Asian and Islamic Ceramics and Works of Art

A garniture of three Japanese Imari porcelain vases and two covers, early 18th century, each baluster body painted and gilt with opposing flower panels reserved against landscape grounds, heights 30cm and 19.5cm.

A Chinese Imari export porcelain coffee pot and domed cover, Kangxi period, of tapered cylindrical form with scroll handle and spout, painted and gilt with flowers and scrolling foliage, height 23cm (minor restoration to tip of spout).

A pair of Chinese blue and white export porcelain octagonal plates, Qianlong period, each painted with a pair of deer beside a pine tree, with pavilion beyond, width 22.2cm (minor re-touching/restoration to rims).

A Chinese agate snuff bottle, late Qing dynasty, of rounded form with carved mask handles, height 5.5cm, together with an inside painted glass snuff bottle, painted with lines of black text and red seals, height 6.9cm, and an opaque white glass snuff bottle, height 5.8cm.

A Chinese Qianjiang style porcelain rectangular plaque, 20th century, painted with a group of the seven immortals and an attendant boy beneath seven lines of black text and two red seals to upper left corner, 45.5cm x 33cm, framed.

A Chinese porcelain rectangular plaque, probably 20th century, painted with two figures crossing a bridge in a mountainous coastal landscape, four lines of black text and red seal to upper left corner, 18.7cm x 13cm.

A Chinese Jun glazed stoneware vase, Song style but probably late Qing dynasty, the shouldered ovoid body covered in a blue glaze with purple splashes, height 11.7cm.

A Chinese Canton famille rose porcelain teapot and domed cover, mid to late 19th century, typically painted and gilt with figures, birds and flowers, height 12.8cm.

A collection of nine Chinese wood circular stands, mostly 20th century, including one with carved and pierced apron, on scroll legs, diameters ranging from 12.2cm to 23.2cm (one missing centre panel).

A Chinese famille rose enamelled porcelain vase, mark of Hongxian and possibly of the period, of shouldered tapering form with flared neck, decorated with a pair of ornamental pheasants perched on a blossoming prunus branch above further flowers, red enamelled four-character seal mark to base, height 20cm.

A Chinese porcelain diminutive rouleau vase, mark of Yongzheng but Republic period, the body painted with four swallows, gnarled branches and pink flowers, opposing four lines of black text and three pink seals, within blue enamelled trellis and keyfret borders, blue enamelled four-character seal mark to base, height 11.8cm (minor rim repair).

A Tibetan bone bead single row necklace with chalcedony bead spacers, the bone beads of circular, carved and conical form, length approx 120cm, together with a collection of other Tibetan and Asian beads and necklaces, including agate, glass and stone examples.

A Chinese silver filigree rectangular card case and cover, late 19th century, applied with a dragon, butterfly and twin fish, weight 52g, length 9.4cm, with fitted leather case.

A Chinese jade lock pendant, probably late Qing dynasty, of ruyi-head form, incised with four characters, length 7.5cm, within a silk mounted gilt and glazed frame, 20cm x 20cm. Note: the reverse inscribed 'Formally [sic] the property of James Cavell Novelist', best known for his Asian saga novels, including Shogun.

Hiroshige II (1826-1869) - a complete set of sixty-eight Japanese woodblock chuban prints, circa 1862, depicting the sixty-eight views of the various provinces (Shokoku Rokuju Hakkei), 24.5cm x 18cm, unframed.

A Chinese brown patinated bronze censer and cover, probably 17th/18th century, the pierced dome cover with Buddhistic lion surmount, the squat globular body with archaistic cast decoration, on tripod feet, height 11.7cm, together with a small bronze bombé censer, width across handles 7.8cm, and a Japanese small bronze koro and cover, height 8.6cm.

A Chinese blue and white porcelain bowl, mark of Yongzheng but later, the exterior painted with a continuous scene of birds, rocks, trees and vapours, the interior with deer in landscape roundel, underglaze blue six-character mark within double ring to base, height 7.2cm, diameter 18.5cm.

A Japanese cloisonné dish, Meiji period, of lobed chrysanthemum outline, the central roundel decorated with wisteria on a midnight blue ground, within a polychrome simulated brocade border, diameter 15.2cm.

A Chinese porcelain figure of a seated smiling Buddha, early 20th century, modelled wearing an open floral decorated robe, impressed square seal mark to base, height 19cm, together with a small collection of other Chinese porcelain, including a millefleurs decorated ginger jar, height 22cm, and a Japanese Imari dish.