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SERGEI KALMYKOV (RUSSIAN 1891-1967)Nighttime Writing, oil on paperboard47.5 x 33 cm (18 3/4 x 13 in.)signed lower leftPLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

DAVID BURLIUK (RUSSIAN 1882-1967)Self-Portrait with a Model, oil and mixed media on canvas25.6 x 31 cm (10 x 12 1/4 in.)signed lower right; old A.C.A. Gallery label on versoPROVENANCEA. C. A. Gallery, New York, NYPLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

DAVID BURLIUK (RUSSIAN 1882-1967)Marusia by the Sea, 1965oil on masonite17.8 x 12.7 cm (7 x 5 in.)signed and dated lower rightPLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

DAVID BURLIUK (RUSSIAN 1882-1967)Portrait of Elias Fournier, Greenport, LI, 1947watercolor on paper40.7 x 30.2 cm (16 x 12 in.)signed and inscribed lower right Burliuk Greenport L.I. N.Y.; inscribed and dated on table Elias Fournier 1947PLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

DAVID BURLIUK (RUSSIAN 1882-1967)The Gamblers, oil on board8.5 x 13.3 cm (3 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.)signed lower right PLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

DAVID BURLIUK (RUSSIAN 1882-1967)Fishing in Long Island, 1948oil on canvas50.5 x 60.8 cm (19 7/8 x 24 in.)signed and dated lower rightPLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

DAVID BURLIUK (RUSSIAN 1882-1967)Early Evening in the Country, oil on paperboard14 x 20 cm (5 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.) [sight]signed lower right; signed on versoPLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

DAVID BURLIUK (RUSSIAN 1882-1967)Near the Duck Pond, oil on canvas laid on board20.4 x 25.5 cm (8 x 10 in.)signed lower rightPLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

DAVID BURLIUK (RUSSIAN 1882-1967)Hippocamp Fountain, Long Island, 1950watercolor on paper30.2 x 45.6 cm (12 x 18 in.)signed lower left Burliuk L.I.; dated in pencil May 6, 1950 on versoPLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

DAVID BURLIUK (RUSSIAN 1882-1967)Tangier, Morocco, 1954watercolor on paper28 x 39 cm (11 x 15 3/8 in.)signed, dated, and inscribed Burliuk 1954 Tanger. Moroc. lower right; inscribed with Corot`s birth and death dates upper left Corot 1796 1825 1875; old label from Max Granick frames, NY on versoPLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

DAVID BURLIUK (RUSSIAN 1882-1967)Mushrooms in the Rain, 1961oil on burlap61.2 x 41 cm (24 x 16 1/8 in.)signed lower right; old Lido Galleries label on versoPROVENANCELido Galleries, Long Beach, NYPLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

1998-2012 AD. A mixed group of auction and saleroom catalogues comprising: Apex Philatelic UK & World stamps 6 November 2011; Aureo & Calico 'Imagines Imperatorum' 8 February 2012; Bonhams 'Antiquities' 25 November 1998; Bonhams 'Islamic and Indian Art' 29 April 2004; Bonhams 'Medals, Bonds, Banknotes and Coins', 25 October 2005; Bonhams 'Prints' 30 September 2008; Bonhams 'Antiquities' 28 October 2009; Bonhams 'Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints' 13 July 2010; Bonhams 'Antiquities' 25 April 2012; Bonhams 'Islamic & Indian Art' 28 April 2012; Bonhams 'Antiquities' 23 May 2012; Bloomsbury 'Erotica' 21 November 2002; Bloomsbury 'Photographs, Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings & Prints' 12 July 2007; Bloomsbury 'Modern and Contemporary Prints' 29 March 2012; Bloomsbury 'Important Books and Manuscripts' 29 November 2012; Christie's 'Asian Art' 15 September 2005; Christie's 'German and Austrian Art' 20 June 2006; CNG 'Classical Coins' 5 May 2010; Phillips 'Antiquities & Tribal Art' 11 December 2005; Sotheby's 'Library of Irwin Silver' 26 April 2005; Spink 'Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria' 27 April 2000; Spink 'Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria' 30 November 2000; Spink 'World Banknotes' 27-28 October 2011; Spink 'World Banknotes' 24-25 April 2012; Spink 'British and Irish Banknotes' 24 April 2012. 15.8 kg, up to 23x30 cm (9 x 11 3/4"). Ex Steinberg collection; acquired London art market, 1960s-1970s. [No Reserve, 25, No Reserve]

20th-21st century AD. A mixed group of exhibition catalogues and magazines on artistic themes including Imagines Imperatorum, Sotheby's African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art catalogue (1), Christie's Watercolours, Drawings and Prints catalogue (1), Sotheby's Martin Bell catalogue (1), Sotheby's Preview (1), Sun Asian Stamps and Philatelic History catalogue (1), Bloomsbury Erotica catalogue (1), Bloomsbury Coins, Medals, Banknotes and Tribal Art (1), Bloomsbury Bibliophile (1), Numisart Antike Kunstobjekte (1), Bonhams Chines Art (1), Bonhams Medals, Banknotes and Coins (1), Spink Derek Clifford Lacquer collection catalogue (1), Spink Insider magazine (1), Sotheby's Irish Art catalogue (1), Financial History Magazine (1), Royal Academy of Arts magazine (2), Tate magazine (1), Anthony Frost catalogue (1), Art Quarterly magazine (1), Alain Bertrand catalogue (1), Apollo magazine (3), Celator magazine (2), Millner Manolatos catalogue (2), Alan Davie catalogue (1), E&R Cyzer Modern Masters catalogue (1), Danish Journal Hans Christian Anderson catalogue signed by the actor Tommy Steel, 1993 (1). 11.9 kg ("). Ex Steinberg collection; acquired London art market, 1960s-1970s. [No Reserve, 32, No Reserve]

4th-2nd millennium BC. A carved figurine of a standing bull in fossiliferous limestone showing cross-sections of numerous fossil mollusca, the bull with prominent crescentic horns and hump to the shoulders, elongated body. 4.2 kg, 33cm (13"). From an important collection of Asian art; acquired in the 1960s-1970s. The humped bull is a recurring theme in many of the ritual and decorative arts of the Indus region, appearing on painted pottery and as figurines long before the rise of cities and continuing on into later historical times as the bull mount of the god Shiva. Fine condition. Rare.

4th-3rd century BC. A discoid slightly curved ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. 175 grams, 13.5cm (5 1/4"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A rectangular slightly curved ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. 154 grams, 14cm (5 1/2"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A rectangular slightly curved ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. 200 grams, 16.5cm (6 1/2"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A heater-shaped slightly domed ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. 226 grams, 13cm (5 1/4"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A trapezoidal slightly curved ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. 156 grams, 14.5cm (5 3/4"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A rectangular slightly curved ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. 319 grams, 17.5cm (7"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A pentagonal slightly domed ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. 259 grams, 14cm (5 1/2"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. [No Reserve] Fine condition, small gouge above one eye.

4th-3rd century BC. A rectangular slightly curved ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. 135 grams, 12cm (4 3/4"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A rectangular slightly curved ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. 299 grams, 19cm (7 1/2"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A trapezoidal slightly domed ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. 256 grams, 17cm (6 1/2"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A heater-shaped slightly domed ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. 262 grams, 15.5cm (6"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. An elliptical slightly curved ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. 203 grams, 16cm (6 1/4"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

A group of metalware items comprising; a pair of Chinese brass cloisonné bowls (10cm high), a bronze Art Nouveau two handled desk tray (42cm), three 19th century brass candlesticks (25cm high) and an unusual Asian bronze and enamel hand bell.

A LARGE QUANTITY OF ASIAN ART REFERENCE BOOKS including Himalayan Art and other subjects (a lot)

Bühler (A.) & Eberhard Fischer. - The Patola of Gujarat: Double Ikat in India, 2 vol., Basle, 1979 § Yamanobe Tomoyuki. Fabrics from the Silk Road: The Stein Collection, National Museum, New Delhi, Kyoto, 1979 § Andrews (Fred. H.) Wall Paintings from Ancient Shrines in Central Asia, Recovered by Sir Aurel Stein, plate vol. only, 32 plates, some colour, some double-page, loose as issued in original cloth portfolio with ties, worn, lower cover severely damp-stained affecting final five plates, 1948 § Textiles in the Shosoin, 2 vol., Japanese text, each vol., with accompanying English booklet in original wrappers, main vol. original cloth, each in cloth box with lid, Tokyo, 1963 § Yoshida Mitsukuni. [Kyoto Kanoko], Japanese text, one of 1000 copies, Kyoto, 1975 § Kahlenberg (M.H.) & others. Asian Costumes and Textiles from the Bosphorus to Fujiyama: The Zaira and Marcel Mis Collection, New York, 2001 § Rhie (M.M.) & Robert A.F.Thurman. The Sacred Art of Tibet, 1996 § Zo (Za-yong) & U Fan Lee. Traditional Korean Painting, Tokyo & New York, 1990, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, some pictorial, the last three with dust-jackets, the first and fifth with slip-cases ; and a small quantity of others, Asian art, particularly textiles, including issues of Hali , Textile History, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, Central Asian Review etc., many catalogues, v.s. (Qty)

20th-21st century AD. A mixed group of exhibition catalogues and magazines on artistic themes including Imagines Imperatorum, Sotheby's African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art catalogue (1), Christie's Watercolours, Drawings and Prints catalogue (1), Sotheby's Martin Bell catalogue (1), Sotheby's Preview (1), Sun Asian Stamps and Philatelic History catalogue (1), Bloomsbury Erotica catalogue (1), Bloomsbury Coins, Medals, Banknotes and Tribal Art (1), Bloomsbury Bibliophile (1), Numisart Antike Kunstobjekte (1), Bonhams Chines Art (1), Bonhams Medals, Banknotes and Coins (1), Spink Derek Clifford Lacquer collection catalogue (1), Spink Insider magazine (1), Sotheby's Irish Art catalogue (1), Financial History Magazine (1), Royal Academy of Arts magazine (2), Tate magazine (1), Anthony Frost catalogue (1), Art Quarterly magazine (1), Alain Bertrand catalogue (1), Apollo magazine (3), Celator magazine (2), Millner Manolatos catalogue (2), Alan Davie catalogue (1), E&R Cyzer Modern Masters catalogue (1), Danish Journal Hans Christian Anderson catalogue signed by the actor Tommy Steel, 1993 (1). 11.9 kg Ex Steinberg collection; acquired London art market, 1960s-1970s. [32, No Reserve] Mainly fine condition.

Julius Middleton Boyd (1837-1919) - On the Moota Moola RiverWatercolour, over graphite, heightened with white Signed lower right 35 x 48.5 cm. (13 3/4 x 19 in) The present work, and the other five accompanying watercolours, are all by the English artist, and East India Company officer, Julius Middleton Boyd (1837-1919). Boyd was stationed in India during the middle of the 19th century, and the present watercolour and other five were most likely executed in the 1880s. The six watercolours all relate to preliminary sketches that Boyd would have executed on the spot, and which were later bound together, before being gifted to the British Library by the artist's daughter (shelfmark no. WD3407). In the album of sketches, there are a total of 36 drawings, illustrating landscapes and monuments from Bombay and Western India, Rajasthan and Central India. The present watercolours would appear to be larger fully worked elaborations on the sketches in the album, with each work having a direct companion, or source, in the album. The present watercolour relates to f.13 in the British Library album. We have only been able to find one previous record for a comparable work by Boyd, which was sold in Sotheby's New York, 'India & Southeast Asian Works of Art', 19th September 2008, lot 252, which sold for 46,875 USD (incl. premium).

Julius Middleton Boyd (1837-1919) - Temples and bathing reservoir at 'Chonk' Watercolour, over graphite, heightened with white Signed lower right 38 x 47 cm. (15 x 18 1/2 in) The present work, and the other five accompanying watercolours, are all by the English artist, and East India Company officer, Julius Middleton Boyd (1837-1919). Boyd was stationed in India during the middle of the 19th century, and the present watercolour and other five were most likely executed in the 1880s. The six watercolours all relate to preliminary sketches that Boyd would have executed on the spot, and which were later bound together, before being gifted to the British Library by the artist's daughter (shelfmark no. WD3407). In the album of sketches, there are a total of 36 drawings, illustrating landscapes and monuments from Bombay and Western India, Rajasthan and Central India. The present watercolours would appear to be larger fully worked elaborations on the sketches in the album, with each work having a direct companion, or source, in the album. The present watercolour relates to f.35 in the British Library album. We have only been able to find one previous record for a comparable work by Boyd, which was sold in Sotheby's New York, 'India & Southeast Asian Works of Art', 19th September 2008, lot 252, which sold for 46,875 USD (incl. premium).

An Asian brass dish stand, trench art etc

Collection of Chinese metal ware and other Asian art. Condition report: see terms and conditions

AN ANGKOR WAT HEAD OF A DEITY, PROBABLY VISHNU Cambodia, second half 11th century grey sandstone, wearing elaborate flared crown and conical headdress, the decoration and face with incised details, mounted on Welsh slate stand 22cm high excluding standFor a complete figure in closely related style from Siem Riep, see Madelein Giteau, Khmer Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, London, pl.37 Provenance Bruckmann Collection, London, Acquired in 1960s. (A valuation of this sculpture for insurance purposes prepared by Spink and Son in June 1969 on behalf of Mr. Bruckmann is included with this lot) Collection of the Late Bruno Cooper 2011-2012 Thence by descent (See footnote to lot 138) Peter Bruckmann was born in 1918. After university he joined the army and was dispatched to Shanghai, but in 1942 he was captured by the Japanese and held as a POW for the remainder of the war, although he was later awarded the rank of Captain for distinguished service.He took great interest in art and antiques and in fact was related to the Kroller Muller family in Holland, whose collection is now housed in a world renowned museum. His first purchases of Indian, South East Asian, and New Guinea objects date back to the early 1960s and he was frequently in touch with Philip Goldman (Gallery 42), Phillip Wengraf (the Arcade gallery) and the flamboyant collector and defrocked priest, Dominique de Grunne. Peter enjoyed collecting and visiting the salerooms and he became a patron to several contemporary artists. He was a highly successful businessman, running a brickworks until his retirement in the 1980s. His house in Spain was filled with paintings and sculpture, and he lived there with his partner, Coralie until his death on the 10th June 2010 aged 92.

14th-16th century AD. A green-glazed ceramic figurine of a nude seated female suckling a baby; hollow to the underside. Cf. Rooney, D.F. A Field Guide to Glazed Thai Ceramics in Asian Perspectives, Vol.28, No.2. 179 grams, 10.5cm (4"). Acquired on the London art market prior to 1980. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A D-shaped slightly curved ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. 273 grams, 21cm (8 1/4"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A heart-shaped slightly curved ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. 247 grams, 18cm (7"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A triangular slightly curved ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details; pierced at the outer edges for attachment. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. 168 grams, 16cm (6 1/4"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

4th-3rd century BC. A D-shaped slightly curved ceramic mask with two eye-holes and incised stylised facial details. See discussion of ceramics in in Mijares, A.S.B. The Archaeology of Peñablanca Cave Sites, Northern Luzon, Philippines in Journal of Austronesian Studies 1(2) December 2005 and Thiel, B. Excavations at Musang Cave, Northeast Luzon, Philippines in Asian Perspectives Vol. 28, no. 1. 214 grams, 23cm (9"). Property of a gentleman; acquired on the Asian art market. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

Tribal Art - a large ebonised carving of a tribal man's head, 50cm high; an Asian carving with scrolling leaves surrounding a dancing musician; a Thai carving, of a woman's head; etc (4)

A FINE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE, the slightly tapering body with Persian-inspired decoration arranged in vertical panels, each showing two flowerheads on a stem with alternating leaves and tendrils, the latter also with ruyi spandrels at the top and bottom, the shoulder of the vase with a bold lappet band beneath a straight neck with further flowerheads and leafy tendrils, the base with a Qianlong sealmark and of the period, 12" high. Provenance: The Collection of Edward Cozens-Smith, Esq. (1834-1925), 16 Kensington Square, London. Acquired by the Cozens-Smith family at the Maple & Co. March 26th 1928 auction of the contents of the property following his death. Thence by descent within the Cozens-Smith family. The present lot was almost certainly part of lot 444 in the above mentioned auction. Rather amusingly, it was sold with three Nankin meat dishes and a pair of brass candlesticks, and was described simply as a 'Nankin bottle vase'. The lot apparently sold for £1.2.6. It can be seen in the illustration opposite showing the Tudor Style Lounge at 16 Kensington Square in the brochure for the sale of the house in 1928. This vase is a fine example of the revival during the Qianlong period of the assimilation of Islamic decoration into the repertoire of Chinese porcelain. The shape of the vase derives from 13th century Islamic metal vessels. It appears to have been first copied by Chinese potters in the early 15th century in ewer form, as exemplified by a ewer from The Avery Brundage Collection at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (B60P85). The current vase belongs to a group of very similar bottle vases made during the Qianlong period. For a directly comparable example see Sotheby's New York, 11th September 2012, Lot 50.

A LARGE JAPANESE SATSUMA VASE BY YABU MEIZAN (1853-1934), of Chinese meiping form, decorated predominately on one side in raised moriage work with chrysanthemums on a lightly-crackled ground, the flared neck with a gilt rim, the base with a gilt Yabu Meizan seal mark on a red ground, late Meiji / early Taisho, circa 1910, 9" high. This refined vase is large within the context of Yabu Meizan's output. It belongs to a group of wares made later within the Satsuma master's oeuvre, when the earlier dense palette gave way to a simpler more open style. This shift in decorative scheme was noted at the Japanese Exhibition held at Shepherd's Bush in 1910 and most pieces are dated to around that time. The combination of chrysanthemums on a meiping-form vase appears to be unique for Yabu Meizan but several similar-sized vases are extant with the later more open palette. For example, a slender meiping-type vase dated to around 1910 and decorated with a bird on a cherry branch is held in the Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (EA 1993.12). See also Christies Zurich, 19th Febrary 2007, lot 47 for a similar vase.

A COLLECTION OF REFERENCE BOOKS RELATING TO CHINESE CERAMICS including: "Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration" by Rosemary Scott, PDF, London 1992; "The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, Inaugural Exhibition", vol.1 (x2) 1993; "The Malcolm MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics" by Ireneus Legeza, 1972; "Chinese Ceramics from Dateable Tombs" by JM Addis, 1978; "Sung Ceramic Designs" by Jan Wergin, 1970; "Ming Pottery and Porcelain" by Soame Jenyns, 1988; and other volumes including two Chinese language editions (a lot)

LITERATURE: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS RELATING TO ASIAN ART. (10)

A group of metalware items comprising; a pair of Chinese brass cloisonné bowls (10cm high), a bronze Art Nouveau two handled desk tray (42cm), three 19th century brass candlesticks (25cm high) and an unusual Asian bronze and enamel hand bell.

A collection of 154 Auction Catalogues, the majority relating to Asian Art

FOUR VOLUMES OF ‘ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART’, formerly belonging to Sir Harry and Hilda Garner; three ‘Ars Orientalis’ volumes, and a folder of various cuttings and reprints.(8)

A COLLECTION OF VARIOUS ASIAN WORKS OF ART, to include a Yixing type agate pattern teapot, two small cloisonne vases, a mixed hardstone model of a cello, three porcelain figures of immortals and two small stoneware bowls

Collection of Shiwan and other polychrome vessels, 19th century and later, comprising a pair of carved phoenix vases, model of a cat, wall vase, turquoise glazed Liu Hai, Cizhou type model of a duck and a Sancai hen form vessel, (8), PROVENANCE: Bonhams Asian Art Auction November 2014, from the collection of Jacques and Galila Hollander. Wall vase - Firing cracks to base. Glaze faults and wear. Cat - Restored ear. Crazing to glaze. Some glaze chips. Green/blue reclining figure - Chips to noses. Creature nose restored. Heavily worn throughout. Pair of vases - Cracks, glaze faults and firing faults. Bird vase - Beak broken. Glaze faults and crazed. Duck - beak broken and restored. Piece of beak missing. Foot chippede and restored and part missing. Glaze crazed. Firing faults and cracks. Hen - Chips to head. Rim of opening chipped. Large cracks across base. Glaze chips and faults. Crazing.

Two Ming dynasty bronze vessels comprising a rectangular brazier on four bracket and pad feet with stylised mythical beast handles and a flared warming pan cast with archaistic designs, (2), PROVENANCE: Bonhams Asian Art auction November 2014

A SOUTH EAST ASIAN SILVER AND PAINTED MOTHER OF PEARL BRACELET, A SILVER COMPACT, AN ART DECO GREEN AND WHITE GLASS NECKLACE OF TORPEDO LINKS, A SILVER AND TRANSLUCENT ENAMEL BUTTERFLY BROOCH, ETC

Okra Art Cameo glass vase decorated with Asian Lady, height 23cm

Jivan Ram, Raja (fl. 1825-1840) - Portrait of Lieutenant Jasper Trower, of the Bengal Horse Artillery Oil on canvas Signed and dated Jeewun Ram 1827 lower left, with indistinct Sanskrit inscription underneath 35.5 x 31 cm. (14 x 12 1/4 in) Provenance: the Trower family; by descent to the present owner Comparative literature: William Sleeman, Rambles and Recollections , London, 1844, vol. ii, pp.285-7 J.P. Losty, Of Far Off Lands and People: Paintings from India 1783-1881 , Indar Pasricha Fine Art exh. cat., London, 1993) J.P. Losty, Indian Portraiture in the British Period , The Indian Portrait, 1850-1860', ed. by Rosemary Crill and Kapil Jariwala, National Portrait Gallery, 2010 J. P. Losty, A new portrait miniature by Jivan Ram acquired , Asian and African studies blog, British Library website, 12th January 2014 A previously unrecorded and unpublished oil painting by the Indian artist Raja Jivan Ram, whose work, miniatures and oils, are rarely available on the open market. Oil paintings by Ram are almost exclusively held in public institutions, with small collections in the British Library, London, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Ram is recorded in contemporary literature by William Sleeman who described him as an excellent portrait-painter, and a very honest and agreeable person, [who] was lately employed to take the Emperor's portrait ( op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 285-7). A preliminary drawing is unfortunately all that remains of the portrait described by Sleeman, but the fact that the Mughal Emperor Akbar II (1806-37) commissioned his portrait to be painted by Ram highlights the regard that the artist had with the Indian, as well as the British, elite. [The drawing is now held in the British Library s India Office and Private Papers collection, ref.: Add.Or.3167] The high regard held for Ram by his contemporaries is further shown with his appointment in the 1830s by the famous Begum Samru of Sardhana (1745-1836), whose palace was decorated with some twenty of his oil paintings ( op. cit., Losty, Jan. 2014). The European influence on Indian portrait painting, which began in the 18th century, and was continued by artists travelling and working in India such as George Chinnery (1774-1852) and Thomas Hickey (1741-1824), is clearly apparent in the portrait of Lieutenant Jasper Trower. The most comparable portrait by Ram to the present work is that of Captain Robert McMullin, which is similarly dated 1827, and may well have been executed in close succession (currently held by the British Library, ref.: F863). The sitter, Lieutenant Jasper Trower (c.1807-1845) of the Bengal Horse Artillery, later a Captain in the 7th Light Field Battery, was killed in action during the Battle of Mudki, Punjab, 1845. We have been unable to find any record for an oil painting by Raja Jivan Ram available on the open market for the last 20 years.

A leather correction strap dated 1786 A Nepalese kukri knife, early to mid 20th Century, with curved single edged blade, karda knife and leather scabbard, a WWI period trench art paper knife, with bullet handle, brass blade, engraved 1914 World War Bohaume, and an Asian part cutlery set and a copper and brass bugle (5).

An Art Deco Royal Doulton loudspeaker cover, 'Persian King', modelled as an Asian man sitting on a stool, circa 1927 - 1936, made for Artandia Ltd., printed Doulton marks, 33cm high Note: originally thought to have been made in 1927 for the cruise ship supplier Artandia, but more recent research suggests it was made for the Spanish market in 1936 prior to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, but never dispatched. See: Lukins, J 2002 in Collecting Doulton, issue 79, December; for an article mentioning this design also Hawes, R. 1991, Radio Art, p.55 for an illustrated example, but dated 1927

Gandharan Schist Male Statuette 3rd-4th century AD. A carved stone figure of a standing male devotee in loose robe, with garland to the neck, earrings and headdress, holding a flower offering to the left shoulder; mounted on a custom-made stand. 10.6 kg, 56cm including stand (22"). Property of a North London collector; acquired in the 1970s. Groups of statues depicting devotees have been found at a number of sites grouped around a central Buddha or Bodhisattva and are shown with the similar facial features, clothing and turban with only slight variations in the jewellery; each one is shown holding flowers or other votive objects. See example at San Francisco Asian Art Museum object entry ID: B67S5 Fine condition.

20th-21st century AD. A mixed group of exhibition catalogues and magazines on artistic themes including Imagines Imperatorum, Sotheby's African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art catalogue (1), Christie's Watercolours, Drawings and Prints catalogue (1), Sotheby's Martin Bell catalogue (1), Sotheby's Preview (1), Sun Asian Stamps and Philatelic History catalogue (1), Bloomsbury Erotica catalogue (1), Bloomsbury Coins, Medals, Banknotes and Tribal Art (1), Bloomsbury Bibliophile (1), Numisart Antike Kunstobjekte (1), Bonhams Chines Art (1), Bonhams Medals, Banknotes and Coins (1), Spink Derek Clifford Lacquer collection catalogue (1), Spink Insider magazine (1), Sotheby's Irish Art catalogue (1), Financial History Magazine (1), Royal Academy of Arts magazine (2), Tate magazine (1), Anthony Frost catalogue (1), Art Quarterly magazine (1), Alain Bertrand catalogue (1), Apollo magazine (3), Celator magazine (2), Millner Manolatos catalogue (2), Alan Davie catalogue (1), E&R Cyzer Modern Masters catalogue (1), Danish Journal Hans Christian Anderson catalogue signed by the actor Tommy Steel, 1993 (1"). 11.9 kg Ex Steinberg collection; acquired London art market, 1960s-1970s. [32, No Reserve] Mainly fine condition.

A lot to include a white metal Art Deco style pin brooch set with round cut white paste stones, with various other items of costume jewellery to include two brooches, a mourning brooch, two pairs of earrings, a white metal locket and chain, together with a silver bangle in a buckle design, hallmarked Birmingham 1937, a medal engraved 'St Olaves Gymnastic Championship Middle School July 1911', hallmarked Chester 1909, a silver fronted Common Prayer book, hallmarked Birmingham 1904, a silver pill box with tortoise shell lid and silver bow design inlay, hallmarked London 1925, a silver lidded cut glass pot, hallmarked Birmingham 1902, three pairs of cufflinks, one being silver, hallmarked Birmingham, date letter indistinct, an Asian white metal box, a white metal octagonal compact, a cigarette lighter with enamel floral design, a Meerschaum cheroot holder, in fitted box, a piece of Mauchline ware, featuring Gloddaeth Crescent, Llandudno to front, a green cut glass perfume bottle and two miniature books.

Literature: a collection of forty five auction catalogues relating to Asian Art and two copies of the magazine Orientations, including catalogues from Ravenel, Tajan, Pandolfini, Doyles, Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams.