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A CHINESE CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL CENSER in archaic style (Fangding) Qing Dynasty, with fo dog finial to the pierced and swept cover, the body with archaistic scroll ornament, and inswept legs, 33cm high x 22cm wide (lacking handles)

A CHINESE FILIGREE AND ENAMEL BRISEE FAN, Qing Dynasty, early 19th century, each side enamelled with a central shield-shaped cartouche enclosing a lakeland landscape with pavilions, flanked by scrolls and flowers, the border with repeat sprigs, all against a fine filigree scroll ground, the guards 19cm long. Condition report: The fan appears to be in good overall condition. The enamels on both sides have been inspected and none seem damaged, through there are small firing faults - but nothing significant - one or two enamel cells have minute losses.

CHINESE SCHOOL, 18th/19th century A painted hanging scroll in a case, depicting a Jesuit Missionary Station, with four figures in and around a courtyard with a small dog, another figure looking down from a tower, 140cm x 95cm, opaque watercolours on silk, upon a woven laid silk borders, solid hardwood roller, overall 217cm x 114.5cm. Condition report: Numerous vertical splits and considerable wear to colours, particularly in the foliage of the right hand building and in the windows of the same, also on the leading two full-length figures and to the right side of their stance, some patches, colour missing top left angle and top centre sky (in particular) general scuffs and stains throughout. The silk background is in good order and may be of a later date to the scroll painting itself.

A CHINESE CARVED HARDWOOD DISPLAY STAND, late Qing dynasty, comprising eight tiered shelves, each with scroll and lotus pierced galleries and spandrels, 125cm wide x 153cm high x 40.5cm deep. Condition report: Horizontal top panel split and shrinkage, one base scrolling gallery panel lacking - but otherwise all appear to be in place, but some have small sections chipped and small losses

CHINESE PRINTED CALENDARSPair of Chinese scroll-style printed calendars, each 40" x 14 1/2", printed in China by the Shanghai Commercial Press to advertise the Standard Oil Company of New York, or Socony, now known as Mobil. The first scroll is a colorful depiction of two gentlemen being serenaded by a group of gorgeously and elaborately dressed ladies with various musical instruments, against an elaborate architectural setting amongst fantastical mountains. The Socony logo appears at the lower left corner of the image, and a calendar in Chinese is printed at the bottom. The second scroll is another elaborate and colorful architectural scene, populated by warlords, ladies with musical instruments, peacocks, a tiger, and dancers. The Socony logo appears at the lower right corner, and again beneath the image, with a calendar in Chinese at the bottom. Both scrolls are strengthened by metal supports across the top and bottom edges, although one is missing from the latter scroll. The edges are noticeably chipped, with the latter example bearing several vertical tears at the top edge repaired on the verso with cello tape, else good to very good.

"TOBACCO GIRLS" PROMOTE THE CHINA HUA QING TOBACCO COMPANYGood group of four paper advertising scrolls, each 30 3/4" x 10 1/2", each depicting an elegant Chinese woman fashionably dressed in the fusion of Chinese and Western styles popular in the 1920's and 1930's. Each scroll bears the inscription in Chinese characters: "The Ching Hua Qing Tobacco Company" at the top, and: "Please Smoke Jin Xi Brand, Jin Ling Brand, and Jia Li Brand Cigarettes" at the bottom. Each scroll is reinforced by metal supports at the top and bottom edges, and bear silk hanging loops. Some chipping to the edges and expected toning, else very good.

CHINESE PATRIOTIC RICE BOWLSPair of white ceramic rice bowls, the larger approx. 2 1/4" x 6 1/4" dia., and the smaller approx. 2 1/4" x 4 1/2" dia. The larger bowl bears the inscription": "Long Live Chairman Mao" beneath a red rising sun and among sunflowers, with a maker's mark on the base indicating that it was made in Jingde County, China. The smaller bowl bears the inscription: "The core leading force of our cause is the Communist Party. The theoretical basis of our ideology is Marxism and Leninism", within a scroll surrounded by pine boughs and a black fish. The base bears a maker's mark, also identifying it as being made in Jingde County. Both bear minor soiling, else very good.

A silver wire inlaid bronze figure of a sage riding a carp, he sits casually reading a scroll as the fish leaps, 16cm (6.25 in) high Other Notes: The Japanese depict the immortal Kinko riding a carp in this way but the silver wire inlay on his clothes suggest that this is Chinese rather than Japanese. Kinko's origins were adapted from a Chinese immortal There are blind holes in the fish's fins suggesting that this was once fitted to some sort of base object.

A pair of Chinese carved hardwood screens, the central panels depicting maidens within square scroll and floral pierced frames, 106cm x 45cm

Rococo style gilt painted console table, the glazed and moulded top with floral apron over cherub support, on circular base with C-scroll decoration and four lion paw feet, 80cm w, and a Chinese polychrome decorated jardiniere, decorated with stylised flowers and Greek key border, 36cm dia. (2)

A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE BOTTLE VASES, 19TH CENTURY Each decorated with a stylized lotus scroll, with peaches, flowers and leafy tendrils and with bats and ruyi-heads beneath the rim, the foot with formal stiff lappets and a blue key fret design, the interiors and bases glazed turquoise, each with an iron-red six character Qianlong seal mark, 33.5cm. (2) Provenance: an English private collection, Surrey.

A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE BRUSH REST, QING DYNASTY Of rectangular form with scroll ends, carved in shallow relief with a gnarled prunus branch, a pair of small birds perched in its branches, 12.8cm.

A CHINESE HARDWOOD LOW STAND, 19TH CENTURY Of rectangular form with scroll ends, together with an ink stone, carved with a buffalo and the moon amongst clouds, contained in a hardwood box and a blue and white soft paste box and cover painted with a figure beneath a tree and an attendant, 34.4cm. (6)

A CHINESE HARDWOOD RECTANGULAR LOW TABLE, KANG QING DYNASTY The scrolling frieze carved with a central flower motif, raised on four scroll-ended feet, 28.5cm x 34cm x 58.3cm.

A CHINESE CIZHOU PILLOW, SONG DYNASTY 960-1279 AD The ruyi head-shaped top painted with a tiger in a mountainous landscape, with a border of whorls within concentric bands, the sides with freely-drawn foliate scroll designs, 25.5cm. Provenance: from the collection of Helen Espir, no.155. Purchased from Christie’s, London, 12th December 1988, lot 109A. 宋 磁州窯猛虎下山紋如意枕 來源：Helen Espir收藏·編號155，購於倫敦蘇富比1988年12月12日·編號 109A

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ROULEAU VASE, REPUBLIC PERIOD The cylindrical body painted with thirteen ladies in a garden, engaged in various pursuits, three playing a board game, another chasing butterflies on a bridge, another painting a scroll whilst others examine it, another on a balcony playing a qin, all between panels of grisaille decoration to the foot and shoulder, with elaborate bands of lotus, ruyi and fu shou designs between borders of key fret and geometric designs, an inscription to one side, the base with a six character Qianlong seal mark, 33.8cm. Provenance: the property of an English gentleman.

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL AND COVER, SIX CHARACTER GUANGXU MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD 1875-1908 Painted to the exterior with famille rose lotus medallions encircled by a continuous foliate scroll, with four iron-red bats, each suspending a chime from a ribbon, the interior with four further bats, the rim with a ruyi-head band, paper collection labels, 10.4cm. (2) Provenance: from the collection of Helen Espir, no.1. Purchased from Tung Sze People’s bazaar in 1964.

FIVE CHINESE CIZHOU VASES, SONG/MING DYNASTY One of cylindrical form, decorated with three shaped panels containing figures with birds and animals, bordered by spiral designs, another a bottle vase, moulded to each side with a mythical beast’s head supporting a scroll handle, and three decorated with flowers, 25cm max. (5)

A RARE CHINESE IMPERIAL BEIJING ENAMEL SMALL ‘QUAIL AND MILLET’ VASE , FOUR CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1736-95 The slender pear-shaped body painted with two quails beneath millet and blue rocks on an Imperial yellow ground beneath a border of small blue ruyi heads and a central gilded collar. The cylindrical neck with a formal flower and leaf scroll on a pink ground, together with, and attached to, a hexagonal enamel base painted with further flower heads and leaf scrolls on a yellow ground raised on six lingzhi-shaped feet, the remains of a paper label, the vase 12cm, 20cm (overall). Cf. The British Museum, no. 1936, 0413.46 for a closely related vase also with a four character Qianlong reign mark bequeathed by Reginald Radcliffe Cory in 1936. Quail and millet are used in Chinese as a pun for ‘sui sui ping an’, meaning ‘everlasting peace year after year’. 清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯皇帝鷓鴣紋帽架（部分） 《乾隆年製》楷書款

A CHINESE SADDLE, LATE QING DYNASTY The seat secured with studs, the pommel with gilt metal repoussé decoration to the exterior, depicting dragons on a dense foliate scroll and bordered in gilt by panels of further dragons, 58cm.

A CHINESE SCROLL PAINTING ON PAPER IN THE STYLE OF LI BO, QING DYNASTY Depicting a scholar overseeing a small boy who is packing up scrolls and other treasures which have been placed upon a kang, with three columns of calligraphy and four red seal marks, 58cm x 43cm. Provenance: purchased from Nagel 12 November 2011.

FOUR SCROLL PAINTINGS, 19TH/20TH CENTURY Two painted with landscapes, one depicting moor fish in a pond, the fourth Japanese with Daruma amongst crashing waves, all signed and with seal marks, together with a Chinese woodblock print, after Zheng Ban Qiao, depicting orchids above lingzhi fungi, with an inscription, 108cm x 51cm max. (5)

A CHINESE SCROLL PAINTING, 19TH CENTURY Depicting an extensive mountainous landscape, with a seated figure in a small hut, with tall trees and an attendant sweeping in the yard outside, an inscription and a signature for the artist, 165cm x 45cm.

A CHINESE EROTIC SCROLL PAINTING, LATE QING DYNASTY Depicting eleven scenes of figures, couples and groups, engaged in daily life, framed and glazed, 20cm x 191cm.

A CHINESE EROTIC SCROLL PAINTING, 20TH CENTURY Depicting couples and groups engaged in sporting pursuits and with six panels of calligraphy, 27cm x 331cm.

A CHINESE PINK OVERLAID GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE, 1780-1850 Of flattened ovoid form, carved in shallow relief to one side with a kylin, a plume of vapour containing a scroll issuing from its mouth, the reverse with a leaping carp beneath a banner, all amongst clouds and reserved on a milky-white ground, 6.6cm. Provenance: Sotheby’s, Billingshurst, 25th June 1991, lot 44. The Bentley Collection. 清 涅白地套粉料麒麟紋鼻煙壺 來源：Bentley收藏，Bllingshurst蘇富比1991年6月25日·編號44

A CHINESE GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE, 1750-1820 The flattened body overlaid in red, green, yellow, pink and blue, carved in relief to one side with a vase containing flowers, with a scroll painting and a butterfly, the other with flowers issuing from rockwork, and a butterfly above, reserved on a white ground, 7.9cm. Provenance: Sotheby’s, Billingshurst, 25th June 1991, lot 26. The Bentley Collection. 清 涅白地五色套料蝶戀花紋鼻煙壺 來源：Bentley收藏，Bllingshurst蘇富比1991年6月25日·編號26

A Chinese Chippendale style three compartment giltwood Overmantel, with C scroll designs, animals, fruit etc., approx. 165cms (65") wide; 82cms (32") high. (1)

A framed Chinese scroll painting, 91cm high, and 3 Japanese woodblock prints

A LARGE GOOD QUALITY 19TH/20TH CENTURY CHINESE SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF GUANYIN, holding a ruyi sceptre and standing in floral and cloud scroll engraved robes, the stone of celadon green hue, 14.5in high.

A RARE CHINESE HAN DYNASTY GILT BRONZE & SILVER INLAID BRONZE BOWL, with flanged rim and taotie mask handles, the interior with archaic scroll designs within formal borders, the base with a bird roundel within a scroll border, 6.75in diameter & 2in high.

AN UNUSUAL GOOD QUALITY EARLY 20TH CENTURY CHINESE CARVED SOAPSTONE RHYTON CUP, on an integral scroll stand, the cup with loose ring buddhistic lion-head handle and carved with the head of an oxen, 6.8in long & 3.8in high.

A GOOD QUALITY 18TH/19TH CENTURY CHINESE CLAIRE-DE-LUNE PORCELAIN VASE, the neck with simple scroll handles, the base with a Qianlong seal mark, 8.9in high.

A 19TH CENTURY CHINESE LACQUERED HARDWOOD LOW TABLE, with a rectangular top over a frieze pierced and carved with birds amidst cherry blossom, on floral and scroll carved legs, 5ft wide x 1ft 11in high x 1ft 7in deep.

ANOTHER 19TH CENTURY CHINESE HARDWOOD LOW TABLE, with a rectangular top over an undulating frieze carved with scroll motifs and supported on similarly carved cabriole feet, 2ft 8in wide x 1ft 6in deep x 10in high.

A GOOD PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY CHINESE HARDWOOD CHAIRS, each well carved in pierced relief with swirling cloud scrolls, each back rest centred by a burr walnut panel, the legs connected by stretchers and supported on square scroll-end feet, 25.25in wide x 19.75in deep x 40.5in high.

A LARGE CHINESE KANGXI PERIOD BLANC-DE-CHINE PORCELAIN FIGURE OF GUANYIN, circa 1700, standing in flowing robes on a cloud scroll base, 18in high.

A GOOD QUALITY CHINESE CLOISONNE & GILT BRONZE TRIPOD CENSER & COVER, circa 1900, the sides decorated with a formal design of scroll and leaf-stemmed lotus, the pierced cover with the 'Three Friends' beneath a ruyi decorated finial, the sides with double buddhistic lion-head handles, 5.7in high overall.

A 19TH/20TH CENTURY CHINESE SANCAI POTTERY VASE, the sides of the square-section body moulded with repeated panels of formal leafage, the neck with double scroll and ring handles, 16.9in high.

A GOOD LARGE CHINESE MING STYLE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN JARDINIERE, the sides decorated between formal borders with a wide formal band of scroll and leaf stemmed flowerheads, the flanged rim with a formal wave border, the base with a six-character Yongzheng mark, 15.1in diameter at rim & 13.1in high.

A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE & BIANCO-SOPRA-BIANCO PORCELAIN VASES, each decorated with ribboned emblems and formal scroll-stemmed lotus, each base with a Qianlong seal mark, 9,9in high.

A CHINESE MING STYLE WUCAI PORCELAIN BOX & COVER, of waisted lozenge section, decorated with dragons within scroll borders, the base with a six-character Longqing mark, 10.2in wide & 4.5in high overall.

A GOOD QUALITY 18TH CENTURY CHINESE QIANLONG PERIOD CANTON ENAMEL TRAY, of chamfered rectangular form, decorated with a figural garden scene, the base with an unusual open scroll panel, 11.8in x 8.4in.

A WIDE CHINESE EDICT SCROLL, with various panels of calligraphy, approx. 85in wide x 13.5in high.

A GOOD QUALITY CHINESE COPPER RED WATER POT, the sides decorated with repeated formal scroll and leaf stemmed flowerheads, the base with a six-character Kangxi mark, 4in wide at widest point & 2.8in high.

A PAIR OF CHINESE CARVED HARDWOOD CHAIRS, each back rest carved with a figural and with an archaic pattern panel, the friezes of scroll form, 24.1in wide & 17.7in deep & 38in high.

A GOOD 19TH CENTURY CHINESE RECTANGULAR HARDWOOD & IVORY STAND, supported on four scroll feet above connecting stretchers, and surmounted by a galleried ivory rim carved with confronting dragons, 8.25in x 4.7in x 3.1in.

Chinese calligraphy hanging scroll, signed and sealed Fu Quan.

A Chinese coin set salver, stamped 'Wai Kee', Sterling Silver' and 'Made in Hong Kong', with bamboo border, on three scroll supports, 20.5 cm diameter, 372 g (12 troy ozs) gross

A small Chinese Ivory carving of Guanyin standing on a Lotus flower whilst holding a scroll in her hands, with etched patterned detail to the rear.

A Chinese pale green hardstone dish a similar box, 2 hardstone stylised elephant scroll weights a jadeite goose, a Chinese ram and a hardstone lion (7)

Eastern Zhou - Warring States period A large tiger bronze belt hook inlaid with gold and silver. It has four clawed feet, an open mouth, prominent teeth, and a tail evolving into a dragon’s head. This has alternating gold and silver inlays on its top and sides. The head, body, legs and feet are all inlaid with gold and silver scroll work in a zoomorphic pattern which is flush with the bronze. The beast has a collar which consists of gold inlaid strips above which is another row of diamond shaped motifs. There is a turquoise eye. The back of the figure shows green corrosion, the hook button is missing, and there are two small corrosion holes below the collar. Dimensions: Length 22cms, height 11cms, weight 185 grams comparisons See Bonham’s auction March 16th 2015 Warring States inlaid tiger belt buckle which is similar in shape. However that one had 2 legs while this one has four. The Bonham’s catalogue is the source of the published examples given below. Published 1. Giuseppe Eskenazi, Animals and Animal Designs in Chinese Art, New York, March 1998: catalogue no. 5. Fold-out cover of catalogue 2. Maurizio Scarpani, Ancient China, vercelli, Italy, 2006, p 141 3. Giuseppe Eskenazi, A Dealer’s Hand, London, 2012, pp 194-1195 4. A belt hook of distinctly similar design and execution, formed as a rhinoceros, and inlaid with gold and silver, was excavated in Sichuan in 1954 and is now held by the National Museum of China, Beijing.  The museum’s description attributes this type of large, elaborately inlaid, animal-form belt hook to the ancient Ba state, located in what is now eastern Sichuan. 5. In ‘Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania,’ Barbara West describes the tiger cult of the Ba people, in which deceased kings were believed to transform into tigers. The National Museum of China also notes that ba is described in the literature of the Chu state as being a region with a highly developed artistic culture. 6. During this period, bronze vessels and ornaments, like this piece, stood as dazzling and luxurious symbols of the individual power of warlords the elite consumed metalwork designed for festivities, diplomatic gifts, dowries and personal adornment. The highest quality adornments such as this belt hook would have been produced for the most exalted classes of Warring States period elite. 7. There also exists a group of silver-inlaid cast bronze animal-form fittings, of similar silhouette, which served as corner supports for furniture and which display decorative schemes that have much in common with the patterns evident on the present belt hook. This may suggest a common date or geographic origin. The beast’s neck is inlaid with a geometric border, perhaps representing a cowrie shell collar. See a related pair of corner supports, formerly in the collections of Stephen Junkunc iv and Alice Boney, sold at Christie’s New york, June 4 1992, lot 194. A further example is now in the Miho Museum and was exhibited in the museum’s 1999 exhibition, ‘Animals in Ancient China.’

Set of Chinese famille rose teabowls and saucers and coffee cups, each decorated with flowerheads and garlands, with white slip raised scroll work comprising five tea bowls, five coffee cups and five saucers. (15) CONDITION REPORT: Gilding rather worn on rim edges.Teabowls - four appear alright, one with hairline c. 3.5cm.Coffee cups - three with hairline cracks, one fine, one with tip of bottom scroll of handle with circular crack around the handled where it joins the cup.Saucers - four appear ok, one has hairline ad star crack to base.

19th century Chinese garniture of small bronze vases and a censer, the bodies all with flattened circular section and on scroll supports, the pierced semi circular lid to the censer with lion dog surmount, inlaid decoration of figures, foliage and good luck symbols, the censer 19.5cm and the vases 17.5cm (3)

19th century Chinese yellow ground bowl decorated with four bird and flower panels reserved on a geometric ground, scroll honour mark to base CONDITION REPORT: Gilding worn to rim. Tiny chips on side of top rim and hairlilne running from it to bottom of one bird & flower panels. Another timy chip and hairline from it just into a panel. horizontal fine hairline from just below that, around 2.5cm. Two small glaze misses to footrim and one to bowl side.

Chinese early 20th century blue and white moon flask with scroll handles, the body decorated with flowerheads and scrolling foliage, Qianlong mark to base but later, 32.5cm

A Japanese Meiji period bronze koro, the pierced arabesque and chrysanthemum decorated lid with shi knop surmounts a quatrefoil shaped body with pierced loop handled, and decorated with dragons and clouds to a patterned ground, on yokai mask scroll feet. Nine Chinese character mark to the base 39cm H x 37cm W

A Chinese porcelain blue and white scroll decorated vase with flared rim, 15" high, a modern Chinese crackle ware vase with butterfly decoration, 14" high, and a pair of late 19th Century Japanese blue and white decorated vases, 12" high

A Chinese porcelain dragon cloud scroll decorated vase with flared rim, 13" high, a double gourd vase, 7" high, a smaller similar vase, 5 1/2" high, and an oviform vase with landscape decoration, 8 1/2" high

A Chinese white jade figure holding a scroll,carved hardwood stand, height including stand 2.75".