Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History, Stamps & Coins

Hollow to the underside, seated Buddha with legs crossed, on a lotus flower base with bumpa vessel cradled in his lap; stamped signature to underside. 2.03 kg, 21 cm



Private collection, UK.

With a high-relief figure of a robed male monk, with painted detailing. 1.6 kg, 20.5 cm



Ex Hong Kong collection, 1980 onwards.

Budai was a 10th-century monk, known for his laughing face and round stomach, and was named after the cloth sack that he carried under his arm. Buddhists believe him to be the incarnation of Maitreya, the future Buddha, who helps common people in the mortal world.

Provincial footed jar with a tapering, bulbous profile and a narrow, raised rim, featuring dense floral motifs. 1.36 kg, 18.5 cm wide



Ex Hong Kong gentleman's collection.

Modelled armoured and triumphantly trampling a creature beneath his feet, his helmet topped with a fierce-looking mythical bird, his right arm raised with clenched fist, the left placed defiantly on his hip; polygonal base below; remains of polychrome pigmentation. 4.35 kg, 54 cm high



From Maa Oriental Gallery, Bath, UK; and a West Country collection, 1990-2000.

Buddha depicted standing in a niche with an aureole behind him, his right hand making the abhaya mudra of reassurance and safety, and his left hand lowered in the varada mudra. 4.85 kg, 32.5 x 17 cm



Ex Hong Kong gentleman's collection.

Formed as a shoe-shaped plaque with a raised head at one end. 220 grams, 17.5 cm



From a deceased estate of a gentleman collector from the Wirral Penninsula.

Modelled in the round as a lady in floor-length robes with hands exposed from her broad sleeves, toes of her slippers protruding at the base and wearing a tall headdress. 535 grams, 22.5 cm



Ex West Country collection, 1990s.

Buddha depicted seated in a niche, his right hand making the abhaya mudra of reassurance and safety, and his left hand lowered in the varada mudra. 4.05 kg, 33 x 16.5 cm



Ex Hong Kong gentleman's collection.

Modelled in the round as a lady in floor-length robes with hands crossed at the chest, toes of her slippers protruding at the base, black headdress. 565 grams, 21.6 cm



Ex West Country collection, 1990s.

Lotus charger with central dense chrysanthemum and tendril pattern, radiating panels with blossoming trees; the outer rim with three foliate branches and the base with a leaf within a concentric circle; two Chrysanthemum collection stickers to base. 1.55 kg, 38.5 cm wide



Private collection, UK.

Blue-and-white porcelains of the Kangxi period continued a centuries-old decorative tradition, but far from appearing a jaded ornamental medium, cobalt-blue in the hands of the Kangxi painter presents a radiant new face. Kangxi blue has often been described as having a sapphire hue, and in its finest examples-set off by an almost faultless white background-this pure, deep, luminous blue does have that precious stone's quality.

Wide cream-glazed bowl with everted rim and low foot, slashed decoration on the outer face. 380 grams, 16.5 cm



Ex Hong Kong gentleman's collection.

Rectangular with a shallow recess to the obverse containing a figural group: a single character to the right with right hand extended towards two standing figures with their hands held at the chest. 6.5 kg, 30 x 30 cm



From a West Country, UK, collection, 1990-2000.