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Auction date Friday 9 December 2022 10:30 - 17:30 GMT

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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
49	A LARGE CHINESE JADE SEAL Qianlong or later, the celadon green stone with grey highlights and soft polish, carved with two opposing dragons entwined to form the handle, all four sides with an extensive inscription and the…	£3,000 - £5,000	-	View
50	A CHINESE YELLOW JADE ARCHAISTIC VASE probably early Qing, carved with a chilong around the rim, 20cm high, on a carved hardwood stand Provenance: A Scottish private collection.	£15,000 - £25,000	-	View
51	A CHINESE MOTTLED GREEN JADEITE BUDDHA probably late Qing, with a fine polish, the standing figure on a matching jadeite lotus base, height 17cm Provenance: Acquired from an English private collection in the 1990s	£5,000 - £10,000	-	View
52	A CHINESE CELADON JADE BOULDER CARVED AS A MOUNTAIN Qing or later, the stone with areas of russet and spinach, carved with two immortals and a deer in an extensive mountainous landscape, 15cm high Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, April 28th 1993, lot…	£8,000 - £12,000	-	View
53	A CHINESE 'WHITE' JADE CENSER AND COVER Qing or later, with elephant head loose ring handles and a dragon finial, the base bearing a paper label for 'S BERNSTEIN AND CO. SAN FRANCISCO', 20cm wide x 14.5cm high, on a carved hardwood stand. …	£6,000 - £10,000	£18,000	View
54	A CHINESE CELADON JADE RUYI SCEPTRE PANEL Qing or later, of convex shaped oval form carved with a central character within Buddhist symbols, 13cm Provenance: Nick Troubetzkoy Foundation. Private collection.	£600 - £1,200	-	View
55	A CHINESE DARK GREEN BOWENITE CIRCULAR PLAQUE mounted on a wooden stand as a table screen, 21cm high	£100 - £200	£60	View
56	A LARGE CHINESE BLACK HARDSTONE BI carved with archaistic dragons, 30cm diameter, on a wooden stand	£100 - £200	-	View
57	A LARGE CHINESE GREEN HARDSTONE BI the stone of mottled celadon, russet and black colour, 26cm diameter, on a wooden stand	£100 - £200	£70	View
58	A LARGE CHINESE SOAPSTONE GUANYIN probably early Qing, her finely carved hair piled into a chignon and her billowing robes carved with cloud-scrolls, the olive green and russet-veined stone with a soft polish, 23cm high on a carved…	£300 - £500	£2,000	View
59	A CHINESE ROCK CRYSTAL BUFFALO probably Qing, the recumbent beast modelled with head turned, 15cm long	£200 - £400	£220	View
60	A CHINESE SANDSTONE HEAD OF A LOHAN in the Song dynasty style, 44cm high overall, on a wooden plinth,	£100 - £200	£380	View
61	A SINO-TIBETAN LACQUERED GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF A GUARDIAN Ming or later, holding a sword in one of the four arms and sitting on two prostrate figures, on double lotus base, 19cm high Provenance: European private collection.	£3,000 - £5,000	£3,800	View
62	A CHINESE LACQUER DISH decorated in polychrome and incised with a central five-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl surrounded by cloud scrolls, the everted rim with four subsidiary panels of dragons on a red and gilt…	£500 - £1,000	£3,000	View
63	A CHINESE BAMBOO PARFUMERIE probably Qing, carved with the Seven Sages in the Bamboo Grove, with wooden top and base, 31cm	£100 - £200	£140	View
64	A MONUMENTAL CHINESE LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN Qing or later, standing on a wave-scroll base, 204cm high	£500 - £1,000	-	View
65	A CHINESE BAMBOO SCHOLAR'S CARVING probably Qing, depicting two men seated at a table on a raft whilst another paddles beside a pine tree, on a hardwood wave-carved stand, 13cm long	£800 - £1,500	£3,400	View
66	A LARGE CHINESE PAINTED PLASTER ‘NODDING HEAD’ FIGURE Qing, probably circa 1820, the standing man wearing a brimmed hat, a black robe with phoenix rank badge and coloured undergarment, on fixed wooden base, overall height 34cm.	£600 - £800	-	View
67	A FINE CARVED WOOD RUYI SCEPTRE decorated at the head with a stylised bat, the reverse incised with an inscription, 33cm long	£500 - £800	£500	View
68	A 'BEIJING' WHITE AND RED OVERLAY GLASS VASE probably Qing, decorated with archaistic dragon panels and stylised meandering foliate scroll borders, the base engraved with four character Qianlong mark enclosed by a square, 18cm high	£500 - £800	£17,000	View
69	A CASED SET OF TEN CHINESE INKSTONES Qing or later, the decoration highlighted in gilt, the longest 17.5cm long	£100 - £200	£100	View
70	A CHINESE IVORY SILK SHORT ROBE probably late Qing, embroidered with figures in roundels and landscape vignettes within panelled borders on a contrasting dark ground, 126cm wide across the shoulders	£300 - £500	£3,200	View
71	A CHINESE EMBROIDERED PANEL Qing, with a band of figures in raised work on a ground of golden silk threads, 42.5cm x 75.5cm, and a smaller panel of birds admist foliage, 18cm x 75.5cm, in a single frame	£200 - £400	-	View
72	A CHINESE SCROLL PAINTING Ming/Qing, painted on silk with a dignitary in a chariot pulled by dogs and attendant figures beneath a rocky outcrop, on silk, 136cm X 50cm	£500 - £1,000	£700	View
73	STUDIO OF TINGQUA A portrait thought to be Hong Xiuquan, Ruler of the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace (1814-1864), wearing a vividly coloured dragon robe and orange cowl, gouache on paper, 27cm x 19 cm (unframed) …	£800 - £1,200	-	View
74	ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY The Praya Grande, Macau from the north, oil on canvas, 32 x 54.5cm, in the original giltwood and gesso swept frame	£2,000 - £3,000	-	View
75	YANG YANWEN (b.1939) "The Recitation of Qu Yuan" signed and inscribed "Qu Zi hum versing while walking, summer of year of Xin Wei (probably year 1991) by Yanwen of Zhu Jian Tang", with four seals of the artist, "Yang Yan Wen yin", "Ge Da Yan", "Bo…	£5,000 - £10,000	-	View
76	ORIENTAL BLUE & WHITE Sir Harry Garner; Ancient Chinese Bronzes, William Watson; and two other volumes by Michael Sullivan and Bamber Gascoigne, The Ceramic Art Of China, W.B. Honey, 1944: and six other volumes on Chinese…	£100 - £200	-	View
77	A CHINESE QINGBAI FUNERARY VASE Song, modelled in relief with a band of figures, 55cm high	£100 - £200	-	View
78	A CHINESE CELADON VASE in the Song style, of archaic form covered in a pale celadon "crackle" glaze, the slightly flattened baluster body with tubular handles to the oval neck, the footrim with a brown wash, 23.5" high	£500 - £1,000	-	View
79	A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'KRAAK' DISH late Ming, decorated with panels of auspicious objects and foliage, 29.5cm diameter	£600 - £1,000	-	View
80	A CHINESE 'LONGQUAN' CELADON VASE Ming or later, the reticulated body of compressed globular form, rising to a tall cylindrical neck set with tubular handles, the body carved in openwork revealing a narrow tubular body inside, 25cm…	£600 - £1,000	-	View
81	A CHINESE WUCAI VASE Transitional, circa 1640, decorated in underglaze blue and polychrome enamels with elegant ladies playing games in a fenced gardens with a mountainous landscape beyond, the base unglazed, 29.5cm high…	£800 - £1,500	£2,800	View
82	A CHINESE WUCAI GU-SHAPED VASE transitional, circa 1640, decorated in underglaze blue and enamelled in polychrome with figures, fruit and flowers, converted to a table lamp; and another similar vase, 45cm high (including the base)…	£1,500 - £2,500	£5,000	View
83	A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE OCTAGONAL BEAKER Kangxi, painted with vessels and emblems on a cafe au lait ground, 6.6cm high, and a famille verte teabowl and saucer, Kangxi (3)	£300 - £500	-	View
84	A FINE CHINESE CORAL-GROUND BOWL the exterior vividly painted with flowers in polychrome enamels on a coral ground, the interior plain, the base with a four-character Kangxi mark in underglaze blue enclosed by a double square, 5.8cm…	£8,000 - £12,000	£170,000	View
85	A CHINESE 'DOUCAI' BOWL probably Yongzheng, of elegant flared form, the interior with birds of paradise and bamboo shoots centred by a flaming pearl, the decoration continuing over the rim and the exterior with the long…	£300 - £500	£6,500	View
86	A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE EWER of Iznic form painted in shades of intense blue with scroll work and stylised flowers, the body with two bands of moulded gadrooning, with a simple "S"-scroll handle, the base with a Yongzheng seal…	£1,500 - £2,500	-	View
87	A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE BALUSTER VASE enamelled in polychrome with depictions of vases on a mottled coral-coloured ground, the base with a six character Yongzheng mark enclosed by a double circle, 43cm high Provenance: Private…	£200 - £400	-	View
88	A DEHUA "BLANC DE CHINE" FIGURE OF GUANYIN, with associated wooden base, Qing, 50.5cm high.	£100 - £200	-	View
89	A DEHUA "BLANC DE CHINE" FIGURE OF GUANYIN standing on a cloudscroll base, Qing, 47.5cm high	£100 - £200	£100	View
90	A PAIR OF CHINESE YELLOW-GROUND DRAGON PLATES decorated with five claw dragons contesting flaming pearls highlighted in emerald green and aubergine enamels, the reverse with berried foliage and the bases with Qianlong seal marks in black, 13cm…	£500 - £1,000	-	View
91	A CHINESE BALUSTER VASE with flared neck, painted in iron-red and black with immortals and two boys, the base with a Qianlong seal mark in iron-red, 47cm high	£800 - £1,500	-	View
92	A CHINESE EXPORT BLUE AND WHITE TUREEN AND COVER Qianlong, decorated with a farmer and his cattle, the handles moulded as pomegranates, 33cm wide; together with two matched blue and white serving dishes of the same pattern, 37cm wide (3)	£300 - £500	£300	View
93	A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE CYLINDRICAL VASE painted with stylised flowers and emblems around six pierced quatrefoil apertures on a yellow ground, the base with a rubbed Qianlong seal mark in iron-red on a turquoise ground, 31cm high	£1,500 - £2,500	-	View
94	A CHINESE RUBY-GROUND LIDDED JAR enamelled in polychrome with scrolling lotus and fish within formalised borders, the base with an iron-red Daoguang seal mark on a turquoise ground, 22cm high	£1,000 - £2,000	£1,100	View
95	A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE BRUSH POT enamelled in polychrome with scrolling flowers and emblems on a pale celadon-ground within yellow-ground borders, the base with a Qianlong seal mark in iron-red on a turquoise ground, 12cm high	£1,000 - £2,000	-	View
96	A PAIR OF CHINESE 'IMARI' CANISTERS early Qing, painted with panels of flowers within diaper zig-zag borders, 26cm high (overall), with associated metal covers (2)	£500 - £1,000	£650	View

Total lots: 146

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