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

A Kang Hsi blue and white oviform jar with central fluted band painted with four panels of scholars and a warrior between ribboned emblems at the foot

A Kang Hsi famille verte square vase with rounded shoulders, painted with panels of chrysanthemum, peony, lotus and prunus within key-pattern borders,

A Kang Hsi famille verte rouleau vase painted with a procession of equestrian figures before a castellated wall with pavilions, a figure in a chequere

A green glazed cizhou type oviform vase with scrolling foliage between key pattern and further foliage at the shoulder, 10.5ins high Estimate 200-300

Two Kang Hsi blue and white oviform jars and cylindrical covers, each painted with two panels of ferocious mythical beasts before breaking waves withi

A Tang style sancai horse on a rectangular base with head lowered to the right, 14ins wide Estimate 100-150

A Shang Dynasty bronze 'jue' cast with taotie on the central band below the long spout and mushroom cap finials, 7ins high Estimate 500-700

A Warring States/Han Dynasty bronze oval vessel with simple loop handles at the sides on a central band of S scrolls on a dot ground (oxidised) 6.25in

A Ming celadon bucket shaped tripod censer incised with trellis pattern (glaze cracks) 8.25ins and another similar, incised with scrolling lotus, 8.25

A Doucai large dish painted with figures in pavilions in a wooded rocky mountain landscape (riveted), 18th century, 19.25ins diameter Estimate 200-300

A 17th century Chinese Imari large baluster vase and cover, painted with long tailed birds on rockwork issuing peony (neck, body and cover cracks, fin

A Ming red lacquer cylindrical box and cover carved with lychee and foliage (some old damage) 3ins Estimate 300-500

A Qing Dynasty red lacquer cylindrical box and cover with deeply carved fruit and foliage, 2.25ins diameter (restored) Estimate 200-300

A rose quartz rectangular box and cover carved on the top with a high relief floral panel, with greenstone stand, 5ins wide and another smaller, 2.75i

A green quartz archaistic hu-shaped vase, 5.5ins high and an agate miniature 2-handled tripod censer and cover, 3.5ins high (2) Estimate 80-120

A soapstone square chop surmounted by a Buddhistic lion, early 19th century, 3ins high, an archaistic brown jade sceptre and disc conjoined, 8.75ins l

A rose quartz seated Budai, Qing Dynasty, 3.25ins high Estimate 80-120

A Chien Lung famille rose trumpet shaped beaker vase painted with butterflies and peony, 9.5ins high Estimate 200-300

A Yung Cheng famille rose globular teapot and cover with moulded lotus base, painted with panels of figures in sampans on a black and green scrolling

A Chien Lung Canton enamel square dish with canted corners, painted with a recumbent European lady leaning against a barrel, a winged cherub before he

A Japanese ivory table screen (tsuitate) carved with children picking pomegranates on both sides late 19th century, 6.5ins high Estimate 400-600

An ivory netsuke of playful Buddhistic lions (damage); another of a dragonfly on lotus; and another of a fishergirl (ama) with octopus, all 18/19th ce

An early 18th century Chinese Imari conical chocolate pot painted with flowers on a terrace (cover restored, body crack), 6.75ins high (Purchased R.H.

An 18th century gilt metal mounted Yixing teapot and cover, 4.5ins high Estimate 200-400

A Kang Hsi blue and white flattened circular box and cover painted with a central phoenix roundel within cloud scrolls and emblems, 4ins diameter (lid

A Kang Hsi blue and white small stem cup painted with figures on a terrace, Chenghua mark Estimate 300-500

A blue and white small baluster vase painted with prunus and cracked-ice-pattern (base star crack) 6.75ins high Estimate 80-120

A Transitional blue and white double gourd vase painted with rockwork issuing flowers between lappets at the neck and foot, c.1640, 7ins (neck damaged

Two Kang Hsi ormolu mounted blue and white cylindrical jars and covers, variously painted with foliage (one cover badly cracked, one base star crack),

A rare Kang Hsi blue and white octagonal lobed ewer with tall phoenix head spout, the panels painted with peony, lotus and other flowers (missing cove

A 17th century blue and white tripod cylindrical censer on short feet, painted with 2 four-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl, 3.5ins high Esti

A Kang Hsi blue and white rose water sprinkler painted with reserved floral heart shaped panels below upright flowers, 6.75ins high, and a Kang Hsi bl

A rare Kang Hsi blue and white candlestick with octagonal base, Salomonic stem (barley-twist) and square holder painted with emblems and flowers, (cra

A Kang Hsi blue and white candlestick with domed octagonal base and knopped stem, painted with flowers, 6ins Estimate 500-700

A rare Kang Hsi blue and white reticulated teapot and cover painted with flowers (fritted) 7ins wide Estimate 300-500

A Kang Hsi blue and white pierced bowl with landscape roundels divided by pierced cash between ruyi-heads and cell-pattern, 4.25ins wide, another smal

Four Kang Hsi blue and white small oviform vases and covers, each painted with ladies on a terrace, 4.5ins (4) Estimate 300-500

A Kang Hsi blue and white small oviform vase painted with four ladies on a terrace, 5.25ins high; and a lobed oviform vase with alternate lady and flo

A Kang Hsi blue and white small baluster vase painted with a figure in a boat beneath a rocky promontory, Jiajing mark, 7.25ins with wooden stand Esti

Two Kang Hsi blue and white slender 2-handled pear shaped vases with gilt and painted biscuit handles, the bodies painted with ladies and a Kang Hsi b

A cafe au lait ground blue and white rose water sprinkler with chrysanthemum roundels, 7.5ins high; two double gourd rose water sprinklers with cafe a

A Kang Hsi blue and white tall stem cup with spiral fluted panels (drilled) 4.75ins high; and 3 Kang Hsi blue and white lobed oviform vases with slend

A pair of Kang Hsi blue and white slender bottle vases painted with vessels and ribboned emblems, 5.25ins high; and a near pair of Kang Hsi lobed ovif

A blue and celadon on off white ground female figure with a flower on her shoulder (chips, head re- stuck) circa.1750, 7.5ins high Estimate 80-120

A painted pottery seated female with double chignon and flowing robes forming the base (damaged), probably Tang Dynasty, wood stand, 7.5ins Estimate 2

An aubergine, turquoise and ochre glazed figure of Guandi seated on rockwork base, the reverse unglazed, Fahua type, late Qing, 8ins high; and a green

A Kang Hsi blue and white vase with tall cylindrical neck painted with bamboo sprays above seated figures drinking on a fenced terrace (rim chip), Che

A pair of Chien Lung famille rose plates, each painted with two peacocks near rockwork issuing peony below bianco-sopra-bianco rims and multi coloured

A late Chien Lung famille rose saucer dish painted with long tailed bird standing on peony issuing from rockwork, 8.75ins diameter Estimate 100-150

A Chien Lung famille rose export saucer painted with Hope leaning on an anchor below gilt and underglaze blue border (damaged) and a famille rose hexa

A turquoise ground saucer dish with sepia roundels of a European figure, Chien Lung sealmark, but 19th century, 7.75ins Estimate 80-120

An 18th century Rockefeller saucer with sepia border on a gilt ground, 6ins diameter; and a famille rose Meissen style saucer (cracked) 6ins diameter

A famille rose saucer painted with acrobats on and beneath a high wire, 5.5ins diameter; a famille rose and iron red saucer with a dog and a lady in d

Two Chien Lung famille rose miniature square baluster vases, one painted with panels on a bianco-sopra-bianco ground, the other with alternate panels

A Chien Lung famille rose lotus leaf tea bowl and saucer with a man herding a goat beneath gilt shell scrolls at the wavy rim, each standing on a reli

A Chien Lung famille rose cup and saucer, the cup with a young boy in blue speaking to a girl in pink at a window, the saucer with the pair watching M

A famille rose tea bowl and saucer painted with a warrior and a lady in a leaf shaped panel on an iron red and gilt floral ground (cup cracked) 4.5ins

Two Chien Lung export tea bowls and saucers with Meissen design cartouches within rococo borders, one with fisherman near an European Church and a Dut

A Yung Cheng famille rose octagonal tea bowl and saucer with alternate floral panels on plain and iron red whorl grounds; a famille rose tea bowl and

A Yung Cheng famille rose saucer with shaped lobed rim, painted with a recumbent lady on a bed, a dog beside her, below eight border panels variously

A Yung Cheng famille rose saucer brightly enamelled with embracing lovers watched by an elderly gentleman from a window, (chipped and tiny crack) 4.75

A famille rose saucer with a lady on an ox before a figure herding goats below a dragon scroll border; and another, with figures before a pavilion in

A Ming blue and ochre glazed tilemaker's figure of a guardian standing on cloud scrolls on a semi circular base (damaged) 14ins high, mounted as...

A Cizhou brown slip painted cream ground oviform vase with a band of stylised foliage and another with lotus between freely drawn characters, Song/Yua

A Longquan celadon bowl with smokey kinuta type glaze and lobed reverse, 6.75ins diameter; a celadon dish with singlemoulded fish in the interior and

A Wucai oviform vessel with inverted neck, painted with two five-clawed dragons on a scrolling foliage ground above lingzhi scroll and iron red whorls

A Ming aubergine and turquoise glazed tilemaker's figure of a fish above waves, on a semi-cylindrical base, 13.5ins high Estimate 200-300

A Kang Hsi blue and white oviform jar painted with mythical beasts on rockwork above breaking waves, 9.25ins with wooden stand Estimate 300-500

An 18th century Doucai squat baluster vase painted with children lighting fireworks on a garden terrace (repaired) Tian mark to base, 9ins wide Estima

A 14th century celadon shallow cup, 3.5ins diameter; a 14th century celadon bowl with leaves on the exterior, 3.5ins; a Yingqing shallow bowl with mou

A Kang Hsi famille verte cylindrical brush pot painted with a long tailed bird on rockwork issuing prunus (rim frits) 5.5ins high Estimate 400-600

A green dragon saucer dish with incised five-clawed dragon in the interior within a circle at the well and rim, the exterior with two five-clawed drag

A green dragon saucer dish, (crack and slightly overfired) encircled Hongzhi four-character mark and of the period, 6.25ins diameter Estimate 400-600

A 16th century blue and white bowl painted in the interior with a crane roundel below ruyi-heads and pendants, the exterior plain white except for who

Four Kang Hsi famille verte saucer dishes painted with floral sprays and a poem to the left (3 with small rim chips), 6.5ins diameter (4) Estimate 700

A green dragon saucer dish painted with a five-clawed dragon chasing a pearl at the centre and two dragons chasing a pearl on anhua decorated waves to

A green dragon saucer dish, Guangxu six-character mark and of the period (rim chip and crack) 7.25ins Estimate 100-150

A Kang Hsi blue and white tazza with flat circular top painted with reserved floral and diaper panels on a short stem foot (rim crack), 6.75ins diamet

A Kang Hsi pair of famille verte Imari plates with everted rims painted with bird and butterfly floral panels on a blue ground (both cracked) 10ins di

A Kang Hsi powder blue saucer dish with fan and circular panels of birds and riverscapes, (rim frits) 10.75ins diameter Estimate 200-300

A Kang Hsi blue and white saucer dish painted with a warrior brandishing a sword, one figure kneeling at his feet, another cowering under a table (cra

A 17/18th century Japanese Imari dish painted with a Mandarin duck at the centre, 8.5ins diameter Estimate 100-150

A Yung Cheng famille rose plate painted with a scene from 'the Western Chamber', man leaping over a wall to an awaiting lady, all within an ...

A Kang Hsi iron red and gilt dish with lightly moulded petal rim painted with figures and a female Immortal beneath a floral border, 8.75ins diameter

A 17/18th century blue and yellow saucer dish painted with a stylised floral roundel to the interior and a floral scroll to the exterior, the rest und

A Kang Hsi blue and white plate painted with a full faced dragon holding a shou character below a wave border, Chenghua mark, 8.25ins diameter; and an

An unusual pair of 18th century blue and white saucers painted with a fox and hounds in a landscape, 5.5ins diameter (2) Estimate 150-250

Two famille rose eggshell saucers, with squirrels and floral sprays (chips) 4.5ins diameter; together with two Kang Hsi blue and white saucers, 4ins d

An 18th century blue and white conical bowl, 4ins diameter and an 18th century famille rose wine cup with ruby ground and landscape roundels, 2.75ins

Two blue and white small dishes with steep sides, painted with a jardiniere of flowers below key-pattern at the exterior and floral sprays to the inte