ORIENTAL CERAMICS & WORKS OF ART

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A Chinese Mutton Fat Jadeite Chop, Qing Dynasty, perhaps late

18th century, of square form and pierced through with a circular aperture, engraved on each face with characters (with vestiges of red pigment), 2.9cm wide, 2.2cm high;

and A Nephrite Turtle Chop, probably Daoguang (1821-50),of

rectangular section, the face carved with six stylised characters, surmounted by a flattened turtle, with overall rust coloured inclusions, 4.1cm high (2)

£100 - 150

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A Pair of Chinese Carved Soapstone Figures of Crouching Dragons, 20th century, each of

stylised horned form with ribbed chests, 14cm long

£60 - 100

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An Indian/Middle Eastern Jade Bowl and Stand, 18th/19th

century, carved in the style of a Mughal 17th century bowl with foliate borders and small pendant drop handles, then applied with carved figures and animals, later decorated with Qajar gold lacquer work flowers, the bowl 18cm

£400 - 600

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A Chinese String of Twenty-Nine Bead Carved and Pierced Peach Stone Necklace, 19th century, the

spherical beads each carved with one or more figures and attendants amongst foliage (one damaged), 45.5cm long overall

£300 - 400

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A Chinese Carved Tiger’s Eye Archaic Form Pedestal Cup and Cover, 20th century, the circular

bowl with fo dog mask and ring handles on a knopped trumpet foot, the bowl form cover carved with four loose rings issuing from leaf form loops, 13cm high

£100 - 200

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A Japanese Carved Ivory Figure Group, late Meiji period (1868-

1912), as a peasant and her little girl, holding parsnips and iris flower respectively, on a shaped oval rustic plinth base, incised two character mark on an inset red kakihan, 15cm

high; A Japanese One Piece Walrus Ivory Carved Group, late

Meiji period, as a peasant upholding a diminutive figure of an actor, another wielding a large club at his feet, on rockwork, on a separate flat plinth (incised two character mark), 21cm high; and Another, as

a Geisha, circa 1910, standing

wearing an elaborate coiffure holding chrysanthemums in one hand, a parasol in the other, 22cm high (3)

£250 - 350

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A Japanese Walrus Ivory Carved Figure of a Fisherman, late Meiji

period (1868-1912), standing and smiling, holding a pipe in his left hand, supporting a basket of sea shells at his waist, and wearing a grass skirt and grass gaiters, on a shaped plinth, incised two character mark, 32cm high (parts lacking, a/f)

£200 - 300

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