A fine and rare late 19th century antique monogrammed tortoiseshell travelling timepiece clock, of small size rectangular shape supported on four bun-feet, the circular white dial marked "Drew & Sons Piccadilly Circus London. W, French Made", the metal hinges to the back opening also Hall marked "HA" and others (probably London silver marks), the top of the tortoiseshell casing with an indeciphe ...click for details

A fine and rare 19th century Chinese export tortoiseshell three-tiers stationery box, of small size, each side of the three fitted rectangular trays with three moveable "S" shape tortoiseshell hinges fasten with small metal screws, the top cover secured with metal hinges and fixed with a loop-handle, both the front and back with a vertical strip of tortoiseshell acting as openers, the material is thinly carve ...click for details

A fine and large early 20th century antique Chinese ivory figure of Guanyin, the bare footed figure modeled in a standing posture dressed in loose robe and beaded necklace, finely carved with her right hand raised in "vitarka mudra", the left hand holding a stalk of lotus bloom, her hair finely incised and fashioned into a topknot, and wearing a flame-like headdress with a small Buddhist figure, her head gen ...click for details

A very fine and superb pair of 19th century Chinese Daoguang marks and period blue and white Imperial porcelain dragon dishes, delicately potted with slightly flared rim, finely painted in deep underglaze-blue with a central medallion of a five-clawed Imperial dragon in pursuit of a flaming pearl among flames, the reverse similarly decorated with two dragons chasing the pearls, the unglazed foot rim displayed a fine sm ...click for details

A fine and very rare 19th century Guangxu mark and period Chinese Imperial blue and white porcelain water pot / alms bowl, superbly potted, the globular body exquisitely painted in strong underglazed cobalt-blue with two Imperial five-clawed dragons confronting a flaming pearl amongst flames and cloud scroll in two shades of blue, a band of "ruyi" pattern encircling the top rim, a further band of breaking sea ...click for details

A pair of 19th century Chinese enameled blue and white porcelain bowls, of small size and finely potted, each bowl decorated with a band of interlinked swastika motif in iron-red and dots in yellow enamel between bands of "ruyi" in underglazed-blue, center of the bowl painted with an iron-red bat above which a double blue-circles around the rim, the base inscribed with a four-character Hall mark "Youyu-k ...click for details

A good and unusual early 20th century Chinese famille-rose porcelain bowl, delicately potted and finely painted in Yongzheng style with a bird perching on flowering branches, interior and underside glazed white, the base stamped with an iron-red four-character seal mark "Xianshi-jingpin" within underglazed-blue double-circles. (Wooden stand not included). ...click for details

A small 19th century Tongzhi mark and period Chinese famille-rose scholar's porcelain paint palette, of circular form with an "S" shaped divider simulating the Daoist "yinyang" symbol, interior decorated with sprays of flowering branches with the rim dressed in brown, reverse painted with three flower scrolls, the base bears the seal mark of Tongzhi in iron-red and of the period. ...click for details

A fine quality early 20th century Chinese Republic period famille-rose porcelain vase, superbly decorated with three geese in a landscape scene, amongst rockwork and colorful flowering branches, two other geese and two bees hovering above, a band of key-fret motif in over-glazed blue-enamel encircling the foot and under the top rim below which a "ruyi" pattern and beaded "curtain" overhanging around ...click for details

A fine and rare early 20th century Chinese Republic period famille-rose porcelain vase, the baluster vase finely potted with an inverted compressed mouth and the neck flanked by a pair of stylized "chilong" in café-au-lai glazed forming as handles, body of the vase superbly decorated with the "hehe-erxian" (laughing-twins immortals), one figure holding a stalk of lotus and the other holding a bamboo ...click for details