Fine Asian Art

the softly carved dancing boy holding an ingot and a string of cash, and the three boy group carved with two boys carrying their friend between th...

well carved and with soft polish, with the bird portrayed sitting with his wings furled and head turned back over his body, biting on a fruiting b...

the almost white stone well carved in openwork from a pebble, showing extensive use of the russet skin particularly on the veined leaf, with the s...

in Ming style, sitting foursquare with hooves tucked beneath, the almost spinach green stone with extensive brown inclusions, L:15.5cm. Good cond...

the dramatically marked stone very finely carved in low relief with a five clawed dragon on one white side, clasping at a 'Pearl' borne on a cloud...

the pale even stone very finely carved from a rounded section of a pebble, utilising areas of the russet skin around his horn and his shoulders,...

Three assorted Jadeite and Agate Objects, 19/20 century Property from an English Private Collection

Two Coral Necklaces, with Japanese metal box,

with sixty six beads,

well carved in rich blue with an archaic dragon on each side,against a bubble suffused clear field, stopper, Retouching around mouth

well carved in pierced relief with a bat flying up to alight on the larger of the two fruit, stopper, and wood stand Fair but with stalks joining...

together with three other hardstone bottles , all with stoppers Rimchips agate bottle

the smoothly finished soapstone bottle of soft reddish tone with elegant flattened profile, stopper; and the flattened ovoid agate bottle with st...

all with striking figuring, including an ovoid bottle with,stopper, and two bottles with carved lion head and ring handles to the shoulder,one of ...

including one of square shaped with double lion handles, stopper, and two of flattened ovoid form, one with stopper, formerly part lot 896, Woolle...

Twelve assorted Snuffbottles, 19th/20th century, see photos

well carved on one side with a fruiting branch of finger citron in low pierced relief, and incised on the other side with a signature and two seal...

the bamboo core of the brushpot covered on the exterior with a thick??layer of ochre and black lacquers on a cinnabar red ground, worked to a mott...

A Hongmu Brushpot of cylindrical form, standing on a wide base with inset centre, the reddish wood well figures, with mother of pearl inlay of son...

carved from a gnarled hollow tree root, the intricately shaped and textured wood polished to a rich brown tone, set with a dark hardwood rim and b...

brightly enamelled on one side of the cylindrical body with a scene of a young scholar and a bearded warrior at the door of a house, being offered...

Naturalistically carved as stems of lingzhi fungus with bats flying over them, each terminating with a pendent chain and double ring, all carved f...

the walnuts naturally formed with a two-segment shell, the skin wrinkled with veiny ribs running over the surface, with attractive deep brown pati...

well carved from the fine grained wood with an emaciated sage clasping a rosary in one hand, and one of his trailing eyebrows in the other, as he ...

the upper body, head and high cranium carved from a darker plainer section of the root wood, the lower body and a lingzhi in his right hand carved...

well carved with scholars in gardens, with wood mounts to base and rim H:17cm good condition

of rectangular form, the top carved in low relief with a mountain landscape, L:19cm. Fair condition ,two small chips, Published at Chinese Carved ...

finely modelled as a half peach resting on a flat leaf, the stem and leaves smoothly modelled while the peach skin is rendered as crisply carved h...

the square box of 3 tiered form, the red ground with inlaid and applied decoration of songbirds and flowering prunus in mother of pearl and soaps...

lacquered black and finely inlaid in mother-of-pearl depicting figures in landscape scenes, decorated to the cavettos with a band of floral diaper...

In original hardwood frame, the deep brown crackled lacquer finely inlaid in jade, carnelian and other hardstones with flowering plants in vases a...

Two Square Ink Stones, Qing dynastyAn inkstone is carved with auspicious clouds, pine trees and bats. The other is simplicity. Good condition

A Carved Square Ink Stone with Hardwood Box, Qing dynastyThe ink stone is carved with 'buddhist lion' group. Good conditiom

Carved Oval Ink Stone with Hardwood Box, Qing dynastyThe ink stone is carved with a banana leaf and a cute little spider. Good condition

A Group of 7 Ink Cakes, 19/20th Century Good condition, some surface rust

One side of the ink cake is a landscape and the other side is gold painted calligraphy H: 8.5cm Good condition Reference: For a similar group of i...

One side of the ink cake is landscape and the other side is gold painted calligraphy H:7.8cm Good condition Reference: For a similar group of ink ...

A Gilt Bronze Small Bowl, Han dynasty, incised on the interior well with scrollwork phoenixes around the central scroll medallion, and the exterio...

compressed globular body from splayed foot rising to a tall cylindrical neck and set with a pair of tubular handles, all under a natural grey pati...

imitating a Zhou dynasty original, cast on each side with formal rows of raised nipples and scrollwork above confronted scrollwork dragons, with g...

following a Han dynasty original, standing on a tall foot, the bombe sides with moulded double archaistic taotie mask handles at the shoulder, sus...

A Bronze Vase of Lozenge Section, 18th/19th century H:19cm Fair condition

the elegant dark patinated and thinly cast vessel almost undecorated except for a raised double bowstring line just below the flared mouth, set wi...

the heavily cast circular mirror with two concentric bands of lion and grapevine around the central pierced knop W:18.5cm. Good condition

the seated Bodhisattva with hand raised in benediction, dark patina, and the standing acolyte bearing a small chest, dark patina, The acolyte H:2...

the serene Goddess wearing her mantle drawn up in a hood over the tiara, and wearing bodhisattva jewels and fluttering celestial scarves on the ch...

in long flowing robes, with hands clasped before him holding the hu tablet, the emblem of high office, the face with serene expression beneath the...

the bearded immortal seated on a star shaped base with hand resting on his raised left knee, a sword slung over his shoulder, with dark patina H:8...

the dark patinaed figure seated on a lotus plinth H:9cm.

the jovial deity seated on the ground with robe open at the front to expose his large belly, with inlaid silver detailing to his face and robe, th...

the seated figure well carved from softwood, with four heads, one gazing serenely downward beneath the tiara, while at the back two demon faces fl...

comprising a pair of qilong brushrests, a brush rest in the form of a reclining boy, and a seated Buddhist monk

with dark patina, the charming beasts standing four square with trunks outstretched,with extensive jewelled caparisons inlaid with coral and turqu...

the slender baluster vase with good dark patination, standing on a square four legged integral base and set at the shoulders with double bird head...

of barbed and ribbed section, the sides with well worked diaper panels and unusual double loop handles, six character Xuande mark to base, good co...

the tripod jue with a dissolved taotie and leiwen border around the waist, beneath a beast head loop handle, dark patina, the vase of slender form...

of slender upright form, standing on legs of triangular section, with a low relief leiwen and taotie band around the middle beneath loop handle w...

the charming reclining beast lying with his head turned round to one side, resting on the trailing cloth of his caparisoned and jewelled howdah, ...

thinly cast and light in weight with two handles shaped as lion heads, the base with Xuande mark W:9.5cm, Weight:197 grams Good with authentic ver...

the entirely undecorated body with good dark patina, with short straight neck, and standing on tripod cabriole feet, H:8cm. Ok, firing fault shoul...