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We’re so pleased to have sold such a wonderful l

We’re so pleased to have sold such a wonderful local collection of Chinese porcelain. Each item acquired in Hong Kong in the mid 1980’s and brought to Bath in 1988. After competitive bidding online and over the phones the collection is now dispersed once more.

Just a few more days until our April 21 sale. Brow

Just a few more days until our April 21 sale. Browse the catalogue online via our website. To include this elegant blue and white brush pot, Transitional period. Decorated with birds and insects amongst flowering prunus trees. Part of an English private collection acquired in Hong Kong in the 1980s.

Happy Monday! We will be open for viewings from Ap

Happy Monday! We will be open for viewings from April 12th all the way until April 20th. Sale day April 21st 11:00am BST. Catalogue online via our website and printed catalogue available on request.

Cambodian Khmer carved stone figure of male divini

Cambodian Khmer carved stone figure of male divinity dressed in sampot. A beautiful, decorative statue in our April 21 Sale. Browse the catalogue online via our website.

April 21st Sale catalogue online via our website.

April 21st Sale catalogue online via our website. Browse the page turning catalogue. Exampled here lot 31 - 17th Century underglaze blue and copper-red water dropper. A beautiful scholars object.

April 21 Sale catalogue is now online. Live biddin

April 21 Sale catalogue is now online. Live bidding via the-saleroom, LiveAuctioneers and Invaluable. A page turning catalogue is also viewable at our website. Feel free to contact us for condition reports and information on registration and bidding.

Would you believe these pieces are 1000 years old?

Would you believe these pieces are 1000 years old?! Amber-glazed pottery from the Liao dynasty (907-1125AD). The ewer with an Oxford TL test. Similar examples of Liao amber and green glazed pottery are known from Liao burial sites in Liaoning province and Inner Mongolia illustrated in Liaoci Xuanji, A collection of Glazed Pottery of the Liao Dynasty, Beijing, 1961, pl. 345.

All in our upcoming sale on April 21st. Catalogue coming soon.

The colour blue has carried such special significa

The colour blue has carried such special significance in the history of Chinese ceramics, dating to as far back as the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Here are four porcelain dishes decorated in underglaze blue from the 18th and 19th century. All in our coming Spring Sale. Catalogue will online in the coming 2 weeks!

Top left: Dragon dish, Yongzheng period (1722-35)

Top right: Lobed chrysanthemum dish, 18th C.

Bottom left: ‘Sanduo’ (Three abundances) dish, Yongzheng period (1722-35)

Bottom right: Floral dish, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

Very rare ‘baitian’ carving, Qing Dynasty. B

Very rare ‘baitian’ carving, Qing Dynasty.

Baitian stone is a white coloured variety of the shoushan soapstone. The more known variety being ‘Tianhuang’, yellow. Baitian can be recognised by its ‘mutton fat’ and palish green tones, as well as the fine faint pattern in the stone resembling that of a cut turnip or radish which is known as ‘lobo wen’ (radish pattern).

Lot 61 in our upcoming Spring sale.

A fine Chinese Junyao purple-splashed dish. Lot 60

A fine Chinese Junyao purple-splashed dish. Lot 60 in our upcoming Spring sale of Chinese ceramics. If you would like to be notified when the catalogue is live and the sale date has been set, please feel free to give us an email address so we can add you to our mailing list.

A fine Wucai Dragon and Phoenix bowl - mark and pe

A fine Wucai Dragon and Phoenix bowl - mark and period of Jiaqing (1796-1820). Painted with two descending Phoenix between green and iron-red dragons chasing flaming pearls. Six-character seal mark in underglaze blue to base. A superb example in our March Spring sale from a private collection of Chinese porcelain acquired in Hong Kong in the 1980’s.

Han Dynasty (206BC - 220AD) Painted pottery court

Han Dynasty (206BC - 220AD) Painted pottery court figures kneeling gracefully, dressed in robes with heads slightly tilt forward. A lovely pair in our March Spring Sale from a private collection.

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