A very fine and rare 18th century Sino-Tibetan gilt-bronze figure of Kubera, the figure seated in lalitasana on a lotus petal throne, holding a peach in his right hand and a nakula vomiting jewels in his left, wearing a long celestial scarf thrown around the shoulders billowing out at the elbows, the borders of his robes with finely incised scrollwork, his hair piled into the high usnisa behind and painted in reddish-b ...click for details

A fine and unusual set of three early 19th century Chinese Daoguang marks and period famille-rose porcelain dishes, each delicately potted and finely painted with flowering plants, rockwork, butterflies and peaches amongst auspicious emblems, with details picked out in gilt, reverse decorated with three iron-red bats, the rim gilded and the base glazed white and each inscribed with the Daoguang reign mark in red and of ...click for details

A fine and very rare 18th century Chinese Qianlong mark and period gilt-decorated blue-glazed porcelain bottle vase, of small size, covered in a deep sapphire-blue glaze, the globular body finely painted in gold with sprays of flowers between bands of "ruyi" motifs around shoulder and foot, the cylindrical neck decorated with stiff leaves and small "ruyi" pattern encircling the rim, top rim gilded, ...click for details

A fine and unusual 19th century Chinese blue and white "garlic-head" porcelain altar vase, the pear-shaped body and neck each applied with six evenly spaced vertical raised flanges and painted with panels and bands of Buddhist objects and lotus scrolls, a band of key-fret around the neck above a band of stiff leaves, a further band of stiff leaves and "ruyi" border encircling the foot, the underside ...click for details

A very fine and superb 19th century Chinese blue and white porcelain vase and cover, the large size baluster shape vase well potted and exquisitely painted in the Kangxi manner with the "eight-Buddhist Emblems" amongst densely decorated lotus scrolls, the neck decorated with the ribbon-tied "four-accomplishments" motif, the original domed cover with a large knob finial and similarly decorated, the b ...click for details

An exquisite and extremely rare 19th century Chinese Famille-Verte 'Month' Cup, delicately potted and superbly painted in the Kangxi style with a flowering apricot tree and clumps of grass issuing from the middle distance, representing the second month, inscribed on the reverse side with a couplet "qing xiang he su yu, jia se chu qing yan" (after the fragrance of the evening rain, the rising sun enhan ...click for details

DATE : Chinese, Qing Dynasty, 18th Century. ...click for details

A very fine and magnificent 19th century antique Chinese famille-verte porcelain rouleau vase, of impressive size and decorated in the Kangxi style, superbly painted with two large panels containing figures on horse back, the neck and sides decorated with smaller shaped cartouches of landscape scenes, all reserved on an intricate design of iron-red flowering scroll work background, the shoulder painted with a large ban ...click for details

A fine and unusual 19th century Chinese famille-rose porcelain moon flask vase, of large size, the flattened ovoid body decorated on both sides with figures in a garden scene within a large circular panel, the sides painted with birds on flowering branches, the cylindrical neck decorated with smaller panels of figures, shoulder flanked by a pair of "ruyi" form handles, the underside glazed white and bears a f ...click for details

A very fine and rare large 19th century Chinese carved and pierced ivory brush pot / vase, the ivory tusk exquisitely carved and pierced in high relief allover with four dragons amongst cloud-scrolls against an intricately pierced background, a leaping carp above breaking waves below a gate carved and incised with Chinese characters, the ivory aged and mellowed to a warm yellowish tone, and fixed (probably at a later d ...click for details