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  • Chinese Wei Terracotta Figure
    Chinese Wei Terracotta Figure
    Northern Wei, 386-534 A.D. or later

    Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)

    Standing female figure in cross-over jacket and floor-length robe, hands clasped to the chest inside her capacious sleeves; dorsal column. 1.2 kg, 30.5 cm



    Ex West Country, UK, collection, 1980-1990s.

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  • Chinese Tang Terracotta Court Lady Pair
    Chinese Tang Terracotta Court Lady Pair
    Tang Dynasty, 618-907 A.D.

    Estimate: £3,000 - 4,000 (+bp*)

    Each hollow-formed, standing on an integral polygonal base and dressed in a loose-fitting floor-length robe with V-shaped opening at the neck, chignon, dressed hair, painted facial detailing; cloud-slippers protruding at the base; painted pigmentation remaining, including some decorative patterns on the clothes. 7.65 kg total, 49.5 cm high



    From a West Country, UK, collection, formed in the 1990s. Accompanied by a thermoluminescence analysis report no.C124a5 from Oxford Authentication for one of the figures. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12096-213519.

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  • Chinese Ming Glazed Terracotta Tomb Figure
    Chinese Ming Glazed Terracotta Tomb Figure
    Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 A.D. or later

    Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)

    Comprising: hexagonal base with pointed shoes and trouser-legs; body standing erect in an ankle-length robe with arms bent to the chest inside sleeves, fringed panel to the outer face, supporting a cockerel; separate head with pillarbox cap, bird motif to the brow. 6.35 kg total, 69.5 cm total high



    Ex West Country, UK, collection, 1980-1990s.

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  • Chinese Qing Glazed Terracotta Horse and Groom
    Chinese Qing Glazed Terracotta Horse and Groom
    Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911 A.D

    Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)

    Part-glazed figural group on a rectangular base; standing horse with harness, saddle and two large water containers, standing attendant in knee-length tunic and trousers. 873 grams, 18 cm wide



    Ex Hong Kong collection, 1990s.

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  • Vietnamese Hoi An Ceramic Shipwreck Plate
    Vietnamese Hoi An Ceramic Shipwreck Plate
    15th century A.D.

    Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)

    Comprising a shallow bowl with basal ring, chamfered rim, blue outline panels to the exterior, band of concentric lines, leaves and tendrils to the interior with central floral motif; sticker to base. 667 grams, 23.5 cm wide



    Ex Butterfield and Butterfield auction with label.

    The Hoi An shipwreck is in the South China Sea off the coast of Vietnam. The ship was carrying a large cargo of Vietnamese ceramics dating from the mid- to late-15th century AD.

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  • Sino-Tibetan Gilt Bronze Kubera Statue
    Sino-Tibetan Gilt Bronze Kubera Statue
    20th century A.D.

    Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)

    Seated cross-legged in virasana on a lotus flower dais, right hand holding a conch and the left resting a mongoose, wearing a samghati adorned with floral motifs, his face with a meditative expression and with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, aquiline nose, with curled ringlets forming the beard, elongated earlobes, tiered crown and diadem surmounted by a flame, with amethyst studs. 4.15 kg, 32 cm



    London, UK, art market, 1990-2000. Ex London, UK, collection of Oriental art.

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  • Chinese Wei Soldier Figure
    Chinese Wei Soldier Figure
    Northern Wei Dynasty, 386-534 A.D

    Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)

    Hollow-formed, standing erect in armoured apparel with helmet, right arm bent across the waist and fist clenched to hold a bow or spear. 1.39 kg, 33 cm high



    Ex West Country, UK, collection, 1980-1990s.

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  • Chinese Wei Terracotta Brick
    Chinese Wei Terracotta Brick
    Northern Wei, 386-534 A.D. or later

    Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)

    Rectangular in plan with recessed arch, figure modelled in the half-round of Buddha wearing a voluminous pleated robe extending to fill the lower part of the arch, mandorla to the rear. 3.7 kg, 33 cm



    Ex Hong Kong collection, 1980-1990.

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  • Large Chinese Decorated Porcelain Bowl Pair
    Large Chinese Decorated Porcelain Bowl Pair
    Early 19th century A.D.

    Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)

    Decorated with a polychrome frieze of scalloped cartouches displaying birds perched amongst fruiting vegetation, insects in the field, repeated around the neck with flowering plants alternating with cartouches depicting birds amongst vegetation; interior with gilt roundel to base with floral spray, three plants around. 4.9 kg total, 35.5 cm wide



    From a UK private collection. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11717-198623.

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  • Chinese Tang Merchant with Ponytail
    Chinese Tang Merchant with Ponytail
    Tang Dynasty, 618-907 A.D

    Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)

    Standing on a rectangular base, horse with head slightly turned and mouth open, integral saddleblanket and horseman wearing a peaked hood, tiered garment and long braid of hair to his back; some pigment remaining. 2.5 kg, 39.5 cm high



    From the late Alison Barker collection, 1970-1990.

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  • Indian Framed Watercolour Painting Group
    Indian Framed Watercolour Painting Group
    19th century A.D.

    Estimate: £180 - 240 (+bp*)

    Framed and glazed and displaying polychrome figural scenes bordered by flowering plants and panels of script: one depicting a tea(?) ceremony set in a landscape featuring blossoming trees and birds; a prince or other figure seated on a bolster, in a landscape featuring a brook and blossoming trees, surrounded by attendants. 932 grams total, 31 x 21.5 cm each



    Acquired by the vendor's father on the UK art market, before 1990.

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  • Indo-Persian Miniature Painting
    Indo-Persian Miniature Painting
    20th century A.D.

    Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (+bp*)

    Framed and glazed displaying a figural panel inserted into four vertical columns of cursive script separated by red and blue bands, continued on the reverse. 1.15 kg, 45.5 cm



    Property of a London gallery.

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