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An Ottoman Marble Tombstone, Western Anatolia, 18th century the shaft of square section, the front with panel inscribed with six lines of islamic calligraphy, the finial in the form of a spiralling turban 154cm long Condition: weathered, one or two small chips View on auctionatrium.com

A large Islamic iron shield decorated with calligraphy, figures etc., 21" diameter

St Ives School - Possibly Dame Barbara Hepworth - A bronze sculpture based on Chinese calligraphy raised to a green marble base, unmarked, height 33 cm. Provenance - This piece was originally given to the previous owner by Dame Barbara Hepworth in 1968 while clearing out her studio. Authenticated by the Newlyn Museum of Art in March 2006, complete with current owners purchase paperwork and details, height 33 cm. ILLUSTRATED

A Chinese famille rose double wrist-rest or scroll weight, decorated with figures in a mountainous landscape and four rows of calligraphy to the top and bamboo, a blossoming tree on a rocky outcrop and a calligraphy inscription to the underside, 19cm high

Two Chinese famille verte tapered bowls, Yongzheng mark but later, each decorated with court figures and a calligraphy inscription, 10cm and 10.5cm diameter

A Chinese famille verte dish, probably Republican period, the interior decorated with a figure in a mountainous riverscape, the border with calligraphy inscription, 16.5cm diameter

A Chinese famille rose wrist rest, decorated with figures in a river lanscape, calligraphy inscription, 17cm long and a Chinese ‘grisaille’ dish, decorated with a figure fishing in a riverscape, calligraphy inscription, 10.5cm diameter (2)

A Chinese famille rose pear-shaped vase, hu, with archaistic zoomorphic ring handles, decorated with mountainous landscape scenes and a calligraphy inscription, four character mark beneath, 17cm high

A Chinese celadon jade boulder, carved in high relief and openwork with a sage and attendant beneath a pine tree, the reverse with a pathway and pine tree and a five row calligraphy inscription and seal mark highlighted in blue, the stone with black inclusions and calcification, 16cm wide, 12.5cm high, carved wood stand

Two handwritten manuscripts from `The Book of Hours` circa 1425 and a similar period page of Latin text with coloured calligraphy

Titford (Freda b.1924) Sissinghurst watercolour study of Rosa Mermaid and Clematis Viticella with vignette elevation of Sissinghurst Castle centre left above a brief history in the artist`s calligraphy 340 x 500mm. signed in monogram at lower right Mall Galleries Flowers and Gardens exhibition label on verso of backboard framed and glazed c.1984. *** Freda Titford was the illustrator for Vita Sackville West The Illustrated Garden Book A New Anthology by Robin Lane Fox Michael Joseph 1987.

Bronze two handle incense burner with Islamic calligraphy, seal mark"

North African circular metal box with hinged cover and metal hanging ring, c.1900 and Chinese discs with Chinese calligraphy, possibly Tsuba, sword fittings"

Chinese engraved ivory snuff jar of cylindrical form having a narrow neck and bell shaped stopper with attached spoon, one side decorated with a green and black stained landscape, the other with five lines of calligraphy, 10.25cm high.

Three pieces of Persian calligraphy, the script painted with elaborate floral bands and borders, framed as one, (a.f.).

A Chinese `famille-rose` vase, 20th century, painted with blossoming lotus plants to the front and calligraphy to the reverse, 58 cm high.

A bronze Middle Eastern jardiniere, with twin fish handles and calligraphy style all-over decoration on three cast feet, 300-400

A Chinese Canton export watercolour on rice paper, mid-19th Century, depicting five gentlemen smoking opium, together with two calligraphy panels.

A Chinese 15 carat gold pendant necklace, the pendant decorated with calligraphy, marked `15K`, 22cm long

A Chinese ink block moulded with stars above a monument and calligraphy and a Pat Yuill painted plaster block (2)

A COLLECTION OF NINE ASSORTED INKWELLS to include a spelter desk well with fox head and horse shoe, a bell shape with pressed decoration, a pewter, and an ORIENTAL CALLIGRAPHY SET AND VARIOUS NIBS, and a bottle of STEPHENS INK

A square Japanese Teapot decorated with calligraphy, four matching tea bowls and a lidded tea infuser

A Middle Eastern shell inlaid and carved wood three tier stand, the top carved with an oval calligraphy reserve and inlaid with star motifs, the tiers below and square supports similarly inlaid and on S supports, 56cm (1ft 10in) wide.

A fine Islamic brass bowl the centre and outer surfaces decorated in silver and copper with calligraphy and vegetal forms. 25 cm diameter.

A Chinese bronze vase, probably Q`ing dynasty, with silver inset engraving of cranes and deer amongst bamboo. The vase has been compared with two similar examples in the British Museum and it is considered that the mask handles are probably later additions, but that in subject, shape, colour and style of calligraphy of the signature Shi Sou, there is good correlation. 15 cm high.

An early 20th century Chinese silver belt, the panels decorated with dragons, foliage and calligraphy, 60cm long

A HARDSTONE-MOUNTED CUTLERY SET, 19TH CENTURY comprising knife and fork, each decorated with gold koftgari comprising scrollwork on the fork and a panel in imitation of calligraphy on the knife and each with light green soapstone grip the first: 21.5cm; 8 1/2in (2)

A COMPOSITE INDIAN PART ARMOUR (CHA AINA) 18TH CENTURY comprising four plates each fitted with shaped buckles for straps, three of the plates decorated in gold koftgari with scrolls of foliage around a central calligraphic cartouche and with broad borders filled with further inscriptions, and the fourth etched with foliage, exotic animals and calligraphy within gold koftgari frames the backplate: 29.5cm; 11 5/8in high (4) The inscriptions include verses from the Qur`an, in translation, `Oh you who is enough (supports) an expedition` and `One may get as much from Allah as one relies on him`.

19th century large embroidered Islamic cloth with Arabic calligraphy, embroidered with gold thread and fine copper wire on a green ground, 11 x 99"

A Calligraphy panel, `Good Fortune, Prosperity and Long Life`, and two similar, framed, (3).

A pierced brass incense burner in the form of a pigeon with Arabic calligraphy decoration, 6½" high, 11" wide

AN ISLAMIC MOTHER OF PEARL INLAID PARQUETRY OCTAGONAL TABLE, THE TOP CENTRED BY A PANEL OF CALLIGRAPHY, THE SIDES WITH GEOMETRIC PANELS, LATE 19TH C POOR CONDITION, VARIOUS OTHER SMALL ITEMS OF FURNITURE

"15thC Chinese Celadon colour water dropper Lao period, square crackle glaze white box and cover with Chinese calligraphy decoration, octagonal shape pale green vase decorated with fish ring handles (3)"

"Chinese late 19thC six sided teapot with enamel figures, Chinese calligraphy shaped teapot, modern enamel teapot, octagonal 19thC enamel decorated prunus and flowers, T`ung Chih mark"

A long Islamic banner embroidered with Persian calligraphy in metallic thread. Probably 19th Century. 235 x 65 cm.

A 19th century Chinese porcelain vase decorated in enamels with 3 figures and alternating bands of calligraphy, height 12"

A Tibetan carved woodblock decorated with lines of text, together with a relief plaque decorated with Buddhistic figures and calligraphy to reverse.

A Chinese bamboo wrist rest, carved in relief on one side with a bird perched in an hibiscus branch, calligraphy to one side, 27cm (10.5in) high

A 19th century Turkish sabre with curved single edged blade decorated with Arabic calligraphy and a lion, length of blade 75cm, with rhino horn hilt with brass crossguard, complete with a leather covered wooden scabbard.

A white metal rectangular lidded box, with geometric and calligraphy decoration, inscribed "Baghdad, 1918" to base, also a silver topped glass trinket box and a circular brass pot with repousse decoration.

An early Islamic copper vase and cover with enamel decoration, painted with calligraphy, 6" high

A C19th Cairo ware inlaid copper tray decorated with calligraphy, 19 ½" x 10 ½"

A good set of four Chinese silver bowls decorated with calligraphy and engraved scenes, 4" diameter, 440g

A 19th century brass Islamic planter with Islamic calligraphy. Approx. 29cm high by 34cm across.

An Islamic painting of a prince with Arabic calligraphy (19th century). 24cm x 20cm approx.

* Ghaznavid, Mas’ud, dinar, Ghazna 428h, 4.72g (SNAT -; Album 1619), elaborate calligraphy, minor weakness otherwise good very fine, scarce

A large Chinese soapstone seal, the upper section carved with many bats in flight amidst scrolling clouds, the rectangular stone of a greenish grey colour flecked with black, one side carved with nine lines of calligraphy including the date for the fifth month of the Jia Yin year, and probably corresponding to 1734 or 1794. The script describes the lineage of `the precious trinket` and how it has passed down through the generations, it mentions the Li family and the Yang family, the base seal is a studio name, the top damaged and glued, 16.5cm. Provenance: Sackville, 5th Earl of Yarborough.

A Chinese rectangular porcelain plaque, painted by Yu Hanqing (1902-1987) in enamels with a scene showing a mountainous landscape, a pavillion by a river, and with two figures looking towards a fisherman and his boat, and with eleven lines of calligraphy including the date for the Summer of Jiashen (1944), 39 x 25cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. The inscription reads: `A trace of the dawn stirs the riverbank, the green of the willows and the mist gradually becomes distinct, Beside the West Bank (?) another boat has appeared, and gentlemen at their leisure are seen as though in a picture`. Cf. Brush and Clay, pls.117-118 for a covered box and rectangular tile by the artist, Innovation and Ceramics, Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum 2004, no.94 for a brush washer in a different style.

A Chinese hand scroll, depicting thirty frolicking and running horses, with two lines of calligraphy and four seals, 297cm.

A massive and rare pair of Chinese bronze ornamental sculptures, in Venetian style based on candelabra or andirons. Each cast with male and female satyrs surmounted by urns decorated with four winged herms, the triform bases heavily cast with baroque scrolls and each with oval cartouches, three inscribed with two Chinese characters `ge deng`, c.1860s, 76cm. (2) `Ge-Deng` is the personalised name for Gordon in Chinese, and also relates to the Gordon Clan heraldic device, where `ge` means spear or lance and `deng`, to mount or enter. Cf. Oriental Art, Spring 1988, Vol XXXIV No.1, pp.4-19 where Dr Eldon E Worrall argues a strong case that the bronzes originate in Southern China, c.1860s, probably in Canton or Macao, and as a gift to General Gordon from an Oriental rather than a European. The evidence for this relies on a combination of factors, including the examination of stylistic and technical details, chemical analysis, and the link to China through Nils Anderson-Westergren. A number of Chinese objects, including Gordon`s seal, have identical calligraphy and are now housed in the Royal Engineers Museum at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, Kent. Provenance: discovered inside a dumb waiter in the house of a Liverpool merchant and formerly in store at a shop premises in Park Road, Liverpool where they were owned by the grandson of Nils Anderson-Westergren, (a seaman believed to be in China just prior to 1864). Previously on loan and exhibited at the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, (formerly Liverpool Museum). Charles Gordon (Chinese Gordon) General Charles George Gordon died at the siege to Khartoum in 1885. Previously he served in China, arriving at Tianjin in 1860; he was present at the occupation of Beijing and the destruction of the Summer Palace. The British forces occupied northern China until April 1862, then under General William Staveley, withdrew to Shanghai to protect the European settlement from the rebel Taiping army. In 1863, he took command of the `Ever Victorious Army`. Later, the Emperor promoted Gordon to the rank of titu, meaning: `Chief commander of one province`s military`, one of the highest grades in the Chinese army, and decorated him with the Yellow Jacket, and raised him Qing`s Viscount of second class. The British Army promoted Gordon to Lieutenant-Colonel and he was made a Companion of the Bath. He also gained the popular nickname `Chinese Gordon`.

Six Chinese paintings on silk, depicting tiny figures in extensive mountainous landscapes, one with fourteen lines of calligraphy, all mounted in two hardwood triptych frames, the paintings 29.5cm x 21cm, the frames 127cm x 34cm. (2)

A Chinese celadon jade two handled cup, with a rounded bowl carved on one side in shallow relief with a single figure amidst bamboo and rockwork, the reverse with four lines of calligraphy and raised on a short straight footrim. The two handles pierced and worked in the form of gnarled prunus branches, each with a single blossom, Ming dynasty, 16th/17th century, 14cm. Cf. Jadeware (II): The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, no.203, p.264 for a similar example.

A Chinese soapstone seal, with a lion dog surmount, carved with calligraphy to one side, probably 19th century, 7.5cm.

A small Chinese famille rose chicken skin ground snuff bottle, with animal mask and ring handles, one side decorated with figures in a river landscape, the reverse with four columns of calligraphy and a seal, the base with a blue enamel four character Qianlong mark and possibly of the period, 5.6cm.

Two brass/bronze halberd finials, one supporting a conch, the other with a vase of fruit, their bases incised with columns of calligraphy, 67.5cm. (2)

A massive Chinese bronze censer and stand, decorated with calligraphy including a date code for the fourth year of the Tongzhi emperor corresponding to 1866, between lion dog mask handles, the stand with ruyi scroll feet, 41cm wide x 28cm high. (2)

A massive Chinese cizhou vase, freely painted in umber with stylized leaf and flower motifs and calligraphy on a cream ground, Song / Yuan dynasty, 64.5cm. Provenance: purchased from Arch Angel Antiques, Hong Kong.

A good Chinese famille rose bowl, finely enamelled with flowering prunus branches and red berries, the reverse with calligraphy and three pink seals, the base with an underglaze blue six character Guangxu mark and of the period 1875-1908, 11.8cm.

A Chinese coral ground brush washer, modelled to simulate coral and decorated with calligraphy in gilt, the interior turquoise, the base with a six character gold Qianlong mark but probably 19th century, 8.5cm. Provenance: Sotheby`s, Paris.

A Chinese famille rose chicken bowl, finely enamelled with a figure wearing pink robes gesticulating before a large cockerel and two chicks, flanked by blue rockwork and chrysanthemum the reverse with seventeen columns of calligraphy and further chicks, the base with a worn six character mark and a filled drilled hole, 18th century, the base drilled and with a little good restoration, 6.4cm dia.