A very finely painted large Chinese jardiniere dating to the late 19th Century, the exterior decorated with vivid panels of children playing in a garden setting alternating with landscape scenes. Width: 40.6cm Height: 35.6cm Condition: Excellent, no chips, cracks or restoration, just a little wear to the gilding on the rim and some grit adhering to the side of the base.

A blue and white lamp stand dating to the early Kangxi period probably used in a Buddhist temple. The neck is decorated with the four characters for Amitabha buddha and the base with auspicious symbols and flowers. Height: 20.4cm Provenance: E&J Frankel Collection paper label to the base Condition: Excellent apart from a small firing flaw on the neck, a few tiny chips to the foot and some wear to the glaze

The Grandeur of the Gorges published by Kelly & Walsh (Shanghai) 1926 with 50 photographic plates (12 hand coloured), half gold-paper/silk covered boards...

A rare photo album comprising 24 photos of typical Chinese people in everyday life taken by J.C Carter...

An extremely rare photographic album of 28 photographs of Southern China by one of the most famous photograhers of the Republica Era, Donald Mennie...

A blue and white jar dating from the Kangxi period decorated with large plunus blossom flowers and with it's original lid. Height: 24.8cm Condition: Perfect with a small firing flaw on the base Provenance: Christies, New York 2005

A pear shaped powder-blue vase with gilt decoration of butterflies and flowers dating to the Kangxi period. Height: 23.3cm Condition: Excellent apart from losses to the gilt decoration. No chips, cracks or restoration. Provenance: FOS & MM Dobell

A Chinese bottle vase covered in a bright green crackled glaze dating from the 18th or early 19th Century. Height: 15cm Provenance: FOS & MM Dobell Condition: Excellent, small area of minor glaze surface scratching to the side; no chips, cracks or restoration

A very finely potted Qianlong (1736-1795) Imperial dish with an everted rim painted with rich cobalt blue colours, the center decorated with the 'Three Friends of Winter' (岁寒三友) which is leafy bamboo emerging from behind a jagged rock flanked by a tall knotty pine on the left and a gnarled blossoming prunus tree on the right enclosed within double line borders. The underside with an elegant pavilion scene of a seated lady and two young boys at play in a garden...

A very finely painted Kangxi period (1662-1722) famille verte bowl with barbed rim and molded lotus petal panels. The exterior with two dragons chasing flaming pearls above flowers and shells on waves. The interior with a flaming pearl surrounded by flowers and shells on the inner rim...

A large famille rose bowl dating from the Qianlong period (1735-1795) painted extremely finely with two large and two smaller panels of figures in a landscape on a cell pattern backgound. The interior of the bowl with a charming scene of figures and children. Diameter: 28.5cm Condition: Exceptional, the enamels and gilding are amazingly well preserved and the colours bright and vivid. The rim has a single small chip but otherwise perfect with no cracks or restoration.

A very large famille verte dish dating from the Kangxi period (1662-1722) decorated with two figures on a bridge in a garden setting, circled by butterfiles and with figures and flowers at the border. Diameter: 36.5cm Condition: Excellent apart from fritting around the edges with a few tiny filled frits, some wear to the enamels and a small, faint 1.5cm glaze crack which is only visible on one side.