A very fine and rare 19th century Chinese famille-rose turquoise-ground porcelain vase, finely potted of the classic double-gourd form, exquisitely decorated in the Chinese taste with a pair of five-clawed dragons amongst flowering branches, with detail picked out in gold against a finely-crackled light turquoise-ground, the upper section painted with similar flowering branches between bands of key-frets in yellow and ...click for details

A fine and superb pair of early 19th century Chinese famille-rose turquoise-ground porcelain dishes, well potted and finely enameled around the exterior with flowers and leafy-scrolls on turquoise-ground, and four evenly spaced roundels containing characters "Ji Xiang Ru Yi" (longevity and wish fulfillment) enameled in blue, interior decorated with a large flower bloom to the center and four smaller roundels ...click for details

An extremely fine and very rare 19th century Chinese white nephrite jade scholar's thumb-ring, of large size, superbly carved with a bird perch on flowering branches, followed by a long and exquisitely carved thirty-character of poetic inscriptions, ending with a two-character inscription "wen-wan" (scholarly / leisurely plaything) within an oval cartouche, all between bands of key-fret pattern, a small i ...click for details

A magnificent early 18th century Chinese Yongzheng period famille-rose porcelain vase and cover, superbly potted and of large size, exquisitely decorated in colorful enamels with four large roundels containing a four-clawed dragons chasing the pearl amongst flame scrolls, alternating with four smaller shaped cartouches painted with landscape scenes, all surrounded with leafy flowers against an attractive pink-ground, t ...click for details

A fine and superb 19th century Chinese blue and white porcelain bottle vase, well potted in the classic "yuhuchun ping" form with a trumpet neck and bulbous body, finely decorated in underglaze-blue with banana palms, bamboo and rockwork all in a fenced garden, the neck painted with stiff leaves and bands of scroll work, a band of lappets encircling the foot above lotus flower heads around the foot ring, the b ...click for details

An extremely rare 18th century Qianlong mark and period Chinese slip-decorated celadon-glazed porcelain "meiping" vase, superbly potted with a short neck and small opening, wide shoulder tapering to a round foot ring, decorated in slightly raised white-slip with bats in flight amongst cloud scrolls with delicately incised details, covered allover in a fine pale- celadon glaze, the neatly finished foot rim in ...click for details

A fine and very rare 18th century Qianlong mark and period Chinese celadon-glazed porcelain lotus dish, stoutly potted in the form of a blooming lotus flower with each petal finely incised, covered allover in a fine pale celadon glaze, the reverse undecorated, the base has a remains of an old UK dealer paper label, and inscribed with the Qianlong reign mark in underglaze-blue and of the period. ...click for details

A fine early 20th century Chinese ivory brush pot, the cylindrical elongated pot finely incised with the Eight Immortals "Baxian" beneath a pine tree, with a deer and cranes standing on rockwork in a continuous landscape scene, areas of the ivory aged to a warm mellowed yellowish tone, the ivory pot without base plate and fixed to an intricately carved and pierced wooden stand. ...click for details

A rare early 18th century Chinese Yongzheng mark and period blue and white porcelain dragon dish #1, well potted and finely painted in strong underglaze-blue tone with a four-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl amongst cloud scrolls, the pattern and the body of the dragon extended "over the rim" to the reverse side of the dish, the foot rim displays a fine smooth white paste characteristic of the 18th centu ...click for details

A rare early 18th century Chinese Yongzheng mark and period blue and white porcelain dragon dish #2, well potted and boldly painted in strong underglaze-blue tone with a four-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl amongst cloud scrolls, the motif and the body of the dragon extended "over the rim" to the reverse side of the dish, the foot rim displays a fine smooth white paste characteristic of the 18th century ...click for details