ASIAN AND ISLAMIC ART HAMMER AUCTION 28 MARCH 2023

An ancient Chinese Neolitic earthenware two-handled jar, dating to the the Machang phase of the Majiayao (or Gansu Yangshao) culture. The vess...

Terracotta 'Fang Hu' vases with covers and original paint. Height 38 cm.

A pair of tiles with bird and flower decoration. 36 by 36 cm. 36 by 34 cm.

A terracotta -Buddhist- jar and cover with original paint. Height 35 cm.

An unglazed Buddhist jar and cover with applied symbols and designs. Height 28 cm.

A brown glazed burner and cover in the form of a mountain. Height: 22 cm.

A terracotta statue of standing horse, decorated with a saddle, saddle cloth and stirrups. Height 30 cm.

A terracotta statue of a standing horse, decorated with a saddle, saddle cloth and stirrups. Height 36 cm.

Terracotta set with 9 cups on a tray. Diameter tray: 24 cm. Diameter cups: 6 cm.

The jar is covered with a translucent amber glaze which stops unevenly to reveal the buff-coloured lower body. The cover is similarly covered in t...

The tiles are well modeled in high relief with the writhing body of a large scaly dragon amidst leafs. 105 by 30 cm.

The glaze covers the whole of the inside of the vessel and three quarters down the outside all over a white slip, the glaze suffused with dark fle...

A Chinese porcelain stem cup with flared sides and splayed foot, covered with a glassy russet glaze splashed yellow tear-drops, falling short to t...

A Chinese stem cup well potted with deep rounded sides resting on a tall hollow splayed foot moulded with bands, covered with a guan-type celadon ...

A Chinese Dehua water dropper in the form of lotus attached with a boy and a small spout issuing from the mouth. Length: 9 cm. A Chinese Qinghai ...

Two Chinese teapots, with stemmed lid, melon shaped body, small spout and a handle, covered with a bluish Qingbai glaze. The base is unglazed....

The thinly potted shallow cup rising from a short flared foot to an everted rim, the rounded sides divided into six petal lobes by notches around ...

A fine carved Yingqing dish, the slightly domed base of the interior decorated with three lotus flowers, encircled round the well by a band of sma...

The large water dropper is moulded in the shape of a crouching frog with a circular aperture on its back and a short spout issuing from its mouth,...

A small Chinese porcelain ewer with small spout and handle, decorated with panels enclosing carved floral leafy sprays, covered overall with a blu...

A Chinese porcelain stem cup standing on a small flaring foot with flaring sides, covered overall with a pale ice-blue translucent glaze. Diamet...

The bulbous body of the square-form vase is decorated with a pair of taotie-mask handles with loose rings, supported on a tall spreading foot. The...

A Chinese bronze short neck garlic mouth vase, supported on a hollow foot, the body of ovoid form, the mottled dark green patina with extensive en...

A gilt Chinese belt-hook, the slender shaft delicately fluted and tapering towards the dragons head terminal, the whole of the upper surface decor...

Cheek bits for the attachment of leather straps, cast of circular form with three equally-spaced mask decorations. Diam. 7.5 cm.

The potted jar of compressed form, moulded with vertical ribs extending from below the short neck to the thick foot, the lobed cover in the form o...

The rounded, vertically-lobed sides rising from a straight foot, covered overall with a crackled sea-green glaze, the footring unglazed revealing ...

A Chinese celadon excavated vase with two handles in the shape of fish, the neck having two double line incisions and third double line incision o...

A Chinese celadon bowl with low rounded sides, the exterior carved in relief with peonies and leaves above a carved band of petals around the glaz...

With rounded sides and flattened rim. The interior carved and incised with a peony in a medallion in the centre, the well with a continuous flower...

A Chinese celadon vase with a waisted neck, the neck with a everted rim is decorated with a band of vertical grooves. The body with a carved and ...

Ceramics robustly potted and raised on three mask-and-paw feet, the shallow rounded sides carved with the 'Eight Trigrams', between bands of appli...

The watercup and dropper combined in the shape of a lotus leaf and seed-pod, the stem forming a short handle, a small pod the brush rest. The two ...

The watercup and dropper combined in the shape of a peach and seed-pod, the stem forming a short handle, and a small pod the brush rest, with leav...

A Chinese seven-lobed bowl in the shape of flower, stylized with a standing figure of shoulder lao in the centre decorated blue and white, with le...

A Longquan celadon bulb bowl supported on three paw fee, everted rim with vertical ribs, the sides nicely carved with a frieze of detached peony s...

A Sancai dish of oblong shape with shallow sides terminating in an everted barbed rim, the interior crisply impressed with lotus blossoming sprig...

A Chinese celadon bowl standing on a short foot with slightly conical siders, the interior impressed with figures below a key fret chain, covered ...

Heavily potted, the rounded sides encircled by the Eight Trigrams between bands of combed wave patterns, supported on three cabriole feet surmount...

A Chinese yueyao vessel modelled in the form of crouching mythical beast, on short legs tucked beneath the body, the broad snouted head with fangs...

A Chinese celadon figure of the god of war, Guan Yu, covered with a light green glaze to the foot, semi-hollow base with an unglazed foot-rim burn...

Naturalistically modeled in the form of a peach atop a spreading foot, the gently S-curved spout set opposite the handle both in the form of stems...

A Chinese Henan brush washer resting on a knife pared foot-rim, covered overall with a lustrous black glaze streaked with metallic grey splashes r...

The rounded sides lightly moulded on the exterior with a band of upturned lotus petals, covered overall in a glaze of soft bluish sea-green tone, ...

A Chinese lobbed porcelain ewer with small spout and handle, the body divided into eight vertical registers decorated with floral leafy sprays, th...

The ribbed, globular body is supported on an unglazed splayed foot, and the neck is flanked by a pair of strap handles. The jar is covered with a ...

A Chinese Henan bowl standing on a short flared foot with conical sides, the surfaces covered with a lustrous brown-black glaze neatly wiped from ...

A Chinese Henan jar of well potted ovoid form tapering forwards the countersunk base, covered with a lustrous black glaze regularly streaked with ...

The diminutive and delicate heart shaped feeder with two handles to side, decorated in iron-red with fish amongst foliage in cobalt-blue. Height:...

The peach-form teapot moulded with five bats and sprays of lingzhi, flanked with naturalistic branch-form spout and loop handle. Height: 13.5 cm.

A Chinese porcelain cup with crisp moulding, the rim slightly everted with delicate indents representing where the leaves end. The body is moulded...

The tapered vessel is moulded in the form of a rhinoceros horn, the sides are decorated with auspicious creatures such as a monkey and a dragon an...

The white cups decorated on both sides in relief with magnolia-blossoms, each polychromed with yellow and red enamels. The cup is supported on the...

A Chinese celadon dish with rounded sides and flattened rim. The centre molded with two fish swimming in opposite direction. The well with a carve...

The oviform body is divided into six lobes, and the shoulder is applied with a pair of small loops moulded with flower heads between the curved sp...

A Chinese cizhou baluster vase, the pear shaped vase surmounted by a narrow waisted neck with trumpet mouth, the granular ware applied with a whit...

A small Chinese porcelain dish with conical sides and flared rim, the interior crisply moulded with flowers amongst foliage, covered overall in a ...

The compressed body is raised on three short feet and has a flat everted barbed rim, lobed body and neck, with three narrow flanges. The censer is...

The leaf shaped cup is decorated with moulded leafy branch to the exterior, and the stem is modeled as a gnarled branch, ear in the form of a bran...

Porcelain snuff bottle, molded in the form of a curled lotus leaf, with lotus buds and insects, the bottle covered overall with a turquoise glaze ...