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Chinese embroidered and mirrored large red silk panel c.1900s with couch and satin stitch figures, symbols, blossom and calligraphy. Embroidered silk borders with knotted fringing and tassels. Possibly wedding banner. Cotton lined with hand painted warriors and horses scene.

Collection of Islamic style tiles, the tiles decorated with Arabic calligraphy on white grounds, surrounded by foliage (qty)

A pair of 19th century Persian manuscript pagesEach painted with Hunting Scenes and calligraphy, mounted in a common glazed frame; together with another 19th century Persian painted manuscript page, framed and glazed. The latter 17.5 x 28.5 cm (excluding frame and mount). (2) CONDITION REPORTS: one slightly torn with paint loss, some woodworm holes, some crazing/cockling/foxing

A Chinese gilt bronze figure of BuddhaTypically modelled seated in the lotus position, wearing a headdress, the base with calligraphy. 20 cm high. CONDITION REPORTS: Generally in good condition, some gilt wear/loss, small split under chin, general wear.

Early Oriental hot water pot decorated in underglaze blue with calligraphy script, Horses and clouds, H25cm Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

A black letter notecase together with a Parker 75 Laque fountain pen with cartridges and ink bottle, an Osmiroid colour calligraphy set etc

A good mixed lot to include Winsor and Newson painting set, Boldmere acrylic set, a manuscript / calligraphy set, a Monut stationery set, a photo album for 160 photos size 18 cm x 13 cm, also included in the lot is a quantity of painting related books.[4] This lot must be paid for and removed by close of business on Fri

MIRROR MATCHED PAIR OF LATE QING CHINESE PORCELAIN BALUSTER VASES with moulded floral petal collars and similar folded over rims, the body decorated all over with Mandarins and ladies in Fencai polychrome enamels, interspersed with calligraphy and seals on a white ground with alternating pairs of Fo dogs and Chilong dragons applied to the necks. Both 23cm high approx. Together with a single baluster vase with floral rim decorated in Fencai enamels depicting a lady with children at play in a garden, 25cm high approx. (3) (B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: Wear to gilding and some enamelling in places. One mirror matched pair has two chips to underside of rim (at top) and a smaller chip in a lower area. Largest vase has chips and nibbles to top of vase under rim. Chips and frits to mouldings.

6 boxed pens "Burnham" pen & pencil "Sheaffer" pen, "Mentmore" pen, "Swan Calligraphy", Conway Stuart pen & pencil & "Swan" pen

A Chinese watercolour, depicting birds amongst flowers with calligraphy to the silk margins, 111cm x 45cm overall

Antique calligraphy poem on velum "written by H M The Queen, when Princess May in 1887", with a hand painted and gilded border of flowers, and a pair of 15th century Latin double-sided illuminated velum sheet music manuscripts "magnificat", height 73cm

4 Middle Eastern Arabic text/calligraphy scriptures, all framed (4)

Hai Shuet Yeung (Chinese 20th century) large framed watercolour. Carp pond teeming with fish. Signed, calligraphy and seal character marks, 72cm x 108cm. Good condition.

Cheng Shifa (Chinese, 1921 - 2007) "Girls with Goats" Signed middle left. Watercolor on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. Born in the Songjiang district of Shanghai in 1921, Cheng Shi-fa studied in Shanghai Academy of Fine Art. He definitely was one of China's greatest traditional art masters, famed for his landscape paintings, calligraphy, comic strips, depictions human figures and scenes of minority tribes from the southwestern province of Yunnan. Cheng was strongly influenced by masters like Ren Bo-Nian and Chen Hong-Shou, then he developed a strong personal style combined traditional elements through his rustic art. Cheng quickly mastered the traditional skills of creating figures, flowers and birds and expanded a style recognized for its effective use of thick lines, traditional colors, transparent washes and a suggestive use of space. His landscape paintings with conceptual technique that he applied to the creation of ink and water pieces in his later years were also very significant with an artistic quality. Image Diameter: 10 in. Overall Size: 15 x 15 in. Unframed. (B08654)

Cheng Shifa (Chinese, 1921 - 2007) "Girls with Chicken & Rooster" Signed upper right. Watercolor on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. Born in the Songjiang district of Shanghai in 1921, Cheng Shi-fa studied in Shanghai Academy of Fine Art. He definitely was one of China's greatest traditional art masters, famed for his landscape paintings, calligraphy, comic strips, depictions human figures and scenes of minority tribes from the southwestern province of Yunnan. Cheng was strongly influenced by masters like Ren Bo-Nian and Chen Hong-Shou, then he developed a strong personal style combined traditional elements through his rustic art. Cheng quickly mastered the traditional skills of creating figures, flowers and birds and expanded a style recognized for its effective use of thick lines, traditional colors, transparent washes and a suggestive use of space. His landscape paintings with conceptual technique that he applied to the creation of ink and water pieces in his later years were also very significant with an artistic quality. Image Diameter: 10 in. Overall Size: 15 x 15 in. Unframed. (B08655)

1923 London Underground MAP of the Electric Railways of London "What to see and how to travel". Designed by MacDonald Gill with his distinctive style of calligraphy and map border, this is the issue dated 1/1/23 and the version thereof which shows the British Empire Exhibition stations with red dots. A very good example. [1]

1928 London Underground POCKET MAP of the Electric Railways of London "What to see and how to travel". Summer 1928 edition, designed by E G Perman with elaborate calligraphy of station names and border etc. In very good condition, an excellent example. [1]

A LARGE COUNTRY HOUSE INTERLINED DOOR CURTAIN, the printed fabric with a pattern of calligraphy superimposed with heraldic shields and with tasselled border. Drop 265cm, width c. 320cm

A calligraphy set and books

A Chinese porcelain panel, decorated with figures and a swan, red character mark and calligraphy, hardwood frame, panel 53 x 31 cm.

A Chinese porcelain panel, decorated with two horses by a lake, red character mark and calligraphy, hardwood and mother of pearl frame, panel 24 x 19 cm.

Chinese carved bamboo brush pot and a Chinese porcelain brush pot with all over calligraphy decoration

Two Chinese calligraphy scrolls - 'Three Mountain Peaks Pierce the Blue Sky' and 'White Egret Island Divides the Island in Two'

Early 19th c. German salt glazed stoneware 'Bellarmine' shaped flagon with cobalt blue decoration, 8" high, together with other pots and a Noritake china tea set for one, two Oriental dishes with calligraphy and character mark decoration

Two interesting books of handwritten calligraphy.

Chinese Antique Provincial Straw Hat, Painted to the Hat, Chinese Calligraphy. 24 Inches Diameter.

20th century AD. A silver ellipsoid plaque with loop to each end, raised cell, inset carnelian panel with reserved calligraphic text on a pounced field, the lines of text filled with nasta'liq calligraphy. 43.4 grams, 67mm (2 1/2"). From the family collection of a Hampstead gentleman; formerly acquired in the 1980s. Fine condition.

A.R. Penck ( -) STICK FIGURE signed and editioned 34/50 lithograph printed in colours 250 by 130cm SYMBOLS AND NEO-EXPRESSIONISM IN POST-WAR GERMANY Since A.R. Penck’s death in 2017 there has been considerable interest in his artwork. Posthumous solo exhibitions have showcased his bold, restless work, filled with his own self-created symbols. These include A.R. Penck: Paintings from the 1980s and Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier, both held at the Michael Werner Gallery in New York in 2018, as well as the acclaimed I think in Pictures, a show of Penck’s featured works from the 1970s and 1980s held at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at Oxford University in 2019. Penck was born Ralf Winkler in Dresden in 1939. He adopted his chosen pseudonym after the paleogeologist Albrecht Penck out of necessity when the East German State Security began to confiscate his works in the 1960s. His art was deemed not to conform to the ideology of the state. In 1969 the Michel Werner Gallery hosted Penck's first solo show, signalling the beginning of a relationship that would be fortuitous and supportive throughout the artist’s career. Exhibiting in New York was only possible because the artist had changed his name, confusing border officials and allowing his work to pass through the Berlin wall. Michel Werner himself smuggled some of Penck’s artworks out of East Berlin, and arranged for friends in the city to deliver art materials to Penck in order for him to continue his practice.Penck’s Standart works are characterised by a myriad of pictographic marks that the artist viewed as the ‘building blocks’ he used to communicate his ideology, leaving clues and riddles for the viewers of his paintings in this lexicon of coded language. The artist began to explore how symbols, signs and numbers could be abstracted, creating a common language which could express the sadness and loss of post-World War II Germany in the Cold War era. An example is the letters ‘A’ and ‘B’ it is understood that he is referencing the capitalist West Germany and communist East Germany. Due to this aesthetic, Penck is often associated with artists Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, although it is more likely that the artist’s style emerged spontaneously. He had little access to the work of his Western contemporaries whilst living in East Germany (German Democratic Republic) which heavily censored any influence that threatened the state. There has been a resurgence of interest in A.R. Penck’s work in recent years, at a time when contemporary artists are exploring the tenuous relationship of abstraction and figuration, and personal and recognisable iconographies and symbols. This has resulted in his work gaining momentum on the secondary market.His stick figure was Penck's most common motif and is given precedence in the lithograph Stick Figure, which is part of the artist’s well known Standart works, which he produced over a number of decades. The works in this series evoke graffiti art, cave paintings and Asian calligraphy. Here the colourful stick figure takes centre stage in the composition. The character could not be more typical of Penck’s chosen subjects. In the 1980s, when his career began to take off. Penck began exhibiting widely in London and New York and participated in the 1984 Venice Biennale as well as four editions of Documenta.

A CHINESE GREY POTTERY BONSAI PLANTER, QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY The rectangular body raised on bracket feet, the tapering panelled sides decorated with calligraphy, minor chips, discolouration, age wear, calcification 27 cm wide

*Antique Chinese Blue Malachite And Bone Calligraphy Brush [LQD 117]

ARABIC YELLOW METAL CALLIGRAPHY PENDANT,(H. INC. BALE 2.8 CM), 3.7 GRAMS; A YELLOW METAL SEAL FOB ON A GILT METAL ALBERT CHAIN; WHITE METAL NECKLACE AND FILIGREE WORKED PENDANT IN THE FORM OF A SHIELD WITH BOSS, EARRINGS AND RING ENSUITE. ALSO A QUANTITY OF COSTUME JEWELLERY

A Chinese powder blue ground bowl and cover decorated with calligraphy bearing Quanlong markCondition good no cracks chips or restoration, slight wear to gilding

A small Yixing teapot and cover, having incised calligraphy type decoration, with impressed seal mark verso, h.9cm

A concertina album of six pages of Persian couplets in nasta'liq calligraphy on gold-sprinkled paper, dated 1297/1880, 23.2cm. by 14cm., red leather binding.

A rare collection of poetry , Arabic manuscript in verse and prose on paper, 13th century, mainly from the jahiliyya, 187ff. plus 2 fly leaves, each folio with 27ll of small black naskh arranged in one or two columns, important words and phrases in red, first folio preceded by two leaves of later inserted calligraphy, in later brown morocco with stamped medallion, folio 24.2cm. by 17.6cm.

A concertina album of ten Chinese watercolour paintings on paper, 19th/20th century, each painting with figures in a landscape beside rows of calligraphy, each painting 24.5cm. by 20cm., (a.f).

A nasta'liq quatrain, Iran, 19th century or earlier, paper laid on card, four lines of black diagonal script in clouds against a gold ground filled with flowers, the wide margins brightly painted with 19th Qajar illumination with birds and flowers, overall size 32cm. by 20.5cm.; also five pages of calligraphy, on card, each 29.5cm. by 19.5cm. overall size, (6).

A Chinese white jade rectangular pendant, carved on one side with a warrior, the reverse with rows of calligraphy, 5.75cm. high.

Asian scrolls, comprising; a bird on blossom, a scroll with 33 temple seals, a modern Chinese scroll of a bird in a tree, a large calligraphy scroll, Japanese scroll of a bird on blossom, a study of a sword's blade and a rolled manuscript, (7). S2M

Two boxes containing eighteen boxed creative calligraphy sets

Two Islamic begging bowls (Kashkuls), one a tinned, copper example in boat form with a line of Islamic calligraphy to each side, the other a similar smaller brass and painted lacquer example

A LARGER BRONZE KASHKOOL, decorated with engraved calligraphy, 24cm x 14cm

A LARGE 19TH / 20TH CENTURY CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN CALLIGRAPHIC CHARGER MADE FOR THE ISLAMIC MARKET, the body of the charger with scrolling lotus decoration with roundel panels of calligraphy / script, 62cm diameter.

A 19TH / 20TH CENTURY INDO PERSIAN MUGHAL ART HAND PAINTED PICTURE ON PAPER, the picture depicting the scene of a bird drawn in calligraphy, with gilt highlight borders, 26cm x 37cm.28cm high x 39.5cm wide.

A 19TH CENTURY ISLAMIC BRONZE AND SILVER INLAID WINE EWER, with bands of calligraphy and panels of figures, 49cm high x 26.5cm wide.

A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY CHINESE RHINO HORN & SILVER MEDICINE BOTTLES, each with lids and inlaid with silver chinese calligraphy and decoration, 4.5cm high.

A LARGE AND UNUSUAL SHAPED PERSIAN QAJAR SILVER AND COPPER VASE, decorated with calligraphy upon chased floral ground, 50cm high x 40cm wide.

A GOOD CHINESE REPUBLIC STYLE FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN VASE, the body decorated with a native landscape scene with chinese calligraphy to the upper section, 35cm high.

A GOOD CHINESE HANGING SCROLL PRINT OF A LANDSCAPE, the scroll with a detailed view of a landscape, with calligraphy and many seal marks.

A GOOD 19TH / 20TH CENTURY CHINESE REVERSE PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE, the body decorated with two different landscape scenes, one sides with chinese calligraphy, with a hardstone stopper and ivory spoon, 7cm high x 3.5cm Wide.

A LARGER 19TH / 20TH CENTURY INDO PERSIAN MUGHAL ART HAND PAINTED PICTURE ON PAPER, the picture depicting the scene of calligraphy amongst flora, 28cm x 38cm.

A SMALL BRONZE KASHKOOL, decorated with engraved calligraphy, 13.5cm x 7cm.

A RARE 16TH CENTURY YEMANI BRASS SCRIBER'S BOX, with carved calligraphy & decoration, 30.5cm long

A 15TH CENTURY MAMLUK ENGRAVED CALLIGRAPHY BRASS BOWL, 15cm diameter x 7cm high.

AN ORIENTAL UNDERGLAZE-BLUE & CELADON PORCELAIN TRIPOD CENSER, painted with small panels of calligraphy and repeated figures of oni, the base unglazed, 11.4cm diameter & 9.1cm high.

A 19TH / 20TH CENTURY INDO PERSIAN MUGHAL ART HAND PAINTED PICTURE ON PAPER, the picture depicting the scene of a bird drawn in calligraphy, with gilt highlight borders, 23cm x 37cm.

A GOOD 18TH / 19TH CENTURY HAND PAINTED PICTURE OF MECCA ON CANVAS, detailed painting of mecca on canvas, the upper section with calligraphy 66cm x 46cm

A GOOD CHINESE HANGING SCROLL PICTURE, the picture depicting a native rocky landscape, with chinese calligraphy and seals.

AN EARLY QAJAR STEEL DAGGER, the sheath carved with scrolling foliage, the blade with traces of silver inlay and calligraphy, 45cm long

A VERY LARGE 18TH CENTURY OR EARLIER ISLAMIC / PERSIAN CALLIGRAPHIC TRIPLE HANDLE COPPER JAR & COVER, the body with calligraphy and roundel decoration of animals 84cm high x 63cm wide.