Fine Chinese, Islamic and Japanese ceramics and works of art October Auction - Day 1 and 2

The God of War is carved with a fierce expression and one hand holding his his beard and the other hand on the hilt of his sword. He carved is sta...

The group comprises a tea pot and cover, milk jug, and a sugar pot and cover. Each piece is decorated with a dragon to the body on a stamped groun...

The exterior of the bowl is finely decorated in relief with dragons in flight amongst coiled clouds chasing the flaming pearl.Origin: ChinaPeriod:...

The piece carved as a figure of Guanyin wearing an elaborate headdress and long robes. She holds a staff bearing delicate flowers and she is accom...

Each of the roundels is woven to depict a front-facing five-clawed dragon chasing the flaming pearl amongst flame scrolls above waves crashing on ...

The box is naturalistically carved as a lingzhi fungus growing from a gnarled stem, surrounded by a bat to the upper and lower surface. The lower ...

The piece is carved in the round as Guanyin seated on a phoenix with its head raised and mouth open. A boy attendant holding a lantern stands belo...

The figure is cast seated in dhyanasana with her hands in dhyanamudra, dressed in loose, flowing robes and elaborate beaded jewellery. The face wi...

The figure is carved as an elegant lady with an elaborate coiffure, she wears long robes and a celestial scarf draped over her shoulders. She hold...

Each screen is impressively decorated as a display cabinet, duobaoge, with each level containing a precious object such as censers, ruyi sceptres,...

The seats are finely decorated with shaped cloisonné enamel panels to the body decorated with lotus scrolls. The upper and lower registers are ins...

The letter rack is finely carved and pierced to the centre with multiple stacked trays for letters, the trays decorated with figures at leisure. T...

The panel is carved through the dark lacquer ground and filled with coloured lacquer to depict precious objects such as a gu vase filled with flow...

Each phoenix is carved in mirror image with its head raised and wings folded on its back. Each phoenix stands on a rocky base with blossoming peon...

The ewer is mounted with a makara shaped handle and spout, the upper rim and three horizontal bands are decorated with flower heads and scrolls.Th...

The rectangular table screen is carved to both side with a scene of a Hundred Deer in a forest setting, and is inscribed 'bai lu tu' (hundred deer...

The box is carved in imitation of a brocade-covered book box wrapped with a cloth tied to its top. The dark wood is decorated with lighter wood de...

A Chinese silver-inlaid dark bronze figure of a bodhisattva Guanyin sitting on a rock rising out of the sea, her robes, which fall gracefully arou...

The group comprises puzzle balls of various sizes, carved and pierced with multiple layers. The stands are similarly carved.Origin: ChinaPeriod: 1...

The figure is carved standing wearing a high headdress and long robes. He holds a staff in one hand decorated with coloured pigments and in his ot...

The low censer is of rectangular form with canted corner with two angular c-shaped handles to the side. It stands on four bracket feet. The unders...

The bowl is carved to the exterior through the amber glass to depict birds amongst peonies, all reserved on an opaque milky white ground.Origin: C...

The stele is carved to the front with the central figure of Shakyamuni standing beside two further figures, all below asparas in flight. The stele...

The censer is of tapering rectangular section and stands on four tall cabriole legs. The sides are decorated with two stylised handles. The unders...

Ink and colour on paper.One depicting a weaver making hats out of straw, and the other a tradesman selling fans.Both framed and glazed.Origin: Chi...

Three framed colour prints depicting a Chinese gentleman holding a ?fan; a Chinese gentleman holding a flower? in his hand and a Chinese man writi...

Rare set of two plain wooden corbels from Ky?sh? with carved Chinese lions (karashishi), one depicting a male lion, its paw resting on an openwork...

The God of War is carved standing wearing warrior's armour. One of his hands reaches up to hold his beard. The base bears an apocryphal Chenghua m...

The box is decorated to the exterior with panels enclosing figures, surrounded by fruit and leafy flower scrolls. The interior is comprised of com...

The washer is finely carved to the exterior following the natural shape of the wood to depict pavilions in a mountainous landscape. The surface is...

The boxes of various sizes, each carved with panels depicting figures amongst trees and pavilions.Origin: ChinaPeriod: 19th centurySizes: 7.50 cm....

Of compressed globular form with sightly everted rim and standing on flaring ring foot , stylised with "Fu lions shaped handles.The bottom with Tw...

Ink and colour on silk.The painting depicts a standing scholar accompanied by two horses below a pine tree.Framed and glazed.Provenance: Property ...

The censer is decorated with two animal head handles to the sides and to the body with taotie masks separated by low flanges, all reserved on a le...

The cover of the box is decorated to the centre and the sides with scenes of scholars and attendants under trees in gardens at leisure. The sides ...

A Chinese bamboo brush pot, carved in relic with Louhan figures at leisure amongst pine trees in a rocky setting with Chinese inscriptions..Origin...

Seated on a double lotus base with bearded edges, the right hand raised and holding an attribute.Origin: ChinaPeriod: 19th centurySizes: 16.50 cm....

the wrathful deity Chakrasamvara with six arms standing in alidhasana with consort Vajravarahi, the three-faced deity striding in alidhasana on a ...

Ink and colour on silk.The painting depicts various Immortals wearing officials' robes seated in a circle around a central kneeling figure, possib...

The bird is carved with its head raised and its wings folded on its back. Its legs modelled as if it were walking forward. The long tail trails be...

The elegantly modelled bodhisattva is crafted wearing a leaf diadem and elaborate jewellery decorated with coloured stone inlays and a dhoti decor...

The mandala is centred on a three headed four armed bodhisattva, all above lamas to the lower register. The upper register with Vairocana to the c...

The thangka depicts a scene from the life of Gautama, with him wearing a priests robe and various attendants, including one holding a parasol.Fra...

Chinese tea chest with three compartments (one with revolving doors; one with sliding doors and one consisting of two drawers) and four shelves, e...

The cabinet is constructed of shelves of various sizes and shapes separated by upright panels with silhouette vases and bowls, all with various fl...

The teapot is decorated to each side with pale-coloured appliques in the shape of four kui dragons surrounding a shou roundel. The similarly-shape...

The hexagonal teapot is decorated with a c-shaped handle and s-shaped spout and stands on low feet. The flat cover is decorated with a crouching B...

The group comprises two teapots shaped as tree trunks, one bearing a stamped 'Yixingzisha' mark to the base; and a squat teapot with a cover surmo...

The washer is fashioned in the form of an artemisia leaf with low straight walls and standing on bracket feet.Origin: ChinaPeriod: 18th centurySiz...

The God of Literature is modelled wearing a scholar's cap and robes decorated with incised auspicious designs. He is seated on a base holding a ru...

The God of Literature is modelled seated on a rocky base wearing scholar's robes. He is accompanied by his assistant, Guixing.Origin: ChinaPeriod:...

The group depicts Xi Wangmu standing on a tree trunk raft with her attendants crossing the ocean.Provenance: Private British collectionOrigin: Chi...

The Goddess of Mercy is modelled with a serene expression below her hair in a high chignon held with a ruyi-head pin. She wears long draping robes...

The smiling figure is modelled standing wearing a scholar's cap decorated with confronting dragons and a dragon robe with incised decoration on th...

The group comprises a pair of white-glazed Buddhist lion joss stick holders, the creatures sitting on raised rectangular plinths, and a Buddhist l...

The pear-shaped vase is decorated with two angular tube handles to the shoulder. It is covered overall with an unctuous greyish-celadon glaze suff...

The circular cover is decorated with a flower head in low relief surrounded by leaves, the box standing on a small foot ring All covered with a bl...

The circular cover is decorated with a flower head in low relief surrounded by leaves, the box standing on a small foot ring All covered with a bl...

The interior finely decorated in relief with delicate stylised lotus blooms surrounding a central flower head roundel. It is covered overall with ...

The exterior is delicately decorated and enamelled with twelve bats in flight bearing beribboned double gourds amongst incised green-enamelled scr...