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Click here to subscribe*A collection of Third Reich medals, including Iron Cross breast Badge, Second Class; Cross of Honour of the German Mother, 3rd Class, enamel; Eastern Front medal; War Merit Cross, 2nd Class with swords, bronze; War Merit medal, bronze; West Wall medal (2); WW1 Prussian Iron Cross, Second Class breast Badge (-)
*A collection of Regimental cap badges, mainly Great War period, including, Isle of Wight Rifles (The Needles Battery), 48th Highlanders 15th Canadian Battalion, The Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) Sergeant badge, London Scottish, Manchester Regiment, several other line regiments, a Great War silver war badge (62471), shoulder titles, pips, buttons, together with various pressed bronze and copper medallions (presumably specimens) including The Gloucestershire Photography Society, and Royal Comers Championship Rifle Association medal for 1892-95 (one carton)
Four miscellaneous Oriental pieces comprising: Japanese carved ivory fan, the end sticks decorated with birds amongst foliage, the silk panel with finely embroidered foliate decoration, 54cm wide, a bronze pricket candlestick of baluster form and standing on triple feet with a circular foot, 16.5cm high, a red lacquered rectangular box and cover with foliate decoration, 10cm x 8.5cm and a Chinese engraved pewter teapot with foliate decoration and character marks to the base, 9cm diameter Fan - one stick is snapped across centre, one stick has an old repair and several sticks are disconnected from silk panel. Silk panel is rather foxed, shows signs of glue and is very ragged along lower edge. Pewter vessel - missing cover and has several m
19th Century French bronze ‘Egyptian Revival’ lamp base, decorated with mask heads, lyre and asp to the tapered column, Sphinx and hieroglyphics to the capital and Sphinx to the triangular base, converted to electricity and having a cream shade, height to top of original lamp 42.5cm, height to top of shade including pierced brass fixing 79cm General condition consistent with age **
Japanese Naval word of Katana type, the grip with fish skin covering and braid binding, one visible meguki, metal menuki and other mounts, plain bronze tsuba with metal mount, 65.5cm curved blade and original lacquered saya with conforming mounts, overall length 98cm Both menuki very rusty, rust build up to all other metal mounts, blade has many small nicks to sharp edge and some rust build up, scabbard is very worn mainly along outer edge and metal mounts also have rust build up - General condition consistent with ag
Charles Korschann (1872-1943) - A gilt and patinated bronze oval dish having Art Nouveau style relief decoration depicting a sleeping female nude and groups of young woman, underside with signature and foundry mark of Louchet, 20cm wide Patina a little rubbed in places - General condition consistent with age **
Attributed to Dawn Huggins (b.1937) - A collection of five sculptures comprising: patinated bronze freeform study on a flared plinth 28cm high, a clay freeform study 44cm high, one other bust of a lady 31cm high, a bronze ‘double face’ wall mask 24cm high and a similar off-white finish clay bust 31cm high A.R. Bust of girl is very chipped around high relief and very flaky, various nicks and chips to others - General condition consistent with age **
A Chinese gilt bronze figure of Amitayus Buddha dated 1770, sitting in lalitasana before a flaming mandala, raised on a high plinth, the front edge with a nine character Qianlong mark, the inside of the base inscribed with characters, extensive wear to the gilding, 21.2cm. Provenance: Arthur Thomas Mahy, Guernsey, and thence by descent. Cf. Finlay, The Chinese Collection: Selected Works from the Norton Museum of Art, no.52, pp.152-3 for a similar example dated 1761. 清乾隆 銅鎏金無量壽佛坐像 《大清乾隆庚寅年敬造》 （1770）楷書款
† A Chinese gilt bronze dated figure of Amitayus Buddha nine character Qianlong mark including the cyclical date for 1770, seated with his hands held together wearing an elaborate crown, raised on a high plinth with stylized drapes, wear and with the mandala lacking, 18.5cm. Provenance: formerly in the collection of Muftah Al Abbar, Monaco. 清乾隆 銅鎏金無量壽佛坐像 《大清乾隆庚寅年敬造》 （1770）楷書款 來源：摩納哥Muftah Al Abbar收藏
A rare Tibetto-Chinese bronze rectangular box and base 17th/18th century, the cover with a figure possibly of Padmapani seated in rajalila, with a skull and a flask at her feet, the interior of an erotic scene with two figures, the male dressed in a loose cloth wearing dharmapala ornaments and a skull crown, with a kapala, a karrtrika and a ghanta scattered around, the cup from the female figure`s hand lacking, 17.5cm. (2) Cf. Christie`s Amsterdam, 14th June 1995, lot 127, for a similar box from the Lowe collection. 十七/十八世紀 藏傳佛教銅盒
A Chinese bronze quatre-foil incense burner the base with a six character Qianlong mark and probably of the period, the body raised on three open-work feet cast as bamboo which extends on to the body with prunus sprays and pine, cast in relief beneath a band of diaper, the handles formed as animal masks, 26cm. 清乾隆（可能） 銅開光青梅竹馬紋香爐 《大清乾隆年制》篆書款
Two Chinese bronze mirrors probably Tang dynasty, one circular, the other a lobed flowerhead, variously cast with fabulous animals, stylized calligraphy and scrolling foliate designs, 10.8cm. (2) Provenance: William Cleverley Alexander (1840-1916) . 唐（可能） 銅花卉動物紋鏡 一組兩件 來源：威廉•克萊爾利•亞歷山大 （1840-1916）收藏
Two bronze models of buffalo, one Japanese and standing with its tail between its legs and its head turned to one side, the other Chinese and recumbent, formed as a water dropper, the stopper a man`s head, the former with a mark to the base, the latter with a wood stand, the stopper a replacement, 19.5cm. (4)
A small Chinese Tang-style bronze figure, standing before a flaming mandala and raised on a high four-legged platform, the reverse with four columns of calligraphy, 18cm. Provenance: the Reverend Dr. H K Uttley, cf. Holdsworth and Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography, p.444 for further details of the Reverend Dr Uttley.
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