Asian and Islamic Ceramics and Works of Art

A set of twelve Chinese Canton export watercolour paintings on rice paper, late 19th century, each depicting a single figure performing with a weapon, 10.8cm x 7cm, within a silk mounted case with glazed cover (cracked).

A Chinese Qianjiangcai enamelled porcelain brush rest, Republic period, of scroll form, the top painted with a riverside landscape beneath five lines of black text and two red seals, length 22.7cm (chips to edges).

A Tibetan bronze bell, probably 19th century, of tapered rectangular form with cast tendrils, beneath a pair of loop supports, height 7cm, length 9.2cm.

A pair of Chinese export porcelain plates, Qianlong period, each painted en grisalle and gilt with flowers, vase and Buddha's hand citron, diameters 22.8cm (some faults), together with an en grisalle decorated sparrow beak cream jug, height 11.3cm, and a similarly decorated teabowl, diameter 7.4cm (cracks).

A Chinese blue and white porcelain ginger jar and cover, late 19th century, of stout ovoid form, painted with branches of blossoming prunus, underglaze blue double ring to base, height 28.5cm.

Two Japanese Satsuma earthenware vases by Kinkozan, Meiji period, one of globular form, painted with red-capped crane and flowers, the other with figures, bamboo and flowers, each reserved against a blue ground with gilt decoration, painted signature to bases, heights 6.7cm and 9cm.

A Chinese blue and white export porcelain square tile, Kangxi period, painted with scattered flowerheads within flower basket and scrolling leafy tendril borders, 18.2cm x 18.2cm, together with another similar tile, painted with lotus and scrolling tendril border, 18.7cm x 18.7cm (minor faults). 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.

Two Chinese blue and white export porcelain square tiles, Kangxi period, each painted with lotus within scrolling tendril borders, 20.2cm x 20.2cm and 20.5cm x 20.5cm (both chipped). 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 Japanese Satsuma earthenware bowl, Meiji period, of steep sided circular form, the interior painted and gilt with figures outside a large temple, the exterior with maidens, Tokugawa mon and simulated brocade, gilt and black signature to base, height 8cm, together with another Satsuma earthenware bowl, Meiji period, painted and gilt with a group of figures in a lakeside setting, gilt signature to base, diameter 15.2cm (repaired and chipped).

A Chinese bronze tripod censer, mark of Xuande but probably 18th/19th century, of circular bombé form with a pair of upright loop handles, on three short feet, cast six-character mark to base, weight 2923.6g, height 12.7cm, rim diameter 17.5cm, width across handles 18.1cm.

A Chinese Canton enamel circular bowl, 19th century, decorated in iron red, blue, green and gilt with a design of lotus, scrolling tendrils and opposing shou characters on a turquoise ground, height 6.4cm (hairlines), together with a cloisonné dragon bowl, early 20th century, decorated with polychrome dragons on a vapour-filled pale blue ground, diameter 20.5cm.

A Chinese underglaze blue and famille rose export porcelain circular plate, Qianlong period, the centre enamelled with a pink lotus head contained within blue radiating flower-filled petals, diameter 23cm, together with a Chinese famille rose export porcelain plate, Qianlong period, painted with flowers in a scroll shaped panel, diameter 22.8cm, and a famille rose export porcelain soup plate, diameter 23.4cm (some faults).

A Chinese famille verte enamelled biscuit porcelain circular bowl, mark of Kangxi but later Qing dynasty, the interior and exterior with green, brown and white dragons and vapours on a yellow ground, incised six-character mark to base, diameter 24.5cm, together with a Chinese hardwood cover and a Japanese carved wood stand.

Two Chinese famille rose export porcelain figures, Qianlong period, one modelled kneeling, the other standing holding a ruyi sceptre and fruiting branch, both wearing a floral decorated turquoise robe, height 21cm and 14.5cm (some faults).

A Chinese famille rose enamelled porcelain octagonal footed dish, mark of Tongzhi and possibly of the period, the rim moulded and gilt with the eight trigrams framing a concentric band of the Buddhistic symbols and central taijitu emblem, the underside with eight further Buddhistic symbols, the foot with band of waves, iron red enamelled seal mark to turquoise glazed base, height 5.7cm, width 22cm.

A Chinese Thai market Bencharong porcelain bowl, mid-19th century, the exterior painted with a band of alternating polychrome lappet panels filled with flowers, height 9.4cm, diameter 17.5cm (hairline crack to rim), together with a Chinese iron red and famille rose export porcelain small circular box and cover, late 18th century, painted with a flower spray to top above iron red glazed sides, diameter 7cm (chipped and crack to rim).

A pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain cylinder vases, mark of Kangxi but late 19th century, each painted with opposing dragons amidst peony and chrysanthemum, underglaze blue four-character mark to bases, height 25.6cm.

A Chinese famille verte porcelain vase, Kangxi style but late 19th century, the shouldered tapering body and flared neck painted with birds in blossoming and fruiting branches, height 41.8cm (repaired rim and restoration).

A Chinese yellow ground porcelain jar and cover, 20th century, the baluster body painted with a green dragon and polychrome vapours on a yellow ground, the domed cover with further vapours, iron red enamelled seal mark to base, height 38.5cm.