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A small stoneware figurine with celadon glaze, showing a kneeling mother chewing a betel leave and holding her baby at the breast. Dating to the 14th to mid 16th century. Please refer to "Thai Ceramics: The James and Elaine Connell Collection" No. 97. Condition: fine. Dimension: 10.5 cm high.

A Japanese "arrow toss" game vase made of copper and decorated with polychrome enamels, the rims and wires are gilt. Showing antiques and auspicious symbols on a white ground, the base with "fuku" mark. The "arrow-toss" game originated from China and was at the beginning very popular with the aristocrats and survived as a pastime well into the Edo period. From an old Swiss private collection. Condition: few traces of usage, the mouth rim is inside a bit bent (see pict. 12). Dimension: 18.6 cm hi...

A small stoneware figurine with crackled celadon glaze, showing a kneeling mother holding her baby at the breast. Dating to the 14th to mid 16th century. Please refer to "Thai Ceramics: The James and Elaine Connell Collection" No. 97. Condition: some firing flaws and chips. Dimension: 11.5 cm high.

Snuff bottle of rounded form made of agate with some darker cloudy inclusions, standing on a flat foot. The stopper is a metal mounted coral imitating glass bead, short metal spoon. Condition: fine, mouth rim with few tiny rim frits, spoon maybe shortened. Dimension: total height: 6.2 cm.

A well hollowed, bulbous shaped agate snuff bottle with some dark inclusions, standing on a flat foot. The stopper with transparent green glass top and bone spoon. Condition: fine, only stopper with few tiny rim frits. Dimension: total height: 6 cm.

A pair of framed oval miniature Chinese School export oil paintings, each showing a Chinese boat at sea. Mounted in antique gilt wooden frames. Condition: fine, frames with Little wear. Dimension: paintings: 8.3 cm x 6.5 cm, frames: 25 cm x 22 cm.

A reverse glass painting, maybe Mazandaran, embellished with gold foil, showing a man with rifle on horseback. The backside is a mirror, all mounted in a wooden frame. From a Swiss gentleman's collection. Condition: few small areas of the mirror are blind. Dimension: 20.1 cm x 14.6 cm.

Chinese carved boxwood figurine depicting the Song poet and painter Su Dongpo dressed as a scholar and enjoying his ink stone. Fixed on a wooden base. Condition: fine, some patina and tiny stains. Dimension: total height: 18.1 cm.

A reverse glass painting embellished with gold foil, showing two girls dancing. The backside is a mirror decorated with small gilt metal foil flowers forming a mihrab. From a Swiss gentleman's collection. Condition: mirror with cracks, traces of age. Dimension: 21 cm x 13.2 cm.

Chinese carved boxwood figurine depicting the the immortal Lu Dongbin dressed as a scholar with his attributes the sword and the fly whisk. Fixed on a wooden base. Condition: fine, some patina. Dimension: total height: 17.1 cm.

Chinese carved boxwood figurine depicting the Tang poet Li Bai dressed as an official and holding a cup of wine. Fixed on a wooden base. Condition: fine, some patina. Dimension: total height: 18.2 cm.

A pair antique Chinese silver salts, in the shape of a prunus bark standing on three feet. With original glass inserts and two little spoons. Bases with maker's mark "SF","90" and a Chinese character hallmark. The silversmith Sing Fat was active in Canton and Shanghai circa 1880-1930. Condition: inside little corroded, one glass insert with a rim chip, one foot little bent, one spoon with a small dent. Please look at photos carefully being part of condition report. Dimension: 3.5 cm x 3.5 cm x 3...

Large Satsuma earthenware plate finely painted with enamels and gold. The well decorated with a peacock perching on a flowering tree amidst flowers and a creek. Dating to the Meiji or Taisho period. Base with two letters, apparently a collector's monogram. With adapted wall mount bracket. Condition: fine, only reverse with few faint stains. Dimension: diameter: 31.8 cm, c. 4 cm high.

A pair Canton porcelain plates lavishly decorated with butterflies and flowers in "Famille rose" enamels and gold. Dating to the 19th century. Condition: minor wear to enamels, one plate with an over gilded chip (picture 9). Diameter: 24.5 cm.

A lovely porcelain cream pitcher with cover showing figures at leisure, painted in "Famille rose" and gold. Dating to the early 18th century. Condition: minor wear to gilding, cover with frittings and small chips. Please look at pictures carefully, they make part of the condition report. Dimension: 13 cm high.

Composed of two silver plaques decorated with a bird on a branch in repousse. Hook and eye closure, the clasp with double-headed eagle emblem. Provincial Ottoman Empire, 19th C. Condition: traces of usage, central part with some verdigris. Please look at pictures carefully, they make part of the condition report. Dimension: 24.5 cm long, 9 cm high. Weight: 192 gram.

Tibetan altar table made of heavy wood, painted with a three faced and six armed Boddhisattva, the sides decorated with skulls and vajras. Condition: some traces of usage, some losses to paint. Please look at pictures carefully, they make part of the condition report. Dimension: 27.8 cm x 28.5 cm x 6.3 cm, weight: 1005 g.

Two small Chinese fine paintings in ink and colors on silk. One depicting a female warrior, maybe Mulan, the other with a Chinese Beauty. Mounted in gold lacquered wood frames. Condition: fine. Dimension image: 17.2 cm x 8.6 cm, frame: 23 cm x 15.3 cm.