Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History & Coins

SOTHEBY'S: Curiosity V, Hong Kong, 2 April 2019; Junkunc, Arts of Ancient China II, New York, 10 September 2019; A Noble Pursuit, New York, 11 September 2019; Important Chinese Art, New York, 11 September 2019; NICHOLAS GRINDLEY: Educated Palates, 13-17 October 1987; June 1998; November 1998; November 1999; March 2000; November 2000; March 2001; November 2001; March 2002; November 2002; March 2004; November 2004; March 2005; November 2005; JONATHAN TUCKER, ANTONIA TOZER: Radiance from the East, Works of Art from India, China and Southeast Asia, 6-28 November 2003; Asian Art, Works of Art from India, China and Southeast Asia, exhibition catalogue, (no date); An Important Collection of Southeast Asian Sculpture: The Property of a Private Japanese Collector, 1-6 April, 2005; Glimmerings from the East, Works of Art from India, China and Southeast Asia, 7-29 November 2002; Luster from the East, An Exhibition of Buddhist and Hindu Sculpture and Other Works of Art from India, China and Southeast Asia, 3-25 November 2005; Brightness from the East, an Important Exhibition of Indian, Southeast Asian and Chinese Art, 1-23 November 2007; Brilliance from the East, An Important Exhibition of Indian, Southeast Asian and Chinese Art, 30 October-21 November 2008; SPINK: Directory I: Chinese Works of Art, (no date); The Minor Arts of China, April 1987; The Minor Arts of China IV, April 1989; Guanyao and Minyao, Porcelain of Ten Qing Emperors, 17 September-25 October 1997; BLUETT & SONS: Oriental Art, II, 1991; CHRISTIE'S: Chinese Export Art, New York, 23 January 2020; ROBERT KLEINER & CO: January 1998; January 1999; Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of Denys and Eithne Cowell, January 2003; Precious Playthings: Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Mack Collection, February 2000; PRIESTLEY & FERRARO CHINESE ART: Song Ceramics and Works of Art, November 2010; ACHDJIAN & FILS: Tapis D'Orient Anciens, 16 May-30 June 1979; J.A.N. FINE ART; 'One Hundred of the Best', London, 3-13 June 2004; MICHAEL C HUGHES: An Important Collection of Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan Lacquer, New York, March 2006; ORIENTAL ARTS UK: Exhibition catalogue, New York, March 2003; ROBERT HALL: Made in China, Porcelain Snuff Bottles from Jingdezhen, Chinese Snuff Bottles VIII, 10-28 June 1996; LA GALLIAVOLA ARTE ORIENTALE: Impronte, Di Una Vita, Di Una Collezione o Di Un Gatto, 8 November-22 December 2007; BEN JANSSENS ORIENTAL ART: catalogue, 2006; CHANG WEI-HWA & CO: Chinese Antiques, Selected Incense Burners and Incensories of Han, Tang, Liao, and Song Dynasties, Taiwan, 9-11 October 2004; IMPERIAL ORIENTAL ART: pamphlet, no date; Fall 2003. 21.3 kg total, 27 x 21 - 30.3 x 23.3 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

SOTHEBY PARKE BERNET (HONG KONG) LTD. IN ASSOCIATION WITH LANE CRAWFORD LTD: Fine Jade Carvings, Rugs and Works of Art, 1 November 1974; Important Chinese Jade Carvings, 2 December 1976; Fine Chinese Jade Carvings, 17 May 1977; Fine Chinese Jades and Works of Art, 30 November 1980; SOTHEBY'S HONG KONG: Fine Modern Chinese Paintings, 21 November 1985; Important Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art, Jades and Jade Jewellery, 20 May 1986; Chinese Ceramics, Jades and Works of Art, 22 May 1986; Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art, Jades and Jade Jewellery, 19 November 1986; Important Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art, Jades & Jade Jewellery, 20 and 21 May 1987; Fine Modern Chinese Paintings, 21 May 1987; Important Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art, Jades and Jadeite Jewellery, 24 and 25 November 1987; Fine Jadeite Jewellery, Jade carvings and Hardstones, 17 and 18 May 1989; Fine Chinese Ceramics, 14 November 10989; Fine Modern Chinese Paintings, 15 November 1989; Fine Jadeite Jewellery, Jade Carvings and Works of Art, 15 and 16 November 1989; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 15 May 1990; Fine Jade carvings and Jadeite Jewellery, 16 May 1990; Fine Modern Chinese Ceramics, 13 November 1990; Fine Chinese Ceramics, 13 November 1990; The Goldschmidt Collection of Qing Imperial Porcelain, 13 November 1990; Fine Chinese Works of Art, jade Carvings and Jadeite Jewellery, 14 November 1990; Fine Modern Chinese Paintings, 15 November 1990; Fine Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings, 27 and 28 October 1993; Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Jade Carvings, 5 and 6 November 1996; An Important Private Collection of Chinese Celadons and Other Ceramics, 5 November 1996; Magnificent Jadeite Jewels, 6 November 1996; Important Jadeite Jewels, 30 April 1997; An Extraordinary Collection of Ming and Qing Imperial Porcelain and Works of Art from a Private Trust, 29 October 2000; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 30 October 2000; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 29 October 2001; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 7 May 2002; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 30 October 2002; Eight Treasures from a European Collection, 8 April 2009. 20 kg total, 24.4 x 18 - 27.5 x 22 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

BRUUN RASMUSSEN: Fine Art and Antiques, December 2010; Fine Art and Antiques, May 2011; POOK & POOK: Period Furniture, Fine Art and Accessories, Downingtown, 26-26 April, 2014; PALACIO DO CORREIO VELHO: Importante Leilao, Coleccao do Antiquario Jose Rosa, Portugal, 19-20 July 2011; STOCKHOLMS AUKTIONSVERK: Stora Kvaliten, 23-24 November 1999; NORDEN AUKTIONER: Art and Antiques, International Autumn Sale, Stockholm, 25-26 November 1999; BUKOWSKIS: Internationella Höstauktion, 24-26 November 1999; Klassiska Auktion, 27 November-5 December 2010; Klassiska, 14-17 June 2011; SOTHEBY'S: The G.S. Mottershead Collection, Belgravia, 8 March 1979; Important Americana, New York, 25-26 January 2013; The Dimitri Mavrommatis Collection, London, 8 July 2008; CHRISTIE'S: Simon Sainsbury, the Creation of an English Arcadia, Volume I, 18 June 2008; The Exceptional Sale 2011; London, 7 July 2011; Important American Silver, Furniture, Folk Art, Prints, English Pottery and Chinese Export Art, New York, 24-25, 28 January 2013; European Noble and Private Collections, London, 2 October 2013; Oeuvres Modernes Sur Papier, Paris, 26 March 2014; European Noble and Private Collections, London, 16-17 April 2014; An American Dynasty - The Clark Family Treasures, New York, 18 June 2014; The Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, London, 8-9 and 17 July 2014; Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, 2004; Robert Bowman Ltd, 19th and Early 20th Century Sculpture- Power and Passion, London, 2000-2001; Richard Philip, Heads & Figures, 2001; Trevor Philip & Sons, A Measure of Time, 25th Anniversary, (no date); Trevor Philip & Sons, Of Heaven & Earth, (no date). 30 kg total, 21 x 19.8 - 30 x 23.2 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Mauro Cristofani - Civilta Dergli Etruschi, 1985, hardcover with dustwrapper, 433 pp, colour and black and white images; Exhibition Catalogue - Etruscan Pottery: The Meeting of Greece and Etruria, The Trout Gallery, 27 January- 16 March 1984, cardcover, 60 pp, black and white images; Etruscans: Italy's Lovers of Life, 1995, hardcover, 168 pp, colour images; Massimo Pallottino - The Great Centuries of Painting, Etruscan Painting, 1952, hardcover, 140 pp, colour images. 4.47 kg total, 28.5 x 21.8 - 28.2 x 25.5 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

SOTHEBY'S: Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 17 May 1993; Colonnade, Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain & Works of Art, London, 12 November 1996; Japanese Works of Art, London, 10 April 1997; Japanese Swords and Tsuba from the Professor A.Z. Freeman and the Phyllis Sharpe Memorial Collections, London, 10 April 1997; Japanese Prints, Paintings and Works of Art, London, 18 June 1997; Japanese Prints, Paintings and Works of Art, London, 19 November 1997; Inro From The Collection of Charles A. Greenfield, New York, 25 March 1998; Japanese Works of Art, New York, 25 March 1998; Chinese and Japanese Works of Art, London, 7-8 April 1998; Japanese Works of Art, Prints and Paintings, London, 17 June 1999; Japanese Works of Art, New York, 14 September 1999; Japanese Works of Art, Prints and Paintings, London, 18 November 1999; CHRISTIE'S: Fine Japanese Works of Art, London, 23 June 1987; Japanese Works of Art, London, 9-10 November 1988; Export Art of China and Japan, The China Trade Sale, London, 7 April 1997; GLERUM: VOC Veiling, 7 May 2002; SPINK: The Arts of Japan, London, 22 March 1990. 8.3 kg total, 25.5 x 20 - 29.3 x 21 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

C.S. Lightfoot - Ennion, Master of Roman Glass - New York, 2014, card covers, 160 pp, colour; Journal of Glass Studies Vol 51 - New York, 2009, card covers, 271 p, colour; S.M. Goldstein et al - Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking - New York, 1982, card covers,140 pp, colour; Christie's London Sale Ancient Glass from the Kofler-Truniger Collection Tuesday 5th march- Wednesday 6th March 1985 - harback with dustwrapper, 175 pp, colour, fold-out plate and folded-in estimate list; D. Whitehouse - Glass - A Short History - London, 2012, card covers, 128 pp, monochrome; A. von Saldern - Glasammlung Hentrich: Antike und Islam - Dusseldorf, 1974, card covers, 29 pp, colour and monochrome; Corning Museum of Glass - A Decade of Glass Collecting - New York, 1962, card covers, 64 pp, momochrome. 4.45 kg total, 23 x 17.2 - 27 x 23.7 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

T.J. Dunbain - The Western Greeks, The History of Sicily and South Italy from the Foundation of the Greek Colonies to 480 B.C., 1948, hardcover, 502 pp, Exhibition Catalogue - Greek Art of the Aegean Islands, November 1, 1979-February 10, 1980, cardcovers, 238 pp, black and white images; Kanon, Festschrift Ernst Berger, in German, 1988, hardcover, 380 pp; Kanon, Festschrift Ernst Berger, in German, 1988, hardcover, 104 pp, black and white images. 4.42 kg total, 24.8 x 17 - 28.5 x 23 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Calcoen, B., TT176. The Tomb Chapel of Userhat, London, 2012, 34 pp, card covers, 23 colour and monochrome plates; Manniche, L., Lost Ramessid and Post-Ramessid Private Tombs in the Theban Necropolis, Copenhagen, 2011, 112 pp, hardback with dust jacket, monochrome; Raven, M.J., The Tomb of Maya and Meryt II. Objects and Skeletal Remains, Leiden-London, 2011, 109 pp, 57 plates, hardback, monochrome and colour; Shedid, A.G., Seidel, M., The Tomb of Nakht: The Art and History of an Eighteenth Dynasty Official’s Tomb at Western Thebes, Mainz, 1996, 83 pp, hardback, colour. 2.77 kg total, 23.5 x 21.5 - 25.5 x 31.9 cm



Ex libris a Hertfordshire gentleman.

SOTHEBY’S: Important Americana, January 24-27, 1990; English and Continental Ceramics, October 9 & 10, 1990; Property from the collection of Mr. J.W. Griffith, Friday, October 15, 1993; Collection de Madame Barbara Piasecka Johnson, Mobilier, Sculptures et objects d’Art, Orfevrerie, Ceramiques et Dessins Anciens provenant de sa residence de Monaco, Mercredi 15 Octobre 2003; Important Americana from the collection of Diane and Norman Bernstein, The Lindens, Washington DC, January 22, 2006; Old Master Paintings, European Sculpture & Antiquities, 4 June 2009; the Collection of Patricia Kluge, 8 & 9 June 2010; Fine English Furniture, Ceramic & Carpets, 22 October 2010; Property from the collection of Dodie Rosekrans, 8 & 9 December 2011; Luxe Art of Design European Decorative Arts & 20th Century Design, 20 & 22 April 2018; CHRISTIE’S: Fine English Furniture and Objects of Art, including Chinese Export Porcelain from Matthew and Elisabeth Sharpe, Friday-Saturday October 14-15, 1994; Important French and Continental Furniture, Porcelain and Carpets, Wednesday 24 May 2000; European and Asian Furniture, Decorative Arts, and Carpets including a Selection of Miniature and Child’s Furniture, Wednesday 28 June 2000; Scientific and Engineering Works of Art, Medical Instruments and Models, Tuesday 17 October 2000; Syd Levethan: the Longridge Collection Monday 24 January 2011; Une exceptionelle collection mise en scene par Emilio Terry, Paris, Jeudi 16 septembre 2016; Noble & Private Collections, 2-3 November 2016; Noble & Private Collections, 25-26 April 2017; The collection of Peggy and David Rockfeller, volume II, English and European Furniture, Ceramics and decorations, Wednesday, 09 May 2018; The collection of Peggy and David Rockfeller, volume V, English and European Furniture, Ceramics and decorations, Thursday, 10 May 2018; The collection of Peggy and David Rockfeller, volume VI, travel and Americana, Thursday, 10 May 2018; NEW HAMPSHIRE WEEKEND AUCTION: The Estate of Madeline Whitney Shea, March 4 2001; DOYLE: The Marguerite Dorment Collection, Wednesday May 23, 2001; PIERRE BERGE & ASSOCIES: Bibliotheque de l’Egyptologue Roger Khawam, Jeudi 29 Novembre 2012; FRANK STERNBERG: Antike Munzen, Griechen-Romer, Byzantinische Munzen und Bleisiegel, Renaissance Medaillen, Geschnittene Steine und Schmuck der Antike; Antike Bronzen – Figuren and Objeckte; Gold und Silbermunzen 14-20 Jh., Numismatische Literature: Antike bis Neuzeit; Auktion XXV, am 25 und 26 November 1991; ELLE DÉCOR: Winter Antiques Show, a benefit for East Side House Settlement, 50th Anniversary, January 16-25, 2004. 24 kg total, 21 x 17 - 29.7 x 23 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

J.A. Sakellarakis et al. - Tainia - Band I: Text, Mainz, 1980, 541 pp, hardback with cloth covers; Band II: Tafeln, hardback with cloth covers. 100 monochrome plates. 3.23 kg total, 30.2 x 21.5 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Each of the four lobes with an emerging foliate decoration flanking a central cross, attachment loops on the underside. 9.82 grams, 33 mm



From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Comprising: a discoid lamp with low-relief branch motif surrounding the filler hole; a piriform lamp with a channel connecting the filler hole and nozzle, a low relief scene of a hound chasing a hare on both side of the filler hole, the base with a spoked wheel motif. 180 grams total, 84-88 mm



with Galerie Rhéa, Zurich, Switzerland.