Asian Arts & Antiques (Section A)

ID - 442626 - An antique-style Chinese rosewood pedestal with marble insert and carved details

ID - 442627 - A Large Chinese Famille Verte Brush Pot, decorated with powerful lions with fierce expressions to surface rolling a ball, six character Kangxi mark to base with a partly unglazed foot

ID - 442628 - A Chinese style cabinet with coloured lacquered finish and panels of a hawk, egret, and cranes amongst pine and lilies
As found, minor wear to finish

ID - 442629 - A pair of matched Chinese lidded temple jars with finials, each decorated with Japanese maiko and geisha amongst peonies, circa 1990s, with apocryphal four character Qianlong mark to base

Dimensions each:

ID - 442630 - An Asian cast metal figure of a resting man, possibly brass or bronze, well patinated, under a large hat

ID - 442631 - A delightful brass figure on a boy, possibly Nezha, riding a mythical Qilin, mounted on a domed brass surface with openwork details, possibly a lid for a censer or other ornament

ID - 442632 - A Chinese porcelain brush pot, with two magpies amongst wisteria, with calligraphic inscription, with apocryphal artemisia leaf mark to base

ID - 442633 - A silver tone brass figure of budai (laughing buddha), possibly silver gilt

Of hollow form, with lovely patination

ID - 442634 - A handsome Burmese sterling silver lidded canister, with lovely cartouches of scenes of daily life including sailing, farming, rice planting, and an elephant rider, with lotus leaves and scrolls in between, topped by a lid with a Chinthe, circa mid 20th century

Marked to base 'STERLING SILVER/HAND CRAFTED/IN BURMA', total weight approx. 85.34g

ID - 442635 - A Japanese brass miniature censer, with foo dog finial and Buddhist saints and flowers in relief

ID - 442636 - Two beautiful pieces of cinnabar lacquerwork; an ashtray with carved cinnabar laid on brass with a blue enamel lining, and a hinged lidded cinnabar box with blue enamel inner, laid on brass with four ball feet

Both in very good condition, larger (box):

ID - 442637 - A Carved Dark Timber Lidded Incense Box, with beautifully carved flowing shape and pierced lid

ID - 442638 - A Chinese square sided celadon vase, with elegant eared form in and crackle glazed Longquan style surface

ID - 442639 - A green glazed asian pottery jar in archaistic finish, with two small holes for a bamboo handle

ID - 442640 - A fine Thai (Siamese) sterling silver tankard, with simple form and applied medallion of a Thai deity amongst chasing and repousse scrolls

Marked to base 'SIAM 925/STERLING/MARSHALL', total weight approx. 196.21g

ID - 442641 - Five Chinese small, thin openwork metal dishes, attr. bronze, perhaps for offerings or sweetmeats, each with embedded symbols including the character for longevity and bats, surrounded by a meander border

Each approx.:

ID - 442642 - A fine pair of antique Chinese timber chairs, attr. Yumu (Elm) wood, 19th century, in Guanmaoyi (Official's Hat) shape and form with flared top rail and open carved back splat featuring an image of a deer in a landscape and a stylised character, with additional carved flourishes added to each side below elegantly curved arm rests

As found; some small areas of termite damage and wear, the panel of back carving to one chair lost; some other signs of age and wear, an excellent candidate for a fine restoration

Dimensions each:

ID - 442643 - An ornate Japanese obi featuring floral embellishments.
The colours have faded in some areas, as found.

ID - 442644 - A ukiyo-e triptych depicting kabuki actors in battle, tentatively attributed to Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900, Japanese)

As Found, some discolouration, including foxing and possible acid migration

Dimensions of frame

ID - 442645 - A Chinese small alter table with a red lacquered finish and carved panels

ID - 442646 - A Canton enamelled sweetmeats dish with kingfisher and lotus design

ID - 442647 - Two beautiful Chinese lilong 'rice grain' porcelain teacups with saucers, with underglaze blue decorations and gold and red highlights, each marked with two character mark to base, light wear to gilding

ID - 442648 - A fine mirror pair of Chinese porcelain vases with Asiatic pheasants on a rocky outcrop with a blooming peony, with the reverse inscribed with poetry, ROC period with six character mark indicating it was made in Jingdezhen

See mark no. 4082 in Davidson, Gerald 'Marks on Chinese Ceramics' 2021 edition

ID - 442649 - A charming collection of cast metal Burmese style graduated or 'opium' weights in the form of a Chinthe, a stylised Burmese lion, including eleven pieces weighing from 3.36g to 758g

Tallest:

ID - 442650 - A lovely timber traditional Chinses calendar shaped like a tortoise with sliding shell to reveal compass, as found with signs of previous repair

ID - 442651 - Three large Asian calligraphy brushes, including one with a bulbous porcelain handle with auspicious characters, and two with jade like stone handles, all with bone fittings

All as found, largest approx.

ID - 442652 - Three Asian calligraphy brushes, with bamboo like polished stone handles, some in jade like tones, in the form of bamboo with bone fittings

All as found, largest approx.

ID - 442653 - A heavy Chinese brass cloisonne incense burner, with copper tone surface and tones of blue and teal, with four character apocryphal Qianlong mark to base

ID - 442654 - A quality Chinese opium scale, attr. early 20th century or earlier, in beautiful dark wood pivoting case with brass sliding lock, with a horn or bone balance beam, brass pan and brass weight with open detail

As found in very good condition; scale may need reattachment

ID - 442655 - A lovely silver metal sachet with tasselled cord, to be filled with pot pouri and worn at the waist or to hang in the wardrobe, pin is missing from hinge

ID - 442656 - A Chinese bronze censer, on tripod feet with splashes of gold colour to side, apocryphal two character Ming dynasty mark to base

ID - 442657 - An antique pair of Kitchen Ming blue and white plates

ID - 442658 - A beautiful copy of 'Beijing Rong Bao Zhai: Catalogue of Poems and Notes' featuring beautiful woodblock ink prints on paper bound in two volumes, featuring a selection of famous artworks from the archives of Rong Bao Zhai in Beijing, China, c.1950s, in a silk lined folio with bone hooks

As found, some wear to case, some small tears
Folio dimensions:

ID - 442659 - A stunning ivory & silver brooch, featuring a carved ivory panel of a dragon, possibly taken from a larger antique piece of ivory, bezel set in a silver backed ovoid brooch marked 'SIL'

In very good antique condition; ivory panel with classic hairline cracking and yellowing of a good, aged piece

ID - 442660 - A unusual and beautiful pearly vintage Japanese three sectioned dish with gold trim, featuring a flying dragon in moriage fashion

ID - 442661 - A Flight of Butterflies' by The Metropolitan Museum of Art published by Thames and Hudson. This beautiful book opens in a very unique way, and depict Japanese style butterfly paintings.

ID - 442662 - A Chinese Scroll, titled 'Longevity', featuring a basket of peaches atop a stand accompanied by a spray of flowers on an abstract blue rock, inscribed to top left and sealed, with title and artist's name to label

In excellent condition,

ID - 442663 - A lovely Chinese ink painting of 'Spring Rain on the Li River', after Xu Beihong (b.1895 - d.1853), laid on scroll, with a scene of a fisherman on a still river surrounded by softly rendered trees and foggy mountains, with chop seal to lower left and inscription and seal to lower right

Slight tearing to top bar, repaired/reinforced tear to left side, otherwise presents excellently