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