Asian and Islamic Ceramics and Works of Art

A Chinese blue and white export porcelain circular dish, Kangxi period, painted with precious vessels and objects, diameter 27.2cm (repaired), together with two other Chinese blue and white porcelain dishes, diameters 21.2cm and 31.5cm (both repaired). Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.

A Chinese blue and white export porcelain ewer, Kangxi period, of Islamic style baluster form, painted with blue ground panels filled with lotus and scrolling tendrils, height 28.5cm (repaired and lacking cover). Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.

A Chinese famille verte porcelain brush pot, Kangxi style but modern, of cylindrical form, enamelled with a pair of dragons and vapours, height 14.8cm.

A Chinese famille rose armorial export porcelain meat dish, Qianlong period, painted and gilt with a central figural scene above a coat of arms and below a crest, flanked by grisaille landscape vignettes, length 37cm (repaired). Provenance: from the private collection of David Armitage, former conservator to the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, between 1970 and 1999.

A Continental Chinese export style porcelain vase and cover, Kangxi style but late 19th century, the baluster body painted in the famille verte palette with three panels of figures and landscapes, surrounded by smaller flower vignettes, all reserved against a powder blue ground, the domed cover similarly decorated, height 43cm (rivet repaired).

A Chinese blue and white porcelain rouleau vase, mark of Kangxi but modern, painted with pheasant, ducks and peony, underglaze blue six-character mark to base, height 44cm, together with a smaller blue and white rouleau vase, height 20.5cm.

A Japanese Arita blue and white tokkuri (sake flask), Edo period, of slightly tapered square form, the shoulder painted with paulownia leaves and flower heads, the sides with blossoming branches, fence, bird and banana plant, picked out in turquoise and yellow with chrysanthemum flowerheads and butterflies, all beneath a short flared neck, height 23.5cm (chipped rim).

A Japanese Arita blue and white tokkuri (sake flask), Edo period, of slightly tapered square form, the shoulder and four sides painted with trailing vines, beneath a short flared neck, height 23.6cm.

A Chinese sang de bouef glazed four-handled cup, the circular body applied with four mask and tongue handles, height 14.4cm (repair to rim), together with a turquoise glazed bottle vase, height 24.5cm (repaired rim), and a green glazed pottery globular jar, height 15.2cm.

A Chinese gilt lacquered and carved wood figure of Buddha, 20th century, modelled seated in dhyanasana, wearing voluminous robes, on a lotus throne, height 59cm.

A Hispano-Moresque lustre basin, late 17th/early 18th century of steep-sided circular form with notched everted rim, decorated in copper red lustre with stylized foliage and whorls on a cream glazed ground, height 14cm, diameter 35.5cm (extensively damaged and repaired).

A group of Chinese porcelain, 18th century and later, including a Teksing Cargo blue and white Aster pattern teabowl and saucer (chip to rim), with certificate, a famille rose saucer, painted with a figural scene, diameter 12.6cm, a Thai market Bencharong small footed dish, diameter 12cm, a famille rose figure, height 24.6cm, and four various ginger jars (some with faults).

A Chinese black silk embroidered robe/coat, late 20th century, worked in colourful threads with peony roundels and flower balls, the cream cuffs, collars and borders filled with polychrome flowers and scrolls, fitted with yellow knotted fastenings, length 101cm, together with a pair of black silk trousers.

A Chinese pink silk embroidered pleated apron skirt, early 20th century, the front and back worked in coloured threads with butterflies, birds and flowers, length 82cm.

A Chinese midnight blue silk embroidered robe, late Qing dynasty, worked in coloured threads with peonies and butterflies, the cream cuffs with blue butterflies and flowers, fitted with gilt metal ball fastenings, length 113cm (some faults).

A Chinese red silk embroidered altar panel, early 20th century, decorated with three gilt characters within coloured thread surrounds of figures, birds, blossoming branches and butterflies, 90cm x 255cm (cut down), together with a Chinese black silk purse with coloured thread and gilt wire decoration, fitted with a gilt metal clasp, length 26.5cm (faults), and a pair of turquoise silk shoes.

A Chinese kesi weave dragon robe, 20th century, decorated with eight gilt dragons chasing white flaming pearls amidst polychrome vapours above gilt crashing waves and diagonal stripes on a blue ground, length 130cm, together with a gilt thread embroidered black felt robe, length 133cm.

A Chinese archaistic verdigris patinated bronze vase, the circular body and flared neck cast with taotie motifs, height 22.4cm.

A Chinese blue and white jar and cover, the globular body painted with bamboo, pine and prunus, height 26.5cm.