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A CHINESE EXPORT BLUE AND WHITE EWER and cover of baluster form, the lower body decorated with niche-shaped panels containing standing figures and sprays of flowers beneath larger sprays, the handle and lid with contemporary European silver coloured metal mounts, the base with a paper label for "Eskenazi Antichita", Kangxi, 6" high.

A Chinese Kraak porcelain blue and white dish, Wanli, early 17th century, painted with a bird amongst flowers within borders of fruit and fans, the underside with a design of roundels and straight lines, cracked, 11'', a Chinese export blue and white soup plate, Qianlong, decorated with a crane, fence garden and chrysanthemum, 9'' and a Chinese export blue and white pedestal sauce boat, 18th century, of silver shape decorated with flowers, damaged, 9.5'' long (3)

A Chinese blanc de Chine circular box and cover, moulded with prunus and applied with silver coloured metal mounts, 18th century, 7. 5cm. (2)

A Chinese Export blue and white rectangular tea canister, painted with figures in river landscapes, and with later silver cover, circa 1780-1800, and a Chinese Export blue and white cylindrical teapot, decorated in gilt with monograms, circa 1800 (no cover)

A late 19th century Anglo-Chinese rectangular silver snuff box, the whole cast and chased with figurative scenes, 6.5cm wide

A late 19th century Chinese export silver, five-piece trinket set by Luen Wo of Shanghai, comrpising two silver-mounted brushes, a silver-mounted comb, a silver-mounted hand mirror with ring handle and a trinket box with pull-off lid, each piece embossed with chrysanthemums on a matted ground. Makers mark of Luen Wo and Chinese characters.

A 1920's Chinese export silver, small oval card tray, the border embossed with irises on a hammered ground, the centre set with a "Fatman Dollar" coin, showing a portrait of Yuan Shikai. Makers mark, S.F. and Chinese characters.

A metal mounted Satsuma button (converted to a brooch) together with a Chinese silver pendant.

A Chinese silver nail guard brooch, set with hardstones; together with various enamels, etc.

An Indian turned ivory box, the hinged cover with a bud finial to a waisted body, 5in (12.7cm) diameter, cover repaired, a Chinese hardwood shallow box and cover and an Indian copper and silver coloured metal mounted faceted container, 6in (15cm) high. (3)

Pair of Chinese Fifth military rank badges, each depicting a snarling bear in couched and silver and gilt metal brocade with vari-coloured silk cores and silk satin-stitch eyes and coral bead suns all on a brown silk grounds. End of the 19th century, each 10.5in. x 11in. 26.5cm. x 28cm. Four coral beads missing from one badge. Each laid down and mounted on wood stretchers. And a fifth civil rank badge, depicting a silver pheasant, unusually embroidered in silk in French knot and couched gilt metal brocade on a black satin ground. Second half 19th century, 11in. x 11.5in. 28cm. x 29cm. One of the pair and the single rank badges are from the front of costumes and therefore woven in two equal pieces joined down the centre.

A Chinese silver dressing table set, Luen-Wo, Shanghai, late 19th/early 20th century, each piece heavily relief decorated with flowers comprising hairbrush, hand mirror, clothes brush, shoe horn, button hook, table brush and two circular toilet boxes and covers (8)

A Chinese Silver Vase with Flower and Scroll Decoration

A pair of Chinese silver goblets, with "bamboo" stems, 5ins

A Chinese Tourmaline style Brooch having carved bird, fruit and floral decoration, having silver coloured metal wire mount

A Chinese Jade Rectangular Brooch having pierced and carved bird decoration, with silver coloured metal wire mount

A Chinese Jade Oval Brooch depicting 2 perched birds, having silver coloured metal wire mount

A CHINESE BOWL of silver coloured metal, with petal-shaped lobed sides, upon a raised rim foot, 21cm. diam.; 19oz

SIX CHINESE LIQUEUR CUPS of silver coloured metal, the tapering bodies each with an applied dragon decoration, 4cm.; 4.75oz, upon a carved hardwood tray

A CHINESE BOX of silver coloured metal, with hinged lid, repousse decoration of dragons, 14cm. wide; 5oz

A Chinese silver sweetmeat basket, maker's mark WH, fashioned from fine wire with twin bamboo pattern handle, 13.25cm, 3.25oz

A Chinese porcelain baluster shaped mug decorated in orange, blue and gilt with an "Imari" pattern depicting vases of flowers, moulded loop handle, 5.75ins high (Qianlong period), and a pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain oval sauce boats of moulded silver shape, 7.25ins (rim rubbed and fritted)

A mixed lot of wine labels: A Chinese crescent "PORT", by Wang Hing & Co a plated drapery festoon label "Red Wine", a gadrooned oval "MADEIRA", by John Bridge, London 1829, a stamped out "MADEIRA", by Jonathan Hayne, 1831, a silver gilt "RUM", by Aston & Sons, Birmingham 1858 and a Scottish escutcheon pierced "MADEIRA", by George Paton, Edinburgh 1828. (6)

Lit: Devereux Kernan, J: The Chait Collection of Chinese Export Silver, a hardboard catalogue published by the Ralf M. Chait Galleries, Inc New York City 1985 (with dedication by Allan Chait).

Lit: Ling Roth, H: Oriental Silverwork Malay & Chinese printed London 1910 together with Jones, E A: Old Silver of Europe & America, by Batsford Ltd 1928. (2)

Two 19th century Chinese silver coloured metal filigree card cases, one with tight swirl reserve and borders, 10.5cm long; the other with central panels with raised dragon and foliage on a scroll ground, 9cm long, 142g all in, (2).

A 19th century Chinese silver coloured metal rectangular card case, chased with a dragon chasing a pearl amidst clouds on a matted ground, a bamboo with swallows verso, marked LUENWO and script, 9.5cm long, 67g.

A 19th century Chinese silver coloured metal filigree oblong card case, with a scroll foliate meander design, with suspension ring on chain, 10cm long, 119g.

Early 20th century Chinese silver cigarette box, of rectangular form, the cover and side panels embossed with figures in landscapes, slight splitting, 3 character mark stamped to base, 12.7cm wide

A small Chinese carved camphorwood style box containing a yard-o-led hallmarked silver propelling pencil in box, Birmingham 1968 and a composite Parker three-piece pen set in case.

A Chinese silver medal, two other medals, a ladies silver cased wrist watch and other items

A Chinese silver twin handled cup, relief decorated with a dragon, on a knopped stem and spreading foot, 23cm.

Serbia, Peter I (1903-18), dinars, 1915 (9), scuffed and with some staining, otherwise practically mint state and toned; various English hammered issues (8), including Philip & Mary groat and Elizabeth sixpence of 1564, this last very fine and toned; together with miscellaneous coins of the world (about 500), mostly base metal but a few in silver; various banknotes; and a string of Chinese cash including several large issues, mixed grades (lot)

A late Victorian silver lidded mustard and open salt with blue glass liner, Chester marks; similar silver pedestal pepper; silver slender trumpet form vase on loaded base; Chinese white metal small sweetmeat bowl with pierced frieze (4).

TWO JADE CARVED PENDANTS, each of foliate design, one having silver marquisite frame. Chinese, 20th Century.

Six Chinese snuff bottles and stoppers, five in porcelain, one in carved red glass, a miniature Chinese blue and white vase, and a cylindrical pot with a silver cover, 19th / 20th century, (8)

A Chinese silver card case, decorated in relief with dragons and prunus, 10 x 7cm

A Chinese porcelain cylindrical mug, enamelled in colours with shaped vignette, depicting figures seated on a terrace, 4.75ins high one other cylindrical mug printed in blue and enamelled in colours with figures in sampans and with moulded dragon pattern handle, 5.25ins high (chipped and cracked), a Chinese porcelain double gourd shaped vase with "clobbered" coloured enamelled decoration, 8ins high, a Chinese red stoneware spherical teapot with moulded decoration and with later silver spout and knop (chipped and cracked)

A French Mahogany Walking Stick, a Chinese silver mounted walking cane, and two other walking sticks (4).

Chinese porcelain teapot, Yongsheng - early Qianlong period, the silver pear-shaped body applied with modelled flowers and lily pads, painted in rose, green, yellow and blue. (some damages) Height 9cm.

Late 19th century Chinese silver mug, by Wang Hing, of cylindrical form embossed with birds amongst bamboo shoots, applied with a faux bamboo scrolled handle, the domed base with stamped marks, 10.4cm high

Dunmore (Earl of). The Pamirs; being a Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on Foot through Kashmir, Western Tibet, Chinese Tartary, and Russian Central Asia, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1893, port. frontis. to vol. 1, b & w illusts., folding maps and charts, orig. light blue cloth, lettered in silver, rubbed and darkened on spines, 8vo (2)

CHINA Forbes, Kernan, Wilkins: Chinese Export Silver 1785 to 1885, with dedication from the author, 1975 with dust wrapper. Marlowe, A J: A bound catalogue - Chinese Export Silver, of an Exhibition of John Sparks, Mount St. December 1990 and The China Trade: Romance & Reality, a Lincoln museum exhibition catalogue, 1979. (3)

A Victorian rectangular tortoiseshell card case, each side silver inlaid a Chinese pavilion scene within silver stringing, 10cm. (See lot 283 for illustration).

An early 19th century tortoiseshell snuff spoon modelled as an Oriental male figure, his head and legs adjustable to form an erotic pose, 3 1/4in long; together with a Chinese silver mounted mother-of-pearl snuffbox of rectangular canted form decorated with foliate engraving, monogrammed JM within a shield, 2 1/8in wide. (2).

An Edwardian heart-shaped silver pin tray by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co., London 1901, 4 5/8in wide; a pair of Victorian silver bon-bon dishes of asymmetric form with repousse borders by John Round & Sons Ltd, Sheffield 1899, 3 1/2in diameter; a Continental silver heart-shaped peppermint box decorated in relief with a figure of a Chinaman smoking a pipe, import marks for Sheffield 1896; and a Chinese silver snuff box with embossed foliate decoration, 2 5/8in wide. (4).

A CHINESE THREE PIECE TEA SERVICE of silver coloured metal, comprising teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl, with tongs, the oval bodies with embossed decoration of dragons, flowers and blossom, teapot 13cm.; 37.25oz (4 items).

A CHINESE ROSE BOWL of silver coloured metal, oval, with shaped rim, embossed decoration of birds, leaves and flowers, leafy loop handles, raised upon a rim foot, with carved hardwood stand, 25cm. across overall, 17oz.

A CHINESE BOX of silver coloured metal, rectangular, with repousse decoration of figures and flowers, on ball feet, 13.5cm. wide; 9.25oz total.

A CHINESE SWEETMEAT BASKET of silver coloured metal, shaped oval, with pierced floral decoration, swing handle, upon a raised pierced base, 20cm. across; 8.75oz.

A CHINESE SILVER CARD CASE Embossed with figures and bamboo, mid 19th Century; a mother-of-pearl card case; and a tortoiseshell example (3).

A JAPANESE SILVER AND ENAMEL BELT CLASP Embossed with a butterfly on a flower, 6.5cm., and a Chinese white jade hair ornament set with blue stones, 18.5cm.

A pair of sterling silver miniature Chinese figures, [together with a silver plated Rotary wrist watch].

A Chinese silver ring set with a large floral carved and pierced jadeite panel, boxed.

A collection of silver flatware to include a part canteen of silver fruit knives and forks, Birmingham 1911, sterling silver salad servers, a cased set of Chinese spoons and sundry silver and plate.

A carved ivory cane handle in the form of a girl's mask head with c-scroll, 15cm also a Chinese chased silver parasol handle with all-over scroll work, 18cm. (2)

Two Chinese silver boat shaped sycee, 18gm and 64gm (2).

A Chinese silver tray, decorated with dragons, engraved and embossed, 62.5cm.

A Chinese silver three piece tea service, in a fitted presentation case, together with sugar tongs, each decorated with blossoming trees.

A Chinese silver buckle, formed as cash, decorated with Chinese characters, and another silver buckle decorated with birds amidst scrolling foliage, 10cm. (4)