Magnificient May Auction

Set of three Chinese spinach jade seals, 20th century, each of the seals with a square plinth incised with text in Chinese seal script and Manchu scri

Japanese contemporary ivory netsuke, mid-20th century, well carved and pierced as two carp swimming along eddies of a stream, the openings serving as

Chinese carved circular ivory box, late Qing/Republic period, the plain cylindrical container fitted with a domical lid carved with a medallion with a

Japanese Mashiko studio ware stoneware plate, mid-20th century, the sloping interior with a cris-cross pattern of whitish-green and dark brown glaze,

Japanese small ivory figural carving (okimono), 1st half of the 20th century, portraying the Ebisu, one of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune holding a gi

Japanese ivory seal-form netsuke, 19th century, of wedge shape surmounted by a karashishi playing with a large ball, the high relief figure with incis

Japanese katana, shinshin-to, blade nagasa 29'' (73cm), shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune, gunomei-midare, ko-maru boshi, the tang with gimei inscri...

(Lot of 5) Selection of Japanese ceramics: a Kita-ware double-lozenge shaped mukozuke executed in the Oribe style with iron oxide and splashes of gree

(Lot of 2) Japanese ivory figural netsuke, Showa period, the first of a humorous blind man attempting to remove a rock from his wooden geta, the incis

Chinese boxwood figure of a celestial maiden, Republic period, probably depicting Guanyin, well carved and undercut standing in long flowing robes wit

Korean celadon glazed stoneware dish with inlaid accents, Goryeo/Koryo era (918-1392), buncheong type, the interior well centered by an abstract bloss

(Lot of 2) Japanese patinated bronze hibachi, each of compressed ovoid shape with a waisted neck and raised on a pedestal foot, the first cast with pa

Chinese pale green jade plaque, of rectangular shape with canted corners and carved to the front with three dragons amid cloud scrolls, the semi-trans

Chinese archaistic patinated metal censer, of fangding-form with each of the rectangular sides cast with taotie masks separated by a flange to the cen

(Lot of 2) Chinese Rose Medallion export porcelain serving dishes, Qing dynasty, consisting of a circular charger and a large punch bowl, each well pa

Pair of Chinese unglazed ceramic figures of bodhisattvas, Northern Qi Period (549-577CE), each columnar figure molded in princely raiment with the rig

Asian gilt bronze figure of a bodhisattva, International Tang-style, depicting Maitreya (Buddha of the Future) seated in a pose of 'royal ease&#...

Sino-Tibetan gilt copper-alloy figure of Vaisravana/Jambala/Duo Wen Tian, the 'God of Wealth' seated in a pose of 'royal ease' on a ...

Chinese patinated metal figure of a warrior deity, the fearsome figure clad in elaborate armor and seated on a roaring tiger, his left hand holding ar

Chinese jade Guanyin figure, carved with soft features framed by a tall chignon, a sacred jewel jewel held in one hand and fronted by a lingzhi spray,