Asian and Islamic Ceramics and Works of Art

A collection of Japanese pine scroll boxes and covers, and a small group of ivory, bone and hardwood scroll end caps (some faults).

A collection of Japanese musical instruments, including a shamisen, within a pine box and cover, and a koto, together with various musical accessories and four musical instrument catalogues (all with faults).

A Chinese hardwood altar table, late Qing dynasty, the top inset with three burr panels above a carved and pierced apron, each curved end with pierced panel and carved lingzhi fungus, raised on shaped legs united by stretchers, length 117cm, width 40cm, height 82cm.

A Chinese blue and white porcelain jar, 19th century, the baluster body painted with prunus, height 37cm.

A Chinese blue and white export porcelain circular dish, late Qing dynasty, painted with a dignitary and six attendant boys, the rim with Buddhistic symbols, diameter 34cm (minor restoration to rim).

A Chinese blue and white porcelain jardinière, early 20th century, of cylindrical form, painted with two dragons and vapours divided by a panel with three lines of script, height 18.8cm.

A Chinese Jun type stoneware tripod censer, Song dynasty style but later, of ribbed circular form, covered in a blue glaze with purple splash, height 8cm, diameter 17.2cm, together with a Jun type hemispherical bowl with blue glaze and purple splash, diameter 19.9cm, and a grey crackle glazed jug, height 24.5cm.

A Chinese black lacquered rectangular trunk, late Qing dynasty, with metal mounts and vellum lined interior, length 61cm, together with a Japanese lacquer circular dish, the interior painted in ochre with a dragon, vapours and trees in a mountainous landscape on a cream ground, diameter 38.5cm, with pine box and cover.

A collection of Japanese Ainu carved wood objects, including bowls and dolls, together with two Japanese carved wood figures of Buddha, heights 18cm and 18.5cm, museum collection numbers to backs, and a Balinese carved wood tray, length 57cm.

A set of kanji cards within a box with slide cover, another set of kanji cards with Chinese-Japanese characters, two sets of Chinese-Japanese characters drill cards and other learning aids.

A Chinese blue and white porcelain ginger jar, mark of Kangxi but late 19th century, the stout ovoid body painted with ducks and dragonfly beside a bank of lotus flowers and leaves, underglaze blue four-character mark to base, height 18cm (starcrack to base), together with a Chinese blue and white porcelain vase, 20th century, painted with prunus, height 30.5cm.

A Sino-Tibetan brown patinated bronze figure of a bodhisattva, 20th century, the multi-armed god seated in dhyanasana on a double lotus throne, height 28cm (one arm lacking and faults), together with a brass seated Buddha and three Chinese carved bamboo brushpots, heights 33.5cm and 21.5cm (some faults).

A collection of twenty-six mostly South Indian miniature brass and bronze figures of deities, 19th and early 20th century, including Balakrishna, modelled crawling carrying a butterball, Nandi Bull, Shiva, Hanuman and Lakshmi, heights ranging from 5cm to 8.5cm.

A collection of eleven South Indian bronze figures, mostly 19th century, including two Lakshmi oil lamps, heights 17cm and 12cm, two of Balakrishna modelled crawling with a butterball, heights 9cm and 10cm, Ganesh seated on a rat, height 13cm, and Vishnu, height 12cm.

A collection of fourteen South Indian bronze figures, mostly 19th and early 20th century, including a Lakshmi oil lamp, height 11cm, Ganesh, height 11cm, two Shiva Nataraja, each modelled dancing on Apasmara Purusha within a flame surround, heights 10.4cm and 15cm, two Balakrishna, heights 8cm, Krishna playing a flute, height 11.5cm, and Hanuman, height 8.8cm.

A collection of South Indian brown patinated bronze figures, mostly late 19th/early 20th century, including two Balakrishna, modelled as a crawling baby holding a butterball, heights 7.5cm, two of Shiva Nataraja with flame surround, heights 15cm and 9.5cm, Ganesh, Krishna and an oil lamp.

A collection of South Indian bronze and brass figures, late 19th/early 20th century, including a double sided figure of Hanuman and Garuda, height 10.2cm, on an alabaster base, a diya oil lamp, the back cast with a cross, height 9cm, and two figural candlesticks.

A South Indian brass and copper footed bowl, early 20th century, the exterior applied in copper relief with a band of deities within foliate borders, height 22.8cm, a bell with double sided Hanuman and Garuda handle, height 28cm, a figure of Shiva Nataraja within a flame surround, height 29cm, a Tibetan embossed brass altar stand, the front decorated with Mahakala within a border of scrolls and script, height 27.5cm, and a copper and brass prayer wheel.

A collection of mostly Indian metalwork, 19th and 20th century, including a brass five-tier sectional oil lamp with scroll handle, height 26cm, various other oil lamps, a brass and black enamelled hookah base of ovoid form on a domed foot, height 22.5cm, a small black and red enamelled brass dhal, diameter 18.5cm, and a Burmese bronze flat gong, length 34cm.