Asian Art

A CHINESE JADEITE ‘RAFT’ CARVING. Early 20th Century. Carved and pierced in the form of two boys on a raft above waves, one steering with an oar, ...

A CHINESE JADE BLADE. The faceted body with a pointy tip, carved in a stone with russet and olive mottling, raised on a wood stand, 22cm long. (2)...

TWO PAIRS OF CHINESE METAL PAPER WEIGHTS. Republic period, one signed bearing seal of Ding Foyan (1878 – 1931). The first pair decorated with call...

PAN ZHAO (1915 – 1969). Birds and Flowers, ink and colour on paper, mounted as a Chinese album, Provenance: English private collection, acquired i...

A PAIR OF CHINESE PAINTINGS OF LADIES AND AN EMBROIDERED PANEL. Qing Dynasty. Ink and colour of canvas, each depicting an elegant young woman on a...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE FIGURE OF BUDAI HESHANG AND TWO HARDSTONE PLANTS. Early 20th Century. The Laughing Buddha with a string of prayer beads and...

FOUR CHINESE APPLE-GREEN JADEITE BOWLS. Qing Dynasty. Each with a plain rounded body rising to a gently everted lip, raised on a circular foot, th...

λ A COLLECTION OF CHINESE CARVINGS. Qing Dynasty and later. Comprising: an agate double gourd and bat pendant, an amethyst peaches pendant, a serp...

A CHINESE SOAPSTONE CARVING OF XUANWU. Ming Dynasty. The God of the North carved in a full armour, seated on a rocky base, a snake wrapped around ...

A CHINESE BAMBOO 'HEHE ERXIAN' CARVING. Qing Dynasty. One crouched over a circular box, the other seated above supported on an adjacent porous roc...

A CHINESE BOXWOOD FIGURE OF A LUOHAN. The emaciated figure seated on a porous rock with legs crossed, the chest and legs bare, a small box held in...

A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF BUDAI HESHANG. Qing Dynasty. Seated in a relaxed pose, wearing monk's robes exposing his rounded belly, with...

A PAIR OF CHINESE UNCUT SOAPSTONE SEALS. 19th / 20th Century. One side of each deeply incised to depict complementary scenes of an amorous celesti...

A CHINESE YELLOW HARDSTONE SEAL. The square-section body with a polished top incised to one side with a short inscription, the face carved with th...

A SMALL CHINESE HARDSTONE 'QUAILS' SEAL. Qing Dynasty. The rectangular face carved with two characters, surmounted by two birds seeking refuge ben...

A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE SEAL. The square face carved with four characters, the finial carved as a crouching sinuous dragon, 9.5cm H. 青玉雕印璽，陰刻「...

λ A CHINESE IVORY ENGRAVED BATON, HU. 17th Century. The flattened, curved and gently tapered body incised with an intricate landscape on one side ...

A CHINESE 'GOOSE' INKSTONE. Naturalistically formed with the bird's head and feathers wrapped over the smooth interior, the reverse with a calligr...

A CHINESE BAMBOO 'QUAIL' CARVING. Carved and pierced with a small bird seeking refuge among porous rocks beneath peonies and millet, 32cm H. Prove...

A CHINESE BAMBOO CARVING OF A FINGER CITRON. Naturalistically carved on a leafy branch open at the end, 38cm long. 竹雕佛手柑

TWO CHINESE HARDSTONE AXE HEADS. The larger in agate, the smaller in grey jade, each with a tapered body and polished surface, 14 - 8.5cm long. (2...

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE INK STONE. The exterior decorated around with frothing waves, a six character Xuande mark to the base within a double cir...

AN INDO-PORTUGUESE CIRCULAR 'ST GEORGE AND THE DRAGON' SCHIST PANEL. Probably 17th Century. Carved with the equestrian knight about to thrust a sp...

A CHINESE TANG-STYLE SILVER MIRROR. Cast with birds with scrolling stems in their beaks around the central loop formed as an animal, the rim divid...

FOUR CHINESE PEKING GLASS OVERLAY 'BUTTERFLY' WASHERS. Each of compressed circular form, two decorated with blue overlay and two carved in glass o...

A CHINESE MOTHER OF PEARL-INSET LACQUER WOOD RUYI SCEPTRE. Qing Dynasty. The head inlaid with four characters reading zu xia yun sheng surrounded ...

A PAIR OF CHINESE BAMBOO CARVINGS OF IMMORTALS. Qing Dynasty. Each carved as a smiling bearded sage wearing long flowing robes, the first in a fan...

A CHINESE SQUARE-SECTION RETICULATED BONE STAND. Qing Dynasty. Carved in bone around a wooden base, with pierced panels above shaped aprons incise...

A PAIR OF CHINESE WOOD COVERS. Qing Dynasty. Each with a wide rim carved with a band of radiating grooves, the domed central part pierced with scr...

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE AND PINK ENAMEL 'LOTUS' WATER POT. The beehive-shaped body painted with pink lotus flower heads and foliage scrolls, with...

A CHINESE WHITE JADE AND CLOISONNE 'KUI DRAGONS' MINIATURE TABLE SCREEN. The rectangular plaque carved and pierced with archaistic beasts includin...

A CHINESE CRACKLE-GLAZE INCENSE BURNER. The straight body with a gently flared rim with two handles raised on three short feet and decorated with ...

TWO CHINESE HARD WOOD BRUSHPOTS, BITONG. Of slightly tapering cylindrical form, one raised on three short feet, each with a raised band at the bas...

A CHINESE WHITE BISCUIT 'POMEGRANATES' BRUSHPOT, BITONG. Qing Dynasty. The body lobed into four sections and modelled to the sides with pomegranat...

A CHINESE SPINACH-GREEN JADE BRUSHPOT, BITONG. The square-section body carved to each side with sages in a mountainous setting, with trees and pag...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE HEXAGONAL BRUSHPOT, BITONG. The sides painted with birds, trees and blossoms alternating with alpine landscapes of green pe...

A LARGE CHINESE WOOD BRUSHPOT, BITONG. Qing Dynasty. With thick walls carved in high relief with two sages and their young assistant carrying a la...

A CHINESE CARVED BAMBOO BRUSHPOT, BITONG. Qing Dynasty. Carved and pierced with panels to depict ladies within a garden below a floral band at the...

A LARGE CHINESE WOOD BRUSHPOT, BITONG. With a plain, finely polished, gently waisted body and a rounded rim, 25cm H, 25cm diameter. 木雕筆筒

NINE CHINESE WOOD AND BAMBOO BRUSHPOTS, BITONG. Qing Dynasty and later. One carved as a tree trunk, one hexagonal, the others cylindrical, four ca...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'PHEASANTS' VASE. Qing Dynasty, 19th Century. With an ovoid body and a waisted neck rising to a flared rim painted with a p...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE FIGURATIVE VASE. Republican period. The ovoid body with a waisted foot and a short flared neck painted with figures beneath...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE DOUBLE GOURD 'BAJIXIANG' VASE. Painted in enamels and gilt with the Eight Buddhist Symbols and stylised lotus blossoms and ...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'SAGE' VASE. The cylindrical body painted with a hermit and his acolyte accompanied by a crane in a wild landscape beneath ...

A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE GARLIC MOUTH 'PEACHES' VASES. 20th Century. Each with a pear-shaped body supported on a splayed foot and rising to ...

A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'BATS AND PEACHES' BOWLS. Each painted with iron-red bats in flight above a peach tree laden with plump fruit and b...

A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE WALL VASES. Qing Dynasty. Each with a tapered body painted with scenes from The Romance of The Western Chamber, the...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'PRECIOUS OBJECTS' VASE. The ovoid body painted with various artistic treasures laid out on a fenced veranda beneath a frui...

A PAIR OF CHINESE PORCELAIN PANELS. 20th Century. Each famille rose 'birds and flowers' plaque inscribed with a short poem, and inlaid as the top ...

A PAIR OF CHINESE PORCELAIN ZHUSHAN 'LADIES' PANELS. 20th Century. One depicting two ladies in a study conversing over a table, the other with the...

A PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'BIRDS' PANELS. Qing Dynasty. Each of square shape, the first painted with a pair of peacocks resting beneath a b...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'LADIES' PANEL. Painted with three graceful maidens on a terrace, one about to play qin, framed, 62 x 50cm 粉彩繪仕女圖紋瓷板

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE AND UNDERGLAZE RED WALL VASE. Qing Dynasty. The tapered lobed body with a flared rim painted with a magpie on a branch of...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE CANTON ENAMEL BOX AND COVER. The oval-section body with gilt bands to the rims, the cover painted with a shaped panel withi...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'IMMORTALS' WATERPOT. With a low cylindrical body set with two lion head handles with rings, painted to one side with a raf...

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE JARDINIÈRE. Early 19th Century. Of oval-section, the straight sides supported on four feet, painted around with antiques an...

A CHINESE GLAZED SLIP-DECORATED JAR. Late 19th / early 20th Century. With rounded shoulders decorated with a continuous panel of flowers on a pond...

TWO FAMILLE ROSE DISHES. Qing Dynasty, Qianlong mark and of the period. Each decorated with either landscape or floral panels against a gilt-decor...

A CHINESE LACQUER PEACH-SHAPED BOX AND COVER. Late Qing Dynasty. Formed as a large fruit painted with peaches, blossoms, foliage and bats in black...

A CHINESE TURQUOISE-GLAZED 'LOTUS LEAF' WASHER. Qing Dynasty. The biscuit body formed as a large up-turned leaf with attendant seed pod and a bud,...