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Justice is served! One of thirty late Qing porcela

Justice is served! One of thirty late Qing porcelain tiles displayed in a six-fold hardwood screen. Coming up for sale on July 15th. Catalogue online via The-Saleroom and LiveAuctioneers.

Nice vintage Chinese Altar table - These small lig

Nice vintage Chinese Altar table - These small lightwood pieces are great for home decor. One of a few pieces of furniture coming up in our July sale. Catalogue online soon!

Preparing for our July Sale - To include this supe

Preparing for our July Sale - To include this superb Chinese six-panel folding rosewood screen with thirty 19th century porcelain tiles all in excellent condition. From a private home. Catalogue coming soon.

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.

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