A SMALL LAC BURGAUTE MALLET VASE, KANGXI PERIOD, JIANG QIANLI MARKChina, 1662-1722. The cylindrical body with the rounded shoulder surmounted by a...

A MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK-LACQUER AND SILVER POURING VESSEL, YIChina, 17th - 18th century. The black dry lacqu...

A PAIR OF ZITAN WEIQI COUNTER CONTAINERS, WEIQIZIHE, 17TH-18TH CENTURYChina. Each of melon form, with well-rounded double lobes divided by ridges,...

A HUANGHUALI LOW TABLE, KANGZHUO, 17TH-18TH CENTURYChina. Superbly carved with the top panel set within a rectangular frame with a beaded 'ice-pla...

A CINNABAR LACQUER THREE-TIERED BOX AND COVER, LATE YUAN TO MID-MING DYNASTYChina, 14th-16th century. Of rounded square form, supported on a sprea...

A SMALL CINNABAR LACQUER BOX AND COVER, YUAN TO EARLY MING DYNASTYOpinion: Recent research into the dating of carved lacquer has put forward the s...

AN IMPERIAL JADE-INLAID CINNABAR LACQUER WALL VASE INSCRIBED WITH A POEM BY HONGLI (1711-1799), QIANLONG PERIODThe poem inscribed on the jade plaq...

A THREE-COLOR LACQUER 'CHUN' SPRING BOX AND COVER, QIANLONG PERIODChina, 1736-1795. The top of the cover with a circular panel that is deeply carv...

A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID ROSEWOOD APOSTLE CROSS, 17TH-18TH CENTURYChina, Macau. Finely inlaid with neatly incised mother-of-pearl to depict fruiti...

A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID ROSEWOOD APOSTLE CROSS, VIETNAM, NGUYEN DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURYSupported on a triangular socle, finely inlaid with mother-o...

A LARGE INLAID LACQUER 'HUNDRED BIRDS WORSHIP THE PHOENIX' ZITAN-FRAMED HANGING PANEL, QIANLONG PERIODChina, 1736-1795. Masterfully inlaid on a mi...

AN IMPERIAL BEIJING ENAMEL CUP STAND, KANGXI YUZHI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)China, c. 1700-1722. Of sixteen-lobed form, the body of heavi...

A LARGE 'BIRDS WORSHIPPING THE PHOENIX' CLOISONNE BASIN, MING DYNASTYChina, 16th to early 17th century. The interior exquisitely decorated in brig...

AN EXTREMELY RARE CLOISONNE ENAMEL QUADRILOBED BOX AND COVER, QIANLONG FIVE-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIODChina, 1736-1795. Supported on a flari...

A CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'LOTUS' BOTTLE VASE, QIANLONG FIVE-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIODChina, 1736-1795. The globular body supported on a spreading...

A CLOISONNE ENAMEL MALLET VASE, QIANLONG FIVE-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIODChina, 1736-1795. The cylindrical body rising from a spreading foot ...

A LARGE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL ARCHAISTIC CENSER AND COVER, FANGDING, QIANLONG MARK AND PERIODChina, 1736-1795. The tapering rectangular censer...

A VERY RARE SILVER BOX AND COVER DEPICTING THE BLACK TORTOISE, XUANWU, TANG DYNASTYChina, 618-907. Both sides of the flat circular box are finely ...

A GILT-COPPER REPOUSSE AND PALE CELADON JADE BOWL, LIAO DYNASTYChina, 907-1125. The deep round sides supported on a short foot, the jade bowl fitt...

A TIANHUANG 'BUDDHIST LION AND CUB' SEAL, QING DYNASTYChina, first half of the 19th century. Of square section, surmounted by a seated lion with i...

A LIMESTONE 'LION' MAT WEIGHT, HAN DYNASTYChina, 206 BC to 220 AD. Carved as a recumbent lion with its feet tucked underneath, the head resting on...

A JADE SWORD CHAPE, WARRING STATES PERIOD TO WESTERN HAN DYNASTYChina, 475 BC to 8 AD. Of trapezoidal form and lenticular section, finely carved i...

A RARE GREEN JADE TOOTHED ANIMAL MASK ORNAMENT, LATE HONGSHAN CULTUREChina, c. 4000-3000 BC. The well-polished stone is carved and pierced in the ...

A GREEN JADE 'HORSE-HOOF' ORNAMENT, HONGSHAN CULTUREChina, c. 3500-2500 BC. The tubular form flaring towards the sloping top in the form of a hors...

A CELADON AND RUSSET YELLOW JADE 'BIRD' AMULET, HONGSHAN CULTUREChina, c. 3500-3000 BC. Of flattened form, carved with protruding round eyes and p...

A THREE-TIERED WHITE AND RUSSET JADE CONG, LATE LIANGZHU CULTUREChina, c. 2600-2300 BC. Of square section, each corner worked with three registers...

A PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE 'BIRD' PENDANT, LATE SHANG DYNASTYChina, 1300-1050 BC. The flat stone worked in the form of a bird in profile, perc...

A PALE CELADON JADE 'HARE' PENDANT, LATE SHANG TO WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTYChina, 1100-1000 BC. Depicted crouching with its feet tucked underneath, sli...

A PALE CELADON JADE 'FISH' PENDANT, LATE SHANG TO WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTYChina, 1300-771 BC. Of flattened form, carved as a curved fish with rounded ...

A PALE GREEN JADE 'DRAGON' PENDANT, SHANG TO WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTYChina, 1300-1000 BC. Of flattened form, carved in the form of a recumbent dragon ...

A RUSSET AND BROWN JADE NOTCHED DISC, XUANJI, LATE NEOLITHIC TO SHANG DYNASTYPublished: Friedrich Georg Zeileis, Ausgewaehlte Chinesische Jade aus...

AN ARCHAIC YELLOW & RUSSET JADE DRAGON PENDANT, EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTYOpinion: The quality of this example is perhaps most visible when images of th...

A YELLOW JADE 'DOUBLE DRAGON' PENDANT, HUANG, WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTYChina, c. 1100-771 BC. The arc-shaped huang is carved on one side with a stylize...

A RARE, LARGE AND POWERFUL JADE FIGURE OF A BIXIE, MID-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY - EARLY SIX DYNASTIES PERIODExpert's note: The magnificent polish and r...

AN EXCEPTIONAL CREAMY-WHITE AND BLACK JADE FIGURE OF A BEAR, SONG DYNASTY OR EARLIERChina, 960-1279 or earlier. Powerfully and sensitively carved....

AN ARCHAISTIC CELADON AND RUSSET JADE 'CHILONG' DISC, BI, MING DYNASTYChina, 1368-1644. Of circular form, carved in high relief with three chilong...

A WHITE JADE 'LYCHEE' BOX AND COVER, LATE MING DYNASTYChina, 16th-17th century. The shallow box of oval form, carved and incised to the top with t...

A PALE CELADON JADE 'TIGER' BOULDER, 17TH-18TH CENTURYChina. The boulder is naturalistically carved on one side depicting a crouching tiger within...

A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE 'LUOHAN IN A GROTTO' BOULDER, 17TH - 18TH CENTURYChina. Deeply carved to depict a luohan with a book in his hand, seated...

A CELADON JADE FIGURE OF BUDDHA, 17TH-18TH CENTURYChina. Finely carved, seated in dhyanasana, holding an offering bowl in his lowered right hand, ...

A PALE GRAY JADE FIGURE OF A DEER WITH YOUNG, 17TH CENTURYChina. Well carved in the form of a recumbent deer resting with its head turned back and...

A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE GROUP DEPICTING THREE GEESE WITH LOTUS, 18TH CENTURYPublished: Spink, Chinese Jade, London, 1998, page 42, no. 73.China....

A FINE PALE CELADON AND CHESTNUT BROWN JADE 'MONKEYS AND PEACH' GROUP, 18TH CENTURYChina. Intricately and imaginatively depicted with an adult mon...

A PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF A PERSIAN FALCONER, 18TH CENTURYChina. Finely carved, clad in a long cloak hanging over the shoulders and loose robe...

A WHITE JADE MUGHAL-STYLE LOBED BOWL, 18TH CENTURYChina. The shallow washer with petal lobed sides, barbed rim, flanked by scrolling handles with ...

A MUGHAL-STYLE WHITE JADE 'CHRYSANTHEMUM' MARRIAGE BOWL, 18TH CENTURYChina. Superbly carved as a chrysanthemum flowerhead, the elegantly-rounded s...

A WHITE AND BROWN JADE 'LOTUS, CRAB AND MILLET' BRUSH WASHER AND MATCHING WOOD STAND, 18TH CENTURYChina. Exquisitely carved as a furled lotus leaf...

A RARE SPINACH-GREEN JADE CUP, ZUN, 17TH-18TH CENTURYChina. Of lobed melon form supported on a tall foot, the sides finely carved with lotus bloss...

A WHITE JADE 'ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER' PLAQUE, 18TH CENTURYChina. Of rectangular form, decorated on top with two opposing kui dragons, cent...

AN EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF 'CONTINUOUS LANDSCAPE' CONNECTED JADE PLAQUES, 18TH TO 19TH CENTURYChina. Of rectangular form, each plaque neatly carved...

A PALE CELADON JADE 'SCHOLARS' PARFUMIER, 18TH CENTURYChina. Of tubular form carved in openwork and high relief with a mountain landscape, the cra...

A PALE CELADON JADE POURING VESSEL, YI, QING DYNASTYChina, 19th century. Supported on four beast-mask feet, the body carved to the side with four ...

A MUGHAL STYLE PALE CELADON JADE CENSER AND COVERChina, 19th century. The censer of globular form with thin walls, the deep bowl raised on a stepp...

A TURQUOISE GLASS FACETED SNUFF BOTTLE, WHEEL-CUT QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIODChina, 1736-1795. The opaque turquoise glass snuff bottle of octa...

A SMALL JASPER-GREEN FACETED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE, IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, 18TH CENTURYChina, Beijing, 1700-1780. Of compressed horizontal ovoid form w...

A 'JOURNEY TO THE WEST' CINNABAR LACQUER SNUFF BOTTLE, PROBABLY IMPERIALChina, 1740-1820. Of flattened globular form, deftly carved to each side w...

AN IMPERIAL CINNABAR LACQUER SNUFF BOTTLE, 1730-1830China. Of flattened ovoid form, deeply carved through the layers of cinnabar lacquer with a co...

A RARE 'HUNDRED SHOU-CHARACTER' BAMBOO VENEER SNUFF BOTTLE, ZHUHUANGChina, 1750-1800. Of rounded spade shape, with plain narrow sides tapering tow...

A WHITE JADE 'BAT' SNUFF BOTTLE, 1730-1850China. Well hollowed, carved in the form of a bat, each side with a face, incised with bulging eyes abov...

A SAPPHIRE-BLUE OVERLAY 'MONKEY KING STEALING THE PEACHES OF IMMORTALITY' GLASS SNUFF BOTTLEChina, c. 1700-1780, probably Imperial, attributed to ...