Single-Owner Collections

A collection of fourteen Chinese export porcelain tureen lids, 18th century, including famille rose, blue banded armorial, Imari, famille verte and blue and white, comprising six oval, one circular and seven of cut-cornered rectangular shape (some with faults).

A collection of thirty-one Chinese blue and white export porcelain lids, Kangxi period and later, of various sizes, shapes and patterns (some with faults).

A Chinese famille verte export porcelain domed lid, Kangxi period, painted with a pheasant perched on rocks beside a blossoming branch, birds and peonies, diameter 26cm, together with a small group of seven other famille verte export porcelain lids and sixteen other export porcelain lids (24 in total).

A collection of thirty-three Chinese famille rose export porcelain lids, Yongzheng period and later, of various shapes, sizes and patterns (some with faults).

A pair of Chinese export style famille rose porcelain circular plaques, mid-20th century, each depicting a European hunting scene within a floral border, diameter 35.5cm, framed.

A pair of Chinese Canton export watercolours on rice paper, mid-19th century, each painted with a study of exotic birds, flowers and tree, 19cm x 31cm, framed and glazed, together with a similar smaller painting of an ornamental pheasant, 15cm x 22cm, framed and glazed.

A Chinese watercolour painting on silk, late Qing dynasty, depicting a lady and her maid carrying her guqin and books, two lines of black text and red seal to upper right corner, 64cm x 22.5cm, together with two other Chinese watercolours, 20th century, of a prunus branch and chrysanthemum, all framed and glazed.

A Canton school export gouache painting on paper, early 19th century, depicting three gardeners watering trees, 37cm x 50cm, framed and glazed. Note: produced for export in the 18th and 19th century, gouache paintings of popular subjects such as Chinese commerce and agricultural production were painted by studios of artists working in the thriving port of Guangdong. Perhaps the most prolific studio was that of the artist Guan Lianchang, known to westerners by the name Tingqua (1809-1870).

A group of three Anglo-Chinese botanical study watercolour paintings on paper, early 19th century, including a white lily and its elements and a chrysanthemum, black signature to lower left corners, 40cm x 50.5cm, together with a smaller similar study of millet and its root, black signature to lower right corner, 26.5cm x 31.5cm, all framed and glazed.

A fine Chinese export reverse mirror glass painting, Qianlong period, exceptionally well painted with a lady seated on a rock seat, beside a lotus pond with conjugal pairs of pheasants, mandarin ducks and chickens, a pleasure barge on the water beyond before an opulent residence on the far shore, 58cm x 77.5cm, within a carved and pierced rococo scroll openwork giltwood frame.

A Chinese silk embroidered panel, early 20th century, predominantly worked in tones of silver and grey with an exotic fan-tailed bird and butterfly flying above a grasshopper and flowers, 58.5cm x 58.5cm, framed and glazed.

A Chinese hardwood circular stand, late Qing dynasty, the apron carved and pierced with scrolling lotus tendrils, diameter 29cm, together with five other large carved wood stands (some faults).

A collection of eighteen Chinese wood stands, 19th and 20th century, of various sizes, some with carved decoration.

A collection of thirty-nine Chinese wood stands, 19th and 20th century, of various sizes, comprising two rectangular and the rest circular, some with carved decoration (minor faults).

A collection of twelve Chinese hardwood plate and dish stands, mostly late Qing dynasty, of various sizes, some with carved decoration, heights ranging from 12.5cm to 40cm (minor faults).

A group of six Chinese hardwood circular covers, late Qing dynasty, of various sizes, all with carved and pierced decoration, diameters ranging from 9.5cm to 19cm (minor faults).

A Chinese hardwood framed rectangular wall mirror, late Qing dynasty, the surround carved and pierced in high relief with bamboo, prunus and chrysanthemums, height 85cm, width 66cm (minor losses).

A Chinese hardwood tray top side table and stand, late Qing dynasty, the rectangular tray with carved and pierced simulated bamboo gallery, the folding 'X' frame stand carved with bamboo decoration, height 55.5cm, length 64cm.

A Chinese hardwood display shelf, late Qing dynasty, with an asymmetric arrangement of shelves and three drawers, on a plinth base, height 97.5cm, width 77cm (missing sliding doors).