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

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Friday 9th December at 10.30am


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Lots per page:

Total lots: 146

Lot 49 Unsold
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 base with a square seal, 7.8cm high x 10.5cm wide

Provenance: W.W. Winkworth collection, St Catherine's Isle of Wight, Hampshire.
Purchased from a local collection in the 1970s at St Catherine's.
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 50 Unsold
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.
Estimate: £15,000 - £25,000
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 51 Unsold
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
Estimate: £5,000 - £10,000
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 52 Unsold
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 643, and illustrated "Brush and Stone", 1st edition and cover of "Brush and Stone", collection edition.

Dr Dean Edell. Private collection
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 53 Sold
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.

Provenance: Acquired by the grandparents of the present owner.
Hammer price: £18,000
Estimate: £6,000 - £10,000
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 54 Unsold
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.
Estimate: £600 - £1,200
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 55 Sold
A CHINESE DARK GREEN BOWENITE CIRCULAR PLAQUE
mounted on a wooden stand as a table screen, 21cm high
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 56 Unsold
A LARGE CHINESE BLACK HARDSTONE BI
carved with archaistic dragons, 30cm diameter, on a wooden stand
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 57 Sold
A LARGE CHINESE GREEN HARDSTONE BI
the stone of mottled celadon, russet and black colour, 26cm diameter, on a wooden stand
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 58 Sold
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 hardwood base

Provenance: From the collection of Carel Emil Duits, thence by descent
Hammer price: £2,000
Estimate: £300 - £500
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 59 Sold
A CHINESE ROCK CRYSTAL BUFFALO
probably Qing, the recumbent beast modelled with head turned, 15cm long
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £200 - £400
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 60 Sold
A CHINESE SANDSTONE HEAD OF A LOHAN
in the Song dynasty style, 44cm high overall, on a wooden plinth,
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 61 Sold
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.
Hammer price: £3,800
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 62 Sold
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 diaper ground, the reverse similarly decorated and the base incised with a six character Kangxi mark, 25cm diameter
Hammer price: £3,000
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 63 Sold
A CHINESE BAMBOO PARFUMERIE
probably Qing, carved with the Seven Sages in the Bamboo Grove, with wooden top and base, 31cm
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 64 Unsold
A MONUMENTAL CHINESE LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN
Qing or later, standing on a wave-scroll base, 204cm high
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 65 Sold
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
Hammer price: £3,400
Estimate: £800 - £1,500
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 66 Unsold
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.
Estimate: £600 - £800
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 67 Sold
A FINE CARVED WOOD RUYI SCEPTRE
decorated at the head with a stylised bat, the reverse incised with an inscription, 33cm long
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £500 - £800
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 68 Sold
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
Hammer price: £17,000
Estimate: £500 - £800
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 69 Sold
A CASED SET OF TEN CHINESE INKSTONES
Qing or later, the decoration highlighted in gilt, the longest 17.5cm long
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 70 Sold
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
Hammer price: £3,200
Estimate: £300 - £500
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 71 Unsold
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
Estimate: £200 - £400
9 December 2022
9 December 2022
Lot 72 Sold
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
Hammer price: £700
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
9 December 2022
9 December 2022

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