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THREE SMALL BRONZE BUDDHIST FIGURES 18th/19th century The standing figure dressed in a long robe with his left hand raised and right hand in vitar...

A BRONZE 'HE XIANGU' BRUSHREST 17th/18th century Cast in openwork with the Immortal holding a lotus branch in her right hand dressed in a long flo...

TWO BRONZE 'DUCK' INCENSE BURNERS 17th-19th century Each duck standing on one leg the head turned to one side, raised on a quatrefoil stand, the m...

A GROUP OF BRONZE VESSELS AND A FIGURE Ming to Qing Dynasty Comprising: a parcel-gilt figure of a warrior riding on a horse, wood stand; a silver ...

TWO BRONZE INCENSE BURNERS Late Qing Dynasty The first of compressed baluster form and with lion mask handles, Xuande six-character mark, 16.5cm ...

A BRONZE INCENSE BURNER Xuande six-character mark, 19th century The bombé body rising from a splayed foot, flanked by two animal-mask handles, the...

A BRONZE INCENSE BURNER Xuande six-character mark, Qing Dynasty The rounded body with a slightly everted rim, with a raised band encircling the bo...

A PARCEL GILT COPPER 'LOTUS' BOWL Possibly 17th century The rounded body decorated with lotus flowers borne on foliage, below a stepped rim. 15.3c...

A SILVER-INLAID DRAGON VASE AND DISH Late Qing Dynasty The dish decorated to the centre within a circular panel with a dragon amidst ruyi clouds a...

A PAIR OF BRONZE VASES, GU France, 19th century, by Maison Marnyhac, Paris Each cast with flowers, Buddhist emblems and archaistic animals, incise...

A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASE Meiji period Of tapering form, decorated in silver and gold wire with birds amongst a blossoming prunus tree and flowering...

A PAIR OF TOMEI JIPPO CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL VASES Meiji period Each of tapered form rising to a waisted neck, decorated with floral sprays against a ha...

TWO PAIRS OF JAPANESE BRONZE VASES Meiji period The smaller pair raised on three stylised phoenix form legs, the bodies cast with bird and flower ...

TWO PAIRS OF INLAID BRONZE VASES Meiji period The first pair of slender tapering form, inlaid with long tailed cockerels perched on blossoming pru...

A GROUP OF MIXED METAL VASES AND A WASHER Meiji period Comprising: a pair of slender ovoid bronze vases, decorated in relief in silver, gilt and c...

TWO PAIRS OF INLAID IRON VASES Meiji period Comprising: a pair of tapering vases with flared necks, worked in gold and silver with shaped panels e...

FUJII YOSHITOYO (BIHO, BORN 1868) OF KYOTO and KOMAI OF KYOTO A Finely Etched Sentoku (Brass Alloy) Small Vessel and Cover; and A Partially Inlaid...

A BRONZE JIZAI OKIMONO OF A CRAB Meiji period The crustacean naturalistically modelled, its legs and claws fully articulated, patinated to a redd...

A GILT AND POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF AIZEN MYO-O Japan, 19th century or possibly later The wrathful deity in a gilt-decorated floral garment and a...

A GILT-LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF BUDDHA AMIDA Edo period, 18th/19th century The seated Buddha in a long flowing robe with his hands in dhyanamudra,...

A SHIBAYAMA STYLE INLAID GOLD LACQUER TRAY Meiji period Of rectangular form, decorated with a scene depicting a gentleman with a hawk, an archer a...

A GROUP OF FOUR NETSUKE Japan, 19th century One carved as a large toad with a smaller toad resting on its back; one toad crouching with its body s...

TWO IVORY AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID PANELS Both signed Mizue and Naito, Meiji period One panel decorated with a man catching cicadas while a monk...

A KUTANI VASE AND A SATSUMA BOWL Meiji period The vase rising from a splayed foot to an ovoid body and a flared neck, painted in polychrome with f...

A PAIR OF SATSUMA BALUSTER VASES Meiji period Decorated in mirror image to the bodies with blossoming prunus trees, the necks with floral medallio...

A 'COCKEREL' SATSUMA JAR, COVER AND STAND Meiji period Of rounded bulbous form, the body decorated with shaped panels variously enclosing gentleme...

THREE 'ARTISAN' HANDSCROLLS Japan, 18th/19th century Ink and colour on paper. 60.6cm (258 1/4in); 90.6cm (379 5/8in); 50.7cm (225 3/4in). (6)....

A PAIR OF 'ARCHITECTURE AND PROPERTY' HANDSCROLLS Meiji period One illustrating methods in architectural paintings with a scene depicting sujikai ...

A 'FUJIYAMA' HANDSCROLL Japan, 19th century Depicting 19 individual views of Fujiyama, ink and colour on paper. 1280cm (504in) long. Footnotes: 日本...

A JAPANESE 'PROCESSION' HANDSCROLL Meiji period Ink and colour on paper, handscroll. 150.3cm (601 5/8in). Footnotes: 明治時代 式典圖 設色紙本 手卷 Provenance...

A NARA-EHON STYLE SCROLL SECTION 18th century Ink, colour and gold on paper, framed and glazed. 31.5cm (12 3/8in) x 126cm (49 5/8in). Footnotes: ...

AN ALBUM OF SHUNGA PRINTS AND FOUR SHUNGA PAINTINGS Japan, 18th/19th century An album containing 12 oban shunga prints after Kitagawa Utamaro (175...

YOSHIDA HIROSHI (1876-1950) Showa era (1926-1989), dated 1928 An oban yoko-e print titled along the left margin Komagatake iwa koya (Cave of Komag...

YOSHU CHIKANOBU (1838-1912) Meiji period Woodblock print, 10 oban triptychs, published by Fukuda Hatsujiro/Kumajiro, 1895 and 1896. 35.4cm (13 15...

A 'TIGER' MILITARY RANK BADGE, BUZI Late Qing Dynasty Designed for a fourth rank military official, finely worked in metallic threads with a tiger...

A GROUP OF ELEVEN TEXTILE PANELS 19th century Comprising: a pair of panels decorated with qilin and Buddhist lions amidst bats and clouds in Pekin...

AN EMBROIDERED 'EMMANUEL' POLYCHROME TEXTILE PANEL 20th century Finely embroidered in polychrome threads with various types of floral sprays scatt...

A SILK EMBROIDERED 'IMMORTALS' TABLE HANGING 19th/20th century Depicting the Eight Immortals and Three Star Gods with their various attributes, in...

A PALE BLUE GROUND LADY'S ROBE Late Qing Dynasty Finely woven with exotic butterflies amongst scattered fruit, flower and blossom sprays on a pale...

A BLACK-GROUND 'LOTUS' GAUZE ROBE Republic Decorated with black velvet borders and blue silk sleeves embroidered in gold-wrapped threads with bird...

A SELECTION OF CHINESE ART REFERENCE BOOKS AND CATALOGUES Comprising: reference books including Provenance: Collectors, Dealers and Scholars in th...

EDGAR GORER AND J.F BLACKER, 'CHINESE PORCELAIN AND HARDSTONES, VOLS, I-II, LONDON, QUARITCH, 1911 Quaritch, 1911, two volumes, original gilt deco...

A RUN OF ARTS OF ASIA CATALOGUES BETWEEN 1971 and 2018 (218). Footnotes: 一九七一年至二零一八年 《ARTS OF ASIA》圖錄一組 Please note this lot will be viewable by a...

A RUN OF ORIENTATIONS CATALOGUES BETWEEN 1972 and 2019 (340). Footnotes: 一九七二至二零一九年 《ORIENTATIONS》圖錄一組 Please note this lot will be viewable by ap...

CHINESE CERAMICS IN THE TOPKAPI SARAY MUSEUM, ISTANBUL, 1986 By R. Krahl, Sotheby's Publications, three volumes in a slip case, limited to 1500 co...

LA NOVAJ TEMPOJ (XINSHIJI) 1907 Dated 31 August, 1907 Published in 4, rue Broca, Paris. 55cm (21 5/8in) wide. Footnotes: 一九零七年八月三十一日 新世紀 Prove...

THREE WOODBLOCK PRINTED TEXTS Circa 1573-1620; 19th century Comprising one volume yitongzhi, comprising parts 59 and 60; one volume of Dongzhoulie...

EIGHT CATALOGUES RELATING TO CHINESE ART Comprising: H.F.E. Visser, The Exhibition of Chinese Art of the Society of Friends of Asiatic Art, The Ha...

DISCOURSE ON THE NEWLY-BUILT ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE OBSERVATORY (xinzhilingtaiyixiang zhi); DESCRIPTION OF THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT UNDER...

SIXTEEN WOODBLOCK PRINTED BOOKS ON CONFUCIANISM, RELIGION AND PHILSOPHY Qing Dynasty/Republic period Comprising: one volume of Qindingshujingchuan...

ZHU ZHENGSHENG; ZHU YAN; FOLLOWER OF LAN YIN (1585-1664) Scholar with Boy; Birds; Landscape Ink and colour on paper, six hanging scrolls. The thre...

LI DIYUAN; JIN PEISHAN (Iletungge); ANONYMOUS Calligraphy Comprising: three pairs of hanging scrolls and two single hanging scrolls, ink on paper....

SHI ZHU ZHAI JIANPU; WU CHANGSHUO HUAHUI CE 1952; 1972 Two woodblock printed books comprising: Shi Zhu Zhai Jianpu, four volumes bound in a silk b...

CHINESE EXPORT SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) An Album of Tradesmen Ten leaves, ink and colour on pith paper. Each leaf 19.5cm (7 3/4in) x 31.5cm (12 3/8in...

CHINESE EXPORT SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) Bird and Flower studies Set of eight, ink and gouache on paper, unframed. 44.9cm (17 11/16in) high x 31.7cm (...

CHINESE EXPORT SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) Figurative studies Ink and colour on paper, unmounted. 31.9cm (12 9/16in) x 23cm (9 1/16in). (12). Footnotes:...

CHINESE EXPORT SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) Seated Figures A set of six pith paper paintings, framed and glazed. Each 18.2cm (7 1/8in) x 28.8cm (11 5/16i...

A THREE-FOLD WALL PAPER SCREEN 19th century The panels variously painted on silk with birds and butterflies amidst flowers and leaves, set within ...

ANONYMOUS (19TH CENTURY) Ladies Ink and colour on paper, framed and glazed. 137cm (53 7/8in) high x 61cm (24in) wide. (3). Footnotes: 十九世紀 佚名 仕女圖 ...

A PALACE PAINTING AND AN EMBROIDERY OF AN OX 19th century and Republic The painting ink and colour on silk, both framed and glazed. The painting...