A crescent-shaped, hand-held ritual flaying knife extending to a Makara with mouth wide open attached a curved iron blade, used in the tantric cer...

The vase is decorated to the body with large scrolling peonies above a lappet band to the foot. The neck is decorated with a band of stiff leaves ...

The thinly potted shallow cup rising from a short flared foot to an everted rim, the rounded sides divided into six petal lobes by notches around ...

The rounded, vertically-lobed sides rising from a straight foot, covered overall with a crackled sea-green glaze, the footring unglazed revealing ...

A Chinese celadon excavated vase with two handles in the shape of fish, the neck having two double line incisions and third double line incision o...

22 cm. without standPROVENANCE Private collection, Germany

A Chinese celadon bowl with low rounded sides, the exterior carved in relief with peonies and leaves above a carved band of petals around the glaz...

With rounded sides and flattened rim. The interior carved and incised with a peony in a medallion in the centre, the well with a continuous flower...

The Master of Animals motif features a singular janiform figure standing atop a petite discoid base, holding the necks of two stylized zoomorphic ...

Ceramics robustly potted and raised on three mask-and-paw feet, the shallow rounded sides carved with the 'Eight Trigrams', between bands of appli...

A Chinese double gourd moon flask fashioned with two ruyi shaped handles. Decorated in iron-red with five-clawed dragons and twin-fish with precio...

A Tibetan damascened iron ritual knife, the blade emerging from the open mouth of an aquatic Makara. Length: 37 cm. PROVENANCE Private c...

A leaf shaped brush washer with carved ram head handle, carved on the underside with a roundel enclosing a flower head.Length: 20.5 cm

A Chinese porcelain charger decorated in cobalt blue with a large central medallion painted with a bird perched beside flowers in a lake landscape...

A Chinese porcelain charger decorated in cobalt blue with a large central medallion painted with a bird perched beside flowers in a lake landscape...

A Chinese ovoid porcelain jar, decorated with a thick purple glaze infused with red and lavender streaks. The base is covered with a mottled cafe-...

A Chinese porcelain vase stylized with two iron-red elephant head handles, well-enamelled around the bulbous body with four large stylized lotus b...

A Chinese porcelain jar with globular body and high shoulder, decorated in cobalt-blue with panels enclosing peonies blossoming branches growing f...

The tall domed cage composed of evenly spaced vertical gilt-bronze ribs, surmounted by a hook finial. The interior base and exterior is decorated ...

The stamped relief decoration of indigo and brown on a green glaze with transmutes into turquoise and brown and drips to the lower body. Encircli...

A Chinese porcelain dish decorated to the interior with two large five-clawed dragons chasing a flaming pearl amongst clouds, the exterior is simi...

The cup is delicately potted with slightly flared sides supported on a short foot. The thin eggshell body is covered on the exterior with an even ...

A Chinese porcelain dragon, cast seated on its back paws and supported on its front paws, the body covered with scales, the bushy tail swipes to t...

The cover and sides are each decorated with dragons chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds, the cover with a central panel enclosing a facing five-...

A Chinese porcelain pear shaped vase, decorated in cobalt-blue with a three-clawed dragon in reverse chasing a flaming pearl amongst waves and abo...

A Chinese porcelain brush pot decorated in famille verte enamels with figures in a fenced garden. Height: 18.5 cm. Diameter: 12 cm.

A Longquan celadon bulb bowl supported on three paw fee, everted rim with vertical ribs, the sides nicely carved with a frieze of detached peony s...

A Sancai dish of oblong shape with shallow sides terminating in an everted barbed rim, the interior crisply impressed with lotus blossoming sprig...

A Chinese celadon bowl standing on a short foot with slightly conical siders, the interior impressed with figures below a key fret chain, covered ...

A Chinese yueyao vessel modelled in the form of crouching mythical beast, on short legs tucked beneath the body, the broad snouted head with fangs...

A Chinese celadon figure of the god of war, Guan Yu, covered with a light green glaze to the foot, semi-hollow base with an unglazed foot-rim burn...

A bronze oil lamp base with mythical beast and his legs supported on an elephant head. Height: 27.5 cm. PROVENANCE Private collection, Germany

A Chinese Henan brush washer resting on a knife pared foot-rim, covered overall with a lustrous black glaze streaked with metallic grey splashes r...

The rounded sides lightly moulded on the exterior with a band of upturned lotus petals, covered overall in a glaze of soft bluish sea-green tone, ...

A Chinese Henan jar of well potted ovoid form tapering forwards the countersunk base, covered with a lustrous black glaze regularly streaked with ...

Cast, standing in samabhangaon a stepped pedestal, both hands in abhayamudra, wearing uttarasangha and samghati secured with a belt, his face with...

A Chinese porcelain bottle vase, rising from a short foot to a tapering neck, brightly painted around the exterior with stylised scrolling lotus s...

The diminutive and delicate heart shaped feeder with two handles to side, decorated in iron-red with fish amongst foliage in cobalt-blue. Height:...

The peach-form teapot moulded with five bats and sprays of lingzhi, flanked with naturalistic branch-form spout and loop handle. Height: 13.5 cm.

A Chinese porcelain cup with crisp moulding, the rim slightly everted with delicate indents representing where the leaves end. The body is moulded...

The white cups decorated on both sides in relief with magnolia-blossoms, each polychromed with yellow and red enamels. The cup is supported on the...

The oviform body is divided into six lobes, and the shoulder is applied with a pair of small loops moulded with flower heads between the curved sp...

Of rectangular form with canted corners, decorated in vibrant tones of cobalt-blue to the cover with a rectangular panel enclosing two five-clawed...

Each dish is decorated to the center with a fan-shaped panel containing ladies seated on a terrace, the panel surrounded by beribboned precious ob...

Two thinly potted Chinese scalloped-rim blue and white porcelain dishes decorated with a central scene of a mounted man and woman out hunting with...

Of globular form with tapering cylindrical neck, covered in an olive-green glaze with yellow speckles, the bottom with a Chinese Daoguang seal mar...

The pear-shaped body with a curved spout, joined to the neck with a cloud-shaped strut, opposite an arched loop handle terminating in three moulde...

The compressed body is raised on three short feet and has a flat everted barbed rim, lobed body and neck, with three narrow flanges. The censer is...

A Chinese porcelain brush pot decorated in cobalt blue with a lady accompanied by her servant meeting a gentleman in a forest landscape, while his...

The leaf shaped cup is decorated with moulded leafy branch to the exterior, and the stem is modeled as a gnarled branch, ear in the form of a bran...

Rising from a short foot to a wide everted flat rim, finely moulded in precise detail to the interior with a pair of scaly carp, the fins, scales ...

The full, pear-shaped body raised on a short, slightly spreading foot, rising to a slender neck and widely everted trumpet mouth, freely painted i...

A Chinese hu vase with a pear shaped body, with mouth and tubular handles, supported on a foot of corresponding section to the broad neck, covered...

A Chinese porcelain meiping vase, the neck with a everted rim is decorated with a band of vertical grooves. The body with a carved and incised des...

A conjoined pink sandstone torso carving of a couple, wearing a sampot secured with a belt and with a fish-tail shaped sash falling to the front, ...

A Chinese porcelain vase, decorated in famille rose enamels with boys at play around a cart with precious objects and beside a large pine tree. Al...

A Chinese porcelain octagonal dish, finely decorated in cobalt blue with a seated Buddha on a lotus stand and an Immortal in clouds in a mountaino...

A Chinese porcelain jar decorated in cobalt blue with a dignitary accompanied by his servants and attendants in a fenced garden beside large banan...

A Chinese bottle vase decorated in iron-red with a leaping five-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl amongst clouds above waves crashing on rocks...

Foliated dish with light green glossy glaze and rather flat everted sides. The large domed centre with an incised design of clouds (or feathers). ...