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

Piriform bodied, painted with chevrons and other linear motifs; two loop handles to the equator, trumpet-shaped mouth. 4.05 kg, 36 cm high



Ex Hong Kong gentleman's collection.

A hollow-form figure of a crouching male with a protruding round belly and bendy legs, mature age indicated by a deeply grooved forehead. 314 grams, 12.8 cm



Ex West Country collection, 1990s.

With a conical body and an everted rim, shallow basal ring. 197 grams, 14.3 cm



Ex Hong Kong gentleman's collection.

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.