THE DENYS COWELL COLLECTION - Session 1

HOWARD D.S. Chinese Armorial Porcelain, 1974 inserted with tags identifying pieces in the Cowell Collection Estimate 300-400

HOWARD D and AYERS, J. China for the West, 1978, (2 volumes) Estimate 80-120

A small rhinoceros horn libation cup of peach shape, the exterior carved and pierced fruiting peach branches, 2.5ins, 17/18th century; and a small hor

A Hirado blue and white porcelain reticulated double gourd netsuke, gilt metal attachment (very slight damage), Meiji period Estimate 100-150

A lightly stained ivory okimono style netsuke of a group of street vendors and entertainers in a large sakazuki, 2.25ins, Meiji period Estimate 250-35

A small ivory okimono of the Shichifukujin in the Takarabune (treasure ship), red signature tablet, late Meiji period Estimate 200-300

A Wanli blue and white baluster jar with panels of rockwork issuing flowers on a fret ground below emblems at the neck and hardwood cover, 14ins high

Two Transitional Wucai 17th century baluster jars and covers, one with a procession of gentlemen with attendants holding banners, the other with ladie

A Chien Lung blue and white tureen painted with riverscapes divided by hare-head handles (base crack, rim chip, missing cover and stand) 12.5ins wide

A Kang Hsi blue and white oviform jar with three ogival panels of a landscape, vessels and lotus on a prunus and cracked-ice-pattern ground, (lacking