realistically modelled and covered with brown and cream glazes

[1]

the blue and white bowl painted with figures in a landscape and a calligraphy, the base with apocryphal Tu Duc mark, the doucai bowl decorated with dragons contesting the flaming pearl, the base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark

[2]

moulded with two openwork handles, the sides painted with large Shou characters among flower scrolls

[1]

the teapot painted with panels of jardinières, the base with 'jade' mark, and the wine-pot decorated with landscape and geometrical panels (chip to finial)

[2]

with bulbous body, tal neck and two lug handles, covered with a grayish green glaze suffused with grey and cream crackles

[1]

on high foot, the thinly potted sides in flower shape and covered overall with a pale green glaze (some glaze cracks)

[1]

one octagonal bowl and one shallow bowl incised with a stylised flower, both covered with a pale green glaze (minor nicks and some crackles to the glaze)

[2]

of bulbous lotus shape and covered with a pale green glaze (firing crack to base)

[1]

variously moulded in flower shape and incised with stylised flowers

[2]

the censer covered with a dark crackled glaze and the shallow celadon saucer suffused with a network of crackles

[2]

comprising one deep plate, two bowls, one milk-jug, one teapot and one mounted dish (small damages)

[6]

six with various floral decorations and two with figures (various damages, hairlines and chips)

[8]

each side painted with a cartouche enclosing a figural scene on a ground of flowers, symbols and bats reserved on blue, each with apocryphal Xianfeng mark to the base

[2]

of realistic shape, head detachable (wear as expected)

[1]

painted with scattered flower bouquets and butterflies, with rope handles and fruit finial decorated in iron-red and gilt

[1]

decorated with a cockerel and chicks in a garden with peony (wear to the enamels, old frits to standring)

[1]

carved and openworked as lotus and various other flowers, the stone of a pale green tone (some small cracks and minute nicks)

[1]

carved with dragon-head handles, the stone of a delicate translucent brown and grey tone, on wood stand (one ring of handle broken, horns of dragons damaged)

[2]

the serpentine cup of even shape, the soapstone cup carved with a ruyi-form handle (serpentine cup with crack)

[2]

on short foot, the rounded sides with elephant's-head handles, the base cast with apocryphal 'Xuan' mark

[1]

one parcel-gilt and formed as a dragon, one a chilong and the third a buddhist lion

[3]

dressed in long robes and holding a bell and alms bowl

[1]

carved in relief with prunus, pine and bamboo (some wear as expected)

[1]

the sides carved with branches of prunus forming the base and handle, the interior with remnants of silver (small chips to branch)

[1]

carved in relief with scholars at tables in a landscape, the wood of a caramel tone

[1]

decorated with pavilions in a landscape, the base with impressed seal mark

[1]

with short spout and flat cover, the base with inscription

[1]

[2]

similarly carved with figures among pavilions (one with missing pin)

[2]

incised with facial features, the stone of green tone with yellow alterations

[1]

modelled in standing position with string of prayer beads in his hand, his large belly exposed

[1]

the deity shown with four main arms and six radiating arms each holding a symbol, seated on a lotus throne and wearing a high crown and long robes (damages, some losses and repairs)

[1]

carved as squirrels among fruit, in a gilt-metal pendant, the stone of varying soft blue tones (some small nicks to the edges and natural internal cracks to the stone)

[1]

one carved as a butterfly and mounted as a broche, the other a circular pendant openworked with a deer among flowers, the stone of a pale celadon tone (very minute nicks)

[2]

the fruit carved with stem and leaves, the stone of a pale green tone with light russet veins (small nicks to the rims, some polishing)

each carved with everted rim, the thin stone of a mottled dark green tone (minor wear)

[2]

one with relief decoration, the second with inlaid decoration and the last with geometrical decoration in low relief with traces of silver (wear as expected)

[3]

the stone of a dark green and brown tone, drilled through

[1]

in imitation of an Imperial robe, embroidered in gold thread with the nine dragons, the hem with stripes and linzghi-shaped clouds (worn, repairs and losses)

[1]

comprising various publications on Chinese blue and white porcelain, ceramics, glass, lacquer and jade, including, amongst others:

• Adrian Joseph, 'Chinese and Annamese Ceramics', London 1973;
• Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, 'Ming Porcelain', London 1978;
• John Alexander Pope, 'Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine', Washinton 1981;
• C.J.A. Jörg, 'Porcelain and the Dutch China trade', The Hague 1982.

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one with silver-wire inlay of Liu Hai and his three-legged toad, the other of an emaciated monk (some wear and some splits to the wood)

[2]

carved with a central flower head

[1]

the square dish inlaid with a scholar and a boy approaching a pavilion, the reverse inscribed with eight characters (some cracks to the lacquer, some small losses to inlays)

[1]

inlaid with mother-of-pearl depicting flower-vases and fruiting vines

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