A rare miniature Chinese export famille rose tea service consisting of a teapot, cream jug, sugar bowl, teapot stand, spoon tray, four coffee cups, nine teabowls and seven saucers decorated with a family and attendant on a terrace by a river, the man dressed in a fur jacket, collar and mandarin hat and smoking a long tobacco pipe. Qianlong (1736-95).
Teapot. Height 9.5 cm. Gilding rubbed, glaze crack to base not penet ...click for details
A rare fragmentary T’ang bronze Sogdian dancer, the figure with typically pronounced Asiatic features, originally standing on one booted leg and engaged in a dance in a long-sleeved costume. Height (excl. stand): 11.3 cm. c. 7th cent.
The left leg (and probably integral stand) missing. Old damage to right hand and hilt of curved dagger mounted at his waist. Nose somewhat flattened. No other damage. ...click for details
A Hida school ittobori netsuke of a puppy seated, the eyes inlaid in horn, deftly carved in yew wood and signed Sukekazu. Length: 4.8 cm. Probably mid-late 19th. cent.
Decent patina. Good condition, a few small knocks only.
A similar netsuke in the collection of The Frost Art Museum, Florida International University.
An attractive provincial Ming bowl with an everted rim, decorated to exterior and interior with a stylised floral design in a soft underglaze blue, the centre with a medallion of a Buddhist conch. Diameter: 15.4 cm. 17th cent.
The bowl has the radiating chatter marks to the base particularly associated with the Tianqi period.
A miniature sancai buff pottery bowl splashed with a good green and amber glaze, the exterior unglazed. Diameter: 5.5 cm. T’ang Dynasty 6-8th cent. AD.
Provenance: Sister Wendy Beckett; Dragon Arts Gallery, Los Angeles.
An Italian or Spanish burgundy velvet altar frontal embroidered with scrolling floral panels and vases of flowers. Framed dimensions: 85.5 x 238.0 cm. 16/17th cent.
Heavily worn. Large areas of the velvet were once appliqued in gold silk, now torn and fragmentary.
A Chinese export verte imari plate decorated with a motif of a vase on a table and scattered Precious Objects within a bamboo border. Diameter: 23.0 cm. Kangxi (1662-1722).
