Chinese porcelain complete set of nine figures of the standing Daoist immortals, consisting of Shoulao, the god of longevity, and the Eight Immortals who pay him homage, each on a raised rectangular base and holding their attribute by which they are identifiable.

Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke deep plate with everted rim, painted in the centre in vivid blue tones with a fisherman standing at the stern with the rectangular sail open, with rock work in the foreground and a two-tiered pagoda in the distance beneath the moon, with an unusual lappet border in the form of a flower, the underside with sprays of branches.

Chinese pottery sancai and blue glazed pillow or wrist rest, carved on the curved top with two ducks facing each other and resting on large lotus flower heads between ruyi and amongst other plants, on a rich lapis blue ground, the four sides with chestnut and white splashes extending on three sides to the foot, the base unglazed, revealing the biscuit body.

Pair of Chinese porcelain blue and white and coloured enamel, ko-akai, small deep dishes, each fluted with a scalloped rim, painted in the centre with large branches of bamboo amongst pierced rock work in a pond, with plum blossom in yellow and iron-red, all beneath green leaves and aubergine branches, with two birds in flight beneath the sun and swirling clouds, with a brown washed rim, each underside with three leaves in underglaze blue.

Chinese imperial porcelain lemon-yellow ground famille rose enamelled “hundred” butterfly bowl, with four double xi-characters in gilt, beneath a gilt rim, the underside with a four-character mark of Tongzhi in iron-red and of the period, 1862-1874.

Chinese seven-colour glass overlay snuff bottle, superbly decorated with a large turquoise lotus leaf enveloping a pink lotus flower, carved on the exterior with a lotus pod, leaves, shoots and a brown leaf, together with a black crab, the footrim formed as a branch.

Chinese superbly hollowed Suzhou agate snuff bottle, carved in high-relief with an equestrian figure of a scholar riding a donkey in a continuous mountain river landscape with a viewing pavilion in the distance, his attendant leading the way holding a flowering prunus branch, amongst typical Suzhou edged rockwork, superbly carved in high-relief with prunus flowerheads in russet tones, the underside with a slightly dimpled base.

Chinese superbly hollowed spinach green jade nephrite snuff bottle, carved on both sides in relief with recessed panels, one with a fisherman seated on rockwork beside a stream, casting his rod beneath a prunus tree, the other with a man seated in a boat holding an oar above waves, beside rockwork and beneath a pine tree.

Chinese porcelain famille rose rounded pocket snuff bottle, painted on each side with a large pink peony amongst flowerheads in yellow and blue, with branches, buds and leaves in green and white, all on a black ground with an underglaze blue ruyi-head cloud band beneath the gilt rim, the flat rim unglazed.

Chinese famille verte large biscuit porcelain seated figure of an empress, wearing elaborately decorated robes with shou characters amongst flowering lotus on scrolling branches of leaves, each character supported as a bloom on an even, bright yellow glaze, her hands clasped under a ceremonial cloth with a central phoenix bird representing the empress and supporting a fruiting peach group with leaves, her moulded neck collar in relief with aubergine leaves and her elaborate head dress with high relief birds.

Japanese porcelain kakiemon lobed and fluted teapot and cover, the ten fluted sides painted with branches of flowering plants in iron-red with lapis blue enamel branches and leaves, heightened with turquoise rock work and further leaves, beneath stylised clouds and with a ruyi-band on the shoulder in iron red, the handle and spout with turquoise scrolls, the cover similarly decorated beneath a pierced bud finial.

Chinese lavender jadeite snuff bottle of ovoid form with straight cylindrical neck, the stone of an even pale lavender tone.

Chinese porcelain blue and white lantern-form ovoid jar and cover painted in a continuous scene with a seated qilin, his right front leg raised, in a fenced landscape scene looking at a peacock in flight amongst v-shaped grass, pine branches, rockwork, camellia, bamboo and plantain, beneath stylised clouds and flames, between anhua bands of scrolling flowerheads and ‘leaves’, the neck with lappets, the cover painted with a seated white rabbit amongst rockwork, v-shaped grass and aster above a band of flowerheads and scrolls.

Chinese superbly hollowed white jadeite snuff bottle of rounded form with gently recessed foot rim, carved on the entire body with archaic style scrolls, linked to form bands beneath the cylindrical neck, incised with a continuous keyfret.

Chinese pale celadon jade imperial-style baluster-form tapered snuff bottle, with upright cylindrical neck, carved on each of the four fluted facets with a scrolling roundel above a lotus flower-head band, beneath ruyi-scrolls at the shoulder and a tall leaf lappet band above the foot, the base skilfully recessed beneath the foot rim, with traces of russet and natural inclusions.

Chinese yellow glass snuff bottle of imperial-style, moulded and carved with a standing caparisoned elephant with his head turned to the side, wearing a long and elaborate saddle cloth, the jardiniere form neck forming the howdah above a high-relief ruyi-scroll band.

A Chinese famille verte, sancai biscuit model of a reclining figure of Li Bai leaning on his wine jar, his yellow dappled robes covering his hands under his sleeves and chin with his crossed over legs revealing his green dappled pantaloons, the wine jar also covered in a green glaze with dark glaze to his beard, hair, eyes, eyebrows and shoes, the unglazed flat base revealing the biscuit body.

Chinese porcelain ko-akai small saucer dish painted with a bird perched on a flowering camellia branch with green leaves beneath a sun and swirling iron-red clouds, encircled by an iron-red line, the underside with stylised precious objects.