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| Number of lots recorded: | 96 |
| Lots with images: | 96 |
| Prices available: | 96 |
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Asian
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| *** | A small Khmer bronze head of Buddha, Angkor Wat, Bayon period, 12th-13th century, very finely cast, the face with a benign smile, his hair combed straight back, long ear lobes, covered in a very good even dark green patina, 8.5 cm high, metal stand | *** |  |
| *** | A rare large Longquan celadon dish, Yuan Dynasty, early to mid 14th century, with a moulded design of a large peony spray in the centre, a continuous wave-band around the cavetto and ten raised florets on the rim, an unglazed firing ring on the base, 35.7… | *** |  |
| *** | A Jianyao yankou wan hares fur tea-bowl, Southern Song (1127-1279), with a streaked black and russet glaze, Shuiji kilns, Fujian Province. 7 cm high; 12 cm diameter. For a similar example see Robert Mowry, Hares Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers:… | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese pottery tomb figure of a prancing horse, Tang Dynasty, 618-906. Exhibiting good movement and supported on a flat base, traces of original pigment. 40 cm high, 42 cm long. Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, 10/3/1994, Lot 355, Oxford T/L… | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese earthenware figure of a horse, Tang dynasty, approx. 30 cm high, in wooden and glass case | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Chinese white jade figure of a boy, 17/18th century, Qing Dynasty. Standing with both arms raised in a wrap around jacket and long loose pants, his legs slightly bent, the details well rendered, the stone with a good even polish. 5.9 cm high.… | *** |  |
| *** | A Cizhou ware Bowl, Guantai kiln, Jin Dynasty incised in the centre, with one large peony flower and leaf within a flower-shaped border, 7.7 cm high; 21 cm diameter. Provenance: Kenny Chong, Ancient Chinese Antiques, Hong Kong, early 1980's | *** |  |
| *** | A Jizhou tortoiseshell tea bowl, Southern Song with splashed brown to russet glaze, 5.6 cm high 11 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | A very rare Chinese moulded and carved sancai ewer, Liao Dynasty, (916-1125), thinly potted in the form of a fish, with overhead handle, ochre and green lead glaze, unglazed recessed base. Provenance: A Queensland private collection. Reference: 'See Liao… | *** |  |
| *** | A very rare Chinese ivory brise fan, early Qing,18th century, finely painted in gouache with a pair of minor birds and a pheasant on a flowering branch, signed lower right, Franco Chiari, water gilded wooden frame, canes approximately 22.5 cm long, there… | *** |  |
| *** | A finely cast bronze fitting of an Apsara, circa 6th century, 12.7 cm high, fitted stand. Provenance: old label attached, dated 1954. | *** |  |
| *** | A Yaozhou ware shallow bowl, Jin Dynasty the centre moulded with a flower scroll, within band of lotus petals, olive green glaze, fitted box, 4.5 cm high, 14.8 cm diameter. Provenance: Hong, Hsi Lin Antiques Taipei, early 1980's | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Yaozhou ware small tea bowl, Song Dynasty (960-1279), 12th century, combed and incised with three fishes amongst waves, fitted box, 5.2 cm high 11.1 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | A north Indian sandstone architectural panel, Pala period, 11th-13th century | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of pottery equestrian figures Han dynasty, 206BCE ' 220AD, each horse carrying a soldier in full battle armour, red, white and black pigments. Provenance: Queensland private collection | *** |  |
| *** | A rare Chinese 'Junyao' jar, Jin dynasty (1115-1234), with two loop handles, covered with a pale blue glaze with a thin purple splash, stopped just above the foot and running into the interior of the jar, 12.5 x 12.6 cm, similar jar please see Sotheby's… | *** |  |
| *** | A silvered-bronze mirror with stylised dragons, Western Han Dynasty (221 BCE-1 AD) | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese gilt-bronze figure of a standing Boddhisatva, probably Tang dynasty (618-907), in a relaxed position on a tall open lotus pedestal base, holding a bottle in his left hand and wearing a long jewelled necklace, gilded overall in rose gold, stand… | *** |  |
| *** | Three Gandhara schist sculpture, 3rd-4th century, a seated Buddha, 28.5 cm high, together with two small fragments, 18 cm and 13 cm high (3) | *** |  |
| *** | A Gandharan grey schist relief, 2/3rd century, depicting the birth of the Buddha, stand. Height 30 cm. Length 40 cm, 8 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A very fine Tibetan gilt copper repousse Mandorla for a standing Buddha or Bodhisattva,Circa 14th century, depicting Garuda flanked by two Lamas, above a pair of Makaras, two Bodhisattvas and vyalas on top of elephants, 39.5m x 36.5 cm. Provenance: Au… | *** |  |
| *** | A large Gandharan stucco figure 3rd century Ace, of a Bodhisattva seated in dhyanasana, traces of pigment, mounted. Height 47 cm, with stand 50 cm. Provenance: Ex Uk private collection | *** |  |
| *** | A Longquan celadon vase, Yuan dynasty the body moulded in relief with a lotus scroll, beneath a trumpet shaped ribbed neck 28.5 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Qingbai double-gourd ewer and cover, Yuan Dynasty (1280-1367), decorated with brown splashes of iron oxide, Jingdezhen kilns, 11.6 cm high. Provenance: F W Bodor collection. Mossgreen Auctions, Published, John Guy Oriental Trade ceramics in… | *** |  |
| *** | A large sancai pottery figure, Tang Dynasty (618-906), standing in formal robe on a rockwork platform, the head unglazed, with traces of pigment, 73 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A massive pair of Chinese Qingbai covered vases, Southern Song/Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century, each one with applied decoration of a dragon and figures, a phoenix finial on each cover. 73 cm and 76 cm high. Reference. See Stacey Pierson, Qingbai ware:… | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese Cizhou-type ovoid tea bowl, Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), with lipped rim, five large russet splashes and a cloud of spots on the bluish-black glaze, the exterior exhibiting several coats of russet, brown and black, 7.8 cm high, 15.4 cm diameter.… | *** |  |
| *** | A Yaozhou celadon lobed bowl, Jin Dynasty, 1115-1234, moulded with a duck amongst waves, under an olive-green glaze, 17 cm diameter, attached label 'P.B.F. & M.S.F.JR.' 00178 & a Christies label, lot 40. See Rose Kerr 'Song Ceramics', Victoria and Albert… | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese silver-inlaid bronze dragon-head belt-hook, 475-221 BCE, Warring States. Finely decorated with stylised phoenix. 17.5 cm long. See 'Adornment For Eternity, Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament', Denver Art Museum, 1995, cat no 31, p112, for an… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare Korean cast bronze figure of Buddha, Silla Dynasty, 7th-8th century, Standing in a long pleated robe, the hands in 'abhyamudra' and 'varadhamudra', the back of the figure hollow cast, 18.5 cm. Provenance: Private Sydney collection. See Christies NY… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare Qingbai steep-sided bowl, Song Dynasty, 960-1279, The sides moulded with an integrated design, covered with a good bluish-green glaze apart from the unglazed base, 8.5 cm high, 12.3 cm diameter. Provenance: label to base: ' and Son, Davies Street,… | *** |  |
| *** | A silvered bronze mirror decorated with birds, Tang Dynasty (618-906) | *** |  |
| *** | A Qingbai lobed brush-washer, song Dynasty | *** |  |
| *** | An Indian stone stele of Vishnu and consort 10/12th century58 x. Provenance: The Collection of John Henshaw | *** |  |
| *** | A Cizhou white-rimmed bowl Jin Dynasty (1127-1279), the interior with dark brown glaze and five russet splashes 17 cm diameter reference: see Robert Mowry, pl 41, pp147 for a very similar example | *** |  |
| *** | A Nepalese stone Stele of a four-armed Vishnu holding his usual attributes, 14/15th century, seated upon on his vehicle, Garuda, with wings outspread and crouching on a lotus base, 34 cm, metal stand | *** |  |
| *** | A large Chinese Neolithic jade bi disc, Liangzhou culture 3rd millennium BC 5 x 6 cm with perspex stand 55 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | A very large grey pottery Lokapala Tang Dynasty (618-907). Standing on a buffalo, finely sculpted, good original pigments the dating is consistent with Oxford T/L test cert no C109n30 | *** |  |
| *** | A fine large inlaid bronze belt hook Warring States (475-221 BC), with a geometric design inlaid in gold and turquoise 21.5 cm long | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of Chinese Qingbai dishes, Song Dynasty 960-1279, each one in the shape of a Chrysanthem, painted mark to the unglazed base. 10.8 cm and 10.7 cm diameter. Provenance: Private NSW Southern Highlands collection | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese amphora vase, Tang Dynasty 618-906, with dragon handles, covered in a good even finely crazed pale green glaze. 30 cm high. Provenance: Christies South Kensington, 11/4/2006 | *** |  |
| *** | A large Chinese amphora vase, 618-906, Tang dynasty, with dragon-form handles mounted on the ringed neck, the straw-coloured glazed stopping unevenly above the flat base. 42 cm high. See 'The Ceramic Art of China', the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971, Pl… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine southern Ding-type bowl, late Northern Song, 11th/12th century, incised in the centre with lotus and covered in a good finely crackled ivory-white glaze, the mouth rim unglazed, 19.2 cm diameter, box | *** |  |
| *** | A rare shape comb, probably Tang Dynasty (618-906), 10 cm high. Carved with an image of a lady, the hair-style is similar to that of the Mongolian Kalka people. | *** |  |
| *** | A small Longquan ware ring handled vase, Yuan Dynasty, covered with grey green glaze, 15.8 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A Yaozhou celadon bowl, Song dynasty (960-1279), 12th century, carved and combed decoration, 5 cm high, 13 cm diameter. Provenance: Kenny Chong, Hong Kong, 1982 | *** |  |
| *** | Two painted pottery horses, Tang Dynasty (618-906), one red pottery and the other grey pottery, each on the flat base, original pigments. 27 cm high (both) (2) | *** |  |
| *** | A Junyao lug-handled jar, song Dynasty, 11th-12th century | *** |  |
| *** | A good Yueyao covered box, with incised floral decoration, five Dynasties/Northern song, 10th century | *** |  |
| *** | A large Cizhou stoneware jar Yuan dynasty (1280-1367), decorated with long tailed phoenix on a buff glaze 39 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A fine archaic bronze cross-bow trigger mechanism, Qin/Western Han dynasty (200-400AD), the sight-line strut and platform finely inlaid in silver and gold with animals, birds and stylised motifs. Height 16 cm. Width 12.5 cm. Literature: see: the Robert… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare Ghandaran schist figure of a Bodhisattva Indian, circa 3rd century. Provenance: The collection of Paul Otto Taubert, Sydney | *** |  |
| *** | An archaic jade Huang (semi-annular pendant), Warring States or earlier, 4th century or before12.5 x, with a carved design, a dragon head at each end with a pierced hole, oxidisation due to burial | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Chinese inlaid bronze chariot fitting, 475-8ACE, Warring States/Western Han. Decorated with a geometric design in gold sheet, gold wire and silver, inlaid with turquoise beads. 14.3 cm long, boxed. See Jessica Rawson and E. Bunker 'Ancient Chinese… | *** |  |
| *** | A very good Neolithic tripod vessel, Dawenkou culture, circa 4th Millennium BCE, 14.7 cm diameter variable, 15.7 cm high, the body with cord-marked decoration | *** |  |
| *** | A rare square silvered bronze mirror with mythical beasts, Tang dynasty, (618-907) | *** |  |
| *** | A large Longquan barbed charger decorated on the interior base with a freely executed lotus flower, covered in a good pale olive celadon glaze, Yuan Dynasty 6 cm high, 30 cm diameter. Provenance: Moongate, Singapore, late 1960's | *** |  |
| *** | A Gandharan torso in grey schist, 2nd-4th century, cutting his hair, 17.5 cm high. Provenance: On loan to the NSW art gallery, from 2003, accession no. L2006.32 | *** |  |
| *** | A large Chinese jade bi disc, Neolithic period, circa 3rd Millennium BC | *** |  |
| *** | A Longxuan celadon jar and cover, Yuan Dynasty (1280-1367), ovoid body with vertical ribs, the lid in the form of a lotus flower. Diameter 15.2 cm. Provenance: The brake-Lau-Eckerman collection, Christies Melbourne | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Qingbai ewer and cover, Yuan dynasty, 1280/1368, with dragon handle and moulded decoration of flowers and rocks. Height 10 cm. Provenance. F.W. Bodor Collection. Published. John Guy Oriental Trade Ceramics in Southeast Asia, 10th-16th century,… | *** |  |
| *** | A set of five court ladies Tang Dynasty (618-907). 28 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese Cizhou double-handled jar, Jin Dynasty 1127-1279. The lustrous black glaze with russet splashes, probably from the Guantai kilns Hebei Province. Japanese wood cover. 15.5 cm high, 9.8 cm diameter at mouth, fitted Japanese wooden box. Provenance:… | *** |  |
| *** | A good Qingbai ewer, Northern song Dynasty, 960-1127 | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese lobed bronze mirror decorated with four boys and vines, song dynasty or earlier | *** |  |
| *** | Hanging scroll late Qing Dynasty, 19th century. 221 x 90 cm. White eagle above waves, inscribed with a song dynasty poem ink and colour on silk. Provenance: Albert Chang, Hong Kong, 1967 | *** |  |
| *** | A large silvered bronze mirror, early Tang dynasty, with a continuous inscription, four fabulous lions in the center. Diameter 15 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A blue and white bowl, Yuan Dynasty, 1280/1368, decorated in the centre with a lotus bouquet, a lotus scroll around the exterior, Jingdezhen kilns. 18.6 cm diameter. Provenance. F.W. Bodor collection. Published; John Guy Oriental trade Ceramics in… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Qingbai measure, Southern Song, 1127-1289, With round lipped rim, decorated with a combed basket-weave pattern, flat unglazed base, 7.5 cm x 8.5 cm (rim), R & V Tregaskis (3037). See Qingbai ware: 'Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties',… | *** |  |
| *** | A Khmer stone carving of a female Hindu deity, circa 12th century, wearing a pleated sampot and an elaborate crown, mounted on a metal base, 64.5 cm high, 15kg. Provenance: Private Adelaide Collection | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese 'Qingbai' boys bowl, Southern Song dynasty, 12th century, the interior finely incised with four flying boys holding four lotus branches in between, covered with a fine even bluish green glaze, 14.1 cm diameter. A larger Qinba i bowl with two… | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese Longquan celadon twin fish washer, Southern Song-Yuan dynasty, 14th century, covered in a finely crackled pale green glaze, the two fish in high relief on the centre, a band of lotus buds around the exterior, 12.3 cm diameter. Provenance: Joshua… | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese Qingbai Meiping vase, Northern Song (960-1127), with vertical ribs. 27 cm high (box). The dating is consistent with Oxford Tl certificate number #P106k21 | *** |  |
| *** | A fine pair of Qingbai chrysanthemum-shaped dishes, Northern Song Dynasty, 960-1127, each one divided into twelve segments under a clear finely crazed blue-green glaze, Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi Province, 10.5 and 10.8 cm diameter, with fitted box. See… | *** |  |
| *** | A very fine Qingbai lobed Boys' bowl, Northern song Dynasty, 960-1279, 18 cm diameter, 6.3 cm high. Intricately carved in the centre | *** |  |
| *** | A large grey pottery court lady, Han Dynasty (206BC- 220AD), with original red white and black pigment her hand folded inside her sleeves, 44 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A rare miniature Guan-glazed arrow vase, Southern song (1127-1279) | *** |  |
| *** | A small Junyao teabowl Jin dynasty, 1127/12795.5 x covered, apart from the base, with an unctuous blue glaze. Provenance: Queensland private collection Literature Ceramics from the Kwan collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1994, Pp 116-117, No. 40 | *** |  |
| *** | A mottled celadon jade bowl with earlier plaque inset, plaque possibly Yuan Dynasty, with pierced metal inset with finely carved jade plaque of a goose and foliage. Plaque. Width 9 cm. Bowl 13 cm diameter. | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese Jianyao hare's fur temmoku tea bowl, Song dynasty (960-1279), the heavily potted conical bowl covered inside and out with a thick lustrous black-brown glaze, finely streaked with russet 'hare's fur' marking below the slightly everted… | *** |  |
| *** | A Cizhou stoneware teabowl, Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368), covered in a brown to black glaze, the interior with a continuous band of vertical russet stripes on the steeply sloping rim, the exterior with some russet streaks, the double-dipped glaze pooling just… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare white jade flower-form washer, song Dynasty (960-1279), the six-lobed translucent vessel well worked with radiating lines from a central stamen to define the petals forming the rim, old silver repair to rim, 11.5 cm diameter (variable). Reference:… | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese white marble figure of a seated lion, Tang Dynasty, 618-907, 16 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A Sancai -glazed pottery figure of a horse and rider, Tang Dynasty, 618-907, 42 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A Qingbai six-lobed saucer-dish, Northern Song (960-1127), decorated in the centre with a carved and combed peony spray. 3.3 cm high; 14.8 cm diameter. Provenance: K.Y. Fine Art, Hong Kong. Literature: Simon Kwan, Song ceramics from the Muwen Tang… | *** |  |
| *** | A large Chinese archaic grey pottery jar, 10th-9th century BCE, Western Zhou. Zhejiang or Jiangsu province. Decorated with impressed bands around the shoulder, the lower half with a paddle-beaten design. 50.3 cm diameter, 50 cm high. See 'Chinese Ceramics… | *** |  |
| *** | A Jizhou tortoiseshell-glazed jar, Southern Song, 1115-1234, well potted, with four shoulder lugs and a good even brown glaze covered with slightly raised russet splashes, unglazed base, 9.7 cm x 10.2 cm, fitted box. Provenance: R & V Tregaskis, late… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare Yaozhou compressed circular bowl, Tang/Five Dynasties, 10th century, decorated with areas of brown glaze over a white slip, possibly Huangpu kiln, Yaozhou county, 5.7 x 7.5 cm (rim), fitted box. Provenance: R & V Tregaskis, late 1990's. See… | *** |  |
| *** | A tall brown-glazed ewer, Five Dynasty/Song Dynasty, 10th century, 25.5 cm high, with bamboo-shoot spout, and lightly ribbed body. Reference: See R. Mowry, 'Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers' cat no 28, p 128 and 129 for a very similar ewer | *** |  |
| *** | A Khmer heavy stone Lingham, Angkor Wat period, circa 10th century. Height 90 cm | *** |  |
| *** | An archaic bronze sword, Han Dynasty, 206BC/220AD. 54.5 cm long. Together with an archaic bronze dagger, Han Dynasty, 36.3 cm long. Provenance. David Jones Gallery, 1970. Exhibited. Victorian National Gallery, ancient Chinese Bronzes in Australian. & New… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of large pottery attendant figures Han dynasty, 206BCE/220AD, each one kneeling in long robes, red, white and green pigments | *** |  |
| *** | A pottery figure Tang dynasty, 618/906 of a slightly rotund court lady, with elaborate chignon and pleated robe | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese Longxuan celadon washer, Southern Song, 1177-1279 covered in a good pale green glaze, apart from the slightly-recessed biscuit base. 12.6 cm diameter. Provenance: A Private Melbourne Collection | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese pottery figure of a Lokapala, Tang Dynasty, 618-907, well potted, standing on an unfortunate dwarf, original mineral pigments. 57.5 cm high, fitted box | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese white jade group, 14th century or later, Yuan dynasty or later. Carved and pierced with a pair of geese and a pair of deer, separated by rocks and exotic shrubs, on a shaped flat base. Provenance: R and V Tregaskis, 10/9/2004 | *** |  |