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A RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF A SHAMANZhou DynastyCast upright in the manner of a Sichuan pottery standing shaman with an unusual pointed ribbed hat, bare chest showing his ribs , and a simple cloth skirt, stand.7cm (2 3/4in) high (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價周 青銅人像Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2001, no.2展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2001年，編號2See a related bronze figure, Early Western Zhou dynasty, illustrated by J.Rawson and E.Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, London, 1990, no.77; see another related bronze figure, Zhou dynasty, illustrated in Chinesische Kunst, Berlin, 1929, no.50.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A VERY RARE IMPERIAL PALE GREEN JADE FIGURE OF BUDDHA17th/18th century Seated in dhyanasana, with both hands in a meditational mudra and holding a small Buddha within a shrine, the flowing robes with long sleeves layered over a dhoti and draped elegantly over the lotus base, the face with peaceful expression, the earlobes long, beneath a head of tightly-coiled curls with prominent ushnisa, the stone of mottled pale green tone.20cm (8in) high.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價十七/十八世紀 御製青白玉雕佛像Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, 9 November 2012, lot 1281Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2013, no.89.來源：佳士得南肯辛頓，2012年11月9日，拍品編號1281展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2013年，編號89The present lot demonstrates the Imperial interest in Buddhist art in the most favoured Chinese medium of jade. Carved with exceptional skill and care, undoubtedly impressive but still exhibiting intimacy and meditative calm, it could have graced the personal rooms or an Imperial altar in one of the palaces.Buddhism flourished during the Qing dynasty, as the early Manchu sympathies with Mongolian Buddhism (prior to their conquest of China) expanded to also embrace Tibetan Lamaism. The reigns of the three great Qing emperors, Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, in particular, witnessed a great resurgence of Tibetan Buddhist patronage. Not merely for the sake of political expediency, Qianlong took an enthusiastic personal interest in the religion, and fostered the devotions of his mother, the empress Xiaoshen, with lavish commissions of Buddhist sculptures and paintings for occasions such as her birthday.Compare with a very similar jade figure of Buddha in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade, 8, Beijing, 2011, p.270, no.234.A larger related example of a white jade figure of Buddha, dated 18th/19th century, was sold at Christie's New York, 26 March 2010, lot 1104. Also compare with a related Imperial pale green jade Buddha, 18th century, which was sold at Bonhams London, 8 November 2012, lot 3.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE VERY PALE GREEN JADE 'LADY AND BOY' GROUPKangxiCrisply carved as a lady Immortal standing with a blossoming flower in her left hand and a basket overflowing with peaches on her right hand, a sprig of peaches spilling over the exquisitely detailed basket held in the hands of a small boy by her side, the stone of pale green tone. 11cm (4 1/3in) high.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清康熙 青白玉仕女執花籃立像The lady carrying a basket of peaches may be identified as Magu, the Daoist Goddess of Longevity, also known as 'Hemp Lady'. She is generally depicted as a young female holding a basket of life-granting peaches, or a jar containing the elixir of longevity, and is often accompanied either by a young servant boy or a spotted deer.For a related jade carving of a lady with attendant grasping peaches, see the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade, 8, Beijing, 2011, pl.273.See also a related white jade figure of a female Immortal, 18th century, which was sold at Christie's 16 March 2015, lot 3050.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE INCENSE BURNER, GUIQing wan silver-inlaid mark, 17th centuryThe rounded body rising to a flaring neck and everted rim, flanked by stylised archaistic animal-shaped handles, the neck finely inlaid with a band of alternating swastika and auspicious-emblem panels above a band of formal leaf lappets, silver-inlaid two-character mark to the base Qing wan (elegant object).19.5cm (7 5/8in) wide.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價十七世紀 銅嵌銀雙戟耳簋式爐嵌銀「清玩」篆書款Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2013, no.13展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2013年，編號13The present burner may have been inspired by an earlier shape produced during the Xuande reign, illustrated in the Xuande yiqi tupu. See also a related bronze incense burner, 17th century, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc.no.29.100.547.A similar incense burner, 17th/18th century, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2014, lot 3304.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE GILT-BRONZE BEAR-SHAPED SUPPORTHan DynastyThe hollow-cast bear crouching with both forepaws resting on the hips, the head with short muzzle, wide staring eyes and rounded ears, the upper part of the reverse cast open with a horizontal projection behind the head.4.5cm (1 3/4in) high. Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價漢 鎏金銅熊形擺件See a related example illustrated by T.Higuchi and M.Hayashi, Ancient Chinese Bronzes in The Sakamoto Collection, Tokyo, 2002, no.301; see also another example illustrated by J.Ayers, The Mount Trust Collection of Chinese Art, London, 1970, fig.12; and a pair excavated at Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, and now in the collection of the Xianyang Museum, illustrated by Wang Wenqing, Ten Major Museums of Shaanxi, Hong Kong, 1994, p.109.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE LARGE BRONZE 'LUOHAN AND ELEPHANT' INCENSE BURNER17th centuryThe luohan seated with a smiling expression, wearing voluminous robes open at the chest decorated with crane and cloud scroll motifs and pierced to the reverse as a smoke outlet, a scroll held in the crook of his left arm; the elephant with the head turned towards the back, wearing a saddle cloth with archaistic characters within sinuous dragon borders and elaborate beaded trappings to the body.44cm (17 1/4in) high. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價十七世紀 騎象羅漢香薰The Luohan riding the elephant can be identified as Kalika, one of the Eighteen Arhats also known as the 'Elephant Riding Luohan' 騎象羅漢. Compare with a related bronze figure of Guanyin seated on an elephant, late Ming to Qing dynasty, illustrated in The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, Hong Kong, 1991, no.7.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF DONGFANG SHUOSigned Suo Yun, 18th centuryThe figure finely carved standing in long flowing robes with finely incised hems, holding a large peach in both hands, the face with jovial expression and a long incised beard, the stone orange-beige tone with dark-red patches, with rocky stand. 17cm (6 3/4in) high. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價十八世紀 壽山石雕東方朔立像「鎖雲」刻款Provenance: Sotheby's Paris, 9th June 2011, lot 61來源：巴黎蘇富比，2011年6月9日，拍品編號61Dongfang Shuo (160-93BC) was a Han dynasty scholar official and court jester according to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian. Over time in later dynasties, however, legends grew around him that he was an Immortal who had stolen a peach of longevity from the garden of the Queen Mother of the West. See a related soapstone figure, illustrated by M.Eberle, Götter aus Stein: Die Sammlung chinesischer Specksteinfiguren auf Schloss Friedenstien Gotha, Gotha, 2015, no. 231.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT BRONZE 'CHILONG' TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER, DINGKangxiStanding on three short conical feet, the vessel decorated in bright enamels on the turquoise ground with confronting archaistic yellow dragons and lapis-blue mythical beasts among polychrome ruyi clouds, the rim set with two upright loop handles, the base with a delicate design of 'S'-scrolls encircled by a lotus-lappet band.15.9cm (6 1/4in) diam.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清康熙 銅胎掐絲琺瑯螭龍紋三足鼎Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2009, no.59.展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2009年，編號59See a cloisonné-enamel teapot and basin, both second half 17th century, with similar designs of chilong, illustrated by H.Brinker and A.Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, London, 1989, nos.176 and 177.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE SIX-LOBED BOWL AND COVER, ZHADOULate Ming DynastyThe exterior densely decorated on the shallowly-domed cover, wide lobed horizontal flange and vertical side with stylised dark-blue dragons grasping yellow and green lingzhi in their mouths, the flange and side also with ruyi and Shou, the base flat. 13.5cm (5 2/8in) wide. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價明晚期 銅胎掐絲琺瑯盤龍紋折沿花口蓋盤For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE TWELVE-LEAF 'COROMANDEL' LACQUER 'PALACE LADIES' SCREENKangxiThe front decorated with a scene of numerous elegant ladies and gentlemen in various leisurely pursuits in an elaborate palace complex, surrounded by various flowers and antiques, the reverse with further panels of flowers and landscapes, surrounded by mythical beasts and the 'one Hundred Antiques' above.Each leaf 264.2cm (104in) high x 47.6cm (18 3/4in) wide, Overall 572cm (264in) wide. Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清康熙 款彩繪樓閣園遊圖雙面十二開圍屏Palace scenes with ladies of the court were popular in the late Ming and early Qing period. According to W.De Kesel and G.Dhont, these screens of palaces and ladies were often based on a frequently-reproduced painting by Qiu Ying (1494-1552) known as 'Spring Morning in the Han Palace'. See W.De Kesel and G.Dhont, Coromandel: Lacquer Screens, 2002, Gent, pp.48-49.The popularity of scenes with predominantly female figures engaging in various activities including the 'Four Arts of the Scholar' may reflect changing models of feminine identity by the late Ming and early Qing dynasty; ladies in terms of cultural refinement, may have been considered almost equal to male literati. Similar twelve-leaf screens, Kangxi, are illustrated by W.De Kesel and G.Dhont, Ibid., pp.23, 31, and 36.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE AND FINE YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON AND RUYI' BOWLKangxi six-character mark and of the periodThe bowl finely potted with deep rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to an everted rim, the interior with a central medallion enclosing a five-clawed blue dragon on a yellow ground, the exterior similarly decorated with a pair of sinuous five-clawed dragons striding through flames above overlapping lotus petals, alternating with a lingzhi spray supporting a cinquefoil cartouche enclosing respectively the characters shou and fu, box.13.3cm (5 1/16in) diam. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清康熙 黃地青花福壽雲龍紋盌 青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 22 May 1984, lot 170 (label)Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne, Summer Exhibition, 2012, no.35. 來源: 香港蘇富比，1984年5月22日，拍品編號170（標籤）展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2012年，編號35The present lot is exceptional for its quality and attention to detail. The workmanship of the potter is of the highest standard, with the fine bowl evenly and confidently potted. The painters of both the underglaze blue and the yellow glaze were clearly similar masters of their craft: from the even application of the blue in two tones, to the careful addition of the yellow glaze applied over the white body but avoiding the areas of underglaze blue. Pieces such as the present lot are representative of the finest productions of the Kangxi reign. A similar blue and yellow 'dragon' bowl, Kangxi mark and of the period, is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing (acc.no.Gu00157747-6/2158). Very similar bowls are also included in an illustration of the Qianqinggong in the Forbidden City, set out before a throne as part of a large group of bowls containing tempting delicacies including fruit and pastries; see Classics of Forbidden City: Life in the Forbidden City of Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2007, no.275. Compare also a very similar bowl in the Nanjing Museum illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.71.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A VERY RARE POTTERY MODEL OF AN ELEPHANTEarly Tang Dynasty Finely-modelled as an elephant standing foursquare with head held straight and curving trunk, covered overall with a white slip. 20cm (8in) long. Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價唐早期 陶象The existence of elephants in ancient China is attested by both archaeological evidence and their representation in Chinese art. They are mentioned in the Shijing, Liji and Zuozhuan. The state of Chu in 506 BC even used elephants in their war against the state of Wu. See a pottery model of an elephant, Neolithic period, Shijiahe culture, c.2400-2000 BC, illustrated by J.Rawson, Mysteries of Ancient China: New Discoveries from the Early Dynasties, London, 1996, p.46. See also a bronze elephant and groom, Han dynasty, illustrated in Age of Empires: Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties, New Haven and London, 2017, pp.168-169.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE FAMILLE VERTE 'CHILONG' BOTTLE VASEChenghua six-character mark, KangxiFinely enamelled around the exterior with auspicious symbols of the bajixiang on breaking green waves beside a leaping iron-red carp, the shoulder applied with a purple-grey-glazed archaistic kui dragon coiling around the tall cylindrical neck. 21.3cm (8 3/8 in) high. Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清康熙 五彩鯉魚紋盤螭長頸瓶青花「大明成化年製」楷書款 Provenance: Sir Alfred Aykroyd, 1st BT (1873-1949), YorkPublished, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2012, no.41來源：英國約克Alfred Aykroyd男爵（1873-1949年）舊藏展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2012年，編號41Sir Alfred Aykroyd was created 1st Baronet Aykroyd, of Birstwith Hall, York, in 1929. He held the office of High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1941, as well as Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for West Riding, Yorkshire.See a related peach bloom example, illustrated by L.Schwartz-Arenales, A Millennium of Monochromes From the Great Tang to the High Qing: The Baur and the Zhuyuetang Collections, Zurich, 2018, no.145.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE WHITE-GLAZED SOFT-PASTE SLENDER BALUSTER MOULDED VASE18th centuryThe slender body rising to a waisted neck ending in a rounded rim with raised bosses, decorated in relief with a pair of mythical beasts emerging from cloud scrolls towards a band of ruyi-heads at the high shoulder, covered overall in a creamy ivory-white glaze suffused with crackles, hongmu stand.37cm (14 1/2in) high. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價十八世紀 仿定窯白釉凸雕瓶Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2013, no.38.展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2013年，編號38It is rare to find soft-paste vases of such high quality, crisply decorated with imaginative stylised mythical beast motifs. These Qianlong-period white-glazed wares are thought to be inspired by the ornately-moulded creamy-white Ding wares of the Song dynasty. Compare with a white-glazed soft-paste yuhuchunping, decorated with lotus blooms on leafy scrolls, Qianlong, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in The Enchanting Splendor of Vases and Planters: A Special Exhibition of Flower Vessels from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 2014, pp.190-191, no.II-28.A white-glazed soft-paste meiping, smaller in size and decorated with peaches, bats and Shou characters, Qianlong, formerly in the collection of Edward T. Chow, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 11 April 2008, lot 2507.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE PALE GREEN JADE CARVING OF A QILIN CARRYING THE HEAVENLY BOOKS18th century The mythical beast finely carved recumbent with its head turned back to the left, its clasped jaws holding a spray of lingzhi fungus supported on its back and surmounted by a pile of books, tian shu, the raised head with bulging round eyes below finely-incised eyebrows, the pair of horns resting on its neck flanking the mane, the haunches well delineated with scales, the bushy tail flicked across the right rear haunch, the finely-carved legs and hooves tucked underneath, the stone of pale green tone with very minor pale and russet inclusions, wood stand.10cm (4in) long. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價十八世紀 青白玉雕麒麟負書擺件Provenance: an English private collectionBonhams London, 12 May 2011, lot 67Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2011, no.87. 來源：英國私人舊藏倫敦邦瀚斯，2011年5月12日，拍品編號67展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2011年，編號87The refined carving of the present mythical creature skilfully captures its playfulness and the archaic roots. The qilin represents a number of positive attributes including benevolence, longevity, grandeur, felicity, illustrious offspring and wise administration. It is considered a good omen as it is said to appear only during the reign of a benevolent ruler. See a related but larger pale green and russet jade qilin carrying books, Qing dynasty, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 9, Beijing, 2011, p.154, no.142. Compare also with a related white and brown jade carving of a qilin, 17th/18th century, from the Oscar Raphael Collection at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, illustrated by J.C.S.Lin, The Immortal Stone: Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, 2009, no.44.A related pale green jade carving of a bixie, 18th century, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 6 April 2016, lot 62.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE LARGE GILT AND BLACK RED-GROUND LACQUER BOX AND COVERYongzheng/Qianlong The circular domed cover decorated with a central black square with four sections containing the qian trigram for Heaven, the endless knot, yin yang, and flaming pearl, surrounded by mythical animals including a phoenix, chilong, bat and crow, interspersed with floral scrolls, the sides with a band of cranes and peaches, the rim with a band of black florettes outlined in gilt, the box similarly decorated, the interior and base imitating the Japanese sprinkled-gold nashiji technique. 38.5cm (15 1/4in) diam. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清雍正/乾隆 花鳥瑞獸紋識文描金捧盒Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2011, no.113. 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2011年，編號113Both the Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors greatly admired Japanese lacquer, and many pieces from these reigns are lacquered and decorated showing strong Japanese influence. Indeed, the Yongzheng emperor encouraged the Palace Workshops to make Japanese-style lacquer; see E.Rawski and J.Rawson, eds., China: The Three Emperors 1662-1795, London, 2006, pp.432-433.Compare with several Japanese-influenced circular lacquer boxes and covers, mid Qing dynasty, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Lacquer Wares of the Qing Dynasty: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2006, pp.120, 121, 144, 171, 187, 190.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A VERY RARE IMPERIAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE 'DOUBLE-LOZENGE' VASEQianlong Decorated in mirror image on the two main faces of the body with key-fret and C-scrolls panels on alternating dark-blue and lime-green grounds, the sides with lotus blooms and demi-florette panels on a turquoise ground, dividing a tapering square neck and spreading square foot. 19.5cm (7.5/8in) high.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯雲雷紋方勝式小瓶Provenance: Christie's London, 15 July 1981, lot 55A European private collectionChristie's London, 9 November 2010, lot 221Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2011, no.68.來源：倫敦佳士得，1981年7月15日，拍品編號55歐洲私人舊藏倫敦佳士得，2010年11月9日，拍品編號221展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2011年，編號68Included as part of the Eight Treasures (八寶), the double-lozenge form may have derived from hanging accessories in the ancient past as part of the traditional attire. In Chinese the double lozenge is termed fangsheng (方勝), which uses the character sheng (勝), or 'victory'. It is thus a rebus for 'double blessings' or 'success'. Compare with a similar cloisonné enamel vase, mid Qing dynasty, of double-lozenge shape composed of key-fret borders, and part of a set, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels 4, Beijing, 2011, p.164, pl.115.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE ARCHAISTIC CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE BALUSTER VASEYongzheng/QianlongFinely enamelled below the well-rounded shoulder with an undulating band of concentric shades of blue on a pale green ground heightened with red, pink and yellow details, the shoulder with a key-fret band, the tapering neck and lower part with mirror bands of acanthus leaves dividing prunus blossom.18.5cm (7 1/4in) high.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清雍正/乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯波曲紋瓶The archaistic motifs on the present reflects the archaistic scholarly trends of the 17th/18th centuries. The academic trend known as the 'search for evidence' (kaozheng 考證) movement began in the early 17th century. Although this movement originated in a renewed scholarly interest in ancient texts and inscriptions on archaic bronzes, as literati sought a more empirical approach to understanding their ancient heritage, it led to a greater fascination for decorative designs adopted from ancient bronzes too. Responding to this wave of archaism which would later be adopted by the Imperial court and Manchu emperors who wished to display their patronage of Han Chinese culture, artisans reproduced the motifs and patterns of ancient bronzes on their cloisonné enamel wares. the Xiqing gujian (Catalogue of the Xiqing Antiquities), provided abundant prototypes to the recreations of archaistic pieces such as the present lot.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL WALL SCONCE FOR THE EUROPEAN MARKETQianlongElaborately shaped and decorated with flowers and acanthus leaves, the base with a large mythical beast with bulging eyes and curly mane flanked by a pair of claws, set with a later brass sconce and mirror plate. 49.2cm (19 1/2in) long. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 外銷銅胎畫琺瑯鏡框For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE REVERSE-GLASS MIRROR PAINTING OF A PHEASANT AND HENCirca 1780Finely painted with a long-tailed pheasant and hen with detailed plumage at the bottom between two flowering trees extending up the mirror forming the border, within an elaborate European arched giltwood frame, 18th/19th century. Overall 64cm (25 1/8in) high x 33.4cm (13 1/4in) wide.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價約1780年 雉雞圖玻璃鏡畫Provenance: Christie's London, November 2004, lot 256Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2011, no.115.T.Audric, Chinese reverse glass painting 1720–1820: An artistic meeting between China and the West, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, New York and Oxford, 2020, p.171, no.15.來源：倫敦佳士得，2004年11月，拍品編號256展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2011年，編號115T.Audric，《Chinese reverse glass painting 1720–1820: An artistic meeting between China and the West》，伯恩，柏林，布魯塞爾，紐約，牛津，2020年，頁171，編號15A related oval mirror painting is illustrated by G.Child, World Mirrors 1650-1900, London, 1990, no.833.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE VERY PALE GREEN JADE 'DRAGON AND YOUNG' VASE AND COVERQianlong The flattened baluster vessel with billowing clouds, the waisted neck climbed by a large scaly dragon and a chilong clambering above craggy rocks around the base, the cover surmounted by a rope-twist finial, the semi-translucent stone of pale green tone with frost-white inclusions, wood stand.17cm (6 3/4in) high. (3).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 青白玉雕蒼龍教子蓋瓶The motif of an adult and young dragon seems to have been favoured by the Qianlong emperor and has been interpreted as conveying the message of the father teaching his son the ways of life, and within the Imperial family, that of the emperor giving lessons to the prince.Compare with a white jade vase and cover, Qing dynasty, in the Qing Court Collection, carved with adult and young dragons pursuing the flaming pearl, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware II, Beijing, 2008, pl.21. See also another related jade 'dragon' vase and cover, Qianlong, illustrated by R.Kleiner, Chinese Jade from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, p.191, no.147.See also a related pale green jade 'dragons' vase and cover, Qianlong, which was sold at Bonhams London, 17 May 2018, lot 157.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A VERY FINE AND RARE PALE GREEN JADE MARRIAGE BOWLQianlongSuperbly carved from a single piece of extremely pale whitish-green jade, the deep bowl raised on curved rectangular feet, the sides with two handles each formed as a single delicately-detailed butterfly with two looping antennae curving over the spreading wings reaching around the sides of the bowl, each suspending a single loose ring, the interior intricately decorated in relief with blossoming flowers and a smaller bud all set within a skilful and complex design of overlapping and intertwining foliage, the plain exterior softly polished to optimize the quality of the stone. 21.5cm (8 1/2in) wide.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 青白玉雕花卉紋雙蝶耳活環洗 Provenance: acquired from John Sparks Ltd., London, on 29 November 1954 A European private collection and thence by descentBonhams London, 16 May 2013, lot 143來源：原藏家於1954年11月29日購自倫敦古董商John Sparks Ltd.歐洲重要私人舊藏，並由後人保存倫敦邦瀚斯，2013年5月16日，拍品編號143The quality of the jade of the present lot is evident in the craftsman's decision to intricately carve only the interior and handles, whilst abstaining from adding any decoration to the exterior, thus allowing a full appreciation of the natural quality of the stone. With its superbly carved butterfly handles, it belongs to the category of 'marriage' bowls which were popular at the Qing Imperial Court. The two butterfly handles, suspending loose rings in mirror image, form a rebus for 'joyful encounter', (喜相逢 Xi xiangfeng), and by extension 'marital happiness'. For a related white jade incense burner and cover with butterfly handles, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (II), Beijing, 2008, pl.27. See also a related example in the Tianjin Museum, illustrated by Yu Ping, Shufang Zhong de Yuqi, Beijing, 2010, p.76.Compare also with a larger white jade 'marriage' bowl, Qianlong, with butterfly handles but uncarved in the interior; and another slightly larger white jade 'marriage' bowl, Qianlong, with butterfly handles but carved in the interior with twin fish, which were both sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lots 3565 and 3641. For another smaller example with butterfly handles formerly in the collection of Simon and Alan Hartman, New York, see Christie's Hong Kong, 27 November 2007, lot 1503.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE CALCIFIED JADE DISC, BILate Warring States/Western Han DynastyCarved on each side in low relief with a dense pattern of comma-shaped whorls between ridged bands at the rim and centre, the stone of beige-white tone, box.14.3cm (5 5/8in) diam. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價戰國晚期/西漢 玉穀紋璧Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2011, no.61.展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2011年，編號61For a similar jade bi disc, Warring States period, see Illustrated Catalogue of Ancient Jade Artefacts in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1982, pl.62.See a related jade disc formerly in the Mr and Mrs Malcolm E. McPherson collection (14.5cm diam.), Western Han dynasty, carved with 'comma' spirals on the surfaces, which was sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2008, lot 481.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL AND COVER, DUIWarring States PeriodThe domed cover and rounded base completely interchangeable cast in mirror image, of plain hemispherical form, each applied with two plain loop handles at the rim and three upright handles/feet in the shape of standing stylised dragons.24cm (9 1/2in) high. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價戰國 青銅敦Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2006, no.11. 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2006年，編號11A very similar bronze dui, Warring States period, excavated from Tomb No.1 at Wangshan, Jiangling in 1965, and now in the collection of the Hubei Provincial Museum, is illustrated in Pre-Qin Civilization in the Jiangshan Region, Hong Kong, 1999, p.110, no.72. See another example illustrated by Kao Jen-chun, Masterworks of Chinese Bronzes in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1973, no.18; compare also with a similar dui, reportedly from Anhui Shou Xian Zhujiaji, 2nd half of 3rd century BC, illustrated by J.So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M.Sackler Collections, New York, 1995, p.69, fig.126.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE AND LARGE PAINTED ENAMEL 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' DOUBLE-SIDED SCREENQianlong, the zitan stand and frame, 19th centuryExquisitely enamelled with an exotic scene of a European gentleman and lady carrying a spear and fan respectively, beneath a large tree and beside a table, looking at a boy striking a 'fish-monster' chime, all within a mountainous landscape with European-style buildings in the distance, the reverse with bamboo and a gnarled branch issuing pomegranates and blossoms, three birds perched on the branch, another in flight, further painted with a poetic inscription and two seals, all within a zitan frame and stand. Overall 62.6cm (24 5/8in) high. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯歐洲題材硯屏 配十九世紀紫檀座框The inscription on the screen reads: '高冠頻咲語 紅霓朶掛枝', which may be translated as: 'The high and noble chattering and talking of the reflected rainbow, beneath flowers hanging from the branch'.During the Qianlong period, the southern port of Guangzhou was the main trade entrepot between Europe and China. Influenced by European painted enamels and oil paintings, local Cantonese craftsmen began producing a large number of painted enamel wares depicting foreign flowers, architecture and Western figures to be sent as tribute to the Imperial Court in Beijing; see Tributes from Guangdong to the Qing Court, Hong Kong, 1987, pp.54 and 88. See also related painted enamel panels with European figures, 18th century, illustrated by M.Gillingham, Chinese Painted Enamel, Oxford, 1978, p.19.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE AND LARGE PAINTED ENAMEL 'LOTUS DRINKER' DISHYongzhengThe dish supported on a waisted foot, with shallow rounded sides terminating in a broad flange, finely decorated with a garden scene depicting an elegant Court lady sitting on a mat, resting her back on a pile of books and her elbow on a large cushion, drinking through the stem of a large lotus leaf held by a female attendant, surrounded by three further attendants holding a ewer, cups and trays, all surrounded by a black and gilt floral border, the rim with four shaped cartouches enclosing fruits and flowers, the reverse with three floral sprays surrounding a large cluster of fruits and flowers at the base. 36.5cm (14 3/8in) diam.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清雍正 銅胎畫琺瑯碧筒縱飲圖盤Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2007, no.56.展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2007年，編號56The present lot is unusual for its humorous depiction of a lady drinking copious amounts of wine from the stem of a lotus, encouraged by those around her in revelry. Indeed, in a society where women were largely kept behind closed quarters, this would have been rather scandalous. The present dish therefore, may be depicting a drinking contest with courtesans. One of the most important locations where courtesans made their mark as talented and amusing companions was in the setting of gardens; in these beautiful, rustic, and artistic sites people congregated to enjoy leisure pursuits in the open air. Here courtesans met their patrons to enjoy intense cultural exchanges on poetry, singing and drinking. See H.T.Zurndorfer, 'Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Confucian Moral Universe of Late Ming China (1550-1644)', in International Review of Social History, vol.56, 21 November 2011, pp.197-216.See a related painted enamel basin, with designs of ladies, Qing dynasty, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels, 5, Beijing, 2011, no.279.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE AND LARGE IMPERIAL-TRIBUTE PAINTED ENAMEL TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER AND COVER, DINGQianlong red enamel four-character mark and of the periodThe globular vessel raised on three bulbous feet, colourfully enamelled with a meandering foliate lotus scroll reserved on a pale blue ground rising to the rounded shoulder decorated with lotus-petal panels and cylindrical neck with bats alternating with lotus blossoms, below the wide rim with a composite floral scroll, flanked by a pair of similarly-enamelled S-shaped handles set with openwork gilt-copper cash-motif tubes, the elaborate domed cover decorated with a meandering foliate lotus scroll in openwork between a geometric border around the rim and ruyi-head, floral and rope-twist bands below the reticulated gilt-copper globular finial decorated with a coiled five-clawed dragon pursuing the flaming pearl amidst cloud-scrolls, wood stand.39.1cm (15 3/8in). (3).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯纏枝蓮紋雙耳三足蓋爐礬紅「乾隆年製」楷書款Provenance: a French private collectionChristie's London, 6 November 2018, lot 142來源：法國私人舊藏倫敦佳士得，2018年11月6日，拍品編號142The present painted enamel incense burner is an impressive example of Imperial-tribute ware made in Guangzhou for the Qing Court. Such an incense burner would have been the central element in a five-piece garniture, which would have included a pair of candlesticks and a pair of gu vases. For two complete garnitures, mid Qing dynasty, from the Qing Court Collection, see the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels 5, Painted Enamels in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Beijing, 2011, nos.176 and 264. Compare also the similar openwork design on the cover of a painted enamel brazier and a pair of painted enamel incense holders, both mid Qing dynasty, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated ibid., nos.254 and 255.The incense burner is of ding form, based on the shape of archaic bronze ritual vessels of the Shang dynasty, and as such reflects the Qianlong emperor's fascination with antiquity and his call for craftsman to take inspiration from forms and designs of antiquity.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE ROSE 'ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER' VASES AND STANDS, GUYongzhengEach of square waisted section, with simulated 'spotted bamboo' edges framing leaf-shaped panels reserved on a ground of prunus and bamboo amidst cloud scrolls, the panels depicting scenes from The Romance of the Western Chamber, the porcelain stands with shaped aprons and ruyi-cloud feet superbly painted with swirls of chestnut and umber browns in imitation of wood.Each 45.5cm (17 3/4in) high. (4).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清雍正 粉彩開光「西廂記」方觚一對Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2011, no.52展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2011年，編號52Each vase has four panels decorated with scenes from the popular 13th century drama Xixiang Ji (西廂記), or 'The Romance of the Western Chamber'. The play narrates a secret love affair between the young scholar Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying, daughter of a chief minister. Although scholar Zhang and Cui Yingying fell in love with each other at a Buddhist monastery, Cui Yingying's mother disapproved of the match because of Zhang's low station. Yingying's maid, Hongniang, however, took pity on them and arranged to bring them together in a secret union. When Yingying's mother discovered what had happened, she reluctantly agreed to a formal marriage on the condition that Zhang must pass the civil service examination. To the joy of the young lovers, Zhang Sheng passes, is appointed to high office, and the two are finally married. A pair of large famille rose vases, early 18th century, bearing similar scenes from the 'Romance of the Western Chamber' and with spotted bamboo edges, is illustrated by O.V.Krog, et al., Treasures from Imperial China: The Forbidden City and the Royal Danish Court, Copenhagen, 2006, pp.605-606, no.185, where it is noted that a similar pair of vases that was in the Danish Kunstkammer, but is now in the National Museum in Copenhagen, was brought from Guangzhou on the 'Kronprins Christian' in 1732. See also the detailed photographs of the vases, pp.196-199. For another comparable pair of vases with very similar scenes and bamboo edges, dated circa 1730, see A.Varela Santos, Yongzheng Chinese Export Porcelain: A Private Collection, London, 2005, pp.72-73, pl.24.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE LARGE GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY 'BEAR' LAMP STANDEastern Han DynastyThe columnar stand with a spreading stepped base, pierced with a triangular aperture above which sits a bear, naturalistically rendered with lidded eyes, well-defined ruff around its face, mouth open to reveal the teeth and forepaws resting on the knees, supporting the hollow stem decorated with two encircling lines below the wide round tray, covered overall with an iridescent green glaze.39.8cm (16 6/8in) high.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價東漢 綠釉熊形燈Provenance: Bluett and Sons Ltd., London (label)Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2003, no.20來源：倫敦古董商Bluett and Sons Ltd.（標籤）出版著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2003年，編號20During the Han dynasty, oil lamps replaced candles as the main source of light, becoming important household items, and extravagant models were made for high-ranking members of society. In burials, lamps served as apotropaic devices providing light to the deceased's journey through the increasingly alienated, gloomy, and dangerous Underworld. Inhabiting the forests of northern China, bears may have also protected the occupant. The word for bear (xiong 熊), is homophone for 'brave and powerful' (xiong 雄), and the 'Rites of Zhou' (Zhou Li 周禮), edited during the Han dynasty, refers to seasonal exorcist rituals involving the performer wearing a bear skin to drive away pestilences.Compare with a similar green-glazed lamp stand, dated Han dynasty, illustrated by S.Hayashiya and G.Hasebe, Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1966, p.31, pl.25. Another related example in the British Museum, London, is illustrated in the Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-1936, London, no.453.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE ARCHAISTIC CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE 'PHOENIX' SQUARE VASE, FANG GUYongzheng/QianlongThe central part enamelled on each face with an archaistic taotie mask separated by flanges down the centre and at the edges, the upper flaring section similarly enamelled with pairs of archaistic phoenix with pink heads and stylised green scrolling tails also separated by flanges, the spreading base with pendent plantain leaves.33cm (13in) high.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清雍正/乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯仿古饕餮紋出戟方觚Provenance: Sotheby's Paris, 23 June 2016, lot 84來源：巴黎蘇富比，2016年6月23日，拍品編號84This cloisonné fang gu is exceptional for its refined and rare predominant design of double phoenix on each side, above triple bands of taotie masks and plantain leaves. For another example with a primary phoenix motif; see a cloisonné enamel incense burner, ding, Qianlong mark and period, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels 2, Beijing, 2011, pl.201. Compare also a related but less refined and smaller cloisonné enamel fang gu, with phoenix on the neck and foot and taotie masks around the centre, 17th/18th century, illustrated by Sir H.Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, London, 1962, pl.52.The form and design of the present lot are in line with the Qianlong emperor's wishes for craftsmen to take inspiration from antiquity, in order to 'restore the ancient ways', reinstating the intrinsic qualities of simplicity, sincerity and happy exuberance of the ancient cultures. For this purpose the emperor instructed the Court to collect drawings of antiquities, such as the 'Catalogue of Xiqing Antiquities' (Xi Qing Gu Jian 西清古鑑), which served as sources of designs for the production of vessels. Compare three related archaistic cloisonné enamel and gilt-bronze vases, fang gu, Qianlong mark and of the period, illustrated in ibid., pls.143, 146-147.A related cloisonné enamel and gilt-bronze vase, gu, Qianlong mark and of the period, was sold at Christie's Paris, 7 June 2011, lot 208.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE PAIR OF CARVED THREE-COLOUR LACQUER RUYI-SHAPED JARDINIÈRES AND STANDSQianlongThe lobed bodies carved with panels of scholars' objects, antiquities, flower vases and dishes of fruit on lotus spray and scrolling foliate grounds, the stands with everted rims enclosing recessed bases carved with swastika designs, supported by six scrolling legs and a shaped apron, with formal lotus and linear designs, above a shaped lower rail with lotus-petal lappets.23.2cm (9 1/8in) wide. (4).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 剔彩開光博古圖番蓮紋海棠式花盆連座一對Provenance: Laurent Heliot, Fils, Paris (label)來源：巴黎Laurent Heliot舊藏（標籤）See a similar carved polychrome lacquer quatrefoil jardinière, Qing dynasty, illustrated in The Creation of Natural Immensity and Grandeur: The Yang Ming Shan Fang Collection of Lacquer from Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Beijing, 2020, pp.328-329, no.104.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL JADE-INSET SQUARE BOX AND COVERThe box early 18th century, the plaque Ming DynastyThe box enamelled around the exterior with colourful butterflies and blossoming lotus borne on stylised flowering branches and geometric designs, the cover inset with a white jade plaque carved with reticulated designs of entwined lingzhi fungus, 6cm (2 3/8in) high.(2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價十八世紀 銅胎掐絲琺瑯方盒 嵌明代玉牌See a related small white jade inset cloisonné enamel foliate box and cover, 18th century, which was sold at Christie's London, 10 November 2015, lot 126.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE PAIR OF CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE QUATREFOIL JARDINIÈRESQianlong Each four-lobed oval vessel raised on four ruyi feet, the flaring sides rising to a flat rim chased with lotus reserves, both ends set with a high-relief lotus and acanthus-leaf loose-ring handle, the body brightly enamelled in tones of lapis-blue and turquoise with lotus-blossom cartouches beneath a chased key-fret border, each vessel containing a fitted bronze lobed oval liner, possibly original. 25cm (9 7/8in) long. (4).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 銅胎鏨胎琺瑯纏枝蓮紋海棠式花盆一對Compare with a related flowerpot, Qianlong, in the collection of the Museum of Asian Art, Moscow, illustrated by M.A.Neglinskaya, Chinese Cloisonne' Enamels Fifteenth to Twentieth Century, Moscow, 2006, no.108, pp.52 and 149; and see the similar design and workmanship on a gilt-bronze and champlevé enamel flowerpot, mid Qing dynasty, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels, vol.4, Beijing, 2011, pl.26.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE 'LOTUS' INCENSE BURNER AND COVERQianlongThe bowl of deep U-shape with flaring sides rising to an upright rim with chased key-fret border, surmounted by a domed cover culminating in a delicate four-petalled finial with pierced centre, each decorated to the exterior with formal lotus on turquoise ground and lapis-blue ruyi borders at the rims, the bowl supported on an elaborate, reticulated stand comprising eight fixed scrolling leaves and four detachable inset curling leaves, variously enamelled gilt, turquoise and lapis-blue, all above a domed base in the shape of a lotus leaf.25.7cm (10 1/8in) high (8).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 銅鎏金鏨胎琺瑯纏枝蓮紋熏爐Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2010, no.62.展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2010年，編號62Related objects usually come in the form of altar implements in the shape of Buddhist Emblems, which are generally found in sets; see, for example: Metal-bodied Enamel Ware: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2002, p.145, no.139.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE MINIATURE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND HUANGHUALI HALBERD, QINGLONG JIQianlongThe huanghuali shaft carved two-thirds from the handle with a raised double band flanked by leafy crowns, one end mounted with a cloisonné enamel spearhead above a crescent-moon blade above a lotus- lappet wrist guard, the other end with a three-sided stabbing blade flame, all on a turquoise ground enriched with minute flower heads on blue tendrils.42cm (16 1/2in) long.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 黃花梨鑲銅胎掐絲琺瑯袖珍青龍戟The present lot was probably an attribute for a statue. See for example, a gilt-bronze figure of Zhoucang, an attendant of Guandi, the God of War, holding a halberd, 18th/19th century, illustrated in Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, p.190, no.88. A gilt bronze and cloisonné enamel figure of a westerner, early 18th century, without attribute, is illustrated by D.S.Howard, A Tale of Three Cities, Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong: Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in the Decorative Arts, London, 1997, no.205.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL AND GILT-BRONZE BOX AND COVERQianlongThe cover decorated as a blue chequered playing board with white square panels reserved with ruyi motifs, the gilt wire to the sides simulating the leaves, the box enamelled with lotus sprays and foliage on a turquoise ground.17.5cm (6.7/8in) long. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯棋盒See a similar cloisonné enamel and gilt-bronze box and cover, Qianlong, in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, p.160, no.73. See also related cloisonné enamel book-shaped boxes and covers, Qianlong, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Small Refined Articles of the Study, Beijing, 2009, nos.7 and 312.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE LARGE TIANQI LACQUER 'FIVE-DRAGON' PANEL19th century The shaped panel enclosing an elaborately-decorated surface with five five-clawed dragons amidst wispy ruyi clouds, all pursuing a flaming pearl in the centre, above crashing waves and rocks, the detail precisely picked out in the 'gold-engraved and filled-in' technique. 109.7cm (43 1/4in) wide.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價十九世紀 填漆五龍圖掛屏For a similar motif of dragons amidst clouds, in the tianqi technique, but on a table top, early Qing, see, Ming Qing gongting jiaju daguan, vol.1, Beijing, 2006, p.192, pl.203.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE QIANJIN AND TIANQI LACQUER RUYI SCEPTRE18th century Finely incised and painted in qiangjin and tianqi technique reserved on a rich red ground on the shaft head with a full-faced five-clawed dragon coiling around a flaming pearl amidst wispy clouds, the wide mid-section and end of the shaft decorated with panels of flowering branches, the narrow shaft shallowly incised with bats amidst clouds, all picked out in black, brown and green within incised gilt lines and on a gilt diaper ground.42cm (16 1/2in) long.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價十八世紀 填漆戧金雲龍紋如意Ruyi sceptres were made in a variety of materials including wood, bamboo, ivory, cloisonné enamel, jade and coral. Lacquer examples such as the present one however are rare. See a qiangjin and tianqi lacquer ruyi, Qianlong mark and of the period, which was sold at Bonhams London, 12 May 2016, lot 278.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE SMALL GILT-BRONZE VASE, HUMing Dynasty or earlierHeavily cast, of elegant pear-shaped form supported on a gently spreading foot, the smooth body divided by five horizontal concentric raised ribs, the shoulders set with a pair of taotie-mask handles, with some malachite encrustation. 11cm (4 3/8in) high.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價漢 銅鎏金凸弦紋獸耳小壺Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, 10 September 2014, lot 646來源：佳士得南肯辛頓，2014年9月10日，拍品編號646See a related gilt-bronze container, Western Han dynasty, illustrated and discussed by Wang Tao, Chinese Bronzes from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 2009, p.116, no.51.Compare also with a related gilt-bronze vessel and cover, Western Han dynasty, which was sold at Bonhams London, 8 November 2018, lot 4.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL 'MILLE-FLEURS' THREE-PIECE GARNITUREMid Qing Dynasty The incense burner of archaistic fangding form, the exterior decorated in bright enamels with a multitude of flowers, flanked by a pair of loop handles and supported on gently-flared legs, the stepped cover similarly decorated, the pair of candlesticks of square section, the flared feet rising to the deep drip-pans beneath pear-shaped columns rising to smaller drip-pans surmounted by prickets. The candlesticks, 44cm (17 1/4in) high. (4).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清中期 銅胎畫琺瑯萬花錦紋供器 一組三件The 'mille-fleurs' pattern, first seen in the Yongzheng period, flourished during the Qianlong period and continued into the 19th century. For a small enamelled bowl, Qianlong mark and of the period, with the interior decorated with mille-fleurs pattern, see Compendium of the Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels 5, Painted enamels of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Beijing, 2011, p.242, pl.186. The pattern also occurs on the roller of a painted enamel facial massager, mid Qing dynasty, illustrated in ibid., p.324, pl.261. For examples of ritual garnitures made in painted enamel, see ibid., pp.234-235, pl.177.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE MALACHITE 'LOTUS-LEAF' BRUSH WASHERMid Qing DynastyThe vessel finely carved as a broad lotus leaf with inward curving rim and curling ends, finely detailed on both the interior and exterior with an intricate network of leaf veins.10cm (4in) long. Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清中期 孔雀石蓮式筆洗See a related example illustrated by Chen Jiang, Jade: Gems of Collections in Nanjing Museum, Shanghai, 1998, no.39.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE CARNELIAN AGATE 'DOUBLE CARP' VASEQianlong Meticulously carved in the form of two 'fish dragons' (ao), rising from rocks and crashing waves, their toothed mouths forming the mouths of the vase and joined by a branch of lingzhi, their ruyi-shaped large fins crossing with each other's, their bodies naturalistically carved to render an even scaly texture, the stone of semi-translucent orange-red tone with areas of white and opaque inclusions to enhance the overall design, wood stand. 15.5cm (6 1/8in) long. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 南紅瑪瑙雙魚花插The present piece is of unusually large size and the movement of the fish is carved with great vigour. Compare with a related example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan lidai yishuguan chenpiepin tumu, Beijing, 1991, pl.1314. See also E.Gorer and J.F.Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, vol.II, London, 1911, pl.249 (left), for an example in the Salting Collection now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE THREE-COLOUR-OVERLAY GLASS 'DOUBLE-GOURD' VASEQianlongThe vessel of compressed double-gourd form with a recessed foot, the milky-white body carved through blue, red and green overlay with a continuous design of bats and double gourds growing on curling vines with gnarled stems and trailing tendrils, fitted box.18.5cm (7 2/8in) high. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 涅白地套彩料福祿紋葫蘆瓶Provenance: Geronimo Berenguer de los Reyes Jr (1936-2020), Manila, PhilippinesChristie's London, 12 May 2015, lot 325Geronimo Berenguer de los Reyes Jr was a Filipino entrepreneur, philanthropist, and art collector.來源：菲律賓馬尼拉Geronimo Berenguer de los Reyes Jr（1936-2020）舊藏倫敦佳士得，2015年5月12日，拍品編號325For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE POLYCHROME LACQUER 'BAJIXIANG' OCTAGONAL STANDQianlongThe top carved through a layer of cinnabar lacquer to a dark green cell-pattern ground with a central medallion of eight interlocking ruyi-heads encircling a chrysanthemum flower, all framed by the Eight Buddhist Emblems among leafy peonies, camellias and other flowers under a further ruyi-border, the side edge of the top and recessed waist painted and incised in black and two tones of red with a hatched design, the shaped apron and curving legs with meandering peonies in the same technique.33.5cm (13 1/4in) wide.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 填漆八吉祥紋八方幾For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE AND LARGE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER BOX AND COVERQianlongThe flat circular cover top finely and deeply carved with an elaborate scene of three scholars eating fruit and sweetmeats on a rocky lake shore, a fisherman crossing a bridge in the foreground, the shore dotted with dwellings, trees and mountains, all within a wave-patterned border, the sides of the box and cover with a continuous landscape scene of villages within a rocky riverscape, the interior and base lacquered black.19.5cm (7 6/8in) diam. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 剔紅山水人物圖蓋盒The present lot is rare in having the sides carved with landscapes; circular cinnabar lacquer boxes are usually carved with diaper-patterns on the sides. See for example a related three-colour cinnabar lacquer circular box and cover, Qianlong, with diaper-pattern on the sides, which was sold at Bonhams London, 12 May 2016, lot 279.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE SMALL GILT-BRONZE 'MYTHICAL BEAST' SEAL6th century The square seal surmounted by a finely-modelled recumbent mythical beast with a short-snouted head raised upwards, defined by a long beard and long eyebrows, the face incised with four seal-script characters 'Li Jiang si yin, 'the private seal of Li Jiang', box.2cm (3/4in) high. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價六世紀 銅鎏金神獸鈕印See a very similar gilt-bronze mythical beast seal, probably 6th century, illustrated by H.Moss and G.Tsang, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, p.152, no.125, where it is noted that it 'is remarkably close to a monumental stone animal at the mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Chen dynasty (r.560-567).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

THREE GREEN-GLAZED VESSELSEastern Han DynastyComprising two green-glazed tripod incense burners, The larger, 20.5cm (8in) diam; and a green-glazed deep pan, lian, with one handle in the form of a stylised dragon. 27.5cm (10 3/4in) long. (3).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價東漢 綠釉奩式爐兩件 及綠釉龍柄盃 一組三件The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence tests no.C206g4 dated 18 December 2006 (green glazed tripod vessel), and no.C109c4 dated 17 February 2009 (bowl with handle), are consistent with the dating of this lot. Oxford Authentication Ltd公司熱釋光檢測結果（奩式爐：2006年12月18日，編號C206g4；與龍柄盃：2009年2月17日，編號C109c4）顯示年代與本拍品年代一致。Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2008, no.30 (the handled bowl)Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2007, no.18 (glazed pottery incense burner on the right)展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2008年，編號30（龍柄盃）Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2007年，編號18（最右）A similar handled bowl, Han dynasty, is illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, p.25, no.5.Incense burners of cylindrical shape are frequently found with legs in the form of crouching bears. The present lot is rare because of the depiction of human faces. Another painted pottery incense burner with human-face decoration on the legs, Western Han dynasty, was excavated in 1984 at Pingshuo, Shanxi Province, and is now in the collection of the Pingshuo Archaeological Working Team, illustrated in Huanghe Wenming Zhan, 1986, p.104, no.77.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE CARVED BOXWOOD SEAL OF GENERAL GORDON1860sCarved with the characters '戈登', 'Ge deng', a transliteration for 'Gordon', inscribed 'Gordon' on the back in a nineteenth-century hand. 8.3cm (3 1/4in) long. Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價十九世紀六十年代 黃楊木雕「戈登」名章Provenance: Roy Davids (1943-2017), OxfordshireBonhams London, 29 March 2011, lot 383Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: D.S.Howard, A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong, Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in the Decorative Arts, London, 1997, p.230, no.314.Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2011, no.99. 來源：英國牛津郡Roy Davids（1943-2017）舊藏倫敦邦瀚斯，2011年3月29日，拍品編號383展覽著錄：D.S.Howard，《A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong, Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in the Decorative Arts》，倫敦，1997年，頁230，編號314Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2011年，編號99Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (1833-1885), also known as 'Chinese Gordon', 'Gordon Pasha', and latterly 'Gordon of Khartoum', was a British Army officer and administrator. He saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army. However, he made his military reputation in China, where he was placed in command of the 'Ever Victorious Army', a force of Chinese soldiers led by European officers. In the early 1860s, Gordon and his men were instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion, regularly defeating much larger forces. For these accomplishments, he was given the nickname 'Chinese Gordon' and honours from both the Emperor of China and the British government.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL OVAL 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' TRAYQianlongFinely painted in the well with a European lady and gentleman seated on the floor beside a table with vase and fruits, a gallery receding into the distance, surrounded by a diaper-pattern band with four panels enclosing dense foliate scrolls, the reverse decorated with a medallion of foliate lotus sprays, the heavy body raised on four bracket feet. 28.3cm (11 1/8in) wide.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯歐洲題材橢圓形盤Provenance: a Belgian private collectionChristie's London, 11 November 2015, lot 850來源：比利時私人舊藏倫敦佳士得，2015年11月11日，拍品編號850The present lot in its exquisite European subject decoration bears witness to the East-West cultural exchange and Qing China's fascination with Western exoticism. This fascination with the west (mirrored in the west by the fashion for Chinoiserie) was most evident in the architecture of the Xiyang Lou within the Yuanmingyuan, but also manifested itself in works of art in various mediums including, porcelain, painted-enamel, cloisonné-enamel, lacquer wares and clocks.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL BEEHIVE-SHAPED WATERPOT, TAIBO ZUNQianlong red-enamel four-character mark and of the periodThe circular domed vessel painted with a band of blue archaistic dragons encircling the mid-body, reserved on a turquoise and key-fret ground, the shoulder with a formal leaf-lappet collar.5.7cm (2.1/4in) diam.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯仿古螭龍紋水丞礬紅「乾隆年製」楷書款Provenance: Nagatani, Inc., Chicago, 1 November 1952Stephen Junkunc, III (circa 1905-1978)來源：芝加哥長谷商會，1952年11月1日史蒂芬·瓊肯三世（約1905-1978）舊藏Decorated with fine archaistic designs underscoring the Qianlong emperor's fascination with the spirit of ancient times, which he sought to replicate, the present waterpot was either commissioned by the Imperial Court or presented as tribute from enamel workshops in Guangdong. Examples, such as the present lot, are rare, but an earlier related painted enamel 'beehive'-shaped waterpot, Kangxi, is illustrated in the Compendium of Collections of the Palace Museum: Enamels, 5, Beijing, 2011, no.32.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL RECTANGULAR CASKET FOR THE MIDDLE-EASTERN MARKET18th centuryMeticulously and densely enamelled with interlocking arabesques in red, blue, yellow and green on a white ground, the interior white, with an illegible inscription to the interior. 17.7cm (7in) wide.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價十八世紀 外銷銅胎畫琺瑯卷草花卉紋長方蓋盒The design, shape and decorative motifs of items made for foreign markets were influenced by the specific demands and tastes of the clients in those regions. Objects produced for the Middle East and particularly the Armenian market, such as the present lot, have their own characteristic features; see L.Mengoni, Reaching Foreign Markets: Chinese Painted Enamels for Export, London, 2014, p.42, where Mengoni notes that 'Several enamelled objects found in the Middle East were decorated with inscriptions in Arabic or Armenian.'The present lot with floral motifs on a white ground is reminiscent of the style and palette found on some 16th century Iznik tiles found in the Topkapi Sarai, illustrated by J.Rawson, Chinese Ornament: The Lotus and the Dragon, London, 1984, pp.188-189. The present lot also echoes elements of Persian carpets, in particular the medallions and lotus patterns on the Ardebil carpet, see ibid., pl.6.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A PAIR OF JICHIMU HORSESHOE-BACK ARMCHARIS, QUANYIMid Qing DynastyThe pair with wood seats and backsplats decorated with ruyi designs above flying bats suspending chimes. 98cm (38 1/2in) high x 62cm (24 3/8in) wide x 45.5cm (18in) deep (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價清中期 鸂鶒木圈椅成對The present lot is rare in being made of jichimu, but horseshoe-back armchairs of this form in huanghuali are represented in many public and private collections. For a discussion of this design, see R.H.Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasty, New York, 1971, pp.86-87, and Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1990, pp.43-45.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE PALE GREEN JADE SLIT DISC, JUESpring and Autumn PeriodOf circular form, pierced with a hole in the centre with a slit through the edge, one side incised with a stylised dragon, the stone of pale green tone. 3.5cm (1 3/8in) diam.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價春秋 玉龍紋玦Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2011, no.60.展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2011年，編號60See a pair of jade slit discs, Eastern Zhou dynasty, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Art in Quest of Heaven and Truth – Chinese Jades through the Ages, Taipei, 2011, pl.5-5-6. See also a similar jade slit disc, Spring and Autumn period, illustrated by R.Keverne, Jade, London, 1995, p.343, fig.3; see also a pair, Eastern Zhou dynasty, illustrated by J.Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p.243, no.14:9.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE GOLD-HANDLED BRONZE SCHOLAR'S KNIFEWarring States Period The slightly curved thin blade narrowed to a short handle, with a thick gold oval-shaped loop attached to the end, the blade and handle both encrusted with malachite, box.17.4cm (6 7/8in) long. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價戰國 鎦金環首青銅書刀Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2008, no.6出版著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2008年，編號6A very similar bronze knife dating from the Spring and Autumn period, excavated in 1977 from Gaozhuang M18, Fengxiang (site of a Qin capital), and now in the Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological Institute, is discussed by J.Portal, The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army, London, 2007, p.64, no.30, fig.54, where it is noted that knives of this kind were used by officials for scraping off mistakes made when writing on wood or bamboo slips, as shown by the detail from a terracotta official, fig.53, no.24, of such a knife hanging from the belt. For such knives in bronze with gold handles, Warring States period, see The Art of the Warring States Period, Osaka, 1991, p.101, no.144; and Zhongguo Wenwu Jinghua Da Quan (Bronze volume), Hong Kong, 1994, p.271, no.976.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE GOLD-SHEET-MOUNTED BRONZE EMBOSSED 'DRAGON' FITTINGWarring States Period or Han DynastyFormed as a thin gold sheet attractively embossed with a rounded square design of a densely-coiled dragon, set into a bronze mount with a clip on the underside.4.5cm (1 3/4in) square. Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價戰國/漢 貼金銅蟠龍紋飾Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2007, no.4展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2007年，編號4A very similar example is illustrated in The Art of China's Warring States Period, Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Izumi, p.148, no.247. For related fittings, Western Han dynasty, see B.Gyllensvard, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain: The Kempe Collection, New York, 1971, pp.72-73, fig.11.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE 'DRAGON' SPEAR ORNAMENT, DUNWarring States PeriodThe hollow ferrule of tapering oval section relief cast with a dragon head forming the closed end, with a pair of curling horns above stylised eyes, the exterior inlaid throughout in darkened silver sheet with geometrical designs. 9cm (3 1/2in) long.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價戰國 銅錯銀龍形鐏Provenance: Dr. Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987), New York, (inventory number v3612)來源：紐約亞瑟·M.賽克勒博士（1913-1987）舊藏，器身內部收藏編號v3612See a similar ferrule, Eastern Zhou dynasty, illustrated by J.Rawson and E.Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, London, 1990, no.86; and also one example in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated by Yu Kuo-Ching, Rituals Cast in Brilliance: Chinese Bronzes Through the Ages, Taipei, 2014, p.125. See another example in Bronze Ritual Vessels and Musical Instruments: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2007, no.184.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE JADE-INLAID BRONZE MIRRORWarring States PeriodOf circular form, with a channelled rim surrounding a pale green jade disc decorated with twisted-rope designs, the central medallion with a small flower-shaped knop, the surface with a dark patina and some malachite encrustation.17.3cm (6 6/8in) diam.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價戰國 嵌玉青銅鏡Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2005, no.10.展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2005年，編號10See a related mirror with similar jade rope-twist band, and additionally inlaid with glass, Warring States period, in the collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, illustrated in Hai-wai Yi-chen: Chinese Art in Overseas Collections, Bronze I, Taipei, 1987, p.171, no.168.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE GREEN-GLAZED 'YAKSHA' LAMPNorthern Qi DynastyModelled as a muscular male figure kneeling on a domed base applied with lotus lappets, the figure with long hair, elongated earlobes and hunched shoulders, supporting on his head a bowl also applied with petals to the exterior, covered overall in a glassy olive-green glaze, the base unglazed revealing the red biscuit, box.15cm (5 7/8in) high. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價北齊 綠釉胡人力士燭台Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2007, no.21展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2007年，編號21The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.C206f40, dated 12 December 2006, is consistent with the dating of this lot.Oxford Authentication Ltd.公司熱釋光檢測結果（2006年12月12日，編號C206f40）顯示年代與本拍品年代一致。Of Central Asian or Indian inspiration, vessels of this type are typical of Chinese sculpture of the second half of the 6th century. Examples of these vessels in various mediums can be found in Museum collections worldwide. See for example, an ivory pedestal base in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated by W.Watson, Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing, London, 1984, p.12, no.11. A pedestal with similar base and top is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by W.Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol.1, New York, 1994, pl.27; and a related lamp with a human-figure supporter is illustrated by M.A.Rogers in 'Chinese Ceramics in the Matsuoka Museum of Art', Part 1, Chinese Ceramics: Selected Articles from Orientations 1982-1998, Hong Kong, 1999, p.78, fig.18.Related applied decoration can be seen on pottery excavated from the tomb of Lou Rui (d.570 AD), examples of which are illustrated by J.C.Y.Watt et al., China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750, New York, 2004, pp.244-245, nos.139-141.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A FINE AND RARE GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID RETICULATED BRONZE BELT HOOKWarring States PeriodElaborately inlaid with shallow gold and silver sheet on the upper face, the design cast as two deeply-entwined back-to-back mythical birds with curling plumage principally highlighted in silver sheet, the crested heads turning away from each other to the sides at the upper end of the plaque, beneath the hook formed as an animal head inlaid with two gold eyes, the underside with a large stud, fitted box.10.5cm (4in) long. (2).Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價戰國 錯金銀鳥紋帶鉤See a related example illustrated by B.Karlgren and J.Wirgin, Chinese Bronzes: The Natanael Wessén Collection, Stockholm, 1969, pl.62, no.50e.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A RARE GLASS-INLAID GILT-BRONZE BELT HOOKWarring States/Han DynastyWith chilong head hook, the sinuous arch of its neck issuing from the open jaws of a horned mythical beast with black glass eyes at the base of the convex shaft, with further crawling chilong in shallow relief among three turquoise beads, the reverse with circular boss.19.7cm (7 7/8in) long.Footnotes:Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價戰國/漢 銅鎏金嵌寶帶鉤Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd, Chinese Jewellery Accessories and Glass, London, December 1991, no.98.Robert Kleiner, London, July 2008來源：倫敦古董商Spink & Son Ltd，收錄於《Chinese Jewellery Accessories and Glass》，1991年12月，編號98倫敦古董商Robert Kleiner，2008年7月Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2009, no.4.展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2009年，編號4Compare with a similar gilt-bronze belt hook, Eastern Zhou dynasty, but without glass inlay, illustrated by J.Rawson and E.Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, pp.210-211, no.128. Another similar inlaid hook, Warring States period, is illustrated in Art of the Warring States Period, Osaka, 1991, p.104, no.152.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com