A boxwood okimono of a seated man pounding rice. Eyes inlaid with horn. Height: 9.8 cm.Nineteenth century. Signed in an ivory plaque on the base: Katsudake or Katsuoka.
A Burmese bronze weight weighing 1 viss ( approx.1600 g.) in the form of a to-aung. Nine-petalled inspection mark to sloping rectangular base. Height:11.5 cm. Nineteenth century.
A similar weight is illustrated in Fraser-Lu: Burmese Crafts (Oxford, 2002) p. 137.
A pair of Chinese export porcelain bowls from the Nanking Cargo, decorated in underglaze blue with a figure on a bridge in a rocky landscape. Diameter: 15.2 cm. Qianlong (1736-95).
Labels to base. Lot 3109 in Christie’s sale.
One slightly fritted (5 small frits). No other faults.
A very attractive European saucer enamelled on copper with a pair of lovers dressed as shepherd and shepherdess in a rustic landscape with a herm and a bird being removed from its cage on a white ground within a gilt border. Marked to the reverse: NI Le: Fo: Lieb 1790. French, late eighteenth century. Diameter: 14 cm.
A Chinese export porcelain botanical plate decorated in famille rose enamels with a rose and other scattered blooms. Diameter: 23 cm. Qianlong (1736-95).
Slight chipping at 8.00 (due to platehanger). Minor wear. No other faults.
A Chinese export famille rose plate decorated with a design of a vase surrounded by antiques and floral blooms. Diameter: 23 cm. Yongzheng (1723-35).
4.5 cm. hairline crack at 1.00. A curved firing flaw within the cavetto under the glaze. Chipping and discolouration to rim on reverse. A few nibbles to brown enamelled rim. No other faults.
A rare Chinese export teabowl and saucer decorated in famille rose enamels with a variant of the Cherry Pickers pattern showing Chinese figures collecting fruit in a pastoral landscape with goats (or rams) and figures carrying a sedan chair in the background within a gilt and black enamel diaper border. Diameter of saucer: 11.8cm. Yongzheng/Qianlong.
The saucer with rubbing to the silvering of the inner border and two ...click for details
A hexagonal Peranakan or Straits Chinese lacquer chanab (and cover), carved and gilded with panels of an altar garniture and various courtly figures, the feet supported on Buddhistic lions. Height: 24 cm., width: 32 cm., depth: 12 cm. 19th cent.
The chanab itself is in excellent condition having been preserved by its cover. There are two losses to the pierced decoration on the middle and right sections of the apron visib ...click for details
A pair of Chinese export blue and white dishes of lotus form with birds confronting on a floral ground within a similar border. Diameter: 17 cm. Kangxi (1662-1722).
One with a small chip to one lobe of the rim at 2.00. No other faults.
