Comprising a smiling Budai resting on his cloth bag, wearing long open robes with his left hand holding rosary beads, and a bearded Immortal ridin...
Comprising a smiling Budai resting on his cloth bag, wearing long open robes with his left hand holding rosary beads, and a bearded Immortal ridin...
A Persian pottery bowl of rounded form on a short foot, painted in blue, brown and turquoise, the interior divided into panels and triangles decor...
Chinese archaic bronze rectangular ritual food vessel, cast in relief with a band of bats and leiwen above protruding spikes and hooked corner fla...
Framed silk painting, depicting two tanuki (Japanese raccoon dogs). 104 by 36 cm.
Large Swatow deep circular dish (Zhangzhou ware from Fujian Province) with a central roundel with a green and black drawing of a landscape with a ...
A Chinese porcelain bottle vase with compressed body, covered with a deep blue glaze. The bottom with a Chinese Yongzheng six character mark on a ...
The jar with a compressed globular body tapering towards a flat base and surmounted by a waisted neck with flared galleried rim, the glaze degrade...
Arabic manuscript on paper, 8 lines, written diagonally in black naskh script, reserved in clouds, ruled with polychrome borders, the margins styl...
The body is decorated with the Three Friends of Winter, bamboo, prunus and pine interspersed with other flowers, above a scrolls and lappet band a...
Robustly potted with high broad round shoulders sloping down towards the tapering ovoid body, painted in rich cobalt blue tones, the main register...
Yue jar of ovoid form, without neck, decorated on the shoulders with radiating vertical ribs. The body shows incised lotus petals; covered overall...
An Arabic manuscript on paper, 5ll., written in black naskh and thuluth script. The text features a Hadith of the prophet. The border stylized wit...
A pair of small Chinese porcelain tureens, covers and stands, each decorated in cobalt blue with a child in a fenced garden. Tureen Length: 1...
The dish is finely decorated to the centre with a star-shaped panel enclosing a large censer filled with precious objects and flowers in a fenced ...
A Chinese porcelain brush pot, decorated with two striding dragons chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds and above crashing sea waves. Height 14...
Decorated in blue with a central panel enclosing a bird perched on ornamental rocks amongst flowers, the sides with alternating panels enclosing f...
A Chinese porcelain dish, finely decorated to the centre with a star-shaped panel enclosing a bird perched on a rock amongst flowers, all surround...
The censer is modelled with a pierced cover decorated as a swirling mountain. It stands on a goblet base supported by a single column on a circula...
A Chinese inkstone carved from green Duanxi-stone found in South-East Gaoyao County in Guangdong Province. 19.5 by 9.5 by 2.5 cm. PROVENANCE P...
A Chinese porcelain pillow in the shape of butterfly, carved on the surface with details of the body and the wings, covered overall with an olive-...
A pair of Chinese cinnabar vases, carved in high relief with peony-blossoming branches growing from ornamental rocks on a finely textured and patt...
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...
The pommel, the grip and the guard are finely carved with flowers and panels. The scabbard is carved in openwork with a dragon to each side. Le...
Finely carved in pale celadon jade with russet inclusions, this intricately designed plaque features an openwork composition of dragons and phoeni...
Grisaille pen and ink heightened with gold on paper. Laid down on album leaf decorated a youth and an old man accompanied with a dog, ruled in g...
Arabic manuscript on paper, 24 leaves with 8 lines to each page. First and last line written in strong large thuluth script on light copper red do...
Of accentuated inverted drop-shape with pointed lower terminal, with a brass core surrounded by an elaborately chased silver mount, windows of sil...
A Chinese porcelain dish, finely decorated to the centre with a star-shaped panel enclosing a bird perched on a rock below a butterfly in flight a...
The large water dropper is moulded in the shape of a crouching frog with a circular aperture on its back and a short spout issuing from its mouth,...
A large Chinese porcelain pear-shaped vase, heavily potted with a wide generous body and two squared archaistic pierced handles on the shoulder, t...
Inlaid Gilt-bronze Ruyi Scepter. Cast in the form of a gnarled ruyi branch entwined with variously colored gem-set stones. Length 26.5 cm.
Arabic manuscript on paper, 7 lines in black Naskh script, depicting Surah al-Falaq, set in clouds. The outer border features a polychrome floral ...
Decorated in manganese on a cream ground with a circle motif to the centre, the rim with a band of inscription in Kufic. Diameter: 27.8 cm. In...
Height: 9 cm. Diameter: 18 cm.
A Chinese six lobed shaped bronze mirror with a central knob. Diameter: 11 cm.
This Japanese woodblock print (ukiyo-e) depicts a white heron perched on a tree branch during a rainy scene. The delicate use of shading, fine lin...
Height without ball: 46 cm. Ball diameter: 12 cm.
The nine-headed, thousand-armed deity standing atop a circular double-lotus base, his primary hands folded in front of his chest in anjalimudra, e...
Opaque pigment heightened with gold on paper, laid down on red card borders, depicting Maharaja Man Singh on a horse surrounded by his soldiers. ...
Gouache colours heightened with gold on paper, depicting the Miraculous Night Journey of the Prophet Muhammad, with the veiled Prophet Muhammad ri...
Grisaille pen and ink heightened with gold on paper. Laid down on album leaf decorated with a lady holding a cup and a jug in landscape, ruled i...
Bronze with traces of pigment. This finely crafted bronze depicts Lord Shiva with a serene expression, crowned by a protective cobra hood (naga)...
The fierce protector and embodiment of Vajra energy, shown in dynamic embrace with his consort (shakti). Vajrapani holds a vajra and gantha bell, ...
Height 15 cm. Diameter 11 cm.
A Chinese porcelain meiping vase decorated around the body in copper red with the three friends of winter, set between a petal lappet border to th...
The dish is boldly decorated to the interior with a large, leafy, flowering cockscomb plant growing from rocks. The exterior is decorated with thr...
A Chinese porcelain jar decorated in doucai enamels with lotus scrolls and ruyi heads, set between petal lappet border to the base and the shoulde...
A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 15 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a gilt and polychrome border. Surah headings...
Opaque pigment heightened with gold on paper, laid down on red card borders, depicting a prince on a horse. 33 by 23 cm.
This is a well-preserved example of an ancient Greek black-figure hydria, a type of vessel commonly used for carrying water. The hydria is charact...
10.7 by 8.5 cm. Good condition. PROVENANCE Private collection, Switzerland
A Chinese porcelain box with a square-shaped design and a slightly domed lid. The surface and the sides richly decorated with a red and blue ename...
29 by 22 by 19 cm.
A Chinese celadon bowl, the ten lobed bowl with slightly curved sides, a subtly flaring petalled rim, smooth transition from one petal lobe to the...
A large Indian metal flask with a cork stopper, painted on both sides with roundels enclosing a scene of a Mughal prince enjoying a drink with his...
Arabic manuscript on paper depicting prayers in honour of the Prophet Muhammad, each folio with 8 lines written in elegant black naskh script, int...
Gouache colours heightened with gold on paper, Ram and Laxman carried by Garuda, perhaps a folio from Ramyana series. 20 by 15 cm.
Two Qajar brass turquoise-mounted brass ghalian cups, each of flared bucket form with additional red gem-stones decoration.
Gouache heightened with gold and silver on paper, a ruler, seated on a terrace, smoking a hooka, an attendant waving a morchal above him, applied ...