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                                                                               A SIlVeR ANd Blue eNAMel VASe
                                                                               ANd cOVeR ANd OTHeR SIMIlAR
                                                                               eNAMelled SIlVeR
                                                                               The vase and cover with all over relief foliate
                                                                               decoration and on a matching stand, 23.5cm
                                                                               high, combined weight 26ozt; a gilt and blue
                                                                               enamel footed small dish and very similar
                                                                               circular box and cover, both with Chinese
                                                                               maker’s marks, footed dish 5cm high, box
                                                                               and cover 8cm, combined weight 12.5ozt;
                                                                               together with two small boxes with covers, a
                                                                               small dish and a rectangular box with hinged
                                                                               cover, rectangular box 13cm long, combined
                                                                               weight 6ozt.
                                                                               total weight of lot 44.5ozt

                                                                               £500 - 600
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           A cOllecTION OF ITeMS FROM A      AN exPORT IVORy ANd PAPeR         Comprising: a hinged casket with twin side
           ScHOlAR’S deSk                    ‘THOuSANd FAceS’ FAN IN lAcqueR   handles engraved with figures in scenery,
           Comprising: a 19th century ivory desk seal   BOx                    17.5cm wide, weight 22ozt; a smaller
           with the Buddhist lion finial, zhuanshu script,   19th century      casket with all over foliate designs, 15cm
           6cm high; a soapstone desk seal carved with   The guards sticks each deeply carved with   wide, weight 16ozt; two foliate form stands
           a qilin and young on rockwork, archaic script,   figures among buildings and trees between a   raised on three bun feet, 16cm diameter,
           9cm high; a bronze water dropper in the   pair of putti and register of flowers, the wands   weight combined 14ozt; a dragon decorated
           form of a sleeping boy, 8cm long; a carved   carved and pierced with a continuous figural   photograph frame, 22.5cm high, weight
           agate brush washer with coral-coloured   scene, the double-sided fan painted with   4.5ozt; together with a pair of hair ornaments,
           branches of flowering peach issuing from   courtly figures with applied silk robes and   a two-part belt buckle, a small lidded canister,
           the white stone, 5cm high; a red and black   ivory faces.           a pepper pot, an enamelled small canister
           overlay glass snuff bottle cut with phoenix   Guard sticks 28cm long, and in black and   and a figure of a boy, combined weight 7ozt.
           and flowers to each side over a milk white   gold lacquer box (2).  total lot weight 63.5ozt
           body, 5.3cm high, with stopper; a small
           hinged casket with cinnabar lacquer carved   £500 - 600             £400 - 600
           as figures in a landscape, 9.5cm wide; a jade
           leaf-form box and cover, 9.5cm long; and
           a stained jadeite carved and pierced stand,
           5.6cm diameter.
           (10).
           £500 - 800







                                                     For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
           48  |  BONHAMS                            please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.
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