Chinese Art & Antiques

Of cylindrical form, on a splayed base, decorated with narrow bands of scrolling palmettes and floral arabesques, the neck with a central band com...

A Chinese bronze buddha figure seated in vajraparyankasana with hands in dhyanamudra, wearing ample robes opening at the chest to reveal a wan sym...

Text in English, with limited parts also in Chinese. 255 pages with 130 pieces beautifully illustrated and described on the facing pages, preceded...

87 by 163 cm

A large six-panel byôbu ?? (folding screen) covered with six separate hanging scroll paintings ??? (kakejiku) depicting different taka ? (hawks) p...

A Khurasan twelve-sided box with lid applied with three hinged handles, decorated with silver-inlaid figures, zodiac signs, horsemen and animals w...

Of rounded shape, on flat base, the exterior incised with twelve circular interlaced medallions, three of which filled with bold thuluth calligrap...

The spherical body is superbly enamelled with four lotus blossoms interspersed with smaller lotus blossoms above gilt wan emblems, all reserved on...

With rounded base and sloping shoulder rising to a triangular-section rim, the body decorated with a band of poetry in thuluth reserved against ar...

Decorated with silver floral motifs and arabesque decoration. Diameter: 13 cm.

Of round form with curved rim, inlaid with leaf and floral sprays interspersed, around a central rosette, the rim with scrolling flowers. A s...

A pair of six-panel hinagata byôbu ???? (doll festival folding screens) with a continuous painting on gold leaf showcasing flower carts ?? (hana’g...

Of faceted waisted octagonal form extruded to points at the corners of the flat shoulder with slightly sunken centre, the tubular neck with rounde...

A mid-size four-panel byôbu ?? (folding screen) by Sagawa Kakoku ???? (1867-1946) featuring a vivid painting of fowl in action. It portrays a scen...

Elegant lacquer low two-tiered display table, known as a ‘kanmuri’shoku’ ?? (crown display table) adorned by intricate design of autumn flowers ex...

A life-size wooden statue (height 172 cm) of a Buddhist deity in his manifestation of a warrior, clad in armour and standing on a rock. The eyes o...

Great, tall two-panel byôbu ?? (folding screen) adorned with two separate hanging scroll paintings ??? (kakejiku), each depicting a taka ? (hawks)...

A large six-panel byôbu ?? (folding screen) covered with six separate hanging scroll paintings ??? (kakejiku) depicting different taka ? (hawks) p...

A fine bronze inkwell with a domed lid, round body and lotus-bud shaped ribs each engraved with interlaced geometric pattern. The rim of the lid w...

Cast bronze with engraved and punched decoration with niello, knop-head lid with central vertical aperture, carved with foliate Kufic band on lid ...

WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) Of an impressive size, sturdily potted with broad rounded sho...

Seated on an undecorated pedestal in the cross-legged yogic posture of satvaparyankasana, the right leg placed over the left. His right hand is lo...

An octagonal brass incense burner, rating on vase shaped legs, each side is decorated with a floral pierced panel and silver inlaid inscriptions, ...

With rectangular body on small four feet, the cover and the four sides inlaid and engraved with different figural scenes, a king in his court, the...

With rounded base and sloping inverted sides leading to a thickened rim, engraved to the interior with the genealogy of the prophet tracing the li...

Cast with both hands raised in abhaya mudra along the body, face with serene expression and elongated earlobes, head topped with a flame usnisa, s...

Of rectangular shape, resting on four animal head shaped feet, each side carved with multiple columns of gilt engraved inscriptions, bordered with...

The vase is decorated with two stylised beast handles to the neck, the pear-shaped body is decorated with iron-red phoenix birds flying amidst lot...

Decorated with dragons chasing flaming pearls. Height: 46 cm. CONDITION Appears to be in good condition

A brass bowl with rounded base and sloping inverted sides leading to a lipped rim, the shoulder engraved with a band of bold thuluth inscription o...

Rising from flat base to oval shaped body with slightly flaring rim, open slightly curved spout also with flaring rim, the body decorated with car...

An Ottoman tombak door knocker pierced with interlacing openwork of floral leafy sprays. Diameter: 13 cm.

Title: Chinese Porcelain Collections in the Near East: Topkapi and Ardebil Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong Publicat...

Of rectangular shape, the surface in the form of a lobbed cartouche, finely pierced with gilt interlocking floral scrolls. 11 by 7.3 cm.

Gouache colour heightened with gold on paper, depicting Iskander watching the mermaids bathing, above and under Persian inscriptions of poems in n...

134 by 152 cm.

Diameter: 22 cm.

A Chinese porcelain plaque decorated with an immortal with two kids in mountainous landscape. 24.5 by 37.5 cm.

Leporello illustration book filled with polychrome shunga paintings. Shunga ?? (literally “spring pictures”), is an erotic artistic tradition that...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 15 lines of elegant black naskh script, diacritics and vowels in red, marginal occasional notes indica...

Persian manuscript on paper, each page with a central panel enclosing 15 lines in nastaliq black script, surrounded by diagonally written scripts,...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 17ll. written in black bihari script, the word 'Allah' picked out in gold. Firs...

A medium-sized six-panel byôbu ?? (folding screen) showcasing a delicate Rinpa School-style painting that captures a tranquil gathering of four cr...

A tall two-panel byôbu ?? (folding screen) featuring a painting on shiny golden silk portraying a pair of cranes ? (tsuru) perched on a jutting ro...

Of rectangular form with recessed gold fundame edges, bearing a superb gyobu nashiji ground finely decorated in gold, brown, and red hiramaki-e an...

A large bowl of deep rounded form decorated around the rim with an elegant benedictory inscription separated by eight floral leafy roundels each c...

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 33 ff. with 2 fly-leaves, each page with 7ll. written in naskh script, Turkish text in red ink, te...

A Chinese porcelain brush pot decorated in famille verse enamels with a horseman accompanied by two servants under a pine tree in a landscape. ...

A distinctive, large dark patinated bronze Japanese lantern ?? (tôrô) comprising five sections. It features a cone-shaped roof, crowned with a...

A 6-panel byôbu?? (folding screen) with an animated Kanô School-style painting on gold leaf of karako ?? (Chinese children) at play under supervis...

A Khorassan bronze bowl standing on a flared foot adorned with a band of animated naskh inscriptions on a dense scroll ground, the rounded body wi...

Both carved standing on a double gilt lotus stand, carved wearing long robe and holding a large sceptre in the left hand supporting a Fu dog, the ...

An Ottoman wooden box inlaid with mother of pearl, decorated with roundels enclosing engraved Christian figures. 15 by 25 cm. Height: 17 ...

An Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 25 ll in black, red and blue ink, written in thuluth and nasck script. The upper section with Quran 109...

A Chinese porcelain bottle vase, gilt with four large stylised lotus blossoms amongst dense scrolling leafy tendrils, set between a border of ruyi...

Arabic manuscript on paper, interlinear Persian translation, 14 lines to each page, written in black Kufic script, diacritics in red, rosette vers...

A Chinese porcelain bowl with barbed everted rim, decorated on the exterior and the interior in famille rose enamels with lotus blossoms amongst s...

A Chinese porcelain vase stylised with two chilong shaped handles, decorated in cobalt blue with a broad band of composite floral scrolls interspe...

A rectangular Chinese seal, form is of square cross-section with well-polished sides, surmounted by a finial in the form of a dragon. The base inc...

A Roman amulet made of light grey chalcedony in the form of a cicada. Length: 31 mm. Weight: 6.7 gr. PROVENANCE Ex-European private...