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Fine & Decorative Arts — Philips Auctions Australia

Auction House:Philips Auctions AustraliaNumber of lots recorded:368
Sale Title:Fine & Decorative ArtsLots with images:368
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:215
Date:22-Feb-2021
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Two vintage handbags and a painted and embroidered silk fan, 1875 and after, a Dutch silver framed bag, with silver guarantee and date stamps and of pierced and engraved form with a long link chain and black fabric body; a small, crocheted silk bag with a Bakelite faux ivory handle, and a lined black silk folding fan with painted and embroidered floral decorations, length 34 cm, width 63 cm (fan).
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A Victorian mother-of-pearl and abalone shell visiting card case, later 19th century, the case with diamond shaped mother-of-pearl tiles and abalone shell details, a large diamond motif to the face engraved with a basket of flowers enclosed by abalone stringing, with button release mechanism, ivory edges and a velvet lined interior.
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A pair of French shoe buckles, an Art Nouveau belt buckle, and a German .835 silver and marcasite lorgnette, early 20th century, a pair of floral pierced and pressed metal buckles, a fan shaped pressed metal buckle in shot colours with a border of flower heads and tendrils, and a folding lorgnette with a marcasite hinged side piece marked Germany .835, length 11 cm (lorgnettes).
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An ancient bead necklace, cylindrical beads of slightly uneven size comprising probably shell, stone, pottery, the main bead in the form of a faience urn or flask with remnant turquoise glaze, length 24.5 cm.
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A group of four beaded and sequinned vintage evening bags, 1930s-1960s, comprising a small irregular jet bead purse, a gold bead clam shell bag, a black seed bead bag encrusted with amber, green and black glass jewels to the frame, and a cream silk bag beaded with white iridescent sequins outlined in silver glass beads, length 22 cm, width 22 cm and smaller.
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An English pewter caddy, circa 1920-30s, by Craftsman, Sheffield, a faceted straight-sided caddy in a hammered finish with rectangular bracket handles and a domed lid with conforming handle, engraved stamp underside, height 18 cm.
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A decorative vintage bronze table mirror, early 20th century, pierced and cast with scrolling rococo forms with a leafy crest, a running fret design to the inner frame, hinged support to rear, height 31 cm, width 22 cm.
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A group of five vintage ebony elephants, five walking elephants of descending size with ivory tusks and toenails, height 8.5 cm, width 10 cm and smaller
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A Georgian rosewood tea caddy, circa 1830s, the sarcophagus shaped caddy with box wood strung edges raised on squashed bun feet, finely refurbished with a paper interior, having twin caddy lids with ivory knops and a period glass mixing bowl, with a brass escutcheon and side drop handles, height 17 cm, length 39 cm, width 14 cm.
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A print of cupids after Francois Boucher (1703-1770), 'L'Automne', a reproduction print after Auguste Pequegnot (1819-1878) after the original by Francois Boucher housed in a hardwood frame with an inner giltwood fillet with ribbon embellishments, height 33.5 cm, width 41 cm.
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An Anglo Indian inlaid octagonal occasional table, mid 19th century, with label of L.Lhanaya Lal Brij Lal, ivory, brass and Wordwork manufacturers, Hoshiarpur (N.E. Punjab), octagonal, with a detachable base decorated with mihrab supports, the surface embellished with a central roundel, heart motifs and borders ornately decorated with ivory foliate arabesques and patterns, ebony and bone trims to the edges, height 43 cm, length 41 cm, width 41 cm.
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A Victorian mahogany box, 19th century, with key, the box simply adorned with a brass cartouche of a basket of flowers to the lid and floral escutcheon, raised on squashed bun feet, well restored with fabric lining, height 14 cm, length 20.5 cm, width 16 cm.
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A fine pair of Renaissance revival bronze candlesticks, 19th century, the sticks with substantial waisted bases and shaped stems finely cast with scrolling floral and formal acanthus motifs and grotesques upon a scale ground, height 18 cm.
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A vintage Dutch style brass candelabrum, a generously knopped tall stem issuing four curvaceous arms with stylised leafy details and supporting shallow dishes and slender urn form sconces, height 63 cm.
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A pair of Georgian brass candlesticks, circa 1820, spun brass knopped and turned sticks with thread details, raised on squared bases, height 17.5 cm.
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An antique table top rosewood cylinder music box, mid 19th century, unmarked but probably Swiss, the rosewood case with ebonised edges, box wood stringing and a central inlaid and coloured cartouche, the fully operational crank operated mechanism with intact comb, playing a selection of English folk and patriotic songs and having a sonorous timbre, height 16 cm, length 46 cm, width 24 cm.
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A crocodile skin and sterling silver gentleman's card wallet, and a Mabie, Todd & Co. Retractable 'Fyne Poynt' pencil, 1898 Birmingham, with maker's mark for Francis Webb, for Hardy Bros, Brisbane; and post 1915 England, a sterling edged chocolate crocodile skin card wallet, the interior lined with fine buff leather compartments, hallmarked to edge, and an engine turned gold propelling pencil, in H. Taft Co. Box, length 7 cm, width 10.5 cm (wallet).
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An Art Nouveau collapsible letter rack and a sterling silver cased desk calendar, 1900, Germany with maker's mark for Ges Gesch, D.R.G.M. 237670, and 1906 Birmingham, with maker's mark for Walker & Hall, a pierced and painted two tier rack with snowdrop decoration and an integral tray, marked underside, and a tombstone style calendar with date, day and month apertures and a postage stamp compartment; hallmarked to side, height 12.5 cm, width 16.5 cm (letter rack).
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A set of six copper saucepans, 20th century, the nesting tin lined set with rivet joined brass handles, height 8 cm, diameter 16.5 cm and smaller
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A set of five copper saucepans, 20th century, each stamped made in France, the tin lined nesting set with rivet joined brass handles, height 10 cm, diameter 20 cm and smaller
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A set of five all copper saucepans, 20th century, the nesting straight-sided set with rivet joined steel handles, height 9.5 cm, diameter 20 cm and smaller
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A set of all copper saucepans, 20th century, the straight-sided nesting set with rivet joined iron handles, height 9 cm, diameter 20.5 cm and smaller
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A set of five copper saucepans, 20th century, the straight-sided set with a fine hammered finish throughout, tin lined, and having rivet joined steel handles, height 9.5 cm, diameter 20.5 cm and smaller
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An antique cast bronze dressing table mirror, 19th century, cast and pierced with flowers and birds, a small oval mirror within a garland support above a floral extended base with a shell form well, with the original silvered glass, height 34 cm, width 25 cm, depth 18 cm.
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A Victorian cast iron pocket watch holder 19th century, the black painted pierced stand featuring a cupid holding a garland, a central aperture with rear pocket to house the watch, patent number to the reverse, height 28 cm, width 19.5 cm.
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An antique cast brass safe plaque, early 20th century, a safe plaque by Birmingham lock and safe makers, Phillips & Son, length 27 cm, width 17 cm.
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An antique ivory Corpus Christi, 19th century, probably Dieppe, finely carved with an expressive anguished face, upon an ebonised cross and a tiered serpentine stand, small losses to the hand and foot, height 41 cm, width 19 cm, depth 11 cm.
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A Grand Tour Italian 'Sorrento Ware' olive wood and marquetry folding travelling mirror, 19th century, a decorative and detailed fretwork frame finely pierced throughout with formal scroll and vegetal motifs, with inlaid plaques in coloured timbers featuring Italian pastoral genre figures and centred with a bevelled oval glass, with folding sides, tray, and easel support, height 55 cm, width 48.5 cm.
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A large heavy gauge copper and silver plate relief cast wall plaque or sideboard dish, 19th century, probably French, with a Leda and the swan roundel enclosed by a textured well, four cartouches to the cavetto featuring allegorical figural narratives amidst elaborate scrollwork, the border decorated with amorini, vegetal scrollwork and grotesques, unmarked, diameter 48.5 cm.
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A plaster of Paris moulded Battle scene plaque, later 19th century, moulded in high relief and depicting a frenetic antique battle scene, the concave image in cream ochre colours and enclosed within a cushion profile painted trompe l'oeil oak frame; apparently unmarked, length 34 cm, width 45 cm, depth 6 cm.
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A Russian .875 silver gilt oklad and painted icon of a Saint, 1884 St Petersburg, zolotniki 84, assayer's mark for Aleksandr Frans Fan-der-Flit, maker's mark for a. Ryarkov, the repousse revetment with a floral and strapwork border enclosing the figure shown with orthodox liturgical vestments and a halo engraved with Cyrillic inscriptions, with painted face and hands, upon a wooden panel clad in velvet, height 18 cm, width 14 cm.
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Two antique religious engravings by Francesco Villamena (1564-1624) and Claude Mellan (1598-1688), Villamena's 'The Adoration of the Magi', etching, after a painting by Raphael, same image in the Victoria & Albert Museum collection, (Dyce.1396), and Mellan's 'Holy Family', engraving, same image in the Met Museum collection (Accession no: 63.611.50), height 24 cm, width 35 cm and smaller
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A rare Victorian Scottish sterling silver Strapped Piggin, 1888 Edinburgh, with script mark for Aitchison, in the form of a traditional one handled staved piggin in alternate striped timbers, with four horizontal riveted straps, a silver medallion to the handle, hallmarked to lower strap, height 18.5 cm, diameter 13 cm.
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An impressive large Victorian Arts & Crafts silver mounted wooden bowl, 1878 London, with maker's mark for Thornhill & Co (Walter Thornhill), the bowl with a single swollen handle, having a rivet joined silver rim and base, the handle handsomely decorated with a shaped and studded mount, throat and terminal cap; twice hallmarked, height 11.5 cm, diameter 24 cm.
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An Art Nouveau silvered mirror and a large shoe pin cushion, early 20th century, mark of Weidlich Bros of Bridgeport Connecticut, (mirror) and Jennings Bros (shoe), an oval bevelled table mirror with easel back cast with flora and whiplash motifs, stamp to rear, and a court shoe with a 'Louis heel' with mark of Jennings Bros, 'Trademark Jb signifies the best', height 31 cm, width 17 cm (mirror) width 18 cm (shoe).
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A Victorian framed print of cupids, 19th century, coloured strip prints of industrious cupids, one group working stone, the other pouring from urns, housed in a carved ebonised frame enhanced with gilt by Arthur H. Staples, 201 Kilburn Road London (established at this address in 1879), height 18 cm, width 43.5 cm.
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A Victorian burr walnut casket with Tunbridge ware inlay, mid 19th century, the restored box having a fine aged patina, with blonde burr walnut to the lid and long sides, grain walnut to the short sides, with stringing, cross banding and patterned strap borders, a mother of pearl cartouche to the lid within a shaped frame, a similar escutcheon, lined with straw coloured lattice damask, height 14.5 cm, length 25 cm, width 17.5 cm.
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A spelter figural trumpet vase and an Art Deco metalware dish holder, early 20th century, 1920s, an allegorical female figure clad in a girdle and with wings to her hair holding a torch supporting a cut glass trumpet, and a nude figure posed on one foot above a stepped arrangement and holding a large dish for supporting a bowl, height 37.5 cm and 22 cm
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A fine Victorian inlaid coromandel sarcophagus, 19th century, the slightly tapering box with a mitred stepped lid with gadroon detail, decorated throughout with pierced mother-of-pearl plaques and lion head and ring mounts to the short sides, well restored and lined with lilac grey moire fabric, height 15 cm, length 30.5 cm, width 22.5 cm.
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A demi-lune brass wall sconce, circa 1950, a glazed sconce with double scroll supports, and two electric candles within neoclassical style mounts against a silvered reflective ground, length 40 cm, width 18 cm, depth 9.5 cm.
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A German portrait miniature of a young man, early 19th century, an oval profile bust delicately rendered in watercolour upon a cracked ice type muted blue ground, enclosed by a pinchbeck frame, backing paper with label of Wilhelm Muller, Berlin, length 7 cm, width 5.5 cm.
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A Georgian papier mache portrait miniature snuff box, 18th century, a lacquered papier mache circular box, tortoiseshell lined, featuring a watercolour portrait of a gentleman with powdered hair wearing a plumed hat and generous cravat and housed in a gilt metal bezel, a tiny button painting underside depicting a lady in a landscape, height 2.5 cm, diameter 6 cm.
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A pair of female portraits in Georgian style ebonised frames, watercolour miniatures, depicting an aristocratic Elizabethan lady with a ruffled collar and a pearl ornament to her hair, and a fashionable 17th century red-haired lady with a lace decorated green dress, housed in Georgian style frames with oak leaf mounts and easel back attachments, height 15.5 cm, width 12.5 cm.
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Two miniature paintings in the Renaissance manner, circular paintings in watercolour, one after Raphael's 'Small Cowper Madonna' set in a landscape setting, the other featuring a bust of the Madonna or saint, one indistinctly signed, the other signed, L.Leray, both housed in wooden frames with gilt metal bezels, height 12 cm, width 11.5 cm and smaller
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A pair of Madonna and Child miniatures, oval paintings in the Italian Renaissance manner both in watercolour upon a gilded ground, signed, probably Canova, and housed in rectangular wooden frames within gilt metal bezels, height 12 cm, width 10.5 cm.
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A miniature painting of the Virgin and child, beautifully painted after Pierre Mignard's 1640s original, 'The Virgin of the grapes', housed in an engraved ivory tile frame, with apocryphal 'Mignard' signature, height 13.5 cm, width 12 cm.
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An allegorical miniature painting, an oval painting in gouache and watercolour depicting 'Leda and the swan' after a lost painting by Michelangelo, bearing an apocryphal signature lower right, M. Buonarroti, housed in an ivory tile frame with contrasting crossbanded edges, height 11.5 cm, width 13.5 cm.
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A portrait miniature of Mary Stuart (Mary Queen of Scots), 20th century, an oval portrait in gouache and watercolour after a work by Nicholas Hilliard 1578, with apocryphal signature of Hilliard and housed in a decorative pierced and pressed metal frame, height 14.5 cm, width 10.5 cm.
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A miniature painting after William Hogarth's series, 'Marriage a La Mode', in gouache and depicting the Marriage Settlement', the first scene from the 1743 six part series, bearing an apocryphal signature to the right margin, housed in a bird's eye maple frame, height 13 cm, width 15 cm.
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A miniature painting of a Madonna and Child, a finely painted and detailed oval miniature in gouache after Sandra Botticelli's 1480s painting, 'Madonna of the books', housed in an ivory tile frame within a gilt bronze bezel, height 14 cm, width 12 cm.
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Three portrait miniatures after Notable paintings, in watercolour and depicting Lippi's 'Madonna de Maggio', a Tudor portrait of possibly lady Jane grey, and a portrait of Madame de Pompadour after Francois Boucher, two portraits housed in ivory tile frames, and one in a shaped ivorine and bird's eye maple frame, height 11 cm, width 10 cm and smaller
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A pair of allegorical miniature paintings, watercolour miniatures depicting 'The birth of Aphrodite' after Alexandre Cabanel's 1863 painting, and 'Leda and the Swan' after a lost work by Michelangelo, both mirror images of the originals, and housed in ivory tile frames, signed, height 11 cm, width 14 cm.
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A miniature painting of the Virgin and child, after Botticelli's 1470 painting, 'The Virgin and children with young Saint John the Baptist', in watercolour and housed within a gilt bronze bezel and an ivory tile frame, height 12.5 cm, width 11.5 cm.
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A miniature painting of Venus, a watercolour miniature roundel depicting Venus with cupid in the manner of Francois Boucher, but later, and housed in a square wooden frame with a gilt bronze bezel, signed, possibly Barroel, height 14.5 cm, width 14 cm.
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A miniature painting of a Raphael Tondo, a watercolour miniature of after Raphael's 'Madonna della Seggiola' housed in a square ebonised frame with a gilt bronze bezel, height 13.5 cm, width 13.5 cm.
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An Art Deco cold painted spelter figural group by George Maxim, 1930s, the dramatically posed figure of Diana in a short tunic running behind her pair of greyhounds, in deep green cold painted colours and raised on a slightly angled verde antico and black marble base, height 44 cm, width 70 cm, width 16 cm.
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A gilt bronze and Sevres style porcelain mantle clock, 19th century, with maker's mark of H & F Paris to mechanism, the Louis XVI style clock with an urn form finial above a porcelain dial with enamelled Roman cartouches, a porcelain hamlet scene below, with cast borders, scrolling acanthus and grotesques throughout, with key and pendulum, height 41 cm, length 23 cm, width 15 cm.
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A fine ormolu figural mantle clock, 19th century, mark of Douillon to mechanism, with key and pendulum, in the romantic Louis XVI manner featuring a lady in a fine dress seated and resting upon a cushion above a silvered dial with Roman numerals above a classical plinth with borders, acanthus leaf decorations and festoon, the lower register with foliage and scrolls, rope twist and tassel decorations, height 37 cm, length 34 cm, width 15 cm.
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An Art Nouveau carved ivory and gilt bronze female bust, circa 1900, Paris, the figure clad in bold medieval inspired dress with a large collar, puffed sleeves and a decorative four point cloche, raised on a marble plinth; impressed foundry mark,'Paris/Louchet/Ciseleur', height 10 cm, length 13 cm, width 6.5 cm.
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A French champleve enamel and gilt bronze vase, circa 1880s, a refined petite urn vase with cast bracket handles decorated with formal floral and foliate motifs in colours and gilt tendrils upon a ground in various shades of blue and teal, raised on a stepped onyx base with bronze plate, height 16 cm.
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A small bronze figure of a girl, early 20th century, unmarked, a study of a girl with an ivory or ivorine face in a dress and a bow in her loose hair holding a broad brimmed hat behind her back, raised on a cylindrical marble plinth, height 15.5 cm.
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A gilt bronze and ivory figure of a Dutch girl by Joseph D'Aste (Italian, active 1905-1935) circa 1910, a delightful informal study of a girl dressed in clogs and a bonnet with her hands in her apron pockets, with carved ivory arms and gentle face, raised on a rough granite socle with incised signature D'Aste, height 24 cm.
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An Art Deco bronze and marble mantle clock with panther, circa 1920s, with key and pendulum, the model of a prowling panther by Michel Decoux (1837-1924) upon a chromed bronze plinth raised on glass balls to a black marble base and flanked by pairs of stepped chromed columns, the hexagonal dial with Arabic numerals, height 46 cm, length 48 cm, width 13 cm.
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An Art Deco cold painted spelter figure of a lady, circa 1925, signed J. Gerard, the relaxed standing figure in a draped costume with bell sleeves and a high collar decorated in subdued gold colours, raised on an octagonal domed marble base, relief signature to rear of costume, height 32.5 cm.
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A gilt bronze and ivory figure of a girl with a large umbrella, after Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947), circa 1930s, incised signature to umbrella, cast from a Chiparus model featuring a smiling girl slightly crouched against inclement weather beneath a large umbrella, with a well carved face, repair to the ivory hands, mounted on a green onyx base with well, height 26 cm, diameter 17.5 cm.
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A cold painted bronze and ivory figurine by Solange Bertrand, circa 1925, featuring a young girl in a short tunic at play with a skipping rope, the figure in lustred dull gold colours with ivory bust and arms, raised on a mottled red and ochre marble plinth, signed S. Bertrand to base and numbered '4' to figure, height 15.5 cm.
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A cast bronze figure of a cherub, 19th century, apparently unmarked, the winged figure holding a wreath aloft and cradling a rook chess piece atop a naturalistic base of truncated tree branches, oak tree foliage and acorns and rockwork, height 30 cm.
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Two ornate antique desk clocks, 19th/20th century, British United clock Co., Birmingham; Ansonia clock Co., USA, a pierced cast brass frame enclosing an Arabic numeral chapter ring and gilded centre, with a patented built-in winding key to the reverse of drum with a central hand-set button, and a rococo style gilded metal clock with an Arabic enamel dial, winding mechanism to reverse, height 15 cm.
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An antique French bronze allegorical figure of a maiden by Paul Duboy (1830-1887), the serene study of a maiden in antique draping attire leaning against a plinth and reading a book, in patinated bronze and raised on an integral shaped and stepped base, incised signature of Paul Duboy to side of plinth, height 42 cm.
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A Victorian Moore Brothers porcelain table clock, circa 1870, the central dial marked Charles Jones & Co of Liverpool, with gilded Arabic chapter ring and pierced grille, typically decorated with twin cupids and bold, zygo cactus in cream colours with lemon and gilt highlights, raised on a moulded gilt enriched socle; puce backstamps underside, height 23 cm, width 25 cm.
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A signed Art Deco cold painted spelter figure of a woman holding a baby by Uriano (Ugo Cipriani 1887-1960), the silvered female figure in a knee length tunic with train decorated with fine gold marbled swirls and raised on a stepped and decoratively tiled portoro marble and onyx base, signed Uriano to train, height 67 cm, length 23 cm, width 15 cm.
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A spelter figural mantle clock, 19th century, with key and pendulum, the drum head set within a narrow plinth surmounted by a fruit basket and flanked by a pair of allegorical female figures in draping costume, one holding a cornucopia and a sheaf of wheat, symbols of abundance the other holding a branch and a caduceus, raised on a veined cream marble base, height 62 cm, length 49 cm, width 18 cm.
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A fine pair of Regency ormolu and glass candlesticks, circa 1820, with cut glass and hobnail sconces and spiral cut dishes hung with prisms, probably later, above a basket of cast flowers on three bronze griffin supports to a triangular ormolu base with neoclassical trims and zoomorphic scroll feet, height 26.5 cm.
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An Art Deco spelter group of a woman with a fawn by Menneville, circa 1930, a cold painted female figure languorously seated on a stone style bridge displaying her gold patterned black dress and tempting a golden fawn, raised on an interesting shaped black marble base with a stylised onyx 'River', height 37 cm, width 79 cm, depth 16 cm.
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A French cold painted bronze figure of a lady Fencer, circa 1920s, the lady fencer wearing bloomers standing and posed 'En garde' in bronze, silver, gold and maroon colours, raised upon a stepped onyx base, unmarked, height 25 cm, width 28 cm.
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A fine pair of American three branch gilt girandoles, circa 1858, by Henry Hooper & Company, Philadelphia or New York, finely cast in 'Sultana' pattern depicting exotic female figures in ottoman attire standing before stems issuing flowers and leafy curved stems supporting foliate dishes and sconces dressed with spear head lustres, raised on marble bases; 'Sultana' pattern is cited in the 1858 Company catalogue, height 49 cm, width 40 cm.
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A Chinese export lacquerware games box, Qing Dynasty, circa 1820s, the octagonal box decorated throughout with figures engaged in activities and entertainments in imaginary pavilion and pleasure garden settings, the interior with four boxes containing game pieces and tokens in ivory and mother-of-pearl, playing card trays with symbol and 'Pip' motifs, and two fine shibayama-type whist counters, height 15 cm, length 38 cm, width 31 cm.
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A Japanese timber toiletries box with mirror, Meiji period, 1868-1912, the table top box with a single long drawer and two short drawers flanked by a slender vertical drawer, a framed mirror held in shaped vertical supports to the top, height 74 cm, width 41 cm, depth 23 cm.
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Kunisada, Utagawa (Toyokoni III) 1786-1864, Edo period, 1850s, a fine woodblock triptych (nishiki-e), ink and colour on paper depicting three half length Kabuki actors amidst blossom and lanterns, signed to each panel within bordered cartouches, with publisher and other seals, height 35.5 cm, width 75 cm.
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An antique Chinese hanging scroll, in watercolour on paper depicting a vase filled with lotus flowers and foliage accompanied by extensive script and various red seal stamps, length 132 cm, width 56 cm.
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An antique Chinese hanging scroll, in watercolour on paper and depicting auspicious tree peonies in colours, with numerous red seal stamps and a large central stamp, length 106 cm, width 44 cm.
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An antique Chinese hanging scroll, in black ink on silk and restrained faded colours depicting a sublime mountainous landscape with a pavilion and auspicious pine and flowering plum trees, one tree with white heightening, with script and seals, length 216 cm, width 45 cm.
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An antique Chinese hanging scroll, in ink and wash en grisaille on paper featuring a gnarled wintery plum blossom tree and a rockwork work landscape, with script and red seals, length 132 cm, width 67 cm.
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A lotus shaped teal ground famille rose comport, Qing Dynasty, bearing Tonghzi (1862-1874) period seal mark, the dish of lobed form raised on a broad waisted base, decorated with lotus flowers, shou characters and bats in colours, auspicious Daoist symbols to the exterior, the base with emerald wave borders; double bordered red seal underside, height 7 cm, diameter 23 cm.
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A famille rose charger, 20th century, featuring rose pink flowers and mauve wriggle work motifs upon a pale teal ground enclosed by a pink diaper border embellished with rosettes, concentric lemon bands with hand painted markings, bordered stencil mark underside, probably factory name, height 4.5 cm, diameter 36 cm.
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A fine Japanese carved ivory covered Zodiac box, the circular box with a flat fitted lid profusely and realistically carved in relief with all the animals of the zodiac, the lid with a seated tiger finial, stained throughout with rich caramel colours, red bordered cartouche underside, height 10.5 cm, diameter 10 cm.
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A set of twelve Chinese ivory snuff bottles with a traditional wood and glazed display hanging cabinet, bottles of varying shapes, each lightly engraved with figures in traditional settings accompanied by script and red seals, each with five rows of characters to the reverse, each resting in petite wooden stands and housed in a mirror backed tiered shadow box with a glass door, height 57 cm, width 41 cm, depth 11 cm (cabinet) height 8 cm (snuff) and smaller
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A fine pair of vintage Chinese ivory male and female figures, Zheng Chenggong, Prince of Yanping and his Wife, mid 20th century, with timber stands bearing Qianlong inscriptions, the pair of Chinese national heroes, he in an antique woven costume with an elaborate head dress and holding an edict, she in draping attire holding a wrapped parcel, both finely engraved and inked and raised on double lotus bases, height 29 cm.
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An antique Chinese ivory cricket cage, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, the near cylindrical cage with a wooden lid set with a pierced ivory dragon medallion, the body lightly engraved and inked with two erotic scenes, length 13.5 cm.
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A Japanese Sumida Gawa Ware Pottery vase, early 20th century, with impressed family signature of Inoue Ryosai, a waisted diamond shaped vase with a highly glazed black and cream waisted neck with pointed bracket handles flowing in undulations to the rough cast matt red body with applied child figures in high relief engaged in swatting a butterfly, a pagoda in a mountainous landscape to the reverse, impressed marks underside, height 25 cm.
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A set of seven Japanese 'Shaker Style' Kiridame boxes, the vintage set of seven oval nesting boxes fabricated from a series of blonde wood staves with cane plaited central girdles and to the bases, the outer box with a fitted lid, two character incised marks to each box, and to lid, height 22 cm, length 45.5 cm, width 37 cm.
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A Chinese blue and white pot in the Qianlong manner, the ovoid pot with a waisted neck loosely underglaze decorated with chevron and fleur-de lis pendant borders to the shoulder, the body profusely decorated with flowers and tendrils above a lappet base, with an unglazed foot rim, height 18 cm.
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A Japanese Arita charger, Edo-Meiji period, 19th century, the scallop edged charger with a lattice diaper pattern rim enclosing a bold arrangement of figures, flowers and foliage, spur marks underside, with mountains and castle imagery to the exterior, height 5 cm, diameter 37 cm.
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A blue and white bowl in the Kangxi manner, having a central roundel depicting a farmer ploughing with an oxen and a diaper border to the rim, the exterior with a series of figural narratives set in pavilion and garden settings below a key fret border, bearing Kangxi character marks underside, height 8.5 cm, diameter 20 cm.
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A pair of Doucai porcelain bowls, early 20th century, late Qing to Republic era, shallow bowls with flattened rims decorated with hibiscus and tendrils in underglaze cobalt to the exterior, and chrysanthemum flowers in emerald and yellow glazes with cobalt foliage to the interior rims and sides, partial paper labels verso, height 5 cm, diameter 14.5 cm.
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A Chinese blue and white pot in the Ming manner, a high shouldered ovoid pot with a broad low neck decorated in peony and chrysanthemum type flowers and tendrils in underglaze indigo blue colours between lappets to the shoulder and base, bearing Xuande characters within concentric rings underside, height 19 cm.
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A blue and white phoenix bowl in the Ming manner, a thickly potted ogee profile bowl with foot ring, decorated with a phoenix amidst chrysanthemums to a central roundel, a diaper border within concentric rings to the to the rim, the exterior with a frieze of two phoenix and flowers above a lappet base, the glaze with heaping and piling, the base unglazed, height 9.5 cm, diameter 17 cm.
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A pair of blue and white vases in the Kangxi manner, Meiping vases with continuous sublime landscape scenes with dwellings, pavilions and figures; bearing apocryphal Kangxi characters within concentric rings underside, height 32.5 cm.
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A Japanese lacquer ware box or tray with stand, a two tier tray style box with a cushion profile lid elegantly decorated with a single flower centred with an abalone shell 'Eye' and sparse foliage on black, applied red cartouche, modern characters underside, together with a footed stan, height 9.5 cm, length 29 cm, width 24 cm (box).
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A small signed Satsuma vase, Meiji period, 1968-1912, with shimazu crest to signature, of slender baluster form with gilded handles to the neck, decorated with deities and geisha to pavilion and landscape settings, brocaded decorations to the shoulders, neck and base, gold bordered cartouche underside, height 12.5 cm
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