*** | An impressive ivory-glazed figure of Damo (Bodhidharama), seated wearing a long robe draped over his left shoulder, leaving his chest bare, and falling in draped folds over the rockwork base, his long skirt tied at the waist with a bowed sash, his head… | *** | |
*** | An Annamese blue and white dish, 15th/16th century, with shallow rounded sides and everted lipped rim, painted in the centre with a stylized lotus flower encircled by leaves, the well with flowering foliage below a band of classic scroll on the rim, the… | *** | |
*** | A Vietnamese blue and white charger, 15th century, sturdily potted rising from a tapered foot to the shallow rounded sides with lipped everted rim, the centre of the interior painted with a large peony bloom within radiating spiky foliage in a medallion… | *** | |
*** | A Korean celadon bowl, koryo Dynasty, 13th/14th century, slip decorated on the interior with a lotus spray, the radiating petals extending over the steeply rounded sides with six notched rim, beneath the overall crackled glaze of attractive even… | *** | |
*** | An Annamese blue and white altar vessel, 16th/17th century of baluster form, painted around the widest part with a dragon pursuing a flaming pearl among flames and cloud scrolls, and a band of upright lappets around the base divided by an unglazed… | *** | |
*** | A Sukhothai deep dish, 14th/15th century, the interior of the flared sides painted in iron-black with a freely drawn fish in a central medallion within concentric line borders, 28.5 cm. Provenance: Victor Shaw Ltd., Hong Kong, 1976 together with… | *** | |
*** | A Sukhothai deep dish, 14th/15th century, freely painted in iron-black on the interior with a central fish within concentric lines, the everted rim with a border of dashed lines, 25. 8 cm. Provenance: Omuta Ltd., Shatin, 1979; Private collection, Melbourne | *** | |
*** | An Annamese blue and white vase, 15th/16th century, the tapering shouldered body encircled with a continuous floral scroll between upright lappets and a band of foliate vignettes below the short mouth, box, 19 cm. Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne | *** | |