A very fine and rare 18th century Chinese "Guan" type celadon glazed porcelain alms bowl, the large size deep circular bowl superbly potted and beautifully covered inside and out with a light celadon glaze suffused with faint and darker streaks of crackles, top rim glazed white, the unglazed foot rim displaying a smooth dense grain paste characteristic of 18th century porcelain, comes with an old and exquisit ...click for details

A very fine and superb 19th century Chinese famille-rose yellow-ground porcelain vase, finely potted with an unusual garlic-head and globular body, exquisitely painted allover with fruiting and flowering branches, birds and butterflies, all reserved on an imperial-yellow ground, a band of "ruyi" around the top rim, and lappets encircling the foot, top rim gilded, interior and base glazed white and bearing a M ...click for details

A large and very rare 18th / 19th century antique Chinese famille-rose porcelain vase, the heavily potted classic "Cong" shape vase in four-sided square form rising to a short circular neck with gently everted rim and supported on a low circular foot, each of the four body panels finely painted in famille-rose palette with various figures with details picked out in gilt, applied with a pair of ringed elephant ...click for details

A fine late 19th century Chinese Imperial yellow-ground porcelain bowl, finely potted and painted to the exterior with alternated pattern of iron-red bats, gilt 'shou' medallions and blue swastikas, with details picked out in gilt, all reserved on Imperial yellow-ground, two gold rings around the foot and the top rim further gilded, interior and underside glazed white, the base neatly inscribed with the six-cha ...click for details

A fine and rare Chinese Ming dynasty Longquan celadon glazed porcelain "Hu" vase, the small size superbly potted vessel took on the classic archaistic bronze "Hu" form with globular body rising to a tall cylindrical neck with two single ring bands below a wide gently up-turned lip, a group of three ring band around the body with a further banding of double-ring encircling the shoulder, covered allo ...click for details

A very fine large and rare 18th century Qianlong period Chinese carved celadon glazed porcelain "lotus" vase, the stoutly potted globular body lightly carved with layers of overlapping lotus petals, the design repeated rising from and pendent from a single ring around the center of the waisted neck and overturned shaped rim, covered overall with a fine and evenly applied pale green celadon glaze. Remains of a ...click for details

A fine and very rare 19th / early 20th century Chinese inscribed famille-rose enameled scholar's porcelain water coupe, the bulbous vessel well potted with a gently tapered base, delicately painted to one side of the body with a stag, a bat, and a tortoise, with some detail picked-out in gilt, reverse side neatly inscribed in black "Wen Zheng Nian Zuo" (Made in the year of Wen Zheng), above a vertical lin ...click for details

A very fine and superb 18th century Chinese Qianlong mark and period famille-rose enameled porcelain bowl, the small size bowl delicately potted and exquisitely enameled around the exterior with four blue-enameled circular medallions enclosing a gilded "Shou" character, each medallion alternated by a pair of iron-red bats with details picked-out in gold, a band of "ruyi" heads enameled in turquoise b ...click for details

A superb and very fine 18th century Chinese blue and white porcelain jardinière / planter, the perfectly rounded vessel finely potted with wide everted rim tapered gently towards the base and supported on a low circular foot, finely painted around the body in underglazed-blue with a pair of four-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl amongst cloud scrolls, all above breaking sea waves, covered in a white glaze with ...click for details

A fine and extremely rare of 18th / early 19th century Chinese Jiaqing mark and period blue and white porcelain tray, the square form tray well potted and finely painted to the center with two large carp fish, the outside borders with indented corners and decorated with scrollwork, the underside with four small bracket feet, covered allover in a white glaze with very pale bluish-tinged, the spur-marked base inscribed w ...click for details