Denhams Auction Catalogue

for our Antique, Fine Art and Collectables auction held on Wednesday 23rd of October 2019

Lot No Description Est Image
131 A 20th Century Chinese carving of Budai, the God standing with staff and huge bag in grey-tinted translucent glass or quartz, 14cm, with stand 150-200
132 A Japanese Meiji period bronze and ivory mounted figure of a girl sitting on a trunk with a basket before her containing carved ivory fruit, signed, 14cm, on a wood stand 300-500
133 A mid 19th Century painted marble screen, formed of numerous white tablets with brightly coloured dignitaries and ladies between women and children, inscriptions and precious objects, the reverse with rocky landscapes and flowers, all mounted in hardwood framing surmounted by a carved and pierced crest of Shou and Chilong and on a long stand, 66cm h x 109 cm w 500-700
134 A second half of the 19th Century soapstone table screen, the chocolate-coloured stone carved with four houses built on rocks by a lake under pine trees and with details including a farmer with a buffalo, others in a rice field, mountains in the distance isolated in toffee-coloured inclusions, signed on the reverse 33.5cm x 26.5cm contained in a carved hardwood stand total height 50cm 400-600
135 An unusual Mandarin palette porcelain Brush-washer or Cache-pot, c.1770, the slightly-flared body with panels of figures reserved on iron-red under a black diaper ground, 15cm, carved wood stand (2) 300-500
136 A Chinese silk work circular embroidery of an exotic bird contained in a circular hardwood frame and stand 34cm 40-60
137 A book of 12 Chinese rice paper paintings of fish, each signed 17cm by 28cm 500-800