*** | Indian school, cica 1921, showing the portrait of an Indian noble woman wearing traditional costume and jewels, inscribed in Hindi to the base of the portrait. 41 cm x 33 cm | *** | |
*** | A Chinese circular yellow lacquer box with cover, six character Qianlong mark the top carved and painted with Indian lotus and various auspicious symbols amongst scroll foliage, the sides of both the cover and the box decorated with identical scrolling… | *** | |
*** | A Chinese famille rose two handled vase, Republic period, the square sectioned body painted with a sage in a landscape, poetry and birds perched in blossom, lion mask ring handles, 32 cm high | *** | |
*** | An enamelled rectangular plaque of a beauty and a tiger, Republic period, the beauty wearing blue flowing robes, holding flowers to herself, carrying a sword on her back, the tiger crouching, looking back at the beauty, titled 'Tiger and Beauty', dated… | *** | |
*** | A large Chinese bronze tripod censer, 19th century, the bulbous body with everted rim cast with paired kylin handles and panels of birds on a floral engraved ground studded with flower heads, cast signature panel Fuji Zhu, 42 cm diameter, 32 cm high | *** | |
*** | A finely carved jadeite Maitreya, the full-bodied smiling Buddha wrapped in a robe knotted below his navel exposing his torso and five toes, a bat hiding behind his ear | *** | |
*** | A Chinese carved ivory figure, Qing Dynasty of an old man with Qing-Dynasty-style long braid, standing slightly leaning forward, two hands joining and hiding below, the sleeves, with a gentle smile on his face as if greeting someone, mounted on a wooden… | *** | |
*** | A Japanese ivory figure of a scholar Meiji period well carved with a benign contemplative expression holding his beard, a branch of plum blossom in his left hand, tinted, incised signature Shinsho to base | *** | |
*** | A 19th century Tibetan red polychrome decorated cabinet probably central Tibet, the rectangular top above six raised floral polychrome decorated panels enclosing two cupboards with raised divides, with painted floral decoration to one side, raised on… | *** | |
*** | A Sino-Tibetan bronze Avalokiteshvara, 18th/19th century,the eleven-headed eight-armed divinity standing in samapada wearing flowing robes, his primary hands in namaskara mudra, his lower right hand in varada mudra, three of his remaining hands holding… | *** | |
*** | A 19th century Thai (Bangkok) gilded bronze Buddha, seated in dhyanasana, his right hand in bhumisparsa mudra and his left in dhyana mudra, his hair in rings of tight curls and a flame rising from his usnisha, his downcast eyes and serene contemplative… | *** | |
*** | A Sino-Tibetan gilt bronze Avalokiteshvara, 19th century, seated in vajraparyankasana and hands in dhyana mudra and holding a jewelled offering vessel, his face with a serene expression and eyes downcast in meditation, wearing a dhoti, a jewelled Crown… | *** | |
*** | Two Japanese ivory okimono, late Meiji, one of two acrobats, one holding a fan supported by his partner, signed, high; and a deity with child holding aloft a dragon emerging from a pot and a scroll of scripture, signed. Height 18 cm and. Height 17 cm… | *** | |
*** | A Japanese ivory okimono of a man, late Meiji, with coloured robe holding a boy feeding a rabbit in a basket, seal mark. Height 12 cm | *** | |
*** | A Japanese ivory okimono of a jolly fisherman, late Meiji, with finely textured and tinted robe and basket on his obi, holding rod upright with a line attached to a fish in waves by his feet, signed. Height 18 cm | *** | |
*** | A Japanese ivory okimono of a fisherman, late Meiji period in decorated robe and grass apron, holding a basket of fish and abalone on his shoulders, and an oar, a fish and shell fallen onto the oval base, signed. Height 20 cm | *** | |
*** | Two large Japanese bronze models of rabbits by Shuzan, early 20th century, a pair of long-haired rabbits, one in a crouched position with ears back, the other seated on its haunches preening, signed on the underside Shuzan. Height 28 cm | *** | |
*** | A collection of jade and hardstone items, comprising a carved bamboo lidded vase with birds amongst bushes. Height 24 cm, a pair of etched bowls. Diameter 11 cm, and two carved discs . | *** | |
*** | A Chinese blue and white lidded jar, 18th century, decorated with a nobleman and figures drinking tea by a pavilion, 6 character mark, drilled with latten metal handles. Height 20 cm | *** | |
*** | A Chinese amber glass gold-splashed washer, four-character Qianlong seal mark, but later the compressed globular body in the form of a lotus flower, the associated bronze spoon with an end in the form of a dragon's head, with stand, 5.1 cm high | *** | |
*** | A robins-egg glazed and gold painted vase Qianlong six-character embossed mark, 19th/ 20th century 28.2 cm high | *** | |
*** | A pale-celadon jade 'chrysanthemum' bowl, Qing dynasty. 11.3 cm diam., 3.6 cm high, 135g | *** | |
*** | A white jade chi -dragon belt buckle, probably Ming dynasty, 5.1 cm long, 38g | *** | |
*** | A thangka of Bhaisajyaguru, First half, 20th century. thangka: 80.5 x 47 cm, including brocade: 118 x 68 cm, No reserve | *** | |
*** | A famille-rose reserve-decorated bowl painted 'ruyi' emblem mark to the base with box, 13.1 cm diam., 8.1 cm high. Provenance: Previously from a Japanese private collection | *** | |
*** | A doucai 'lotus pond' plate, Chenghua six-character mark, Qing dynasty. 20.2 cm diam. | *** | |
*** | A gilt bronze figure of a Bodhisattva Possibly Nepalese, 19th century or earlier fixed on stand, the statue 8.5 cm high, with stand 11.4 cm. Provenance: Previously from a Japanese private collection | *** | |
*** | An archaistic 'animal mask' tripod censer, ding with box, 22.4 cm high. Provenance: Previously from a Japanese private collection | *** | |
*** | Five jade carvings, 19th/20th century, of a 'dragon' bangle, two 'beans' and 'mandarin ducks' carvings, a snuff bottle, three reticulated circular plaques, and an archaistic 'cicada' pendant, and varying length from 4.5 cm to 8.2 cm, 48g, 23g, 43g, 31g,… | *** | |
*** | An archaistic jade plaque and a sword fitting, fitted silver box, 5.1 cm long, 18.8g; 6.0 cm wide, 25.0g (2). | *** | |
*** | An enamelled 'landscape' ceramic vase Jurentang mark, mid 20th century with an associated stand, 35 cm high. Provenance: Chinese Arts and Crafts, Hong Kong (label) | *** | |
*** | A qianjiangcai 'wisteria' vase Signed Jin Gao (active 1862-1908), four character Guangxu mark, late Qing dynasty 37.2 cm high. Provenance: From a private collection, Sydney | *** | |
*** | A famille-rose enamelled 'insect and flower' vase Signed Liu Yuceng (1904-1969), dated according to inscription 1943 19.5 cm high. Provenance: From a private collection, Sydney | *** | |
*** | A black-glazed gourd-shaped bottle vase Ming dynasty 15.4 cm high. Provenance: R&V Tregaskis Oriental Art, Sydney | *** | |
*** | A pair of yellow-glass vases overlaid with dark lavender glass Republic period 23.9 cm high (2). | *** | |
*** | A boulder in natural form with stand 21 cm wide, 19.5 cm high, with stand 27.1 cm high. Provenance: Gora Singh Mann Collection, Wollongong, no. 1076 | *** | |
*** | A Chinese blue-and-white plate, Royal banner mark within double-ring to the base, Kangxi, of slight flaring mouth rim, painted elaborately with flowers among scrolling foliage, the underside painted with floral branches. 35.9 cm diameter | *** | |
*** | A jade-mounted bronze hand mirror, Qing dynasty 21.0 cm long | *** | |
*** | A Chinese famille-rose bowl, Daoguang six-character iron red seal mark to the base, and of the period painted around the body with characters from the 'Romance of the three Kingdoms', the rim coated with gold and slightly barbed to resemble a lotus flower… | *** | |
*** | A Chinese famille-rose twin-handled vase, Jiaqing six-character iron-red seal mark 28.5 cm high | *** | |
*** | A carved white jade figure of Guanyin, Qing Dynasty, 9 cm high | *** | |
*** | A white jade figure group, of a sage on horseback, 8.9 cm high, 148g | *** | |
*** | Two Chinese painted glass snuff bottles, Qianlong four-character mark, 5.4 cm and 6 cm high (2). Provenance: Singapore private collection | *** | |
*** | Li Kechang (1942 - ) and Li Dongxiao (20th/ 21th century), horse by Castiglione, 2001, painted by Li Dongxiao, inscribed and signed by Li Kechang, 6.2 cm high. Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist in 2001, with certificate issued by the artist,… | *** | |
*** | Attributed to Shen Zhenlin, Fish, Ink and colour on silk, hanging scroll, Inscribed and signed with two seals, Undated, 66.5 cm wide, 130.4 cm long | *** | |
*** | A pair of Chinese famille-verte rouleau vases, 19th century each painted in four reserves against a blue ground with gold decoration, 34.7 cm (2). Provenance: Western Australia Private Collection, acquired locally in 1977 or 1978 | *** | |
*** | A Chinese carved amber 'monkey' snuff bottle, Late Qing dynasty, 6.30 cm high. Provenance: Ex Paul Braga collection. NSW private collection | *** | |
*** | A Chinese jadeite snuff bottle | *** | |
*** | A Chinese gilt bronze figure of a seated Manjushri, 30 cm high. Provenance: Western Australia private collection, acquired in Japan in the 1960s | *** | |
*** | A Tibetan gilt bronze figure of Amitayus, 18th century, 9.4 cm high | *** | |
*** | A painted six-fold screen, China, 1956 ink and colour on paper, the folded screen inscribed and signed, Shi Zhi, with two seals of the artist dated spring of bingshen year (1956) 62 cm wide x 170.5 cm high (each panel) | *** | |
*** | A Chinese carved bamboo brush pot, carved around the body with garden landscape, signed Cheng Zhi, 16.3 cm high | *** | |
*** | A Chinese painted-enamel 'landscape' bottle-vase, Attributed to Zhang Zhitang, 20th century painted around the body with a landscape of a mountain village by a lake with figures of villagers engaging in various activities, inscribed a poem appropriating… | *** | |
*** | A celadon-glazed lobed vase, Qianlong six-character underglaze blue mark 32.2 cm high | *** | |
*** | A Chinese gilt-bronze figure of a seated Gautama Buddha, possibly Vairochana, style of 14th century, height 15.3 cm. Provenance: Private collection, Sydney | *** | |
*** | A square bronze censer with 'lion' handles, Two-character embossed seal mark to the base, 6.2 cm high, 895g | *** | |
*** | A pair of tanmu incense stands, Republic period to mid 20th century 35 cm wide, 35 cm deep, 84 cm high (2). Provenance: Private collection, Sydney, acquired in Hong Kong during the 1990s | *** | |
*** | A pair of celadon jade figures, 3.5 cm high, 10g, and 4.5 cm high, 15g (2). | *** | |
*** | A pair of Chinese hardwood (possibly zitan ) boxes with inlays of hardstones and mother-of-pearl, 29.8 cm wide, 20.8 cm deep, 8.3 cm high (2). | *** | |
*** | A pair of Chinese painted-enamel vases attributed to Wang Qi, Iron-red studio mark to the base, Signed and inscribed by the artist, 33.6 cm high (2). | *** | |
*** | Liu Maoshan (1942 - ), Autumn in a Fishing Village. Ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll. Signed and inscribed, with four seals of the artist, 67.5 cm x 67.5 cm. (1942 -) | *** | |
*** | A Chinese export silver tea pot, the lobed body engraved and with birds amongst foliage, domed cover with diamond finial, 14 cm high, 380gms (12.2oz) | *** | |
*** | A carved green jade 'lotus' censer, 13.7 cm high | *** | |
*** | A Chinese flambe bottle vase, Qianlong six-character impressed seal mark, 14 cm high | *** | |
*** | A Chinese cloisonne; garlic-head vases, Qianlong four-character incised mark 32 cm high. Provenance: Western Australia Private Collection, acquired in the early 1990s | *** | |
*** | A Chinese bronze Bodhisattva statue, Ming, the seated goddess accompanied by two of her consorts above a beast, her right hand raised in vitarka mudra, the left hand held in dhyana mudra above her lap and holding a bead, wearing a jewelled foliate Crown,… | *** | |
*** | A Chinese gilt-bronze ruyi sceptre, Qianlong four-character impressed mark, 36.5 cm long. Provenance: Western Australia Private Collection, purchased in the 1960s in Kyoto and hence by descent (by repute) | *** | |
*** | A Chinese two-volume woodblock-print book of 20th-century Chinese paintings, Published by Rongbaozhai Xinji, dated May 1955, 22.6 cm x 31.6 cm x 3.4 cm | *** | |
*** | A Chinese square bronze censer with silver inlays, Three-character embossed studio mark, 8.5 cm high, 18 cm wide, 8.2 cm deep | *** | |
*** | A Chinese inside painted 'Along the River during the Qingming Festival' glass snuff bottle, Wang Baichuan (b. 1949), dated 1990 9.6 cm. Provenance: Purchased at. Y.F. Yang & Company in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Hong Kong. Y.F. Yang & Company | *** | |
*** | A gilt bronze figure of Tsongkhapa, 15 cm high. Provenance: Western Australia private collection, acquired in Hong Kong during the 1980s | *** | |
*** | Zhu Liangcai (1864-?), Longevity (1907), Colour and ink on paper, hanging scroll, signed and inscribed by the artist, with two seals of the artist, dated dingwei year, 123 cm x 54 cm. Provenance: NSW private collection, acquired in Shanghai between 1923… | *** | |
*** | Attributed to Fan Zeng (b. 1938), Couplet Ink on paper, hanging scroll Signed Fan Zeng with three seals of the artist Dated 1998 134 cm x 32.5 cm (2) | *** | |
*** | A Chinese parcel-gilt bronze zoomorphic censer, 18th-19th century, in the form of a large mythical beast with a large upturned tail, the head hinged to the massive body on four powerful clawed paws, bearing a paper label, 'Mossgreen Auctions 1981/01'. 26… | *** | |
*** | A bronze Bodhisattva, Republic, the goddess wearing a flowing robe and elaborate Crown, her hands in Bhumisparsha mudra, seated on a lotus base. 33 cm high | *** | |
*** | A Japanese stained ivory okimono of a branch of apples, Meiji to Taisho period, incised mark, 19 cm long. Provenance: NSW Private Collection | *** | |
*** | A Chinese carved white jade 'marriage' plaque, Late Qing dynasty. fitted into a later table screen, 12 cm wide,. Provenance: Western Australia private collection. The Collection assembled in the 1970s in HK and Singapore, and hence by descent | *** | |
*** | A Chinese stone-imitating square flower pot, Qianlong six-character iron-red seal mark, 26.6 cm wide, 17.5 cm deep, 6.6 cm high | *** | |
*** | A bronze water pot with a spoon, Qing dynasty, the vessel of compressed globular shaped, decorated around the body in high relief with melons and vines, the spoon of slender form, the end resembling the head of a goose. 8 cm wide, 4.1 cm high | *** | |
*** | Fourteen hair pins and ornaments inlayed with Kingfisher feather, Qing dynasty. Various sizes from 2 cm to 10 cm long (14). Provenance: NSW Private Collection | *** | |
*** | A turquoise-glaze 'elephant'-handle vase, hu, of compressed globular body, covered overall with a bright-bluish-turquoise ground except for the foot rim, carved around the body with two taotie masks against a hui-ground, the neck with six lappets of… | *** | |
*** | A pair of Chinese green-and-aubergine enamelled 'dragon' dishes, Guangxu six-character mark and of the period, each incised in the central medallion with two dragons chasing a flaming pearl, one in green and the other in aubergine enamel, encircling the… | *** | |
*** | Qi Liangchi (1921 - ), Chicks, ink on paper, hanging scroll, Signed and inscribed by the artist, with one seal of the artist, Dated 1973, 35 cm x 131 cm. Provenance: East & West Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria Private Collection | *** | |
*** | Qi Liangchi (1921 - ), Chicks, ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll, Signed and inscribed by the artist with one seal of the artist, Undated, 68 cm x 34 cm. Provenance: East & West Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria Private Collection | *** | |
*** | Kang Ning (1938 - ), Bird and Flowers, ink and colour on paper, hanging scrolls, Signed and inscribed by the artist, Dated 1979 and 1980, 67 cm x 46 cm, 43 cm x 33 cm (2). Provenance: East & West Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria Private Collection | *** | |
*** | Two framed Chinese mirror paintings, Late Qing or Republic period, one of a portrait of a beauty seated in a dining room interior, one of a landscape of three Taoist immortals served by two attendants in amongst a mountain landscape, 31 cm x 49 cm… | *** | |
*** | A Japanese painted six-fold screen, Taisho period, painted in ink with two dragons swirling amongst a field of heavy cloud, framed with brocade textile, unsigned, 173.3 cm high, 59.9 cm wide each panel | *** | |
*** | A thangka of Hevajra, early to Mid 20th century, Tibet 79 cm x 57 cm. Provenance: Private collection VIC, purchased in 1970 in Darjeeling | *** | |
*** | A gilt-bronze Bhaisajyaguru, 19 cm high | *** | |
*** | A Chinese carved 'bat' ink-stone with cover, Attributed to Zhang Huiyan, incised mark to the base 11 cm W, 3 cm high, 16 cm deep | *** | |
*** | An associated pair of Chinese carved ivory figures, Late Qing to Republic period of two of the eight Taoist immortals, 31 cm high (2). | *** | |
*** | A famille rose 'chrysanthemum' brushpot, attributed to Wang Bu finely decorated with a branch of chrysanthemums of varying colours, inscribed with a poem, signed and sealed Wang Bu, short foot rim, the base with a square seal in red enamel, 14.9 cm high.… | *** | |
*** | A pair of Chinese doucai 'chicken' cups, six-character Qianlong mark to the base of deep form, each cup painted with a child feeding a rooster, a hen, and chicks among garden rocks and peonies, inscribed in black enamel of a poem by Qianlong emperor about… | *** | |
*** | A Chinese jade carving of two fingered citrons, or Buddha's hands with a small monkey climbing on one, 5 cm long | *** | |
*** | A Chinese zitan octagonal brushpot, the lobed cylindrical brushpot of simple form, a removable circular bung stopper fitted to the base, 14 cm high | *** | |
*** | A pair of Chinese cloisonn circular boxes with covers, enamelled with rounded reserves to the top of the cover and four sides of the cover and box with flowers and birds against white ground all in a field of scrolling Indian lotus in cloisonn on blue… | *** | |