Gilded Dragons - Buried Treasure from China's Golden Ages

OLYMPIA: 5th June 2024 (Indian and Islamic art, including Islamic tiles, textiles and works of art, from the collection of the late Sir Howard Hodgkin, Greek and Roman Antiquities and Islamic Pottery from a London private collection); GIQUELLO ET ASSOCIES 13th decembre 2022 (Collection Jean Bouvier) NAGEL 10-13 September 2011 (Sammlerteppische & Ethnologica); TAJAN 2 June 1992 (Art Islamique, Tableaux Orientalistes);5-6 April 1993 (Art Islamique, Tableaux Orientalistes); 8-9 Novembre 1993 (Art Islamique, Tableaux Orientalistes); 24 Mai 2011 (Art d’Orient Tableaux Orientalistes); CHRISTIE’S: 17th December 1985 (Fine Indian, Himalayan, South East Asian and Indonesian Sculpture and Works of Art)24th June 1986 (Fine Indian, Islamic and South East Asian Sculpture and Works of Art: Antiquities); 1st June 1988 (South, Southeast Asian, Indonesian and Oceanic Sculpture and Works of Art); 5th December 1989 (South, Southeast Asian and Indonesian Sculpture and Works of Art and Antiquities); 3rd October 1990 (Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art); 20-21st November 1990 (Indian, Himalayan, Southeast Asian and Indonesian Art); 12th December 2006 (Fine European and Oriental Carpets); 7 Mars 2007 (Art de l’Orient et des Indes, du XIeme au XXIeme siècle, provenant d’une collection Particuliere Francaise); 5 novembre 2008 (Arts des Terres de l’Islam); 14th September 2010 (Indian and South-East Asian Art); 22th March 2011 (Indian and South-East Asian Art); SOTHEBY 14th March 1975 (The Lester Wolfe Collection of Persian Pottery and metalwork); 22nd November 1976 (Catalogue of Islamic Works of Art, part II, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Textiles and Qajar Enamels); 12th FRANCOIS DE-RICQLES 22 juin 1992 (Art Islamique); 7 April 1993 (Art Islamique); 2 juillet 1993 (Art Islamique); DROUOT RICHELIEU 30 April 1993 (Antique, Extreme-Orient, Haute Epoque); 4 mai 1993 (Art de l’Islam, Extreme-Orient); 6 decembre 1999 (Collection Jean Soustiel); 18-19 septembre 2000 (Art d’Orient, art de l’Islam, archeologie, Orientalisme); 22 octobre 2001 (collection Kelekian); 30 septembre 2002 (Archeologie, art de l’Islam); APOLLO 14th December 2024 (Fine Islamic, Indian and Chinese Art). 11.65 kg total, 24.5 x 18.5 - 26 x 21 cm



Property of a North West London gentleman.

Dr W.I. Stanton - Cheddar Caves: Illustrated Official Guide - card covers, colour images; Rosalie David - Mysteries of the Mummies. The story of the Manchester University investigation - 1978, hardcover with dustjacket, 192 pp, monochrome illustrations; Richard Humble - Warfare in the Ancient World - London, 1980,hardcover with dustjacket, 255 pp, monochrome illustrations; Charles Kightly - Strongholds of the Realm - London, 1979, hardcover with dustjacket, colour and monochrome illustrations; Leena Pietila-Castren et al. - Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Finland - Helsinki, 2003, hardback, 143 pp, 90 plates. 3.8 kg total, 24 x 17.7 - 31.6 x 24 cm



From the library of an East Anglian gentleman, 1970s-early 2000s.

(Iron Age) London, 1925, card covers, 175 pp, colour plates, line drawings; (Bronze Age) Second Edition, London, 1920, card covers, 187 pp, monochrome. 860 grams total, 21.7 x 14 cm each



Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.