Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke trefoil stem bowl, painted on the bowl with four large leaf sprays above a flange and stylised grass, the lobed overturned rim with a geometric ground and six circular mons with flower heads, cash, three commas, lozenge and three stripes.

Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke octagonal lobed dish with indented corners, painted with three deer gambling and one reclining on grass beneath an overhanging pine tree issuing from rock work with flowers and shrubs, encircled by a scrolling lotus flowerhead border with ruyi-form branches.

Large Japanese porcelain blue and white decagonal deep dish with indented corners, painted with a lady and her attendant on a naturalistic bridge, with a seated gentleman in a boat, the scene between prunus branches and rock work with a palm tree above a river, encircled by a ruyi-head border and beneath an upright brown dressed rim, the underside with a scrolling branch above underglaze blue lines, the base with a fuku mark within a double square, with natural spur marks. 

Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke deep plate, painted with two ladies standing beneath a parasol beside a pine tree with roc kwork and pine, the irregular border with ten circular mons on two different diaper grounds and approximately a third on a white ground, the underside plain with underglaze blue lines encircling the foot and rim.

Chinese porcelain blue and white deep bowl of klapmutz form, painted on the exterior with four scenes from the “Romance of the Western Chamber”, with Zhang Sheng playing a qin, looking out at Yingying and her attendant in a garden, two scenes with the lovers meeting, and another of the lovers and Zhang Sheng’s attendant, all in fenced scenes, divided by cloud banks and rockwork and beneath a lozenge diaper band with flower heads, the interior painted in the centre of the well with three boys playing, beneath a different lozenge diaper at the rim.

Chinese pale celadon jade carving of a standing boy, beside a younger boy clambering with the help of his brother’s arms onto a large round drum raised on a stand, the taller boy holding a music stone in his right hand.

Chinese porcelain famille verte biscuit teapot and cover in the form of bamboo branches in yellow, aubergine, lime green and sea green with birds and branches including camellia, aster, prunus, bamboo, lingzhi and fruit, between naturalistic bamboo handle and spout, the yellow ground flower-shape drop-in cover with bamboo knop and bamboo sprays.

Chinese porcelain blue and white sleeve vase, painted with Han Xin escaping at night on horseback and being pursued by Xiao He and his cohorts, all in a continuous mountain river landscape scene with Han Xin speedily riding away beside a lake beneath the moon and stars, with Xiao He on his horse behind a rock, together with his attendant holding a lantern and two foot soldiers in the foreground amongst rockwork, cloud scrolls, plants and v-shape grass and beneath an anhua scrolling band of flowers and leaves within two pairs of incised lines, the neck with flowers, scrolls and precious objects, and above a further anhua band at the foot, the base unglazed revealing the biscuit body, the blue of excellent tone.

A very rare pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte bottle vases, decorated over the entire surface with five blue chilong dragons, four on the body and one in high relief on a seed-green ground, with prunus flower heads in iron red, yellow, aubergine and green, the foot with a scroll band.

"May Your Happiness Reach Up To The Tips of Your Eyebrows"

Pair of large Chinese watercolours in gouache heightened in gum arabic, painted with lakeside gardens in Canton, one with rock work and trees in the water with two extra levels to the villa, the other showing the fishpond at the back of the villa with a figure standing on the balcony.

Chinese porcelain blue and white bottle vase with tall cylindrical flaring neck and globular rounded body, painted in a continuous scene with a seated cat looking up at butterflies in flight amongst leaves, aster, see-through rockwork and grass beneath the sun, the shoulder with a band of flowerheads and leaves, the neck painted with a bifid tailed chilong dragon amongst branches of scrolling lotus with wan characters, all between underglaze blue double lines.

Chinese biscuit porcelain aubergine-glazed teapot and cover of bamboo form with fluted naturalistic body, handle and spout, the cover with an openwork bamboo branch-form handle, the flat base unglazed.

Chinese biscuit porcelain apple-green glazed teapot and cover of bamboo form with fluted naturalistic body, handle and spout, the cover with an openwork bamboo branch form handle, the flat base unglazed.

Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain, brinjal, conical bowl, wan, carved on the exterior with three flowering branches in green, yellow and clear glaze, all on a rich aubergine ground continuing on the interior, carved in the well with a leaf, the base with an underglaze blue square mark, zhi, within a double ring.

Pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain scroll-weights, zhizhen, each in the form of a standing phoenix bird beside an aubergine rockwork grotto and a high-relief flowering plant unglazed in the biscuit with an elaborate green leaf, the birds with detailed relief hairwork to their necks and inside feather work to their wings, all on a green and clear-glazed ground on the rectangular base, the underside revealing muslin marks from the firing.

Pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain joss-stick holders, modelled as seated smiling boys, each with their left knee slightly raised and holding the joss-stick holder in their left hand, one wearing a yellow jacket and green pantaloons, the other wearing a green jacket and yellow pantaloons, the faces covered in a clear glaze, their hairwork heightened in deep aubergine.

Chinese famille verte, sancai, biscuit porcelain joss-stick holder, modelled as the laughing twins, He He Erxian, one standing wearing a green glazed robe holding a lotus flower left in the biscuit, the other kneeling and wearing aubergine robes holding a box, the cover left in the biscuit, all on an hexagonal raised rectangular base moulded on the front with a relief lotus flower on a cash ground between two moulded Chinese characters in relief in yellow glaze, He and He, the base unglazed.