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A Chinese famille rose export porcelain tankard, Qianlong period, the cylindrical body painted in the Mandarin palette with four figures on a terrace, within an underglaze blue foliate scroll frame, flanked by smaller vignettes on an iron red and floral ground, applied with a moulded dragon handle, height approx 12cm.
A Chinese Canton famille rose vase, 19th Century, the ovoid body and narrow neck with Buddhistic lion handles, painted with alternating reserve panels of figures in interiors and birds perched amongst flowers, within scroll borders, together with a similar smaller vase, a pair of Satsuma vases, decorated with figures in landscapes, and another Satsuma vase.
A Fine Chinese Lacquered & Giltwood Folding Armchair. The horse-shoe-shaped back sloped down at the front with outswept scroll terminals forming the hand rests, ornamented with embossed & incised sheet brass appliqués on a red/brown lacquered ground. The back splat having a square gilded centre panel carved with scrolling dragons surrounding a circular boss. The leather slung seat on folding X-frame supports.
Late 19th century Chinese hand drawn and coloured navigation chart, paper laid on linen, scroll showing the coast from Wenchow to Ning Po showing sighting lines and channel obstructions with additional European transcription and notes approx 16` provenance: `H W Smales Whitby collection` (19th century ship owners)
Early 20th Century Chinese engraved brass mounted elm eight piece dining suite comprising: two section rectangular top table on square supports with inverted scroll terminals, 149cm long, six chairs having hard seats and standing on conforming front supports and side cabinet fitted six drawers and two cupboard doors, 138cm long.
A Chinese famille rose octagonal charger 19th century, with scalloped gilt-edged rim, the central exterior scene depicting scholars holding a scroll within a bamboo fenced garden, with lake, temple and mountains behind, within borders of birds and butterflies, two character mark in underglaze blue to base, 16.75in (42.5cm) diameter.
A Chinese Export blue and white wine ewer Kangxi period, of baluster form with scroll handle, decorated in underglaze blue with a spider`s web style decoration to the ground, a foliate decorated heart shaped reserve, plantain leaf collar and spotted decoration to the handle and spout, with later silver mount and lid (detached), unmarked, 7.5in (19cm) high.
A fine and rare Pair of famille rose Bowls with thinly potted, rounded sides, slightly flared at the rim, painted on the exterior with bands of iron-red bats among scrolling gourd vine above petal borders, the five bats (wufu) shown flying in different positions, their wings and bodies shaded in tones of red, the scrolling double or bottle gourds growing from a single undulating branch with lobed leaves coloured in green and turquoise-blue with strong grey veining, among short tendrils, the larger fruit coloured in yellow and the smaller unripe gourds in green, all with darker blotches, the flowers and buds in tones of pale yellow, the bases of the bowls encircled by rings of swirled petals in shaded pale pink with darker pink veining, outlined in green with a further blue outline running along the tops of the petals, the six character mark of Yongzheng written in underglaze-blue in two columns enclosed by a double square on the base of each bowl, period of Yongzheng (1723-1735), 4 3/4in. (12cm.) diameter. Esitmate - Refer Department. * Only one other bowl of this pattern seems to be recorded, formerly in the Robert Chang Collection, sold at Christie`s Hong Kong, 28th November 2006, lot 1308 and previously sold at Christie`s Hong Kong, 17th January, 1989, lot 688. This bowl was exhibited at Christie`s London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2nd-14th June 1993, cat.no.93 A related bowl of slightly larger size with very similar mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang: Qingdai Yuyao Ciqi (Palace Museum Collection, Qing Dynasty Imperial Porcelain), juan 1, ce xia, no.83, pp.192-3. Here there are three symmetrical compositions of gourds below bats with outstretched wings, a narrow flower scroll border below the lip and a band of narrow hooked red petals around the base. Unlike the present bowls which lack line borders, the Beijing bowl has iron-red line borders enclosing the rim border and around the footring. The combination of bats and bottle gourds carries auspicious meaning. The Chinese for bottle gourd (hulu) is a near pun on fulu meaning happiness and riches. In the Qianlong period the subject of bats and gourds appears on a Beijing enamelled falangcai vase in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and on a gold ground vase, itself of gourd shape tied with a pink ribbon, both illustrated in Good Fortune, Long Life, Health and Peace: Special Exhibition of Porcelains with Auspicious Designs, Taipei 1995, cat.nos.28 and 33.
A George III silver tea caddy London 1770, maker Thomas Heming, of bombe form with Chinoiserie figures and decoration, the detachable lid with cast figures of a songbird and Chinese man holding a single tea bowl, two sides of the caddy engraved with a crest of arm in armour embowled, for CHAMBERS of Leyhen Grange, Sydenham, Kent, set on four cast scroll feet, weight 10oz 4.75in (12cm) high.
A pair of Chinese carved hardwood cabinets 20th century, the upper section of the doors and sides with pierced quatrefoil decoration, over central bands of carved scrollwork, the lower doors and sides carved with scrolling and stylised foliate designs, the doors with exposed brass hinges and a simple rod lock with drop handles, on a shaped apron to scroll feet, 28.25in (72cm) high x 20in (51cm) wide x 9in (23cm) deep. (2)
A Chinese cloisonn? oval jardinire, the handles formed as bifid dragons, the exterior decorated with a continuous lotus scroll on a turquoise ground, the base with a six character Qianlong mark but later, 20cm. Provenance: From the collection of Lieutenant Colonel Herbert James Walton (1869-1938), Indian Medical Service.

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