10 x 7 1/4 ins. (25.4 x 8.4 cms). This superb print is one of a set of 12 images each of which represents a different month. This print is the design for October and shows a hiker in Western costume engaged with a passing peasant girl. As with most shunga prints, the artist's name is not revealed but this series is sometimes attributed to Toshinobu (1857-86) ...click for details

This wonderful and very rare pottery model of a tortoise was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 -1279) or the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368). It is made from a black earthenware. The details have been individually sculpted as opposed to having been formed in a mould; note the tortoise's smiling face complete with ears and eyebrows! On t ...click for details

Diameter 8 1/2 ins. (21.6 cms). Genuine Kakiemon porcelain is very rare and these are particularly fine and early examples. The very appealing design shows a central motif of pheasants on a rock surrounded by flowers and leaves and an outer design of unidentified birds interspersed with flowers, leaves and "karakusa" scrolling motifs. ...click for details

The outside of the jar and cover are coated in a particularly attractive green glaze that has been applied on to ...click for details

Ht. 8 3/4 ins. (22.2 cms). This beautiful lacquered wood wine bottle dates from the second half of the 19th. century. It is in fine condition with the exception of a very small chip on the lip (see photos), and an even tinier chip on the knob of the stopper. It is decorated with the Aoi-gomon crest of the Tokugawa Shogun family. It was part of the Edoris ...click for details

Henri Vever (1854-1942) was the most celebrated Parisian jeweler of La Belle Époque in France. An obsessive collector, he amassed a number of very important collections. Among these was a collection of Indian and Persian art which was thought to be lost until it was found in France in 1984. It was subsequently sold to a ...click for details