antiques & fine art sale

George V-Elizabeth II, 158 shillings, 116 of which are pre-1947, mixed grades.

Sold for £120

Over 200 predominantly Victorian and later pennies, to include young head, bun head and veiled head examples, George V examples from Heaton & Kings Norton Mints, mixed dates and grades.

Sold for £20

A large collection of 1/2 penny coins, consecutive years running through 1911 to 1967, mixed grades.

Sold for £25

Four Whitman coin folders, containing 61 pre-1947 florins and 30 pre-1947 half crowns.

Sold for £160

A pair of Chinese lidded pots and covers, early 20th century, decorated in a Famille Rose palette similar to Wu Shuang Pu, the domed covers with peach knops, height 11 cm.

Sold for £80

A pair of Chinese celadon shaped dishes, and a matching rectangular dish, each decorated with under glazed white relief lotus flowers, all on short bracket feet, 20-25 cm wide.

Sold for £160

A pair of Japanese dishes, circa 1880, each decorated with two bijin, one pair within a panel and framed by further panels of blossoming prunus, mandarin ducks and chrysanthemums, the other with a large floral spray, each with shaped and gilt rims, 22 cm diameter.

Estimated: £40 - £60

A pair of Japanese dished plates, circa 1880, each having a stylised under glazed blue centre framed by fan shaped panels of diaper, scales and mons, diameter 21.5 cm.

Estimated: £30 - £50

A set of four Japanese Imari scalloped plates, late 19th century, having chrysanthemum petal centres framed by fan shaped panels of flowers, scrolls and trellis, with gilt borders, 22 cm.

Sold for £50

A pair of Japanese scalloped plates, circa 1880, the centres decorated with vase and flowers framed by fan shaped panels with chrysanthemums, phoenix and dragons, the underside with a scrolling floral band, each with Koransha mark, 21.7 cm diameter.

Sold for £38

A Chinese peach bloom ground vase, 20th century, of ovoid form, with pseudo six character Kangxi marks to the underside, height 9 cm.

Estimated: £75 - £125

A pair of Japanese export dishes, circa 1880, decorated with floral spray to the centre framed by blossoming prunus with three shaped cartouche framing peony, and a Japanese scalloped plate decorated to the centre with a jardinere of flowers with cartouche of dragons above flaming pearls and spuming waves (3). 21.5 cm and 22 cm respectively.

Estimated: £40 - £60

A set of six Japanese Imari dished and scalloped plates, circa 1880, the centres with a ring of bamboo and pine framed by fan shaped panels with phoenix and stylised dragons amongst diaper and flowers, each with gilt rims, diameter 22 cm.

Sold for £60

A Yixing teapot, 19th/20th century, the petal shaped lid surmounted with a Buddhist lion upon a melon formed body with straight spout, length 20.5 cm, 11 cm high.

Sold for £18

Three Japanese Imari shell shaped dishes, late 19th century, comprising a small pair decorated with flowers and a larger example decorated with ducks amongst scrolling peony, and a close matching pair of Imari plates, 18 - 25 cm diameter (5).

Sold for £55

Three Japanese octagonal dishes, 19th century, each with an under glazed blue flowering peony heightened with gilding framed by panels of flowers, each with a floral sprig to the underside centre, and two 18th century Japanese Imari plates, 17.8 cm - 22 cm (5).

Sold for £42

Twelve Japanese Imari dishes, each of scalloped form and decorated in typical Imari colours, late 19th century, 21 cm and 21.5 cm diameter.

Sold for £70

A Japanese blue and white dished plate, 19th century, depicting a figure holding an umbrella approaching a boat, all beneath a pine tree and with scrolling lotus border, a Japanese celadon vase and cover and a pair of 19th century Chinese inverted baluster vases and covers, each with four character Tongzhi mark, the dish 29.5 cm diameter, the pair of vases 28.5 cm high, and two blue and white meat plates, circa 1780, 37 cm and 44 cm.

Sold for £160

Two cloisonne lidded boxes, a cloisonne plate and spill vase and a modern silver coloured metal trinket box with porcelain plaque inset to the top, tallest 7.5 cm.

Sold for £30

A Japanese Satsuma cup and saucer, late 19th century, a Chinese "Hares Fur" inverted baluster vase decorated with a swallow amongst wisteria, gilt character mark to the underside, a Chinese Famille Rose lidded barrel and a 19th century Canton saucer, tallest 20 cm, barrel 7 cm.

Sold for £40

A pair of Chinese silk and embroidered child's shoes, early 20th century, conservatively embroidered with floral sprigs on a russet coloured body, 13.5 cm.

Sold for £40

Two Japanese carved bone Tanto daggers, late 19th century, handles and scabbards decorated with figures, the details picked out in black, the blades 16.4 cm and 16.8 cm, both 30 cm overall (see illustration).

Sold for £110

Five Chinese porcelain snuff bottles and two glass snuff bottles, 20th century, tallest 7 cm.

Sold for £85

A set of four Japanese lacquer bowls and matching side dishes, 20th century, decorated in gilt with carp, bamboo and fruiting vines all against a red ground, 12 cm and 17 cm respectively.

Sold for £20

Four Chinese hand carved soap stones, 20th century, to include a seal, a tower of monkeys and two of Shou Lao with deer and an Indian soap stone figure of Ganesh, tallest 9 cm.

Sold for £40

A Japanese marquetry table top cabinet, late 19th century, converting to a miniature kneehole desk with seven drawers, losses, 32 cm wide, 25.5 cm high, 21.8 cm deep.

Estimated: £20 - £40

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A set of three framed and mounted Chinese watercolours on paper, each decorated with peony and with text and chop marks, 68.5 cm x 38 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £130

A pair of Japanese vases, decorated with panels of figures and with gold seal mark to base. Height 31 cm.

Sold for £25

A pair of Japanese bronze vases, late 19th century, the neck with applied decoration of a Phoenix amongst blossoming branches flanked by two dragon handles, the main body with panels of peony and birds all upon a raised triform stand with circular base, height 24 cm (see illustration).

Estimated: £100 - £150

A Chinese egg and spinach glaze melon form teapot, 19th century, with dragon mask handle, the body with leaf moulded fruiting fronds, a Chinese Yixing blue glaze teapot with lotus flower decoration and four polychrome side dishes each with Tongzhi stamped mark, the teapot 16.5 cm and 8 cm respectively, dishes 7 cm.

Sold for £2000

A Chinese porcelain teapot with matching cups, tea bowls, saucers and spoon rest, circa 1790, decorated with a floral bouquet beneath green, pink and red bands.

Sold for £100

Assorted 18th century Chinese porcelain, to include an Imari pattern plate, two tea caddies, three coffee cans, three tea bowls and a saucer, and a Japanese Kutani coffee can and two saucers (12).

Sold for £95

A Chinese porcelain "Batavian" blue and white tea bowl and saucer, European decorated, and a European decorated blue and white miniature double gourd vase, the vase 6.3 cm high.

Sold for £42

A Japanese porcelain figure of Fukurokuju, circa 1900, standing on a large sack decorated with prunus blossom, bamboo and pine, 23.5 cm high.

Estimated: £40 - £60

A Japanese carved softwood Netsuke, circa 1900, depicting a man with a staff seated astride a further grimacing male figure, possibly Yasumasa and his mischievous brother Yasuke, the former looking as if to administer the punishment to his brother, height 4.5 cm.

Sold for £170

A Japanese carved Tagua nut Netsuke, circa 1900, carved as a yawning Daruma, signed verso, 4.5 cm long.

Sold for £130

A Chinese porcelain bowl, circa 1770, decorated with polychrome floral sprays to the exterior, the interior with a single flower and with a sanguine pendant and scroll border, 24.5 cm diameter.

Sold for £75

A Chinese Sang de Boeuf glazed bowl, Qing dynasty, of squat circular form, the rim with raised roundels with off white cream interior glaze, 24 cm diameter (see illustration).

Estimated: £100 - £150

A Famille Rose Luck and Longevity dished plate, early 19th century, decorated to the centre with two peaches and a single red bat surrounded by double Shou and peony, having slightly scalloped rim, the underside with four stylised red bats and Daoguang seal mark, 23.3 cm diameter; and an early 19th century Chinese Famille Rose bowl decorated to the interior centre with two peaches and a single red bat, the exterior with lotus flower and insects, all beneath a slightly scalloped rim and with red peach mark to the underside, 19.5 cm.

Sold for £50

A Chinese Famille Rose two handled broth bowl, cover and matching dished plate, late 18th/early 19th century, decorated with figures and precious objects in the Canton manner, the cover with a gilt lychee knop, all with gilt rims, the dished plate 20.4 cm diameter.

Sold for £60

A Chinese Famille Rose vase, mid 19th century, the neck with Ruyi head border above stiff leaves, the compressed body decorated with peony, chrysanthemums, peaches, pomegranate and butterflies above a false gadroon border, 32.5 cm high (see illustration).

Sold for £620

Five spinach green bowenite cups, early 20th century, tapering circular form terminating on a circular foot, 5.5 cm diameter, 3 cm high, a bowenite bowl, 19th century, of typical form upon a raised circular foot, 17 cm diameter, 5.7 cm high and a Ming period provincial porcelain blue and white bowl, diameter 16.5 cm, height 7 cm (7).

Sold for £30

A pair of Japanese woven bronze basket vases, circa 1900, 16.3 cm high.

Sold for £85

Chinese blue and white, 19th century, comprising two vases and covers, one vase decorated with precious objects, three ginger jars, all with prunus pattern decoration, all but one with four character Kangxi mark, tallest 32 cm.

Sold for £190

A collection of Chinese carved and turned black wood vase stands, late 19th century and later, widest 16 cm.

Sold for £90

A Japanese Satsuma vase, circa 1900, decorated with a cockerel and hen amongst peony by a river bank with cranes and iris, 25 cm high: and a Satsuma dished charger, circa 1900, decorated with birds flying amongst blossoming branches with diaper border, 30 cm diameter.

Sold for £240

A Chinese carved bone figure of Hotei, 20th century, modelled with his sack of treasures on his back, his robes picked out in black and red, height 10 cm.

Estimated: £60 - £80

A pair of carved figures of Buddha, an African brush pot and a small turned wood bowl and cover, height 14 cm.

Sold for £40

A Chinese cloisonne oil lamp, late 19th century, decorated with butterflies and flowers against a green and aventurine ground, fitted with a Wild & Wessel "Kosmos" fitting, height including chimney 47 cm, excluding chimney 24.5 cm.

Sold for £95

A Canton enamel vase, mid 19th century, having a slightly flared rim above a cylindrical body with panels of figures, birds and insects, height 24.5 cm.

Sold for £55

A Chinese hardwood vase stand, late 19th century, with inset rouge marble top, having a beaded edge above a carved leaf and gourd apron supported upon four short legs with carved mask knees and claw and ball feet, width 21.5 cm, height 20 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £85

A Chinese blue and white jardiniere, 20th century, decorated with a continuous view of figures, buildings and mountains, between two bronzed moulded bands, the upper section with leaves and berries, the lower section with spuming waves, 41 cm diameter, 34.7 cm high (see illustration).

Sold for £520

A Chinese gilt bronze figure of Guanyin, 20th century, seated in Vitarka Mudra, on a double lotus throne, the underside engraved with an artemisia leaf, height 21.5 cm.

Estimated: £100 - £150

A pair of cloisonne vases in the manner of Kodenji Hayashi (1831-1915), Meiji period, with silver wire inlaid cloisonnes with three panels of opposing phoenix against either an aventurine sky blue or buff lilac ground, united by paulownia leaves and flowers against a dark cream ground, the underside with concentric circles, 15.8 cm high (see illustration).

Estimated: £700 - £1000

A Japanese ivory Netsuke, circa 1880, carved as Hotei seated upon his sack of treasures, signed, 3.5 cm long,

Sold for £115

A large Chinese cloisonne vase, Qing dynasty (late 18th/19th century) with key fret gilded rim set with blue enamel above a Ruyi head border, various flowers and gourds, against a blue ground above lappets and upon a blue scale and gilt circular foot, 40 cm high (see illustration).

Sold for £1200

A pair of Chinese cloisonne vases, early 20th century, decorated with opposing dragons and a flaming pearl all against an ammonite ground between Ruyi head and scale ground borders, 23.5 cm high, and a modern Chinese cloisonne cosmetic box decorated with a peony and butterflies, 8 cm diameter.

Sold for £30

A Japanese Imari vase and cover 24.5 cm tall, two Imari plates and a Japanese Antimony picture frame.

Sold for £30

A Japanese sectional Okimono, late 19th century, carved as a gardener, a basket of vegetables on his back and a hand pick in his right hand, two character signature incised on red seal to the underside, height 13 cm.

Sold for £45

A good Japanese ivory Okimono, Meiji period, carved as a kneeling man with his hand on a Tanuki, a brush, fly whisk and scroll at his feet, signed to the underside, height 9.2 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £120

A pair of Chinese Hua Yi cloisonne vases, mid 20th century, decorated with lotus flowers, green leaves and scrolling fronds against a gilt ground. Height 16 cm.

Sold for £45

A Japanese Akasuke cloisonne vase, by Kumeno Teitaro (Nagoya 1863-1939), of square tapering form, the Ginbari body decorated with birds flying amongst bamboo against a stippled ground, struck mark to underside. Height 25 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £190

A Japanese cloisonne cigarette case and small dish, early 20th century, the square case decorated with bands, scrolls and precious objects, the dish centred with a phoenix surrounded by Egyptian figures and a mythical beast. 8 cm and 15.3 respectively.

Sold for £40

A Japanese Akasuke Ginbari cloisonne vase, early to mid 20th century, decorated with wisteria against a stippled ground, unmarked. Height 15.5 cm.

Sold for £80

Nine Chinese tea bowls, late 18th century, one with matching saucer, each handpainted in a variety of polychrome enamel flowers, some heightened with gilding, a Chinese Famille Rose "Wu Shuang Pu" container and cover, 19th century, and a Japanese Kutani tea cup and saucer, decorated with numerous immortals. Tallest 7 cm.

Sold for £220

Two Chinese silk embroidered roundels, early 20th century, decorated with birds on blossoming prunus and butterfly and flowering lily. Diameters 29.5 and 28 cm respectively.

Estimated: £50 - £80

A Japanese cloisonne bowl and cover, 20th century, the cover with plated knop decorated with three flying cranes against a black ground, the double walled base decorated to the exterior with a black enamel ground, on a waisted circular foot, unmarked. Height 17.5 cm, width 15.7 cm (see illustration).

Estimated: £300 - £400

A Chinese inlaid mother of pearl oval hardwood tray, late 19th/early 20th century, decorated to the centre with warrior figures amongst clouds framed by peony, prunus, butterflies and birds all within a ruyi head border. 40.5 cm x 62 cm.

Sold for £100

A Japanese Ginbari cloisonne vase by Ando, 20th century, decorated with pine and bamboo against an emerald green textured ground, with chrome rims, stamped "Ando Studio" mark to the underside. Height 21.5 cm, width +/- 22 cm (see illustration).

Estimated: £250 - £350

A Japanese Seto porcelain vase stand, early 20th century, of circular stepped form decorated with lotus and scrolling fronds, signed. Diameter 15 cm, height 7.5 cm, internal diameter of top 10.5 cm.

Sold for £20

A Chinese Canton side plate, circa 1880, decorated in typical Canton colours with panels of figures, birds and flowers, and two further Chinese polychrome enamel side plates with panels of figures flanking either a basket or peaches and flowers, each with Fuku mark, 19.5 cm x 18.5 cm respectively.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Five Chinese silver solifleur bud vases, Wang Hing, Canton, circa 1900, comprising a tall pair with relief bamboo and leaf decoration, a smaller pair with prunus blossom and a single tall vase with prunus blossom decoration, stamped marks, 11.5 cm and 6.3 cm.

Sold for £220

A pair of Fukagawa vases, circa 1900, with moulded key style handles above a shaped panel of peony and a bird, and verso flowers and rockwork all against a blue and red wrythen body, signed Fukagawa Sei, 13.3 cm high.

Sold for £80

A pair of Chinese handpainted vases, 20th century, depicting three scholars seated at a table beneath a tree decked with lanterns flanked by two figures, painted in a red palette with black beards and hair, their robes with gilt decoration, pseudo 6 character Jiaqing seal mark in red, height 31 cm.

Estimated: £200 - £300

A Japanese printed blue and white charger, circa 1920/30's, centred within a landscape of buildings around a river framed by panels of flowers against diaper and blossoming prunus and chrysanthemums, diameter 40 cm, and a green glaze vase with ormolu mounted apertures, height 25 cm.

Sold for £18

A Chinese cloisonne incense burner, mid to late 20th century, with pierced lid with Ruyi head shoulder and decorated throughout with flowers, 12.8 cm diameter, 14.8 cm high.

Sold for £75

An early 19th century Chinese lacquered tea caddy, circa 1810, complete with two lead canisters. Width 28 cm (see illustration).

Estimated: £350 - £450

A Chinese blue and white ginger jar and cover, early to mid 19th century, the cover decorated with clouds above a key fret and cloud border with panels of peony, chrysanthemums and birds all flanked by dragons amongst clouds, with two concentric blue lines to the underside, all upon a carved wood stand, height excluding stand 25 cm.

Sold for £240

A pair of Chinese porcelain vases, late 20th century, the neck and shoulder decorated with black Ruyi head and pendants above the main body with polychrome enamel flowering peony decoration, seal marks to the reverse, red seal mark for Zhongguo Jingdezhen Zhi, printed in green "Made in China", height 31.3 cm.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Four Chinese porcelain vases, late 20th century, the tallest decorated with a peacock upon rockwork flanked by peony, a poem verso, red seal mark for Jingdezhen Zhi, 30.7 cm high, a pair of Chinese vases decorated with a finch upon a flowering hibiscus, bamboo and chrysanthemum, with poem verso and a further globular vase decorated with Shou Lao and a maid with teapot and peaches, the latter three with red stamped seal mark for Qianlong Nian Zhi, 16 cm and 15.5 cm respectively.

Sold for £50

Two Chinese porcelain vases, late 20th century, each with black Ruyi head and pendant neck shoulders, each decorated with a landscape of pine trees, buildings, mountains and boats with poem verso, each with red seal mark to the underside for Zhongguo Jingdezhen Zhi, 28.5 cm and 20.5 cm.

Estimated: £80 - £120

A collection of Chinese porcelain, 20th century, comprising a wall pocket painted with a bird amongst blossoming branches and between a relief moulded Ruyi head border, 28 cm high, a ginger jar and cover with polychrome enamel decoration, with printed mark for Jiangxi Jingdezhen Min Ci, a further ginger jar marked for Zhongguo Jingdezhen Zhi, a tankard and a blue and white double gourd shape miniature vase with four character Jingdezhen Zhi mark, 10 cm high.

Sold for £75

A pair of Japanese Kiri wood vases, circa 1900, each with gilt relief decoration comprising a bird upon a flowering branch, a cricket at the opposing end, the other with a cricket and a moth around a leafy frond, height 19 cm.

Sold for £80

A Chinese hardwood jardiniere stand, with hexagonal top, pierced sides and raised on six legs united by a low circular pierced shelf, height 80 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £110

A pair of Chinese hardwood jardinere stands, circular with open sides, height 35 cm, diameter approximately 38 cm.

Sold for £40

A Chinese hardwood framed stool, with scroll supports and slatted seat, width 72 cm.

Sold for £32

A 19th century Japanese Imari vase, decorated in typical colours with baskets of flowers and repeating designs. Height 36 cm.

Sold for £40

A Chinese blue and white inverted baluster vase and cover, Qianlong period, the cover with lotus flower and scroll decoration above the neck with applied metal band above a shoulder of cash and flowers, the body decorated with figures before a building and a series of mountains, 43 cm high (see illustration).

Sold for £420

A pair of 19th century Chinese hardwood jardiniere stands, each with rouge marble top. Diameter 39 cm, height 92 cm.

Sold for £480

A Chinese hardwood side chair, with vase shaped splat with ceramic panel, the seat raised on cabriole legs.

Sold for £260

A Chinese carved bamboo diorama, housed within a lacquered frame and stand, width 16 cm, and a bronze figure of Buddha.

Sold for £25

A Chinese mahjong set, originating from Singapore, with instruction booklet "Directions of Playing Chinese Game of Four Winds", all housed in a wooden case.

Sold for £42

A quartetto of Chinese hardwood occasional tables, each with pierced frieze and low stretchers. Widest 54 cm, tallest 73 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £260

A 19th century Cantonese ivory card case, intricately carved with figures and foliage. 96 mm x 55 mm (see illustration).

Sold for £220

A 19th century Cantonese carved ivory card case, dated "1887 News Years Gift". 85 mm x 45 mm (see illustration).

Sold for £150

A 19th century Imari charger, diameter 40.5 cm, and scalloped edge plate, diameter 22 cm.

Estimated: £60 - £80

Two 19th century Chinese blue and white vases, each with Chilong to neck and both with four character mark to base. Height 26 cm.

Sold for £190

A pair of cloisonne vases, decorated with repeating designs. Height 23 cm.

Sold for £70

A small pair of cloisonne vases, decorated with birds, branches and blossom. Height 15 cm.

Sold for £50