antiques & fine art sale

12th June 2019

Lot 111

Fourteen railway books, to include "A Cumbrian Railway Album" by Leslie R. Gilpin, "Railways Then & Now" by Edwin Course, "The Class 33's, A Celebration of 30 Years" by John Hypher, "The Magic of Railways" by Sydney Wood.

Sold for £20

Lot 112

Fifteen Railway books, to include "An Illustrated History of LMS Locomotives", volume 4, "The Great Central from The Footplate" by Robert Robotham, "Cumbrian Railway Album" by Leslie R. Gilpin, "Great Railway Photographs" by Eric Treacy, "BR Steam" by Roger Siviter, "London Midland Steam Around Carlisle".

Sold for £42

Lot 113

Ten Folio Society books with slip cases, "The Arabian Nights", "The Name of The Rose", "The Remains of The Day", "The Mask of Dimitrios", "The Master of Ballantrae", "The Body Snatchers", "Miss Marple Stories", "At The Back of The North Wind", "The War of The Roses", "The Song of Rowland".

Sold for £75

Lot 114

Folio Society books, all in slip cases and shrink wrapped, J.R.R. Tolkien "The Hobbit", "The Lord of The Rings Trilogy", "The Gormenghast Trilogy" by Mervyn Peake.

Sold for £140

Lot 115

Folio Society books, full set of Edward Gibbon "The History of The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire", "Cleopatra", "Julius Caesar".

Sold for £60

Lot 116

Twenty Folio Society books, in slip cases and some shrink wrapped, to include "Hundred Years War", "The Stones of Venice", "Three Men in a Boat", "Mary Queen of Scots", etc.

Sold for £85

Lot 117

Folio Society books, all in slip cases and mostly shrink wrapped, "The Golem", "In a Glass Darkly", "The Realm of The Unreal", "The Midnight Folk", "Nikolai Gogol", "Talleyrand", "The Wooden World", "Chronicles", "An Embassy to China", "Reflections on The Revolution in France".

Sold for £90

Lot 118

Folio Society books, all in slip cases and some shrink wrapped, "Empires of The Ancient Near East", "The Folio History of Ancient Greece", "Byzantium", "The Phoenicians" and "Nineveh & Babylon".

Sold for £100

Lot 119

Folio Society books on Greece, all in slip cases, "The World of Odysseus", "The Persian Expedition", "Aristotle's Ethics", "Alexander The Great", "Plato's Republic", "Homer's Iliad" (fifth printing), "The Odyssey" (2001 third printing) (see illustration).

Sold for £100

Lot 120

Folio Society books, all in slip cases, mostly shrink wrapped, "An Eyewitness History of The Crusades", "Winston Churchill's History of The English Speaking Peoples", "Dracula", "The Master & Margarita", "Metamorphosis", "The Epic of Gilgamesh".

Sold for £260

Lot 121

Nine Folio Society books, all in slip cases, some shrink wrapped, "The Gnostic Gospels", "The Normans", "Into The Dark Continent", two volumes on "India", "The Vikings", "The Quest for The North West Passage", "History of Chinese Civilisation" 2 volumes, "The Folio Poets Coleridge", "Legends of The Ring".

Sold for £95

Lot 122

Thirteen Folio Society books, all in slip cases, some shrink wrapped, to include "Sir Gawain & The Green Knight", "The Celts", "Thirty Years War", Spanish Inquisition", "Charlemagne", etc.

Sold for £110

Lot 123

Two volumes of "Comunn Nan Fior Ghael" or Club of True Highlanders, with hunting Stewart tartan covers, circa 1892, by C.N. McIntyre North (see illustration).

Sold for £110

Lot 124

Five books on The Sudan, Savile Frank., "The River of the Giraffe" (1925), "Game Animals of The Sudan" by Capt. H.C. Brocklehurst (1931), "Service & Sport in The Sudan" by D.C.E. Comyn (1911), "Wingate of The Sudan" by Ronald Wingate (1955), "Kitchener to Chartum" by G.W. Steevens with maps and plans (1898).

Sold for £65

Lot 125

Burke's Peerage (1936), Burke's Landed Gentry (2 volumes 1898) and Burke's Landed Gentry (19th Edition, volume 1, 2001).

Sold for £75

Lot 126

"The Life & Times of The Late Duke of Wellington" by Lieutenant Colonel Williams, two volumes, published by John Talis & Co., London & New York, circa 1850.

Sold for £30

Lot 127

WYLIE. J.A., "The Scots Worthies, Their Lives & Testimonies" published by William McKenize, London, Edinburgh & Glasgow, circa 1875, and "Melancholy Anatomized" by Burton, published Chatto & Windus (1881).

Sold for £30

Lot 128

Box of antiquarian bound titles, to include "History of England" by Smollett, "Barnaby Rudge" by Dickens, "Macauley's England", etc.

Sold for £50

Lot 131

A Chinese fishbowl, decorated in polychrome, diameter 38 cm.

Sold for £30

Lot 132

Four Chinese porcelain vases, late 20th century, including a pair with black ruyi head and pendants above the main body with polychrome enamel flowering peony decoration and seal marks to the reverse for Zhongguo Jingdezhen Zhi printed in green "Made in China", height 31.3 cm.

Sold for £48

Lot 133

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

Sold for £320

Lot 134

A Chinese crackle ware vase, late 19th century, the neck with moulded opposing Shi Shi above a key band, the body decorated with a blue and white Feng upon rockwork framed by peony and chrysanthemums, incised four character Chenghua mark, 62 cm high (see illustration).

Sold for £280

Lot 136

A Chinese blue and white ginger jar, 19th century, decorated with stylised lotus scroll decoration, upon a stained wood stand, 26 cm overall.

Sold for £38

Lot 137

A Chinese dished plate, Tongzhi period, decorated with white and blue enamel lotus flowers with gilt double Shou and four stylised white bats, all against a blue ground with gilt rim, 24.5 cm.

Sold for £120

Lot 138

A Chinese early 18th century blue and white tea bowl and saucer, circa 1725, from the Ca Mau wreck, both pieces decorated with figures before a willow tree and pagodas, each with applied Sothebys label inscribed Ca Mau Binh Thuan. Diameters 7 cm and 11.5 cm. NOTE: The Ca Mau was a Chinese merchants junk on its way from Canton (Guang Zho) to the Dutch trading port of Batavia (Jakarta), a severe fire on board caused the vessel to sink (see illustration).

Sold for £95

Lot 139

Two Chinese pictorial albums, late 19th century "Qing Palace old photos" and "Royal family old photos", showing eight black and white photographic images of the Emperor and Empress Cixi, the second album depicting in black and white printed pictures of Qing Emperors, both cloth bound. 16 cm x 11 cm and 15.5 cm x 10 cm respectively.

Sold for £120

Lot 140

A Chinese blue and white double gourd vase, late 19th century, painted with females playing Go within a garden surrounding, four character Kangxi mark, 26.5 cm high.

Sold for £160

Lot 141

Two Chinese blue and white vases, late 19th century, the taller example painted with figures in a garden surrounding beneath a pine tree, the onion shaped vase decorated with a dragon and Feng amongst clouds between a Ruyi head and false gadroons, both with four character Kangxi marks, 25.5 cm and 15.5 cm respectively.

Sold for £580

Lot 142

A Chinese hardwood moon shape vase stand, 20th century, of circular form with pierced brackets and rectangular base with scroll feet, 37 cm wide, 47.5 cm high, 11 cm deep.

Sold for £40

Lot 143

A Chinese hardwood and mother of pearl inlaid drum form vase stand, 20th century with inlaid bird and flowering peony decoration, 39.5 cm at its widest, 32.5 cm high.

Sold for £50

Lot 144

A Japanese antimony charger, circa 1900, relief moulded with a Samurai Kyudoka before a long procession of figures, some of which holding aloft a large Bonsho, bronze patination heightened with gilding, the borders modelled as two dragons and a central pearl. Diameter 31 cm.

Sold for £85

Lot 145

A Japanese patinated antimony charger, circa 1890/1900, with relief decoration of seven Geisha musicians before a banner and a vase of flowering peony and prunus, with pseudo seal mark verso. Diameter 30.3 cm.

Sold for £45

Lot 146

A large Canton enamel chamber pot and cover, second half of 19th century, decorated with panels of figures, birds and insects against a gilt ground with green scrolls and butterflies, the lid border with numerous bats. Diameter 26.7 cm (excluding handle), height 17 cm.

Sold for £85

Lot 147

A Chinese blue and white inverted baluster vase and cover, late 19th century, decorated with street vendors and entertainers, the lid with Shi Shi knop, pseudo four character Qianlong mark. Height 52 cm.

Sold for £130

Lot 148

A Japanese Imari jardiniere, late Meiji period, having a wavy rim above panels of wisteria, ducks and scrolling lotus. Diameter 28 cm, height 24.5 cm.

Sold for £45

Lot 149

A Chinese stoneware tea bowl Song/Yuan dynasty, having an unusual dark olive/brown uneven glaze throughout, all on a small circular foot. Diameter 9.8 cm, height 4.3 cm.

Sold for £70

Lot 150

A Chinese jade pendant on beaded necklace, 20th century, with silver gilt clasp, the pendant with fretwork decoration of a flowering vase with finger citrus upon an almost uniform beaded necklace, together with a stippled green jade bangle. Internal measurement 5.8 cm.

Sold for £90

Lot 151

A pair of Japanese Ko Kutani twin handled vases, 18th/19th century, each with relief moulded dragon chasing a gilt pearl amongst green and blue moulded clouds, 16 cm.

Sold for £28

Lot 152

A Chinese silk embroidery, 18th/19th century, depicting a young boy and man, the latter approaching a butterfly on a blossoming prunus tree with poem after Cheng Hao (Chinese 1032-1085) titled "an impromptu poem composed in spring", in ebonised frame, image 33 cm x 44.5 cm.

Sold for £32

Lot 153

A Japanese bronze rectangular bonsai planter, Meiji period, cast with Kirin and a dragon on a diaper ground, with cylindrical handles and feet, three character mark and Kakihan. Width 39.5 cm, height 11 cm, depth 23 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £260

Lot 154

A Japanese Kutani Koro, Meiji period, with Shi Shi finial on a pierced lozenge cover, the body decorated with a dragon amongst clouds against a yellow ground. Height 15.5 cm.

Sold for £42

Lot 155

A Japanese cast iron Koro and cover, 19th century, the centre of the cover with floral decoration against a raised stippled ground with two character signature to the underside. Diameter 11.5 cm, height 3 cm.

Sold for £42

Lot 156

A Chinese green and aubergine dragon bowl, six character Kangxi mark within two blue circles, probably of the period (1662-1722), decorated with two dragons chasing a pearl amongst clouds above a band of rockwork and waves, upon a turned wood stand. Bowl diameter 11 cm, height 5.5 cm.

Sold for £1700

Lot 157

Chinese ceramics 18th/19th century, comprising a flared petal shaped cup, finely painted with birds amongst blossoming flowers and rockwork, a pair of Dehua Blanc de Chine cups with applied relief blossoming prunus sprigs, a pair of 18th century saucers, a yellow ground dragon plate with Fuku, an octagonal yellow ground dish, a Famille Rose jug, a circular celadon dish and a tea bowl (10).

Sold for £220

Lot 158

A Chinese interior painted snuff bottle, 20th century, decorated with figures before trees and mountains beneath a poem, the reverse with trees and mountains before a boat upon a lake. Height 7.3 cm.

Sold for £500

Lot 159

A Chinese Wucai bowl, 18th/19th century, decorated throughout with carnations and peony, the carnation petals being translucent, with underglazed blue and polychrome enamels heightened with gilding, with pseudo Qianlong seal mark. Width 11.5 cm, height 5 cm. A 19th century polychrome enamel rice bowl cover, decorated with a black and white cat on rockwork surrounded by blossoming flowers and with red Daoguang seal mark, 10 cm diameter (see illustration).

Sold for £280

Lot 160

A Japanese carved wood and ivory Sarumawashi, Meiji period, the man holding a perch in his right hand and a leash attached to a monkey in his left, a drum and baton on the floor. Height 19 cm.

Sold for £240

Lot 161

A Japanese polychrome enamel sake bottle, circa 1700, decorated with plants and flowers, waves and ribbons, all beneath a green and yellow banded neck and with key border to foot, 24 cm, a Japanese inverted baluster miniature vase, decorated with birds and butterflies amongst peony, 11 cm, and two Meiji period Japanese Satsuma miniature vases 6 cm and 6.3 cm.

Sold for £120

Lot 162

A simulated ivory figure of the Amida Buddha, early 20th century, 7 cm high.

Sold for £20

Lot 163

A Chinese Famille Rose tea bowl and saucer, 18th century, finely decorated with floral sprays against a cell and vignette border, and a Chinese 18th century shaped saucer with Famille Rose floral decoration heightened with gilding and with a red and gilt pendant border. Diameter of saucers 12 cm and 11.5 cm, and a Chinese St Cloud style trembleuse saucer, decorated in the Imari palette, 12 cm diameter.

Sold for £30

Lot 164

A Japanese miniature tabletop chest, Meiji - Taisho period, decorated throughout with Manchurian cranes against a gilt ground, with single drawer with Kiku knop, the interior containing two lidded rectangular boxes, all upon shaped bracket feet. Width 9 cm, height 8 cm, depth 6.6 cm.

Sold for £80

Lot 165

A collection of Oriental carved hardwood stands, for plates and vases, to include a stand for a jade plaque with fretwork decoration, +/- 30 long, a vase stand with fine fretwork and key border to fit a vase, 12.5 cm diameter, a pair of demi lune wrist rest stands and others (19).

Sold for £75

Lot 166

A pair of embroidered silk panels, depicting a Chinese boat race, all within a diaper type border and ebonised frames, central panel 54.5 cm x 22 cm.

Sold for £40

Lot 168

A nest of three Chinese carved Hongmu tables, early 20th century, each having a rectangular top with geometric key decoration, the sides decorated with figures all upon square legs with flowering prunus decoration united by stretchers. Largest 45 cm wide, 64.5 cm high, 34 cm deep.

Sold for £42

Lot 169

A Chinese blue and white vase, 18th century, the neck with applied Chilong amongst precious objects, the body decorated with scholars reading a scroll and with attendants and assorted accoutrements with Ruyi sceptre and peaches. Height 44.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £150

Lot 170

A Chinese rank badge, 19th century, embroidered with a silver pheasant perched upon a rock denoting civil official 5th rank, the bird surrounded by fruits to include finger citrus and facing towards an embroidered sun above a Ruyi head border and with two tone gold and silver chevron panel to the base. All within a geometric border. 26 cm x 28 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £220

Lot 171

A Chinese rank badge, 19th century, depicting a silver pheasant standing upon a rock, denoting civil 5th rank, with waves before finger citrus, pomegranate and peaches flanked by bats and flowering blossom before a coral bead sun, having a geometric and embroidered peach and bat border. 27 cm x 30.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £220

Lot 172

A Chinese embroidery of elephants on a bridge, 19th century, the elephants embroidered in relief and of graduating size, crossing a bridge towards a pagoda above running water and lotus plant, the sky with a blazing sun and clouds all within a border with precious objects, 43 cm x 63 cm.

Sold for £70

Lot 173

A Canton carved bone chess set, early 20th century, natural and stained red, each piece on a stepped disk base in original fitted box, the king 9 cm, pawns 6.2 cm.

Sold for £60

Lot 174

A Chinese Canton porcelain vase, mid 19th century, having a shaped rim above the waisted neck with panels of figures flanked by Shi Shi and Chilong, the body with panels of dignitaries and attendants and verso a battle scene amongst mountains, with peony, chrysanthemum decoration between with magpies, all above a false gadrooned border. Height 61 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £280

Lot 176

A Japanese Seto Ware blue and white porcelain boat, early 20th century, the prow decorated with fish and marine plants, the sides with Chidori flying above spuming waves. Length 36.5 cm.

Sold for £55

Lot 179

A Japanese carved wood figure of Ebisu riding a carp, Meiji period. Length 14 cm, height 6.5 cm.

Sold for £210

Lot 180

A Chinese silver sycee (ingot), of inverted dome form with three panels of struck character marks, 1/4 section missing, 154.7 grams. Widest diameter 4.1 cm.

Sold for £190

Lot 181

A Chinese tusk shape silver sycee (ingot), 19th century, each side decorated with geometric patterns, all on a square base, 202.8 grams. Height 7.8 cm.

Sold for £190

Lot 182

A Japanese carved stained boxwood figure of a deity seated on a Shi Shi, Meiji period, the figure with smiling face, his left knee tucked within his hands, a bat issuing from a gourd at his side, the Shi Shi gazing upwards, with inlaid eyes and on integral stand. Height 18 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £240

Lot 183

A pair of Chinese blue and white blossoming prunus pattern vases, late 19th century, with four character pseudo Kangxi mark, 35.5 cm high (see illustration).

Sold for £200

Lot 184

Three Chinese Cultural Revolution propaganda posters, 1966-1976, "Wish Great Leader Chairman Mao a Long Life, a Long Life", the image of a young Mao, 1935 after The Long March, a further portrait of Chairman Mao wishing him a long life, his 1963 portrait published 1971, and "Chairman Mao, Lin Biao and comrade Zhou Enlai Welcoming Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia to Peking (Beijing). Two images 71 cm x 51.5 cm, one 53 cm x 76.5 cm.

Sold for £50

Lot 185

Four Chinese Cultural Revolution and later propaganda posters, "Chairman Mao is The Red Sun in Our Hearts", 74.3 cm x 52 cm, "Greetings to The Revolutionary Committee", 71 cm x 51 cm, "The People United Under Chairman Mao", 77.5 cm x 52.8 cm and a poster of Chairman Mao with plum blossom above a parade, published 1962, 50.8 cm x 74.5 cm.

Sold for £90

Lot 186

A pair of Chinese porcelain garden seats, circa 1880, each top inset with pierced cash and quatreform panels of females, the main body decorated with female figures reading, playing Go and playing musical instruments, with pierced cash symbols tied with ribbons, peaches, bats and insects between flowering lotus and double shou borders. Height 49.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £680

Lot 187

A carved fluorite stone figure of Hotei, 20th century, with smiling face seated with his sack of treasurers, upon a carved wood stand, the figure 5 cm wide.

Sold for £70

Lot 188

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

Sold for £20

Lot 189

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

Sold for £140

Lot 190

A 19th century Chinese carved hardwood jardiniere stand, with white marble top and beaded edge, diameter 38.5 cm.

Sold for £140

Lot 191

A near pair of Chinese carved hardwood jardiniere stands, each with rouge marble top and beaded edge, top diameters 28 cm, height 46 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £240

Lot 192

A Chinese stained wooden box with lift off lid, and fitted with a single drawer, with brass mounts and raised on bracket feet, width 34 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 193

A Chinese hardwood collectors cabinet, with mirrored back and single door, width 86 cm, height 51 cm, depth 10 cm.

Sold for £115

Lot 195

A Japanese Kutani vase, circa 1900, decorated with birds amongst blossoming flowers, signed Kutani, height 25 cm and a Chinese celadon ground vase, 20th century, with incised decoration of opposing dragons amongst lotus scrolls with a Ruyi head shoulder and false gadroons to the base upon a carved hardwood stand, the vase 23.5 cm.

Sold for £160

Lot 196

A pair of Japanese bronze vases, late 19th century, the necks with applied decoration of a phoenix amongst blossoming branches flanked by two dragon handles, the main bodies with panels of peony and birds, all raised on a triform stand with circular base. Height 24 cm.

Sold for £70

Lot 197

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. Diameter 22 cm.

Sold for £28

Lot 198

A pair of Japanese dished plates, circa 1880, each with stylised underglazed blue centre framed by fan shaped panels of diaper, scale and mons. Diameter 21.5 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 200

A Japanese marquetry tabletop cabinet, late 19th century, converting to a miniature kneehole desk with seven drawers. Width 32 cm, height 25.5 cm, depth 21.8 cm.

Sold for £28

Lot 201

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 six character Jiaqing seal mark in red. Height 31 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £190

Lot 203

A pair of Chinese crackle ware vases, late 19th century, each decorated with a pair of relief dragons chasing a pearl and with blossoming prunus branch handles, four character pseudo Chenghua incised mark. Height 44 cm.

Sold for £280

Lot 205

Two 19th century Japanese Imari caddies, each of square form with lid and interior cover, with four character Chenghua mark under each cover, height 21 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £180

Lot 207

A Chinese Famille Rose ginger jar and cover, 19th century, the shoulder decorated with Ruyi heads and peonies against a pink ground, the body with lotus flower and lanterns with precious objects all above a yellow ground false gadroon border, with two blue concentric rings to the underside and applied Collectors Inventory No. 136. Height 20.5 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £210

Lot 208

Two Chinese moon flasks, 19th century, one depicting exotic birds amongst peony and blossom and verso figures on foot and horseback against a yellow ground with lotus scroll and peach decoration, with Tongzhi red seal mark and applied collectors inventory No. 29, the other with a panel of a warring party and verso a peacock amongst peony and blossom all against a turquoise ground with lotus flower and peach decoration. Each height 25 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £480

Lot 209

A Chinese dragon bowl, 19th century, the dragons in green and black chasing a pearl amongst clouds between sinuous lotus flower and Ruyi head borders, with six character Guangxu mark and applied Collectors Inventory No. 159, and a red dragon bowl, 19th century, the dragons facing a pearl amongst clouds against a yellow ground, with four character Qianlong mark and applied collectors inventory No. 157. Diameters 10 cm and 13.5 cm respectively.

Sold for £140

Lot 210

A Chinese biscuit porcelain hexagonal vase, 19th century, the shoulder decorated with stiff leaves, the body with a relief moulded dragon amongst clouds and above waves, the sides with Buddhist symbols tied in ribbons all in a green, yellow and aubergine ground and with impressed Qianlong seal mark to the underside. Height 21 cm.

Sold for £70

Lot 211

A Chinese blue and white ginger jar, 19th century, decorated with two boys lifting a large vase and cover on stand all against a blossom and bird ground, with four character Kangxi mark and applied Collectors Inventory No. 348. Height 25 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £240

Lot 212

A Chinese porcelain figure of Hotei, 20th century, modelled seated with is sack of treasures with young boys clambering around him, relief moulded seal mark to underside for "Jiangxi, You Long Sheng, Jingdezheng". Height 25.5 cm.

Sold for £240

Lot 213

A Chinese Millefiori bowl and cover, 19th century, profusely decorated throughout with blossoming flowers and with six character Guangxu mark. Diameter 23 cm.

Sold for £60

Lot 214

Two Chinese porcelain rice bowls, with covers and stands, each with Buddhist symbols against a coral ground with gilt double Shou, one with red stamped Qianlong mark, the other with a circular stamped mark. Diameter of bowls 12 cm.

Sold for £170

Lot 215

Two Chinese millefiori plates, late 19th/early 20th century, each with six character Guangxu mark, and with applied collectors inventory number 90 and 91. Diameter 24 cm.

Sold for £32

Lot 216

Three Chinese "Batavian" tea bowls and a saucer, 18th century, the interiors decorated with floral sprays and with chocolate brown exterior glaze.

Sold for £50

Lot 217

A set of six Chinese porcelain tea cups and saucers, early 20th century, with panels of precious objects against a yellow ground decorated with lotus flower scroll stamped four character Qianlong mark.

Sold for £110

Lot 218

A pair of crackleware hall plates, late 19th century, decorated with warriors on foot and horseback within a bronzed border, pseudo Chengua mark and with applied label for "Kee Yuen exporter, Canton, China". Diameter 27.5 cm.

Sold for £75

Lot 220

A large pair of Chinese famille rose vases and covers, 19th century, decorated with numerous figures within an interior scene, the reverse with similar figures on exterior, applied inventory number 329 label to the underside. Height 31 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £180

Lot 221

A pair of Chinese porcelain water buffalo, early 20th century, each in a turquoise glaze with biscuit feet, all upon a carved wood stand. Width 11.5 cm.

Sold for £60

Lot 222

A large Canton enamel oval shaped dish, mid 19th century, the body slightly scalloped with panels of figures, birds and butterflies, against a green scroll ground heightened with gilding, all upon a raised foot with decorative foliate border. Width 38.9 cm, height 9 cm, depth 31 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £240

Lot 223

A close pair of Chinese cylindrical vases and domed covers, early 20th century, each decorated with the 100 boys in a dragon procession, each 23.5 cm high, two further Chinese cylindrical vases and covers, 20th century, one with Ruyi head shoulder decorated with a dragon amongst tight peony flower scroll, the other with a shoulder decorated with peony against a blue scroll ground. 23 cm and 21 cm respectively.

Sold for £240