji period, each globular body and flared narrow neck painted and gilt with Kannon, dragons and arhats, indistinct iron red and gilt signature to bases, height 18.5cm, with wood stands.

A Japanese Fukagawa porcelain vase, early 20th century, of ovoid form, painted with five grey fish swimming beneath underglaze blue iris, underglaze blue Mount Fuji mark to base, height 22.5cm.

A Chinese blue and white crackle glazed porcelain vase, early 20th century, of baluster form, painted with figures in landscape within iron oxide borders, height 26cm.