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27 March| Asian Ceramics & Works of Art

Auction date Thursday 27 March 2025 11:00 - 17:00 GMT

TWO RARE CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE-ROSE TRIPLE SHELL SWEETMEAT DISHES

Thursday 27 March
Lots 1101- 1261 Asian Ceramics & Works of Art 11am

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Friday 28 March         9am – 4.30pm
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Tuesday 1 April 9am – 4.30pm
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Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
1221	AN AYUTHIA BRONZE HEAD OF BUDDHA Thailand, 16th/17th century With downcast eyes, elongated earlobes and tightly curled hair, 18cm high, wood stand. Provenance: Property of a deceased collector and thence by descent	£400 - £600	£420	View
1222	A RATNAKOSIN BRONZE HAND OF BUDDHA Thailand, 19th century Raised in vitakramudra wearing elaborate rings and bracelets, 18cm high, wood stand. Provenance: Property of a deceased collector and thence by descent	£200 - £300	£300	View
1223	A KHMER BRONZE FIGURE OF PADMAPANI Angkor Wat style, 12th/13th century The four-armed Buddhist deity holding various attributes, wearing a tall headdress with small Buddha image at the front, 15.5cm high, wood stand. Provenance:…	£500 - £700	£700	View
1224	A BRONZE FIGURE OF VISHNU RECLINING ON THE SERPENT RAFT South India, 17th/18th century Surrounded by female attendants and diminutive figures of Hanuman and Garuda and sheltered by the seven-headed cobra, rectangular pierced raised plinth, 9.5cm high by…	£300 - £500	£1,700	View
1225	A SINO-TIBETAN GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF KUBERA Circa 18th century Seated on a raised mound holding a parasol and a mongoose vomiting jewels, his face cold-gilded with traces of red and blue pigment, 17cm high. Provenance: Property of a deceased…	£2,000 - £3,000	£18,000	View
1226	A PALA- STYLE SMALL BRONZE FIGURE OF VISHNU Bengal, 12th century style but probably later The four-armed Hindu deity holding various attributes, his primary hand in varadamudra, flanked by a musician and chouri bearer, a diminutive figure of…	£80 - £120	£650	View
1227	A PALA BRONZE FIGURE OF PADMAPANI Bengal, 11th/12th century Seated in lalitasana on a lotus throne, his right hand in varadamudra, his left holding the stem of a lotus, wearing a tall headress, surrounded by a scrolling aureole, 9…	£500 - £700	£900	View
1228	THREE INDIAN BRONZE ELEPHANTS (3) 19th/20th century The largest with various apertures and probably part of a lamp, sizes 6cm to 14cm length	£100 - £150	£70	View
1229	A CHINESE MANDARIN-PALETTE GUGLET Qianlong Painted with two figurative panels and two small panels of birds in branches against an underglaze blue diaper pattern ground, 23cm high	£100 - £150	£600	View
1230	A LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE `EIGHT IMMORTALS' CENSER 17th century Of cylindrical form raised on three animal mask supports, the sides painted with the Eight Immortals in a fenced garden with Shoulao seated on rock holding a ruyi sceptre, beneath a…	£1,000 - £1,500	£9,500	View
1231	CHINESE SCHOOL. A LARGE FIGURATIVE PAINTING 20th century Opaque pigments on cloth, painting with a dignitary seated in an interior with attendants and children playing in the garden in the foreground, signed, image 88cm by 59cm, mounted,…	£200 - £300	£130	View
1232	A CHINESE BRONZE FIGURE OF A GUARDIAN Ming dynasty Modelled standing with one hand on hip, wearing uniform and helmet, raised on a circular domed openwork base, 41cm high	£700 - £1,000	£1,600	View
1233	AFTER LIU SONGIAN ( 1155-1218). A LARGE CHINESE PAINTING 20th century Opaque pigments on paper, painted with a monk and young attendant standing beneath a peach tree with two monkeys in its branches and two deer standing below, red seal mark, image 119cm…	£200 - £300	£50	View
1234	UTAGAWA KUNISADA ( TOYOKUNI III) ( 1786-1864). A JAPANESE WOODBLOCK DIPTYCH (4) 19th century Depicting the two Kabuki actors, Mimasu Gennosuka and Nikamura Utaemon IV, signed, 38cm by 52cm, mounted, glazed and framed as a table screen, overall size, 45cm by 70cm; also two…	£200 - £300	£110	View
1235	A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, GU Kangxi The upper part painted with a bird in flight above branches of flowering prunus and rocks, the middle section with cut flowers and the lower register with two wading birds in a lotus pond,…	£3,000 - £5,000	£7,000	View
1236	A PAIR OF LAC-BURGAUTE SNUFF BOTTLES (6) Probably Japanese, 19th century Of flattened ovoid form, each decorated in mother-of-pearl and gilt on a black ground, one side with figures in a lakeside pavilion, the reverse with a bird amongst…	£1,500 - £2,000	£1,000	View
1238	A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE FOUR-PIECE GARNITURE (4) Kangxi Comprising two baluster vases and two cylindrical vases, each painted with hexagonal panels enclosing mythical creatures inside flower panels and chevron borders, 26cm and 23.5cm high.…	£1,200 - £1,800	£1,400	View
1239	A CHINESE POTTERY HORSE AND RIDER Probably Tang dynasty The animal standing four square on a rectangular base, 21.5cm high	£400 - £600	-	View
1240	A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL Six character Chenghua mark but Kangxi Painted to the exterior with four figurative panels, possibly from the Romance of the Western Chamber, the interior painted with five boys at play beneath a…	£1,500 - £2,500	-	View
1241	A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL Six character Chenghua mark but Kangxi Painted to the exterior with two figurative panels beneath an everted rim reserved with panels of Buddhist emblems on a diaper ground, the interior painted with…	£300 - £400	£600	View
1242	A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE OVIFORM JAR Circa 1800 Painted with two scholars standing in an extensive mountainous landscape, 22cm high	£80 - £120	£40	View
1243	A CHINESE ROSE QUARTZ SNUFF BOTTLE (5) Late 19th/early 20th century Carved as two boys holding a bow around a vase, the stopper surmounted by a frog, 5.75cm high; also a grey quartz snuff bottle carved with birds amongst flowers, 5.5cm…	£200 - £300	£100	View
1244	EIGHT CHINESE EXPORT BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL SMALL PLATES (8) Qianlong Each painted in the centre with a lotus flower inside eight radiating lotus petals enclosing a single lotus flower against a whorl pattern ground, 15cm diameter	£200 - £300	£150	View
1245	A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE- ROSE PUNCH BOWL 20th century, probably Republic period The exterior painted with figures seated around tables and a group inspecting a scroll, the interior with a group seated around a table with two attendants,…	£300 - £500	£2,200	View

Total lots: 160

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