A CHINESE DINGYAO ‘LOTUS’ JAR AND COVER.Song Dynasty.The globular body supported on a tapering foot, set with lotus leaves modelled in high relief, the cover formed as a lotus leaf, the finial forming the stem, 9cm H. (2) ? ??????

A CHINESE JIAN HARE FUR GLAZED TEA BOWL.Song Dynasty.Covered in a thick russet and black streaked glaze, gongyu (Imperial tribute) mark, 6.5cm H, 12.5cm diameter.? ???????

A CHINESE QINGBAI VASE. Song Dynasty.The ribbed body supported on a high arched foot, and rising to a waisted banded neck and everted rim, 21.5cm H. ? ????

A CHINESE YAOZHOU TEA BOWL.Song Dynasty.The interior moulded with six peony blossoms borne on an undulating stem of fine scrolling leaves, the exterior of the conical bowl carved with a band of narrow petals rising from the small ring foot, 5.5cm H, 13cm diameter. Provenance: from the Jan and Nelly Szibner Collection.? ?????????

A CHINESE DINGYAO BOWL.Song Dynasty.With deeply rounded sides rising to a metal-mounted rim, supported on a slightly recessed base and foot, the interior with a roundel incised with a floral branch, 14.7cm diameter ? ???????

A CHINESE QINGBAI BOWL.Song Dynasty.The deeply rounded sides rising to a foliate rim, the interior with an attractive pattern of scrolling clouds, 12.5cm diameter. ? ?????????

A CHINESE CARVED QINGBAI BOWL.Song Dynasty.Of conical form with deep rounded sides rising from a slightly tapered foot, to an everted foliate rim, carved and combed on the interior with flower scroll among densely sprouting foliage, 20cm diameter. ? ????????

A CHINESE CELADON VASE.Song Dynasty. The pear-shape body rising from a short straight foot to a tall cylindrical neck and everted rim, 15.5cm H.Provenance: from the personal collection of Roger Bluett, thence by descent to the present owner.? ?????

A CHINESE SANCAI-GLAZED MODEL OF A LOHAN.Ming Dynasty.Standing on a low rectangular base in long flowing robes, the hands together, the face, set with an urna, sensitively modeled and bearing a serene, contemplative expression, 56cm H.? ??????

A CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON “LOTUS’ DISH.Ming Dynasty.Of shallow form rising from a short foot to a lipped rim, encircled with radiating concave 'petals' and a central medallion enclosing a beautifully incised flowering lotus branch, 28cm diameter. ? ?????????

A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE OCTAGONAL BLUE AND WHITE EWERS. Ming Dynasty, 16th Century. Of octagonal form, the globular body, with floral spray along each face, and set with a curved spout and rectangular handle, the flaring neck decorated with a leaf-lap pet band, one ewer with a four character Xuande mark, 16cm H. (2)????? ???????? For a single ewer see Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great Collections – Museum of Fine Art , Boston, cat no 88.

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE LANTERN JAR.Transitional era.The globular body with a tapering rim and base, the body decorated with lotus bouquets and butterflies, 27cm H. f ???? ??????????

A PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE VASES. Transitional era. Of hexagonal pear-shaped form, decorated to the body with continuous figurative scenes, below floral borders, 27.5cm H. (2) ???? ?????????

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘BOYS’ JAR.Qing Dynasty, Kangxi era. Decorated with quatrefoil panels enclosing boys holding lotus stems, separated by lotus spray, wood cover and stand, 22cm H. (3)??? ???????????????

A PAIR OF CHINESE INCISED CELADON DISHES. Qing Dynasty, 18th Century.The interior of each with a central stylised shou character roundel encircled by a ruyi head band and a further band of bats and clouds, six character Chenghua mark to base, 26.5cm diameter. (2) ????? ??????????

TWO CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE ‘FLOWER BASKET’ CHARGERS. Qing Dynasty, Kangxi era. Each decorated with a central roundel depicting a flower basket, surrounded by lappets of various scenes of flowers and rocks, 37.5cm diameter, 40cm diameter. (2) ??? ??? ?????

A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE FIGURATIVE DISH. Qing Dynasty, Kangxi era. The central roundel decorated with an exterior figurative scene of soldiers and officials within a border set with four quatrefoil panels enclosing flowering branches, 37.8cm di ameter. ??? ???????

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'GARDEN SCENE' YUHUCHUNPING.Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng era. Of elegant pear-shaped form, decorated with a balustraded garden planted with bamboo and plantain trees beside rocks, all below pendent ruyi heads and scrolling foliage bands around the waisted neck and lappets to the foot, waisted neck collared with scrolls and stylised plantain leaves rising to a trumpet mouth, the flared foot further decorated with a scrolling band, 38cm H.??? ??????????

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘PEONY SCROLL’ DISH. Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng mark and of the period.The shallow rounded sides resting on a short foot, the interior with a central medallion enclosing foliated peony scroll bearing seven blossoms, the exterior similarly painted with nine evenly spaced peonies wreathed in foliage, six character Yongzheng mark to base, 21cm diameter.??? ??????????????????

A CHINESE SLIP-DECORATED MONOCHROME BLUE 'ELEPHANT' JAR. Qing Dynasty. The rounded body painted in translucent white with a dragon the head turned down to the right, wood cover, 24cm H. (2) ? ???????????

AN ORMALU-MOUNTED CHINESE DOUBLE-FISH CELADON VASE. Qing Dynasty, Qianlong era, the mounts 19th Century.with moulded scales and raised dorsal fins, mounted in gilt-bronze cast with scrolls on a pierced oval scroll moulded foot, with a label to the un derside Brynkinalt RM, 33.5cm H. ??? ???????? For a pair of European-mounted celadon glazed double fish vases see Ayres, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume II, 2016, cat no 1234-1235, p 473.

A CHINESE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE VASE.Qing Dynasty, 18th Century.Of hexagonal baluster form, the body decorated with large panels enclosing figures in a garden, with further smaller panels to the neck, foot, and shoulders enclosing sepia landscape scene s, reserved on a scrolling gilt ground, 45.5cm H. ????? ?????????

A CHINESE GILT-DECORATED BLACK LACQUER 'TEA CULTIVATION' TEA CADDY. Qing Dynasty, circa 1830.Of hexagonal form, with gently rounded sides supported on four gilt lion-feet supports, the sides vividly painted with gilt with scenes of tea-cultivation an d preparation, the top of the domed cover similarly decorated within a band of dragons chasing flaming pearls, 20 x 14 x 14.5cm long.?????? ?????????????

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE FISH BOWL. Qing Dynasty, Qianlong era. Finely enamelled with long tailed crested birds among rockwork and peonies, all between moulded lion head handles, the interior with various carp and shellfish swimming amongst aquatic pla nts, 62cm diameter. ??? ??????

A PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘LANDSCAPE’ JARDINÈRES. Qing Dynasty, 18th Century.Of spherical form on short stepped tripod feet, decorated to the exterior with a continuous watery landscape scene, 18.5cm H, 24cm diameter. (2)????? ???????? ??

A CHINESE CANTON ENAMEL 'EUROPEAN SCENE' COFFEE POT AND COVER.Qing Dynasty, 18th Century.The tall globular body finely painted with curly-haired figures in a landscape, with a curved spout opposite an ear-shaped handle, domed cover, 18cm H. (2)????? ??????????????????

A LARGE CHINESE CANTON ENAMEL COFFEE POT AND COVER. Qing Dynasty, 18th Century. The tapering cylindrical body set with an upright handle, the body decorated with flowering branches emerging from behind a rock, 28cm H.????? ???????????????

A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE CANTON ENAMEL TRAY.Qing Dynasty, Kangxi era.Of rectangular form, enamelled with a pair of long-tailed birds perched on rockwork issuing chrysanthemum and magnolia, all reserved on a plain white ground within a puce foliat e band, the rounded rim with a diaper ground reserving four quatrefoil panels enclosing flowering spray, 56.5 x 40.5cm. ??? ????????????? For a related tray see the JA Lloyd Hyde collection, Chinese Painted Enamels, The China Institute of America, 1969, cat no 13, p 17.

A CHINESE CANTON ENAMEL PINK GROUND FAMILLE ROSE CANDLE STICK. Qing Dynasty. Raised on a high tapering base and set with a wide drip-pan with everted galleried rim, connected to a sconce by a tall column with a raised band, decorated with auspicious symbols and bat and peaches roundels on a pink ground, 49cm H. ? ???????????????

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE CANDLE STICK. Qing Dynasty, Qianlong mark and probably of the period. Raised on a high bell-shaped base and set with a wide drip-pan connected to a sconce by a tall tapering column, decorated all over with lotus scroll and ausp icious emblems on a red ground, six character Qianlong mark to the edge of the drip-pan, 31.5cm H.??? ??????????????????????

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE STEM BOWL. Qing Dynasty, Qianlong mark and of the period. The bowl is decorated with lança characters spaced between a leafy meander of stylised lotus scrolls, supported on a flaring base decorated with beaded tassels below r uyi and floral borders, six character Qianlong mark beneath the foot, 13.5cm H.??? ????????????????????

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE SGRAFFITO-GROUND VASE.Qing Dynasty, 18th / 19th Century.The ovoid body rising from a spreading foot, with a wide mid-section hanging over the shoulders rising to a waisted neck and lipped onion neck, brightly enamelled around t he exterior with a leafy undulating floral scroll of full-blown lotus, clematis and hibiscus flowers, all reserved on a green sgraffito ground, the shoulder moulded in high relief with gilt decorated iron red bat handles, 40cm H. ??? / ???? ????????????????

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE JARDINÈRE.Qing Dynasty, Qianlong era.Of lobed form raised on four ruyi-form feet, the flaring sides rising to an everted lipped rim, the sides brightly enamelled with floral sprays below bats against a turquoise ground, with fl oral sprays against a yellow ground at the rim edged with gilding, the interiors enamelled turquoise, fitted box, 16.5cm H, 7.5cm diameter. Provenance: Edward Chow Collection. ??? ??????????????? For a closely related jardinière from the Chinese Imperial collection see The Enchanting Splendor of Vases and Planters: A Special Exhibition of Flower Vessels from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 2014, cat no I-31, p 92.

A CHINESE GREEN-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' BOWL. Qing Dynasty, Guangxu mark and of the period.The interior decorated in green enamel with a five-clawed scaly dragon leaping in pursuit of a flaming pearl surrounded by flame motifs, the exterior of the bowl de corated with a repeating incised cloud pattern, six character mark to base, 8.5 x 4.5cm diameter. ??? ???????????????

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' BOWL.Qing Dynasty, Daoguang mark and of the period.The deep rounded sides rising from a slightly tapered foot to an everted rim, brightly painted to the exterior with two dragons in pursuit of a flaming pea rl, divided by phoenix in flight, reserved on a leafy floral ground, all below the Eight Buddhist Emblems and ruyi head band at the rim, the interior with a central dragon medallion, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark, 16cm diameter.??? ??????????????????

A CHINESE CELADON-GLAZED 'DRAGON' VASE, TIANQIUPING.Qing Dynasty, 19th Century.The globular body rising to a tall cylindrical neck, decorated in high relief around the body and neck with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl among clouds and flames, and a bove waves, 51cm H.????? ?????????

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE BOWL.Qing Dynasty, Jiaqing mark and of the period.The rounded sides rising to an everted foliate rim, decorated to the exterior with figures and inscriptions, six character mark to base, 18.5cm diameter.??? ??????????????????

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘BOYS’ VASE.19th / 20th Century.Of slender pear-shaped form, with a waisted neck and everted rim, the body decorated with two boys looking into a basket, six character Guangxu mark to base, 21cm H. ?? / ???? ?????

A PAIR OF CHINESE 'FISH' CUPS.Qing Dynasty, Daoguang mark and of the period. Of conical form, the slightly bulging bodies decorated in iron red with fishes, against a ground of incised wave patterns, 9.5cm diameter, six character Daoguang mark to bas e, 5.2cm H. (2) ??? ???????????????

TWO CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ‘EIGHT BROKENS’ BOWLS. Qing Dynasty, 19th Century. The faceted sides of each bowl supported on a short tapering foot, and enamelled on a crackle ground with a collage of fragmentary calligraphic inscriptions, 6.5cm H, 10.5cm diameter / 8.5cm H, 17.5cm diameter. (2) ????? ??????????

AN ‘EIGHT BROKENS’ PAINTING.Ink on silk, hanging scroll, 83 x 39cm.??? ???? ??

A BRONZE VASE, HU.Han Dynasty.The rounded sides supported on a splayed foot and rising to a waisted neck and flared rim, the body with geometric patterns below a lappet band, 32cm H.Provenance: London private collection.? ??

A CHINESE BRONZE VASE, HU.Han Dynasty.The rounded sides supported on a splayed foot and rising to a waisted neck and flared rim, the body with geometric patterns below a lappet band, 32cm H.Provenance: London private collection.? ??

A CHINESE BRONZE VASE, HU.Han Dynasty.The rounded sides supported on a splayed foot and rising to a waisted neck and flared rim, the body with geometric patterns below a lappet band, 32cm H.Provenance: London private collection.? ??

A CHINESE BRONZE VASE.Han Dynasty.Of pear-shaped form, the rounded body supported on a splayed foot, the banded waisted neck rising to a lobed onion neck, 34.5cm H, 1.45kg. ? ???????

A CHINESE BRONZE VESSEL.Han Dynasty.Of high cylindrical form, supported on three cabriole feet, small loop handles and banding to the body, a knop to the cover, double boxed, 31.5cm H, 2.6kg. Exhibited: the Neiraku museum, Nara Japan.? ????

A CHINESE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER. Yuan-Early Ming period. The compressed globular body supported on tripod cylindrical feet, rising to a waisted neck and everted galleried rim, decorated with large lotus flowers and foliage, with lappet bands around the feet and a band of flower heads around the neck, set on each side with gilt bronze lion head handles, 13cm H, 18cm diameter.???? ?????????????