THE DENYS COWELL COLLECTION - Session 1

An export saucer painted with a couple with a birdcage, 4.5ins diameter; an export tea bowl with hounds, 3ins diameter; and a cherry picker's te...

A 19th century famille rose cosmetic box moulded with playful boys on a terrace on a turquoise ground, carved and gilt Chien Lung sealmark, 3ins diame

A 19th century famille rose chicken cup painted with a boy before a cockerel and a hen and chicks amongst blue enamel open rockwork and flowers, a poe

A 19th century European decorated bowl painted with a European couple before a column and trees, the lemon yellow glazed exterior incised with dragons

Two famille verte tea bowls and saucers painted with scholar's implements, 4.75ins diameter; and two Kang Hsi Imari tea bowls and saucers, 4ins ...

A 19th century small famille verte soft paste pear shaped vase with elephant head handles, painted with two deer on a terrace near pine and lingzhi be

Two grisaille coffee cups painted with 'The Seamstress'; another similar with 'European band' (cracked); another similar with Juno a...

A famille rose cup with wavy rim painted with insects above lotus leaves, 2.75ins high, a famille rose wine cup with moulded lotus stem foot, 2.75ins

An 18th century iron red decorated coffee cup painted with 'The Swing' with two lovers embracing below Cupid (cracked), 2.75ins high, a simi...

A rare Chien Lung famille rose folly-fort globular teapot and cover freely drawn with junks before the forts on the Pearl River between Canton and Mac

A famille rose Indian Market coffee cup with a figure on an elephant on a bianco-sopra-bianco ground; a famille rose coffee cup with seated European l

A rare late 18th century famille rose coffee cup painted with European children running before a Monastic building below blue enamel and gilt border,

A famille rose coffee cup with a couple in a landscape, seated toasting one another, he with a rifle and two hounds; and a Meissen style coffee cup, b

A Ming bronze Buddha seated in dhyanasana, the hands of Mudra, wearing a finely incised floral and chequer patterned loose robe tied at his waist and

A 19th century cloisonne enamel saucer dish, 8ins diameter; and a bronze rectangular box and cover cast with lotus sprays, probably 17th century, 2.5i

A fine Kang Hsi blue and white rouleau vase painted with figures in a boat and dotted around a woody mountainous river landscape, 19ins high Estimate

A Kang Hsi blue and white oviform vase and slightly domed cover painted with oval panels with figures in a landscape reserved on a prunus and cracked-

A rare Kang Hsi blue and white yanyan vase painted and lightly moulded with prunus branches reserved around the flowerheads with a blue wash, 18.5ins

A Kang Hsi famille verte large bowl painted with alternate petal shaped panels of reserved mythical beasts and birds on a sea green ground on the exte

A Japanese bronze rabbit incense burner, 7.5ins wide; and a small Chinese bronze goose censer, 5ins high, 18/19th century (cover missing) (2) Estimate

A Jia Jing cloisonne enamel circular plaque in wood frame, decorated with birds on a prunus tree above rockwork on a turquoise and T-fret ground, 16in

A Chien Lung famille rose eggshell porcelain slender baluster vase and domed cover with Buddhistic lion finial, painted with two large shaped panels,

A Yung Cheng famille rose large mug painted with birds on rockwork issuing peony, daisy and cherry blossom, 6.5ins Estimate 400-600

A rare large sepia, blue enamel and gilt cylindrical mug with double strap handle headed by grapes, painted with a sepia oval roundel of a European ho

A 17th century Transitional iron red and green oviform jar decorated with panels of flowers (neck crack) 7.25ins high, wood stand and cover Estimate 2

A Kang Hsi famille verte oviform vase painted with shaped panels of fans and scholars' objects on a floral ground (foot chip) 7.5ins high, wood ...

A green dragon saucer dish painted with a five-clawed dragon at the centre and two chasing flaming pearls at the exterior, Daoguang seal mark and of t

A pair of Kang Hsi famille verte slender oviform small vases painted with floral cloud collars suspending cash, dividing flower sprays, 5.5ins high, w

A famille verte fluted bowl with panels of floral and scholars' objects to the exterior, and a seated lady to the interior below a wavy rim (fri...

An 18th century blanc de chine figure of Guanyin seated at ease, holding a ruyi-sceptre in her right hand (small chips), 4ins Estimate 150-250

An 18th century celadon glazed fluted pear shaped vase with wavy everted rim and fluted body (base and foot crack) 6ins high Estimate 80-120

A 19th century white glazed vase with anhua prunus at the shoulder, scrolls and dots on the body above leaf lappets (star crack, foot chips restored),

A Kang Hsi blanc de chine octagonal wine cup moulded with eight figures above a lotus border; and a 17th century blanc de chine figure of a man riding

A late Qing Dynasty blanc de chine slender pear shaped vase with prunus stem handles and suspending applied flowerheads, 6.25ins; an 18th century blan

A Chien Lung famille rose figure of an Immortal holding a book, wearing a turquoise ground robe (hands restored); and two female Immortals (chips), ci

An Export seated boy with blue glazed belly and with raised hands (crack) 4.5ins high; and an export figure of a lady holding a child, wearing a blue

An Chien Lung Export iron red seated hound wearing a green collar and gilt bell (restored leg and ear, mouth chips), 6.75ins high Estimate 300-500

A pair of Kang Hsi famille verte saucer dishes painted with floral sprays, a poem to the left (one minute chip), 6.5ins diameter; and a similar famill

A Kang Hsi green, aubergine and yellow glazed biscuit group of the Laughing twins (Hehe Erxian), one holding cash, on a pierced rockwork base (chips),

A pair of green, aubergine and yellow glazed tapering rectangular jardinieres with flower sprays, possibly Kang Hsi, 2ins wide, wood stands; a yellow

An 18th century blanc de chine libation vessel moulded with deer, crane and a mythical fish beast, 5.5ins high, carved wood stand; and a Kang Hsi blan

A cream glazed small meiping 5ins high; and a blanc de chine stem cup, the bowl with relief moulded scrolling lotus below key pattern (rim chips), 3in

A Chien Lung famille rose European subject coffee cup painted with two lovers watched by a gentleman at a window within a pink leafy border (chips and

A Chien Lung famille rose European subject coffee cup and saucer painted with the 'Commedia del'Arte' and grisaille border (restored) Es...

A grisaille 'Jesuit' hexagonal spoon tray painted with the Crucifixion (cracked), c.1740, 5ins diameter Estimate 100-150

A Yung Cheng famille rose oviform tea caddy and cover painted with a leaf shaped panel of cockerel reserved on a gilt ground (base drilled, neck chip)

A Chien Lung famille rose cream jug and cover painted with a roundel of figures by a wall near plantain. Estimate 200-300

A Chien Lung famille rose 'Judgment of Paris' teabowl and saucer (chip and crack to bowl, chip to saucer) Estimate 250-350

A Chien Lung European subject coffee cup painted with a gentleman kissing a lady, in decollete dress near a curtain (chips and crack) Estimate 80-120

A Chien Lung European subject coffee cup painted with nude female bathers on a bianco-sopra- bianco ground. Estimate 150- 200

A pair of famille rose lobed tea bowls and saucers with wavy rims, painted with a winged cherub amongst flowers below a multi- coloured eight panelled

A Chien Lung large famille rose Indian Market shaped oval dish painted at the centre with an elephant and rider in a landscape within an ogival cartou

An Export coffee cup painted with an iron red urn below a blue enamel border Estimate 40-70

A 17/18th century cloisonne bottle vase with stylised scrolling lotus on a turquoise ground, gilt bronze rim and foot, 6ins high Estimate 400-600

A red lacquer tripod globular censer with mask headed cylindrical legs, carved on the body with Shoulou, other Immortals and attendants on a terrace d

An 18th century fine soapstone figure of a Kwan Yin seated at ease, holding a scroll in her left hand, her robes delicately incised with cloud scrolls

A malachite brush washer carved in the form of a lotus leaf, 5.5ins wide Estimate 120-180

A jadeite brushpot or waterpot with two long tailed birds on prunus forming the handle, 3.25ins wide, wood stand Estimate 150- 250

A Chien Lung famille rose coffee cup decorated with pheasants on flowering branches, three matching saucers and a plate Estimate 80-120

A pair of Qing jade or hardstone figures of shishi, 5.5ins on associated hardwood stands Estimate 150-200

A Chien Lung coffee cup and saucer, crested with gilt entwining scrolls and a vase, a tea bowl and saucer monogrammed S.F and a Yung Cheng tea bowl an

A turquoise glazed pottery censer, 3ins; a sang de boeuf squat vase, another vase, two blanc de chine cups, a pottery lion dog and a blue and white di

A Chien Lung beaker cup and saucer with panels of flowers on a green ground, a claret ground bowl and cover with leaf shaped floral panels (a.f) and a

A Batavian ware baluster vase and cover with famille rose panels of birds and flowers, on an associated 18th century ormolu scroll foot, 12.5ins Estim

A Chien Lung tea bowl with a Dutchman, a cage bird vendor, 3 other tea bowls, 3 saucers, 2 odd lids and 1 other bowl (11) Estimate 100-150

A Chien Lung European subject coffee cup with Roman charity and a tea bowl - expulsion from garden of Eden? (a.f) (2) Estimate 80-120

A famille verte octagonal pedestal dish painted with a deer, 6.75ins Estimate 100-150

A Chinese archaic form jade ruyi sceptre, 5.5ins, wooden stand; a Japanese silver inlaid bronze shishi, 2ins, seven assorted carvings, a horn bottle a

Three jadeite pendants carved as gourds and a jade brush washer, 3.75ins (4) Estimate 100-150

A Kang Hsi blue and white bowl decorated with pine trees, prunus and bamboo, 6-character mark, 8ins Estimate 200-300

A Chien Lung blue and white bulbous vase decorated with gourds, 5.5ins Estimate 250-350

A small jade bowl and cover, 2ins, a brush washer carved with a dragon in relief, 2.25ins, a similar amethyst quartz brush washer and 3 other carvings

A famille verte ovular jar decorated with birds, roses and flowers, 8.25ins (cracked) with hardwood cover and stand Estimate 200-300

A Chien Lung famille verte squared baluster vase with panels of figures on terraces, 15ins (restored and mounted as a lamp) Estimate 150-200

A Chinese powder blue glazed rouleau vase with gilt landscape and calligraphy panels, 21.75ins with wooden stand. (Purchased Gorringes, Sept. 1987, Lo

A quantity of assorted Chinese hardwood vase and dish stands Estimate 150-250

A Canton enamel standing dish of petalled circular form decorated with European figures beside a river, Qianlong four character mark, on gilt scroll f

A Doucai and famille verte knife and fork handle, each with floral and half horse in a fan panel, Yung Cheng, with metal prongs and blade signed Thoma

A Kang Hsi charger with the arms of Pitt, Baron Londonderry with Ridgeway in pretence, Thomas Pitt, M.P. and Colonel of Horse married Lady Frances Rid

A Yung Cheng saucer dish with the arms of Elwick of Middlesex reserved against a landscape, made for John Elwick, a director of the East India Company

A Chien Lung charger with the arms of Downes (?) of Cheshire and Essex, spearhead border, C.1740, 14ins (P17, p.457) (Purchased Gorringes, March 1986,

A Chien Lung coffee cup with arms per fesse and motto 'Toutjours Aovai' c.1760 Estimate 80-120

A Chien Lung coffee cup with the arms of Forbes and motto 'Grace Me Guide' c.1775 (p.824) Estimate 100-150

A Chien Lung coffee cup with the arms of Thomson with Churchill quarterly in pretence, chain border, c.1755 (P11, p.425) Estimate 100-150

A Chien Lung baluster cream jug with associated cover, with the arms of Perceval, Earl of Egmont impaling Cecil; John Perceval married Catherine Cecil

A Yung Cheng globular teapot and associated cover, with the arms of Frederick with Marescoe in pretence and impaling Marescoe, c.1724 (D2, p.202) Esti

A Chien Lung tea canister, of ovular form with the arms of Allen, spearhead border, scroll foot, c.1760, 4ins (see V16, p.733 for a later Allen servic

A Chien Lung coffee cup with the arms of Allen, spearhead border, c.1760 (see V16, p.733 for a later Allen service) Estimate 100-150

A Chien Lung hexagonal spoon tray with the 'Arms of Liberty' depicting John Wilkes and his opponent Lord Mansfield (seen supported by the de...

A Chien Lung soup plate with the arms of Fleming impaling Coleman; John Flemming of Brompton Park, Middlesex married Jane Coleman of Garnhey, Devon, s

A Yung Cheng hexagonal soup plate with the arms of Jephson impaling Chase, Made for William Jephson, a barrister of Lincolns' Inn who married Ha...

A Yung Cheng plate with the arms accollee of the family de la Bistrate of Anvers in Brabent and Proli of Milan and Brabent, the rim with a design adop

A Chien Lung plate with the arms of the Nordic Society, London, The Nordic Society was founded in 1783 for Scandinavian residents and visitors to Engl

A Chien Lung soup plate with the arms of Saunders, Probably Thomas Saunders who married Christian, daughter of Thomas Pitt of Cornwall, c.1745, 6.25in

A Chien Lung soup plate with the arms of Saunders (see previous lot), c.1745, 9.25ins (L1, p.349) Estimate 600- 800

A small Chien Lung bowl with quartered arms and motto 'Astracasatra', later diaper border, c.1790, 4.5ins Estimate 120- 160

A pair of Chien Lung coffee cups with the arms of Foster, wide enamel bands, c.1795 (W12 p.770) Estimate 120- 150

A Chien Lung famille rose coffee cup with arms of Foster, c.1787 (T4 p.972) Estimate 80-120

A Chien Lung famille rose coffee cup with the arms of Balderstone, c.1795 (V14, p.724) Estimate 80-120

A Chien Lung famille rose coffee cup with arms of Robinson, Bishop of Bristol and London or Robinson of Kentwell Hall, Suffolk, c.1765 (P23, p.514) Es