THE DENYS COWELL COLLECTION - Session 1

A famille rose cylindrical bottle decorated with an insect among peony, 3.25ins; and an iron red porcelain bottle decorated with scrolling lotus, both

A polychrome enamelled and underglaze blue porcelain bottle decorated with five cockerels, 2.25ins (rim chip); and eight other various porcelain bottl

A jadeite bottle carved as Lui Hai's three-legged toad, 2.25ins, 19/20th century, stopper Estimate 200- 300

A spinach green jade disc-shaped bottle, lion mask ring handles, 2ins; and 9 other various jade/hardstone bottles, all 19th century, all with stoppers

An embellished jade bottle decorated with flowers and foliage, 2.5ins, 19/20th century, stopper Estimate 500- 700

An opal bottle carved with a chilong, 2.2ins, 20th century, stopper Estimate 150-200

Two coral bottles, one carved with chrysanthemums, the other with a chilong, 2.25ins x 1.75ins, 20th century, stoppers (2) Estimate 100-150

A turquoise matrix bottle of disc shape, animal mask ring handles, 2.25ins, 20th century, matching stopper Estimate 150-200

An agate bottle carved with a crab and a bird among rocks (small chip), 2.5ins, 19th century, stopper Estimate 300-500

A group of six amethyst quartz, rose quartz, malachite and sodalite bottles variously carved with boys, birds, flowers, bamboo etc, the tallest 2.5ins

An agate fruit-form bottle carved in relief with three figures in a leafy boat, 2ins, 19/20th century, carved coral stopper(see illustration) Estimate

A red and white agate (cornelian) bottle deeply carved with prunus blossom, 2.25ins; a plain cornelian lady's bottle, 1.75ins; and a cornelian c...

A mottled white, apple green and brown jadeite bottle carved on one face, in relief with a chilong, 2.5ins, early 20th century, stopper Estimate 150-2

Two lavender blue agate (chalcedony) bottles, one carved with a boy on a water buffalo and another rowing a boat, a pine tree to one side; the other c

A mottled white and grey banded agate bottle, one side carved in high relief with a lady playing the flute beside a phoenix, 2.25ins, 19/20th century.

A mottled white and grey banded agate bottle, entirely carved in relief with boys, one mounted, outside and on top of a fortified wall, 2.25ins, late

A mottled white and grey 'thumbprint' agate bottle of plain ovoid form, 2.25ins; and a well-hollowed moss agate bottle, the sides carved wit...

Two mottled grey, brown and green block agate bottles, one carved in relief with a cat and butterfly, the other in high relief with pine trees, 2.75in

A large rock crystal hexagonal bottle carved in relief using the greyish-white and reddish-brown skin with various trees and flowers, 4.25ins, 19th ce

A Canton enamel bottle decorated in colours with three sages and a boy attendant at leisure in a riverscape, two fishing beneath a pine tree (slight d