The full Autumn Collection catalogue is available HERE in pdf format this is at a higher resolution than displayed below
	1. Porcelain, white, enamelled in iron-red with a fo dog and its young playing with a beribboned brocade ball on one main side, the reverse with a single fo dog. 1810-1850 Height: 5.8cm Sold
	2. Porcelain, covered in a creamy white glaze and painted in famille rose enamels with a wrinkled, caparisoned elephant bearing a vase on its back, the reverse with a potted plant on an elegant wooden stand with blue daisies near rockwork. 1821-1850 Height: 6.3cm Sold   The characters for elephant (xiang) and vase (ping) together form a rebus for ‘peaceful times’.
	3. Porcelain, white, covered in a colourless glaze and painted in famille rose enamels with a finely detailed cicada, the reverse with a grasshopper with long antennae, the base with the iron-red four-character mark Tongzhi nianzhi. 1862-1873 Height: 6.3cm Sold
	4. Porcelain, painted in famille rose enamels on a white ground with Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller, peeking over a fan, with a bat and his demon attendants in the background; the other side with his sister, dressed in  festive red bridal attire ready for her marriage, the lateral sides with mask-and-ring handles picked out in blue, the base with the iron-red four-character mark Yongle Tang (The Hall of Eternal Happiness). 1821-1850 Height: 5.5cm Sold
	5. Porcelain, covered in a white glaze and painted in enamels each side with a cricket, the painting finely detailed with gold highlights to the eyes and the palette on one of darker tone; the base with a four character mark Daoguang nianzhi. 1821-1850 Height: 5.6cm Sold
	6. Porcelain, painted in famille rose enamels with a scholar in a garden attended by boys carrying chrysanthemum plants; the reverse with an official and attendant in a garden with a water lily in a vase, the shoulders with moulded mask-and-ring handles painted in iron-red; the base with the four-character mark Yongzheng nianzhi. 1850-1880 Height: 6.3cm Price: $2,900
	7. Porcelain, pear-shaped, covered overall with a white glaze and painted in ruby- pink enamel with a stylized phoenix, the neck surrounded with a band of leiwen (thunder pattern). 1850-1880 Height: 7cm Price:$2,900
	8. Porcelain, elegant vase form, painted in famille rose enamels with the Immortal, Lan Caihe, carrying her basket of flowers, accompanied by a crane, symbol of longevity. 1800-1850 Height: 7cm Price: $4,000
	9. Porcelain, painted with a magnificent  peacock standing on a rocky outcrop with a gnarled prunus tree in the background, the other side with a pea hen behind a rock. 1821-1860 Height: 7.7cm Sold
	10. Porcelain, painted in underglaze-blue with fo dogs chasing variously decorated  brocade balls, the neck surrounded with ruyi, the base inscribed with the four-character mark Daoguang nianzhi (made in the Daoguang period). 1821-1850 Height: 7.6cm Price: $7,300
	11. Porcelain, painted in underglaze-blue with a stylized Indian lotus scroll, the unglazed foot carved with the concentric circles that are characteristic of this early group. 1780-1850 Height: 6.8cm Price: $6,600
	12. Porcelain, painted in underglaze-blue with the four noble professions set in a continuous country scene with a  pavilion amongst pine trees, mountains, lakes and geese flying above; the base with the four-character mark Yongzheng nianzhi. 1800-1850 Height: 7.3cm Price: $5,000 The four noble professions in Chinese folklore are the scholar, farmer, fisherman and woodcutter. The woodcutter makes use of the mountains, the fisherman exploits the waters, the peasant causes the earth to bring forth fruits and the scholar can read the signs.
	13. Porcelain, painted in underglaze-blue to depict the eighteen lohan, each carrying his attribute, with dragons in the clouds above, the base with the four-character mark Yongzheng nianzhi (made in the Yongzheng period). 1800-1850 Height: 5.4cm Price: $6,400
	14. Porcelain, painted in famille rose enamels with boys at play in a garden, the base with the iron-red four-character mark Hongxian nianzhi in a double square. 1916-1920 Height: 7cm Price: $4,200
	15. Porcelain, painted in underglaze-red and blue with stylized peony flowers amidst scrolling foliage and stylized acanthus leaves around the base and neck. 1800-1820 Height: 7cm Price: $2,900
	16. Porcelain, covered overall in a white glaze, and painted in famille rose enamels with Zhong Kui, the demon queller, carrying a parasol and flanked by his gruesome attendants, the base with the iron-red four-character mark Hongxian nianzhi (made in the Hongxian period). 1916-1920 Height: 7.5cm Price: $5,500 In 1912, Yuan Shikai succeeded Sun Yat-sen as the first president of the new Chinese Republic .  In 1916, he adopted the reign title Hongxian and attempted to form his own dynasty, but failed
	17.  Porcelain, shield shaped, a carved panel on each main side painted in famille rose enamels with chrysanthemum and plum blossom, the surround with an intricate floral design in duck-egg blue, the base with the iron-red mark Qianlong nianzhi. 1780-1850 Height: 5.3cm  Price: $4,000
	18. Porcelain, covered in a speckled turquoise glaze, the moulded yin-yang symbol painted in gold enamel surrounded by the eight trigrams picked out in pink, purple and yellow. 1850-1880 Height: 7.6cm Price: $3,100
	19. Porcelain, covered overall in a white glaze and painted with famille rose enamels with a figure on a piebald horse accompanied by a dog, the reverse with a figure holding the lead of a camel laden with a wrapped blanket and a quiver of arrows, the base with the iron-red mark Daoguang nianzhi (made in the Doaguang period). 1821-1850 Height: 5.8cm Sold
	20. Porcelain, painted in turquoise and iron-red, with a design of shou characters enamelled in gold, the foot and neck encircled with ruyi and the base with the iron-red, four-character mark Yongzheng nianzhi. 1821-1880 Height: 6.5cm Price: $4,000
	21. Porcelain, painted in famille rose enamels with Zhong Kui’s sisters riding on horseback through a wooded setting, the unusual gold enamel ground extending around up to the neck of the body. 1800-1850 Height: 6.3cm Sold
	22. Yixing stoneware, of elegant form, the sides neatly carved with grooves extending from the shoulders to the foot. 1821-1850 Height: 5cm Price: $8,000
	23. Glass, translucent pink material with several air bubbles, of octagonal profile with convex, rounded panels on both main sides, an elongated neck and a flat foot. Beijing , Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 3.3cm Price: $11,000
	24. Glass, deep sapphire-blue, of octagonal form, with raised faceted panels on both main sides, an elongated neck and a flat foot. Beijing , Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 3.4 cm Price: $10,000
	25. Glass, opaque turquoise, of small, octagonal form, with raised, faceted panels on both main sides,  with an elongated neck and a flat foot. Beijing , Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 3.2cm Price: $14,000
	26. Glass, transparent, colourless, of small size and octagonal form, with raised faceted panels on both main sides, with an elongated neck and a flat foot. Beijing , Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 4cm Price: $5,500
	27. Glass, opaque turquoise, the octagonal form carved on the two main sides with raised, faceted panels, with an elongated neck and resting on a flat foot. Beijing , Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 3.6cm Price: $10,000
	28. Glass, bubble-suffused, translucent, pale blue-green imitating aquamarine, carved overall with leafy plants issuing from rockwork, the base with a raised oval foot rim. Beijing , 18th Century Height: 6cm Price: $8,800
	29. Glass, pale turquoise-green imitating aquamarine, carved with writhing dragons, the bottle of slender, graceful form. Beijing , 1780-1820 Height: 6.6cm Price: $6,400
	30. Glass, pure, opaque white imitating white nephrite, finely carved overall with a continuous basket-weave pattern. Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 5cm Price: $5,000
	31. Glass, of pale, slightly translucent eau de nil colour, produced by placing an opaque white layer beneath the translucent outer layer, cleverly made to imitate white nephrite  and carved overall with writhing dragons. Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 5.9cm Price: $7,000
	32. Glass, mottled swirling red yellow and ochre, known as realgar-glass, in imitation of the naturally occurring minteral, the unusually tall and elegant bottle standing on a flat foot. 18th Century Height: 7.3cm Sold
	33. Glass, opaque, variegated ochre-yellow and deep red, known as realgar-glass, in imitation of the naturally occurring mineral. 18th Century Height: 5.8cm Price: $4,200
	34. Glass, opaque, variegated orange, and ochre-yellow with a mottled layer of swirly red, known as realgar-glass, in imitation of the naturally occurring mineral. 18th Century Height: 6cm Price: $6,600
	35. Glass, opaque and semi-transparent, variegated red and ochre-yellow, known as realgar-glass, in imitation of the naturally occurring mineral. 18th Century Height: 5.5cm Price: $4,900
	36. Glass, milky white with a mid blue overlay carved in low relief with a cat looking up at dancing butterflies hovering above a chrysanthemum with iris above; the other side with a gnarled prunus issuing from rockwork with what appears to be a seat below and a ruyi to one side. Yangzhou School , 1800-1880 Height|: 6.3cm Sold The word for cat (mao) is a homonym for the age 70, and the word for butterfly (die) is a homonym for age 80, so cat and butterfly together form a rebus to express the wish that the recipient will have a long life.
	37. Glass, royal blue overlay carved in great detail to show a hunting scene with an archer on horse back giving chase to a startled deer; the reverse with a boy holding a dog gesticulating to an archer on a donkey and a man with a hawk . 1750-1820 Height: 5.7cm Sold
	38. Glass, translucent amber colour, possibly in imitation of the natural material, the bottle with eight faceted sides and convex panels on the front and reverse. 1780-1850 Height: 4.5cm  Price: $4,800
	39. Glass, caramel coloured, the small bottle faceted overall to create a dazzling, jewel-like effect; with a flat base and a wide neck. 1780-1820 Height:  3.7cm Price: $3,300
	40. Glass, the clear material of octagonal form, with flat panels at the front and reverse with pink confetti splashes; the bottle with an elongated neck and resting on a flat foot. Beijing , Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height : 4.3cm Price: $12,000
	41. Glass, translucent with a yellow tinge, the red overlay carved each side with an animated bifid chi dragon. Beijing, Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 6.3cm Sold
	42.Glass, colourless, bubble-suffused, with a deep red overlay encasing the body except for the neck. Beijing, Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 6cm Price: $4,400
	43. Glass, colourless, the misty body overlaid with opaque ruby-red and carved to reveal a fish amongst water weeds and lotus on each main side. Beijing, Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 7cm Price: $13,200
	44. Glass, translucent blue-green, carved from an ingot of glass and subsequently hollowed, resting on a neat, raised oval foot rim. 1780-1850 Height: 5.7cm Price: $5,500
	45. Glass, turquoise, of generous rounded form with slightly sloping shoulders leading to a wider base; the sides carved with simple mask-and-ring handles. 18th Century Height: 5.7cm Price: $6,500
	46. Glass, translucent, pale blue, of unusual rectangular form with scalloped corners, an oval panel on each main side carved with bats and peach trees above rocks. 1780-1850 Height: 5.6cm Price: $10,500
	47. Glass, translucent, deep sapphire-blue, carved with multiple facets and a gracefully elongated neck. 1750-1800 Height: 5cm Price: $5,300
	48. Glass, ‘Imperial yellow’ of light lemon tone, carved with a central rounded panel, the lateral sides with chamfered grooves. 18th Century Height: 5.1cm Price: $8,300
	49. Glass, mustard-yellow with swirls of brown, the slender bottle resting on an oval foot rim. 18th Century Height: 5.4cm Price: $5,000
	50. Glass, opaque white with lemon yellow, each face carved with an integral snuff dish, the lateral sides with elegant, stylized mask-and-ring handles. 1780-1820 Height: 5.4cm Price: $6,400
	51. Glass, the colourless, bubble-suffused body overlaid with yellow, red, blue and green areas, carved with writhing dragons, the foot rim carved from the blue overlay. Beijing, Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 6cm Price: $13,000
	52. Glass, the body of pale mottled pink blue and green with slight gold spangles, the body overlaid with a translucent blue colour carved to reveal a phoenix and peonies. Beijing, Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 6cm Price: $7,300
	53. Glass, of distinctive egg yolk yellow colour known as ‘Imperial yellow’ the bottle of large form but beautifully crafted and sitting on a neat oval footrim. 18th Century Height: 7cm Price: $8,800
	54. Glass, opaque turquoise-blue, the opaque white overlay carved to reveal a sage leaning on his staff under a pine tree while his attendant follows carrying a flowering branch of prunus, the other side with a sage in his Summer pavilion built on rocks, a figure nearby sweeping the ground at the approach to a door, with bamboo above. Beijing, Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 6cm Sold
	55. Glass, semi-translucent russet-maroon colour that changes with the light, carved with an elegantly sinuous chi dragon, the other side with a stylized chi dragon with its young. 1780-1850 Height: 6.2cm Price: $11,000
	56. Glass, the colourless body overlaid with pale yellow, carved with a fan-tailed carp on each side, the foot rim also carved from the yellow overlay. 1780-1850 Height: 6.9cm Price: $6,800
	57. Glass, bubbly, translucent, with a pale green overlay carved with writhing dragons, one of whose tail curves to create the foot of the bottle. Beijing, Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 7.4cm Price: $8,800
	58. Glass, translucent ruby red carved with two confronting bifid dragons surrounding a shou medallion, the shoulders carved with mark and ring handles. 18th Century Height: 7.5cm Price: $6,000
	59. Glass, the translucent deep pink material of miniature octagonal form, with raised panels at the front and reverse forming a central peak; the bottle with an elongated neck and resting on a flat foot. Beijing, Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 2.8cm Sold
	60. Glass, the translucent pinky brown material of miniature octagonal form, with raised panels at the front and reverse forming a central peak; the bottle with an elongated neck and resting on a flat foot. Beijing, Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 3.1cm Sold
	61. Glass, the translucent deep mauve material of miniature octagonal form, with raised panels at the front and reverse forming a central peak; the bottle with an elongated neck and resting on a flat foot. Beijing, Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 3.1cm Sold
	62. Glass, colourless with black overlay carved in low relief with an exotic, long-tailed bird perched on a gnarled tree with orchids below, the reverse with a cat and butterfly beneath bamboo and orchids, the lateral sides with mask-and-ring handles, the base and lip rim also carved from the black overlay. Yangzhou School, 1800-1850 Height: 5.7cm Price: $3,900
	63. Glass, semi translucent grey with a metal mount at the neck to disguise broken glass; painted in famille rose enamels with a boy on a buffalo playing his flute in a mountainous landscape setting; the reverse with birds in flight above a lake with blossoming trees; each shoulder with inset panels and inscription forming a poetic couplet which reads : bei mu er heng duan di sheng kou chui chu tai ping ge which translates as ‘On the back of an ox a young cowherd plays a transverse flute And whistles out the ‘Ballad of Taiping’’ These are both poetry and paintings from as early as the Song Dynasty representing the herd-boy playing his flute on the buffalo's back. The ‘Ballad of Taiping’ was a famous air originating in a popular operatic genre known as lianhualuo ‘Falling Lotus Flowers’, which was suppressed early in the Ming Dynasty because of some subversive lyrics. This ballad was then renamed, and became widely known in its own right. The base with a seal-mark which may be translated as Wanya xuan (Studio of Refined Amusement) The Wanya xuan hall mark is more usually found on plain glass bottles of elegant simple form. 1780-1800 Height: 7cm
	64. Glass, milky white and painted in famille rose enamels with a pinky white lotus plant rising from the murky depths of a pond the reverse with a more vividly coloured example; the base inscribed in iron red with a three character mark Guyue Xuan (‘Ancient Moon Pavilion’). 1780-1800 Height: 6.2cm Sold
	65. Crystal, colourless, of rounded form, with russet areas carved to reveal birds and flowers. 1780-1850 Height: 5.1cm Price: $5,100
	66. Rock crystal, colourless, extremely well hollowed, the transparent body with sparsely scattered rutile needles. 1780-1850 Height: 6.1cm Price: $9,900
	67. Amethyst, predominantly purple with colourless areas, of disc form, carved with a rounded panel on each side, one enclosing lotus flowers emerging from waves, the other with an egret carrying a lingzhi in its beak. 1780-1820 Height: 5.1cm Sold
	68. Quartz, stained pink, the double bottle carved from one piece of material with the smaller bottle perfectly imitating the elegant spade form of the larger. 1800-1880 Height: 5.8cm and 4.6cm Sold
	69. Quartz, pale brown, of oval form with a very slightly flared neck, of soft, golden colour, the lovely material allowed to speak for itself without further decoration. 1780-1850 Height: 5.6cm Price: $5,000
	70. Duan stone, (inkstone) of dark, even colour, an oval panel on each main side carved with confronting stylized dragons, the lateral sides carved with mask-and-ring handles 1780-1820 Height: 5.3cm Sold
	71. Quartz, pale brown, exceptionally well hollowed, each main side carved with a raised inscription one which reads zai jia chang ru yi ‘At home may things always be as you wish’ the other chu wai yong ping an ‘May you experience continuing peace and stability in the outside world’. 1780-1850 Height: 4.9cm Price: $7,300
	72. Soapstone, mottled russet and brown, carved with a stork amidst rocks looking back over its shoulder at a pine branch above, the reverse with a deer under pine each shoulder carved with a mask-and-ring handle. 1780-1860 Height: 6cm Sold
	73. Jadeite, of very dark colour which a transmitted bright light reveals to be a very dark green, one side incised with a scholar in his Summer pavilion amongst rocks and trees and a four-character inscription above which reads ‘qiu lin gao shi’ The Eminent Scholar of the Autumn Grove The reverse with a long inscription which reads ‘shu lin ping ban chang qiu yuan zhong you ji ren bi shi xuan bu lü bu shan zi ling xiao yu xun ya diao wu xian yuan’ which may be translated as: ‘A sparse grove level with the slope overlooks the autumn plain In its midst a recluse flees the clamour of the world En déshabille he sighs to himself Seeking an elegant tune to grace the five strings’ below the characters yu zhi‘ (‘made by Imperial Command’) picked out in red. Qianlong period, 1736-1795 Height: 5.3cm Provenance: The Fabian Collection, collected in Shanghai between 1935-1960 Sold The expression shu lin ‘sparse grove’ is a quotation from a poem by the famous Northern Song Dynasty official, painter and poet Su Shi (also known as Su Dongpo) A.D.1037-1101. In the course of his epic confrontation with his enemy Wang Anshi, Dongpo spent time in internal exile on the Yangzi River in Hubei Province, where he went on his famous nocturnal boat trip to the (presumed site of the battle of the) Red Cliff, writing two extremely famous prose poems on the subject.
	74. Nephrite, the olive-coloured stone with a pleasantly soft patina, the mottled darker area carved to depict Liu Hai enticing his three-legged toad to safety with his string of cash, one shoulder with ochre skin carved as a deer, and with darker grey material carved as rockwork around the base. 18th Century Height: 6cm Sold
	75. Jadeite, pale green and mottled russet colours interspersed with flecks of apple-green carved to depict a water lily emerging from waves, the ochre area carved as a goggle-eyed, fan-tailed carp. 1821-1850 Height: 5cm Price: $5,500
	76. Jadeite, of elegant double gourd form, the green grey material with an ochre inclusion which is carved with symbols in the central panels which translate as da ji meaning ‘Great Good Fortune’ the bottle resting on a flat foot. 18th Century Height: 6.5cm Sold
	77. Jadeite, apple green streaks and ochre areas in a lighter green material; the well made bottle extremely well hollowed with a concave mouth and resting on a small dimpled base. 1780-1840 Height: 5.5cm Sold
	78. Jadeite, apple green splashes in a lighter green material; the beautifully made bottle of rectangular form. 1780-1880 Height: 6.2cm Price: $49,000
	79. Soapstone, embellished with semi precious stones and lacquered with red and green to show a boy standing sweeping at a city gates the reverse with an elegant lady standing on a lakeside whilst children punt on a sampan amongst water lilies; the neck with a formalised design in gold on red lacquer. 1820-1920 Height: 6.3cm Sold
	80. Fruitwood, of rounded form with rounded raised frames, the front with a bamboo plant and inscription which reads jing yi this is most likely to be a quotation referring to bamboo (and maybe by extension to a nobleman) from one of the ancient Odes, and probably means simply Oh how Beautiful ! ; the reverse with an inscription in archaic script reading yan nian yi shou (To Prolong One's Years and Increase One's Longevity); the base-mark carved as a mirror image and was clearly used as a seal. The characters are stylised but may be translated as ya tang( Hall of Elegance). Date : 19th Century Height: 6.2cm Price: $8,800
	81. Coral, soft pink, carved with Liu Hai holding a string of cash with one foot on his three-legged toad, the reverse with Lu Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, carrying his fly-whisk and standing on waves. Daoguang period, 1821-1850 Height: 5.4cm Price: Sold
	82. Laque burgauté, the wood covered with black lacquer and inlaid with minute pieces of mother-of-pearl to depict a goose in flight above birds looking upwards, the reverse with two geese descending towards the birds on the ground to; the base with a silver inlaid mark which reads qian li, art name of Jiang Qianli a 17th Century laque burgaute artist. 19th century Height: 6.2cm Sold
	83. Lacquer on wood, inlaid with silver and gold wires to depict a figure on a sampan navigating towards a rocky outcrop with a weeping willow; an inscription to one side reads renchen dong ri xiaoshan ([Created by] Xiaoshan on a winter's day in the renchen year), the reverse with a wine goblet and a tripod with the four character inscription xing zhi ya ding (Xing Wine Goblet and Ya Tripod). The characters xing and ya most probably refer to well-known ancient vessels recorded in the epigraphical literature. 1800-1850 Height: 6.3cm Sold
	84. Gilt metal, each side inset with an oval piece of mother-of-pearl to form an elegant pearl drop, the neck and mouth also gilt metal. 19th Century Height: 4.7cm Sold
	85. Cloisonné enamel, the gilt-wired body inlaid with coloured enamels on a black ground to depict the eight Buddhist symbols positioned around a central shou character. Jiaqing period, 1796-1820 Height: Sold
	86. Smoky crystal, painted on the inside with the snowy scene from an episode of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. On one side, Liu Bei and his brother ask for Zhuge Liang, the great strategist, expecting that the approaching figure on a donkey might be he. The man inside the hut informs them that the approaching figure is Huang Chengyan, Zhuge Liang’s father-in-law, accompanied by his attendant with a double gourd of wine attached to a stick resting on his shoulder; signed Ye Zhongsan and dated Autumn day, 1925. Beijing, 1925 Height: 6.5cm Provenance: Mrs Claus Spreckle, Purchased from G T Marsh & Co Price: $16,000