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Maghrabi Quran pages with calligraphy, Persian (25) H.20x14cm

An Indian beaten brass tray with calligraphy to the centre, early 20th c, 66cm diam

A South East Asian seven leaf screen decorated with calligraphy, late 20th c, 181cm h

Chinese famille rose delicate teapot decorated with deer, stork and foliage, 11cm, together with original silk embroidered hexagonal travel case having symbols and calligraphy.

A Box Containing Various Cameras, Pifco Swivel Head Torch, Portable Sewing Machine, Recorders, Calligraphy Book etc

A quantity of paintings prints, photographs and examination certificates, together with a modern Chinese calligraphy scroll, most framed and glazed

BRENDA HARTIN (BRITISH CONTEMPORARY) an artist proof calligraphy print 'Land Forms II' signed and dated (19)91 to lower margin, mounted, framed and glazed, approximate size 41cm x 30cm, together with two smaller calligraphy prints by the same hand 'Elements VII & VIII' from editions of 100, framed, approximate size 23cm x 17cm (3)

BRENDA HARTIN (BRITISH CONTEMPORARY) two abstract calligraphy prints comprising, 'Stormlands IV', 27/100, signed and dated (19)94 to lower margin, approximate size 47cm x 57cm and 'Scorched Earth II', signed and dated 2003 to lower margin, 27/100, approximate size 37cm x 38cm, both are framed, sizes include margins

A quantity of calligraphy pens, Script and Rex pen nibs etc together with compass and precision drawing set pieces.

Porzellan, handbemalt, China, Republik (1912-1949). Diese Gruppe chinesischer Porzellanobjekte umfasst ein Räuchergefäß, eine Vase, zwei Teller und eine Schüssel. Alle Stücke sind handbemalt und zeigen Kalligraphie sowie Künstlersiegel. Zustand: Insgesamt guter Zustand mit wenigen kleinen Chips. Provenienz: Österreichische Privatsammlung. Abmessungen: Höhe Vase 30,1 cm, Höhe Räuchergefäß 5,8 cm, Durchmesser Platten 17,7 cm, Durchmesser Schalen 10 cm Porcelain, hand-painted, China, Republic period (1912-1949).This group of Chinese porcelain objects includes a censer, a vase, two plates and a bowl. All pieces are hand-painted and show calligraphy as well as artist seals. Condition: Overall good condition with few minor chips. Provenance: Austrian private collection. Dimensions: height vase 30.1 cm, height censer 5.8 cm, Diameter plates 17.7 cm, Diameter bowls 10 cm

SHASHA SAPHIR GUIGA (1921-2018) CALLIGRAPHIE EN NOIR, CALLIGRAPHY IN BLACK, Encre sur papier, signée, située "Bonn" et datée 1977" en bas à gauche. , (Griffure). , 39,5 X 57,5 CM (15 9/16 X 22 5/8 IN.)

A Chinese carved jade cong, in dark spinach green and dark brown mottled jade, with dark tan and rust inclusions, the square section body open at both ends with inset circular foot and rim, with incised decoration of a scholar and boy in a mountain landscape, two sides with archaic calligraphy, 8 1/8in. (20.7cm.) high. * The surface of the jade is uneven and pitted to one edge and corner - this is believed to be natural flaws in the stone as the incised decoration extends across the pitted surface. A few other natural pits to surface and natural hairline crack to one end.

.A 'GENGI MONOGATARI' SIX-LEAF FOLDING FLOOR SCREEN POSSIBLY BY TOSA MITSUBUMI 土佐光文 (1812-1879) Japan, 19th century Inscribed with a calligraphy and bearing two red seals to the far right leaf, with a text possibly reading as follow 畫所預在近衛監光文 and a signature likely Mitsubumi 光文 likely for Tosa Mitsubumi. Dimensions (each leaf): H: 143 cm - w: 62,5 cm Provenance: A curated selection of Samurai Art & Beyond from the Collection of a French Scholar assembled over years of thorough studies. Note: For a related screen housed in a public collection, see the accession number NGA 2014.2699.A-B of the National Gallery of Australia. +Important notice to the buyer: Please note that this lot is not in our premises and is currently located in France and is to be sold on designation. The successful bidder will then haver to arrange the shipping from the French location.

A NOH THEATER MASK OF HANNYA Japan, Showa period A lacquered wooden mask the inner part engraved with a calligraphy and bearing a seal mark. H: 23,5 cm - w: 16 cm

JAPANESE SCHOOL, WITH SIGNATURE Japan, 19th century Two entwined carps eating bamboo seeds Ink and colours on silk Inscribed with a calligraphy to the lower right dating it to the Kyowa period and to a Shinyu years corresponding to 1801 Stamped with a red seal With an inscription on the upper right part reading 徽宗圖 maybe for Kisu (but also reading Huizong in Mandarin Chinese) 86.5 x 40.3cm

Ⓦ A 1 1/8 IN CALIBRE NORTH INDIAN RIFLED PERCUSSION RAMPART GUN^ MID-19TH CENTURY ¦with earlier very heavy swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with nine grooves^ signed on the left of the breech in gold-lined calligraphy and previously fitted with standing back-sight^ regulation percussion lock^ full stock (extensive chips) and brass mounts of regulation type¦136.0 cm; 53 ½ in barrel¦¦Property from the David Jeffcoat Collection (1945-2020)¦¦Part proceeds to benefit The Wallace Collection¦¦The inscription reads |Sarkar Sardar Ghulam Haidar Khan|. ¦¦Sardar Ghulam Haidar Khan (1820-1858) was appointed Heir Apparent with the title of Vali Ahad^ after the death of his elder full-brother in 1845. He was governor of Ghuzni 1837-1839 and 1842-1845^ of Jalalabad 1845-1855^ and Kandahar 1855-1858.

A QIANJIANG PORCELAIN TUREEN BY THE STUDIO TIANSHUN XIANG 天顺祥, KAMCHENG China, Republic period Adorned in the famille rose palette with a lovely quail amidst flowers, also inscribed with a calligraphy attributing it to the Tianshun Xiang 天顺祥 studio, also bears a Jian Ding export seal to the below. H: 21cm 天顺祥浅绛瓷碗，盖碗 中国，民国时期

A QIANJIANG 'BIRD AND FLOWERS' PORCELAIN HAT HOLDER BY ZHANG YUN ALSO KNOWN AS ZHANG YIPING 张子英, China, Republican period, inscribed with a calligraphy and a seal, cyclically dated to a dingsi year corresponding to 1906 and signed Zhang Yun 张子英. 28cm high Note: For a square vase attributed to the same artist at auction, see Bonham's Sydney, 2014/09/01, lot 124, sold for €4,698. 张云，亦被称作张子英浅绛“花鸟”瓷帽架，中国，民国时期，刻有书法和印章，日期为丁巳年，即1906年，签名为张云（张子英）

A QIANJIANG CAI 'BIRD AND SANDUO' PORCELAIN ROULEAU VASE China, Republican / Minguo period Adorned in vivid colours with a bird within flowers as well as the Three Abundances, i.e. the finger citron, the pomegranate and the peach. Also inscribed with a long calligraphy. Bears a red mark to the below, unidentified. H: 27,5 cm 浅绛彩“鸟与三多”圆棒槌瓷瓶 中国，民国时期

A LARGE SHIWAN FIGURE OF A STANDING TIEGUAI LI China, Foshan, Shiwan kilns, c.1900 The daoist immortal is identified by his gnarled stick and calabash gourd, inscribed with a calligraphy to the below. H: 42.5cm 大型石湾铁拐李立像，中国佛山石湾窑，约1900年

ESTIMATE UPON REQUEST // PLEASE CONTACT THE AUCTION HOUSE // AN IMPORTANT CHINESE SCHOOL, WITH SIGNATURE OF GIUSEPPE CASTIGLIONE ALSO KNOWN AS LANG SHINING 郞世寧 (1688-1766) China, 20th century Portraits of Moyuli (墨玉璃) and Jinchixian (金翅猃), two hounds of the Emperor Qianlong Colours and ink on silk Mounted as a kakemono Inscribed with the signature of Lang Shining to the lower left Inscribed with a calligraphy to the upper right Bearing several red seals, five in total Dimensions (the sole painting): 123,5 x 52 cmProvenance:> Private collection;> Juan Carlos Katzenstein (1925-2018), an Argentinian Diplomat, who was an Ambassador in Beijing, China, from December 6, 1975 to January 2, 1978, and later to the Holy See (Vatican) and to the Sovereign Order of Malta from 1989 to 1991. Notes: Giuseppe Castiglione was an Italian Jesuit brother and missionary in China, where he served as an artist at the imperial court of three emperors - the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors. He painted in a style that is a fusion of European and Chinese traditions. The hounds have been identified thanks to the "Album of the Ten-Prized Dogs" (十骏犬图), an imperial-commissioned work by the above-mentioned painter housed in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. The long calligraphy may be roughly read as follows: "Who said that the dogs are only used to bark, while the painter can portray various postures of the dogs, such as running, skipping etc. as they are really fascinating. Written by the Emperor Qianlong in early August 1744". The seals, five in total, may be roughly read as follow:a) "Five blessings in five Dynasties". This seal belongs to Emperor Qianlong aged 70; b) "Shi-Qu". This is the name of a book with many famous paintings, calligraphies and others; c) "Shi-Qu". The second volume of this book; d) "Yang Xin Hall". This painting was collected in that peculiar hall within the Forbidden City; e) "The Emperor will benefit his sons and grand-sons"; We did match three of the seals with the ones listed in BEURDELEY, Cecile and Michel. "Giuseppe Castiglione A Jesuit Painter at the Court of the Chinese Emperors". Lund Humphries London: 1972, pp. 192-193: a) nr. 6:, "Wu-fu-wu-tai-t'ang ku-hsi t'ien-tzu pao", Treasure of the aged Son of Heaven in the Hall of the Five Happiness and the Five Generations; b) nr. 14: "San-hsi-t'ang chieng-sien hsi", Seal of the Hall of the Three Rarities; c) nr. 28: "Yang-hsin-tien chien ts'ang pao", Treasure of the palace of Cultivating Hearts. Juan Carlos Katzenstein probably acquired or was offered this important painting while living in China. He and his family attached a great importance to this scroll and did study it thoroughly. They did present it to different scholars and even managed to have it both the poem and the seals translated into English. This painting is offered at auction with a documentation including notably (but not only) the book "Giuseppe Castiglione a Jesuit Painter at the Court of the Chinese Emperors" by Michel Beurdeley as well as as a few letters and envelopes, one adressed to "Castellgatto II", the residency of Juan Carlos Katzenstein while in Italy.

A PEWTER-ENCASED YIXING TEAPOT BEARING THE MARK OF YANG PENGNIAN 楊彭年製 China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century The yixing teapot completely encased within pewter, with a wooden handle and a lid with a jade finial, the outer part engraved with a calligraphy, the inner part impressed with a Yang Pengnian 楊彭年製 mark. H: 10,5 cm - L: 13 cm - w: 6,5 cm 印有杨彭年制的锡制宜兴茶壶 中国，清朝，19世纪

A PEWTER-ENCASED YIXING TEAPOT BEARING THE SEAL OF YANG PENGNIAN 楊彭年製 China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century The Yixing zisha teapot all covered with pewter, the handle made of wood, the lid with a jade finial, the outer part engraved with blossoming branches as well as a calligraphy, a seal reading Yang Pengnian 楊彭年製 visible in the inner part. H: 9,8 cm Weight: 528 grams 印有杨彭年制印章的锡制宜兴茶壶 中国，清朝，19世纪

A SUITE OF TWO DOUBLE PAGES FROM A SAME ALBUM China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century Laid on a soft cardboard by two, both left pages inscribed with a long calligraphy, both right pages adorned with ink and colours, one depicting a man and a boy with horses in a landscape, the other one depicting two playing boys with their mother next to a bed. Dimensions: - each double page in total: 51,5 x 75 cm - each single page: 43 x 34 cm 同一册页中两幅两开成套 中国，清朝，19世纪

CHINESE SCHOOL, SIGNATURE OF JIE XISI 揭傒斯 (1274-1344) A procession with numerous dignitaries Ink and colours on silk Inscribed with a calligraphy with signature Jie Xisi 揭傒斯 and bearing a red seal 29 x 80 cm 中国画，揭傒斯（1274-1344）签名 众多政要参加游行

CHINESE SCHOOL, PAN ZENGYING 潘冬莹 (1808-1878), WENG TONGHE 翁同龢 (1830-1904) AND ZHANG ZHIWAN 张之万 (1811-1897) Landscapes and calligraphy A suite of three ink and colours on silk mounted as a kakemono The upper one, a landscape by Pan Zengying, inscribed with a calligraphy, signed and bearing one artist seal reading 水星 The middle one, a calligraphy by Weng Tonghe, signed and bearing a seal The third one, a landscape by Zhang Zhiwan, bearing a calligraphy and a seal and signed Dimensions (the biggest of the three paintings): 中国画，潘冬莹（1808-1878），翁同龢（1830-1904）和张之万（1811-1897） 景观和书法

CHINESE SCHOOL, SIGNATURE OF SHEN SHI 沈仕 (1488-1565) The immortal Lan Caihe in a cloudy sky upturning a basket of flowers Ink and colours on silk Inscribed with a calligraphy signing it Shen Shi 沈仕 to the left part With four seals in total, two at the end of the calligraphy, two in the lower right corner Dimensions (the sole painting): 75 x 36.5cm Notes: A painter of the Ming Dynasty, born in Renhe (nowadays Hangzhou, Zhejiang), renowned for his painting of birds and flowers (Niao Hua traditional subject). Several of his works are housed in museums (see, inter alia, a fan inscribed with a poetry part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, accession number1989.363.73). Few of his works have been presented at auction, fetching top prices. Amidst them, see Sotheby's New York, March 16, 2017, lot 833, for a scroll painting depicting peonies. 中国画，沈仕（1488-1565）签名 云中仙人蓝采和翻花篮

CHINESE SCHOOL, SIGNATURE OF WEN ZHENGMING 文徵明 (1470-1559) Mountains and river landscape with stilt houses and daoist scholars Ink and colours on silk Inscribed with a calligraphy and two seals on the upper left Signature of Wen Zhengming 文徵明 Dated to a year of the reign of Emperor Jiajing Dimensions (the sole painting): 30.5 x 26cm Provenance: > Private collection; > Former collection of Henri and Jean Brionval, French Diplomats, Tanger, Morocco. Notes: A painter, calligrapher and poet, Wen Zhengming, born Wen Bi, is one of the four masters of the Ming painting. Henri Brionval (1907-1978), a French Diplomat, was a member of the United Nations Commission on Korea based in Pusan in 1950. The same year, he was appointed a counsel at the French Embassy in Moscow. His brother, Jean Brionval (1904-), had a long-lasting career in the French Diplomacy as an ambassador with numerous positions such as in Ceylon and Indonesia. Both were avid collectors of Asian antiques. Henri is believed to have acquired numerous paintings and ceramics while living in Korea. Jean Brionval was also a French Diploma who was, notably, Ambassador in Ceylon. 中国画，文征明签名（1470-1559） 山川景观与棚屋和道士

A SIX-LEAF COROMANDEL FOLDING FLOOR SCREEN, A BIRTHDAY GIFT TO LIANQ QICHAO 梁启超 (1873-1929) China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century One side adorned with long and energetic calligraphy whereas the other face is adorned with planted trees and erected with pavilions. H: 179,5 cm - w (each leaf): 40 cm - w (total, approximately): 240 cm Notes: This coromandel screen is impressive by its very long laudatory calligraphy. The story behinds is even more interesting. Indeed, it is gift made by his students to a very well-known journalist, politician and activist, Lianq Qichao 梁启超. Liang Qichao was a Chinese social and political activist, journalist and intellectual who lived during the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China. His thought had a significant influence on the political reformation of modern China. He inspired Chinese scholars and activists with his writings and reform movements. His translations of Western and Japanese books into Chinese introduced new theories and ideas and inspired young activists. In his youth, Liang Qichao joined his teacher Kang Youwei 康有為 (1858-1927) in the reform movement of 1898. When the movement was defeated, he fled to Japan and promoted a constitutional monarchy and organized political opposition to the dynasty. After the revolution of 1911, he joined Yuan Shikai's government and served as the chief justice and the first president of the currency system bureau. 六叶科罗曼德折叠地屏，送给梁启超（1873-1929）的生日礼物 中国，清朝，19世纪

A Persian Islamic calligraphy within a decorative stylised floral border. H.30x22cm

An Islamic hinged brass box with clasp engraved with a stylised calligraphy design along with two ornate perfume bottles, one brass with a peacock stopper and turquoise glass cabochon detailing, the other white metal with a heart motif encircling a pair of birds. H.8x5cm

A framed Ottoman calligraphy with gilded detailing. H.38xW.38cm

A Qajar Farman calligraphy dated and intricately decorated and hand painted with gilded details. H.64xW.40cm

An antique Islamic brass jug with Arabic calligraphy. 12cm high.

10 pieces of Islamic Agate stones, inscribed with Arabic calligraphy.

10 pieces of Islamic Agate stones and crystals inscribed with Arabic calligraphy.

A mixed lot to include a Chinese bronze stylised four sided vessel decorated with griffins and dragons with calligraphy mark to base, 14cm high; together with a further masonic medal, anointing spoon and others (a collection)

Three framed collections of fountain pen nibs to include a Chinese example, together with a further cased Chinese souvenir calligraphy set, a part Royal Albert Memory Lane tea service and others (a boxful)

Reference books on Japanese mythology, decorative arts, paintings and prints,Including Noma, the arts of Japan ancient and medieval, Rose Hempel the Heian civilisation of Japan, Japanese house gallery, Masters of Japanese calligraphy, Covell Yamada, Zen at Daitoku-Ji, von Rague, A history of Japanese lacquerwork, Frank a Turk, the Prints of Japan, Heibonsha survey of Japanese art in 18 volumes, various booklets and catalogues etc. (70 volumes)

A collection of Oriental prints to include two Chinese prints, a Chinese print with calligraphy and a Japanese print 

Chinese Republic calligraphy and bird vase, 14cm high

China.- Ho (Waik-kam) & Judith G.Smith, editors. The Century of Tung Chi'i-ch'ang 1555-1636, 2 vol., Seattle & London, 1992 § Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens (M.) The Han Civilization of China, Oxford, 1982 § Addis (J.M.) Chinese Ceramics from datable tombs, 1978 § Mote (F.W.) & others. Calligraphy and the East Asian Book, Boston & Shaftesbury, 1989 § Collier (V.W.F.) Dogs of China & Japan in Nature and Art, 1921, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth, all but the last with dust-jackets, a little soiled; and c.25 others on Asian art, mostly Chinese, 4to & 8vo (c.30)

Doggett (Sue)[A Book of Symbols], 27 woodblock symbols on Japanese tissue leaves, inscribed 'Printed designed bound by Sue Doggett 1992' on last leaf, original burgundy morocco with onlaid symbols and texturing, gold coloured clip fastener, black cloth solander box, 107 x 107mm., 1992--HADLAC (JIRI) Trak Tat O Manekyneeh, multi-coloured pen and ink calligraphy and drawings, bound in stitched and sculpted leather re-using an old glove, set into a wooden frame on a stand with fastener, 1986--KYLE (HEDI) Alphabet flag book, NUMBER 50 OF 65 COPIES, bound concertina style, opening out to reveal 27 card leaves in 3 rows, each illustrating a letter of the alphabet in colour and on reverse in black and white, final leaf illustrating the whole alphabet signed and dated in pencil, illustrated white boards printed in black, 315 x 165mm., 1990--CINCERA (JAN) Rez Laserem, 48 blank leaves, titled, signed and dated at rear, cream boards with laser cut incision penetrating book block, with laser-burned pebble to be placed on top, typed label 'Story of a Laser cut interrupted by a Pebble', in a folding cardboard box, 1988; OSBORNE (KEVIN) Tropos, one of 100 specially bound and signed copies, rhomboid-shaped book, folding Japanese-style, illustrated throughout in colour, incorporating text, with circular cut-out hole through page block revealing a blue perspex round bead on rear pastedown, green foil-printed red wrappers, slotted into wooden dowl spine, 205 x 170mm., Arlington, Virginia, Osbornbook, 1988; and 2 others by Mary Horstschulz and Ronald King (7)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DOVES PRESSCOBDEN-SANDERSON (T.J.) The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful. A Tract on Calligraphy Printing and Illustration & on the Book Beautiful as a Whole, limited to 300 copies on paper, printed by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, bookplate of Henry Guppy, fine in original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery (signed at rear), gilt lettered spine, 1900; Catalogue Raisonné of Books Printed and published at the Doves Press No. 1 The Terrace Hammersmith, limited to 300 copies, all on paper, printed in red and black, fine in original linen-backed boards, May 1908; Notes on a Passage in Shelley's Ode to liberty, 6pp., limited to about 300 copies on paper, later morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt lettered spine, original stiff wrappers bound in, 1914--Pervigilium Veneris, limited to 150 copies on paper, printed in red and black, Brooklyn Library label, original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, gilt lettered spine, covers slightly crinkled, 1910, 8vo, Hammersmith, Doves Press (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DOVES PRESSBROWNING (ROBERT) Men and Women, 2 vol., one of 250 copies on paper, from an overall edition limited to 263, printed in red and black and with calligraphic inscriptions in red ink on each limitation leaf reading 'Flourished by Edward Johnston May 1908 [-Nov. 1908]', the flourishes in red, green and blue, in a FINE BINDING BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE of dark blue crushed morocco (signed on front turn-ins 'Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for the Torch Press'), sides with central gilt arabesques containing small onlays of green and red morocco, within wide ornamental rule and dotted borders, gilt-lettered on upper covers, spines richly gilt with raised bands, brown morocco gilt doublures with wide dark blue turn-ins repeating the external border design, red silk lined endpapers, g.e., housed in blue buckram solander box, 4to (231 x 163mm.), Hammersmith, Doves Press, 1908Footnotes:ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING DOVES PRESS PUBLICATIONS IN A FINE SANGORSKI BINDING. The volumes were printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson in collaboration with Emery Walker, but it is Edward Johnston's flourishes that help to set it apart. Johnston taught calligraphy at the London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal College of Arts, counting Eric Gill, Graily Hewitt, Anna Simons and Jan van Krimpen amongst his pupils.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - ERIC GILLThe Song of Songs. Called by Many the Canticle of Canticles, number 448 of 750 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Gill (one full-page), title vignette and some initials in red, 4to, 1925--MATHERS (E. POWYS) Procreant Hymn, number 100 of 200 copies, 5 wood-engraved plates by Gill, 1926, both untrimmed in original cream cloth--Glue and Lacquer. Four Cautionary Tales Translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton & Lee Yi-hsieh, number 240 of 350 copies, 5 engraved plates by Denis Tegetmeier after Gill, untrimmed in original blue morocco-backed yellow cloth, upper cover with gilt calligraphy, gilt lettered spine (slightly faded), 4to, Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press (3)Footnotes:Provenance: Second work, A.M. Cohn, Cruikshank bibliographer, bookplate; 'Downsland Court, Ditchling, Sussex', printed label.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

VICTORIAN CALLIGRAPHY: group of 4 mid-19thc commonplace books, calligraphic manuscripts identified as by one William Seaton, largely arithmetic exercises, geometry, surveying etc, square 8vo albums of period with some wear, generally in good condition. (4)

KERBY (Kate): 'An Old Chinese Garden': a three-fold masterpiece of poetry, calligraphy and painting by Wen Chen Ming...Shanghai: Chung Hwa Book Company, 1923: full page illustrations throughout, decorative dark moire cloth over bevelled boards with gilt title and ties to spine, contained in original blue cloth portfolio with bone fasteners, the latter rubbed externally but otherwise generally a very good copy. (1)

ALBUMS & MAPS: a box, to include: early 20thc photograph album of French scenes, including 'A street on the way to the Triana & Gypsy Quarters': album of well executed architectural sketches in ink and pencil, inside cover inscribed W H Bidlake, Birmingham Aug 1910: album of calligraphy, mid-19thc, oblong 4to in embossed gilt yellow card covers: 2 other late 19th-early 20thc family photograph albums: an early 19thc commonplace book: 4 early Ordnance Survey maps of East Anglia, plus a bundle of misc. vintage press photographs. (A carton)

A pair of large 19th Century Chinese porcelain panels profusely decorated with various birds amidst foliage, each with calligraphy and seal marks

A pair of old Chinese carved bamboo small brush pots with brass liners with landscape scene to front and calligraphy to rear

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858), Kusatsu - Post House, 52nd station on the Tokaido, censors kiwame seal, published by Takeuchi, colour woodblock print, oban, further seal mark and calligraphy in the marginsCondition report: Mounted, framed and glazed. Looking at the bottom edge, it appears to be glued down, as a substance is showing through the paper.

A fine late 18th / early 19th century Chinese export carved ivory and hardstone diorama of figures in a terraced gardenQing dynasty, circa 1800the elaborately detailed scenic group depicting a large gathering of scholars within a naturalistic setting bounded by geometric and roundel pierced paling, variously playing musical instruments, playing go, and practising calligraphy and painting, a number of boys in attendance and a goat herd in the background, the overhanging gilt lacquered leafy and flowering trees and shrubs decorated in coral, agate, amber, pearl, kingfisher feather and other hardstones, the figures and garden setting in polychrome and gilt decorated ivory, set on a carved hongmu stand, together with a modern fitted Perspex cover and storage case, 52cm wide x 43cm high x 31.5cm deep including the stand (3)Footnotes:ProvenanceProperty of a lady.Received as a wedding gift in Penang in 1884 and thence by family descent.For other examples of elaborately modelled ivory and hardstone dioramas in the Victoria and Albert Museum see: a model of a Daoist temple, accession number 9347 (IS)/1; a model of a mountain scene, accession number 9349 (IS); and another similar, accession number 9346 (IS). Also see a large ivory model of a temple garden, Hatfield House Collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: Y ФY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A KUTANI BOWL the interior with central roundel of herons amongst a pine tree within key and trellis pattern bands, divided by gilt foliate scroll mons, the exterior with a broad band of wave pattern divided by gilt calligraphy on red roundels, gilt rim and seal mark, 31.5cm diameter Condition Report: minor wear to gilt rim .

A CHINESE PAINTING OF CRAYFISHsigned, 65 x 31cm and a calligraphy print, 64 x 31cm (2) Condition Report: Available upon request

A PERSIAN WHITE METAL CIRCULAR DISH decorated with a central foliate roundel within foliate bands and scallops, 315 grams, 22cm diameter and a small casket decorated with calligraphy, 8cm wide (2) The estate of The late Robert and Lyndsay Brydon, Edinburgh Condition Report: Available upon request

A PERSIAN METAL BASIN decorated with a square panel of calligraphy, surrounded by scrolling foliage, within a raised rim, a small bronze bowl decorated with a band of fish, 7cm diameter, and two damascened boxes, 12 and 9cm wide (4) The estate of The late Robert and Lyndsay Brydon, Edinburgh Condition Report: Available upon request

A Chinese green hardstone carving, of an eagle, the rocky base inscribed and picked out in gilt with calligraphy, 46cm high

Pair of famille rose vases Chinese, Republic period (1912-1949) decorated with eagles with the talons outstretched, with calligraphy to one side and with signature to base, 24cm high (2) Condition: general light wear

Group of ceramics Chinese including a famille verte calligraphy teapot, 20cm high, a famille verte painted bowl with painted Kangxi mark, 18cm, a pair of small crackleware vases, 14cm and various other pieces Condition: at present, there is no condition report for this lot. This in no way indicates a good condition. Please contact the saleroom for a full condition report