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| Number of lots recorded: | 96 |
| Lots with images: | 96 |
| Prices available: | 96 |
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | A Chinese Qingbai dish, Southern Song/Yuan dynasty, 13th century, delicately moulded with a diving goose amongst lotus, the cavetto with stylised borders. 14.5 cm diameter. Provenance: R & V Tregaskis, 6/3/1994 | *** |  |
| *** | A very rare bronze and jade comb, Dian Culture, Yunnan Province, Western Han (206BC-8AD), with malachite inlays on both sides, the bronze handle cast with a rider flanked by two hounds, the jade teeth incised with stylised design. Well developed… | *** |  |
| *** | A bright blue glazed faience, Ushabti figure, 21st-22nd Dynasty. Height 12 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Gandharan grey schist figure of a Bodhisattva, 2nd/3rd century AD. Seated before a mandorla, on a large lotus throne. Height 50 cm. Width 29 cm. Depth 11 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Cizhou black and green glazed pillow, Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), decorated with two birds amongst foliage, in green on a black ground. From Shanxi province, and probably from the Houma kiln. 14 cm high, 30 cm wide, 20.5 cm deep. Provenance: Capital… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare large Qingbai bowl, Song dynasty 12th century, carved in the centre with lotus sprays, covered in a finely blue-ish green glaze, fitted box, 6.7 cm high, 19.5 cm diameter. Provenance: Kenny Chong, Hong Kong, late 1970's | *** |  |
| *** | A large Yaozhou ware bowl, late Northern Song, 12th century, thinly ported, the interior moulded with two large peony scrolls, fitted box, 8.9 cm high, 20.7 cm diameter. Provenance: Kenny Chong, Hong Kong, 1980's | *** |  |
| *** | A good Pala style figure of Manjushri, 11th-13th century | *** |  |
| *** | A rare Egyptian pink granite tablet, incised with a Pharoah and a Procession, with heiroglyphics | *** |  |
| *** | A fine limestone stele showing an offering scene with substantial eight panels of hieroglyphs late period 600-300BC 39 x 25 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A wooden votive model farming scene depicting cow herder plowing a field middle Kingdom, circa 2000BC 24 x 40 cm approximately. Length 40 cm, maximum. Height 24 cm, wood and perspex stand | *** |  |
| *** | Calcified Roman marble torso of a young maiden, with a marble stand, circa 1000BC | *** |  |
| *** | A good Longquan celadon barb-rimmed plate, 14th-early 15th century, an incised lotus spray in the centre, the segmented cavetto with lotus flowers on the inside and exterior, covered in a good even olive-green glaze, a firing ring on the base, 34.5 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | An Chinese archaic bronze 'Hu', Western Han dynasty (206BC-8AD), heavily cast with loose ring handles, and supported on a tall recessed foot. 37 cm high. Provenance: Roger Keverne London, 1980s; | *** |  |
| *** | A Qingbai boys bowl, Song Dynasty, 96-1279 standing on a high foot, the interior carved with three boys under a pale blueish glaze the exterior with a horizontal band of ribs 6.2 cm high; 12.4 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Chinese ivory wrist rest, 19th century, late Qing Dynasty. Very well carved with Daoist immortals standing on clouds amongst pines, before heavenly pagodas, fitted hardwood stand, fitted box. 30.5 cm high. Provenance: Melbourne private collection.… | *** |  |
| *** | A Jain bronze shrine, 10th century. Inlaid with copper and silver, inscribed and dated at the back. 15.5 cm high. Provenance: From an important Australian private collection | *** |  |
| *** | A magnificent gilt-bronze and jade comb, Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - 8AD), 12 cm wide, the handle surmounted by a pierced design of a dragon and a tiger. Jade teeth. | *** |  |
| *** | Two Qingbai cover boxes, 12-13th century, one moulded flower form and one melon shape with matched cover, 13.5 cm diameter and 13.3 cm diameter (2) | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Yaozhou ware tea bowl, Song dynasty (960-1279), 12th century, thinly potted, moulded in the centre with a continuous lotus scroll, the outside carved with lotus petals, fitted box, 5.5 cm high 12.5 cm diameter. Provenance: Shanghai arts, Singapore,… | *** |  |
| *** | A red pottery polo player, Han dynasty (206BC-AD220), decorated in red, white and black mineral pigments, perspex stand, 42 x 24 cm. The dating is consistent with Wollongong University Thermduminescence test certificate no W2964 | *** |  |
| *** | A Longquan celadon-glazed Guan, Southern song-Yuan Dynasty, 14th century, the bulbous body moulded on the exterior with a twenty-four leaf lotus design and covered in an unctuous pale green glaze inside and out, the thick footrim and the narrow mouth-rim… | *** |  |
| *** | A large Junyao deep bowl, late Jin Dynasty, 12-13th century, covered in a 'peacock feather' glaze darkening at the rim, 11 cm x 22.3 cm. See 'The Multiplicity of Simplicity, Monochrome Wares from the Song to the Yuan Dynasties', HK University, 2012, cat… | *** |  |
| *** | A Yaozhou celadon lobed bowl, Song Dynasty, 12th century, finely potted and covered with a vibrant olive green glaze, the sides divided by six vertical ribs, 7.5 x 20.3 cm. Provenance: R & V Tregaskis | *** |  |
| *** | A Khmer sandstone head of Vishnu, Angkor period, with jewelled diadem and serenely smiling face, Baphuon style, 11th/12tth century, 25 cm, metal stand | *** |  |
| *** | A heavy sandstone head of a Lohan, song Dynasty or earlier, Shaanxi province circa 12th/13th century. 20.5 cm, mounted | *** |  |
| *** | An Egyptian green schist, head of Osiris, late period 600-300BC. Height 10 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 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 pre-Dynastic banded alabaster shallow dish dish 4-3rd millennium BC 27 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | 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 Greco-Roman alabaster bust of Asclepius father of medicine 3rd century BC-1st century AD on wood stand 14 cm high, wood stand, 26 cm overall | *** |  |
| *** | 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 | *** |  |
| *** | An Egyptian green schist magic Stele of the young Horus, Harpochrates, 3rd - 1st century BC. Height 20 cm &. Width 22 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Hellenistic multi-coloured glass alabastron, Greek 3rd-1st century BC. Height 13 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A like pair of antique Roman terracotta two handled amphora, Roman period, 1/3rd century AD, the slender bodies with everted rims and concretions of barnacles, cast iron tripod stands, 98 & 103 cm high overall, the amphora 88 & 102 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 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 limestone wall fragment late period, 600-300BC 30 x 22 cm depicting a priest wearing leopard skin | *** |  |
| *** | A large turquoise glazed faience Ushabti figure, 26th Dynasty, 600-300BC. Height 15 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 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 carved stone torso fragment, Roman, 1st/2nd century AD. 52 cm high, 20 cm wide, 23 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | 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 | *** |  |
| *** | A Gr'Co-Roman quartzite statue of a disrobed female possibly Aphrodite or Venus, circa 1st century BC | *** |  |
| *** | 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 | *** |  |
| *** | An Egyptian painted cartonage mummy mask New Kingdom 1550-1070BC 24 x 22 cm of a man from inside a sarcophagus, lotus head-dress, inlaid glass eyes | *** |  |
| *** | 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 rare decorated side panel from a sarcophagus belonging to a female New Kingdom, 1550-1070BC 118 x 23 cm, the decoration shows the deceased on the left and families of mourners on the right, with central panel of hieroglyphs, two bands of multi coloured… | *** |  |
| *** | 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 | *** |  |
| *** | A striking cedar wood mask from a male's sarcophagus late to Ptolemaic period 600BC to 300BC with cartonage covering an applied pigments glass eyes and inlay on stand. Height 153 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 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 | *** |  |
| *** | An Italian terracotta male torso, in the Roman style, possibly 18th century, on a later black granite base, the torso only 57 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | 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) | *** |  |