Archaeological objects at auction

Patinated and gilded bronze archer on a wooden base in the Siamese style, 20th century Dim: Ht 48cm

China, Round porcelain chamber pot with Imari polychrome decoration of blue, red and gold flowers. 18th century, Dim: Ht 12cm Ø18.5cm (missing enamel on the handle). A lid is attached, Dim: Ht: 5.5cm Ø12cm

Carved wooden subject representing a tiger in step (wear from use, traces of xylophagous insects). Wooden base. Height Height : 19 cm

Three bamboo parasols and flower wallpaper (tears). Marked "madi in Japan". Length: 62 cm.

Embroidered fabric decorated with village scenes (insolate, stains). Indochina, mid 20th century. 87 x 133 cm.

Carved wood miniature door. 34 x 22.5 cm.

CHINA Hard stone carved with flowers and monkeys 17.5 cm high Note: small accidents in the foliage

CHINA Porcelain and enamel baluster vase Decorated with scrolls and flower medallions Aquatic plants. Height: 35 cm

CHINA, 19th century - 5-leaf carved and painted cinnabar-red wooden folding screen, frames entirely carved and decorated with floral motifs, resting on carved feet with dragon heads, top parts decorated with moving pediments, carved and decorated with fantastic animals (Fo's dog, tiger, tortoise, eagle and dragon), removable inner panels, size of each leaf: 176.5 x 50 cm. A few accidents and missing pieces.

CHINA, late 19th century, early 20th century - Hexagonal LANTERN in carved wood decorated with clouds, 6 painted plaques under glass depicting dignitaries, princes and princesses (one cracked), 6 branches adorned with pendants decorated with coloured pearls (3 to be refastened, pearls missing) and enamelled copper plaques of flowers and baskets of flowers, height: 56 cm, diameter: 45 cm.

Gabriel VIARDOT, in the taste of - A walnut SADDLE carved with scrolls and lion paws, bronze fittings and yellow marble top, height: 61 cm, diameter: 43 cm.

CHINESE SCHOOL (XXth), "Tigers crossing a torrent", silk embroidery signed lower right, 170 x 115 cm.

CHINESE SCHOOL (XXth), "Couple de lion et lionne dans la jungle au bord d'une rivière", silk embroidery signed lower right, 141 x 86 cm.

IMARI, Japan, Meiji period - Large porcelain CACHE-POT with floral decoration in reserves, height: 24 cm, diameter: 31 cm.

ALBUM SOUVENIRS DU JAPON, early 20th century, comprising approx. 50 colourised PHOTOGRAPHS, approx. 20 x 26.5 cm including Mississippi Bay near Yokohama, street scene in Yokohama, merchants' stalls, Mount Fuji from Iedzuni, lotus in Kamakura, beach in Enoshima, garden of the Higuchi Hotel, Tamadare waterfalls in Yumoto, New Year's greetings, tea house in Tonosawa, flower seller, Lake Hakone, Ikegami pagoda, cherry blossom in Kogamei, funeral ceremony in a temple, Mikado Palace Bridge in Tokyo, Iris village in Orikiri Tokyo, Buddhist priests, Mukōjima garden in Tokyo, koto player, path, sacred bridge and Great Gate of Nikko, Muruyama Kyoto... Gilded lacquered wooden dish with flowers including chrystanthemums, Paulownia and birds. The back is missing and the boards are detached.

CHINA, 19th century - CHESS GAME CASE in black and gold lacquered wood forming a checkerboard with figurative decoration on a black background, borders decorated with auspicious motifs, inside a backgammon game with black and red lacquered pucks, 8 x 49.5 x 25 cm (folded).

Printed kalamkari TENTURE, Iran, Isfahan, signed Hossein Fakhârî, 20th century. Large cotton canvas printed with a figurative decoration featuring an elderly man dressed in blue and turbaned, being sipped wine by a woman in the upper part and distracted by the setâr music of a second woman in the lower part. Between the two scenes revealed by a curtain, a quatrain in Persian nasta'liq is printed in black ink. It is taken from the famous Robâiyât by Omar Khayyam (1048-1131). In a cartouche at bottom right, the artist's signature reads "Amal Hossein Fakhârî". The whole is encircled by a floral margin framed by two borders of floral foliage with birds standing out against a red background. Fringes border the short sides and the work is dated to Isfahan in an inscription in black ink on the back. 260 x 126 cm. Some stains and tears. Expert in Islamic and Indian Art: Madame Camille CELIER - 2 bis rue de l'Orne - 92600 Asnières sur Seine - Tel: 06 75 03 11 66 - camille.celier@gmail.com

A polychrome enamelled porcelain SUBJECT depicting a seated Guanyin, her right hand resting on her knee, European work in the taste of China (Samson?), 19th century, height: 17 cm, width: 17 cm. Minor chip to the base. Gilt bronze base with rocaille decoration in the Louis XV style.

CHINA, Compagnie des Indes, 18th century - Pair of porcelain cone-shaped VASES with polychrome and gold Imari decoration featuring phoenixes, carps and flowering branches in reserved landscapes, later Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounts with laurel tori and fleurons, total heights: 36 and 36.5 cm. Damage and restoration to the neck of one of the two vases, condition of the porcelain under the mount not guaranteed.

SATSUMA, Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) - Pair of cracked ceramic ovoid VASES with polychrome and gold decoration of courtesans and children on a chestnut leaf background, small handles with elephant heads, the trunk supporting trimmings, height : 37 cm.

CHINA - Suite of 2 double evolution BOWLS (diameters: 10.7-10.9 cm, heights: 5.6-5.9 cm) and a COUPELLE on heel (diameter: 10.4 cm, height: 3.5 cm) in fine white porcelain with polychrome decoration and gold highlights of warriors, sages and dignitaries, cartouches bearing inscriptions or poems, apocryphal marks. The dish decorated with warriors has very small hairs.

CHINA, Qing dynasty - A pair of straight-necked ovoid VASES in cloisonné enamels decorated with flowering branches, birds and insects on a white vermiculated ground, total height: 36.5 cm. Mounted in bronze for a later oil lamp.

CANTON, China - Large porcelain baluster VASE with rich polychrome and gold decoration of palace scenes and landscapes with birds, in reserves on a background of flowers and foliage, gilded handles in relief depicting animals and dragons, height: 59.5 cm.

CHINA, Qing dynasty - Pair of celadon-glazed porcelain baluster VASES, decorated with dragons and chimeras in appliques, and calligraphic inscriptions and auspicious motifs in polychrome and gold in friezes in various registers and slight reliefs, height : 43 cm. Minor accidents and missing parts (mainly chimeras).

JAPAN, Meiji period (1868-1912) - Important pair of patinated bronze PARFUMS BURNER decorated in relief with mythological birds, dragon-shaped side handles and lid surmounted by kites, height : about 60 cm.

NANKIN, China - A cracked ceramic baluster vase decorated with warriors in a mountain landscape, with Fô dogs and dragons on the neck, stamped under the base, 45.5 cm high.

AIGUIERE AFTABEH and its BASIN FOR A SOAP DISH, Near East, early 20th century Set in copper alloy. The ewer has a pear-shaped body set on a high pedestal and topped by a cylindrical neck marked with a ring, then flared and topped by a domed lid with a four-lobed handle. The body is marked with two almond-shaped medallions treated with repoussé, and flanked by a sinuous spout and handle, the first finished with a fleuron, the second with a feline head and a makara head. The basin has a curved body surmounted by a wide flat wing with a scalloped edge and closed in the centre by an openwork soap dish with a bulbous central handle. The whole is engraved with plant scrolls in several registers, punctuated with epigraphic cartouches in Thuluth Arabic. Height of ewer: 50 cm, diameter of basin: 33 cm. Lid hinge damaged, traces of oxidation. Expert in Islamic and Indian Art: Madame Camille CELIER - 9 rue de Montalembert - 75007 Paris - Tel: 01 45 62 27 76 - camille.celier@gmail.com

SYRIA, late 19th/early 20th century - A moulded, mother-of-pearl inlaid and carved all-round MILIEU TABLE with interlacing, geometric motifs and calligraphic inscriptions, moucharabieh belt (some missing), legs joined by an inter-leaf shelf with an openwork gallery of fine baluster colonettes (one missing), 82 x 75 x 68 cm.

CHINA - Red silk hanging embroidered with polychrome Taoist sages, surrounded by yellow silk. With frame: 152 x 69 cm.

CHINA - Woman inside. Mounted under glass. 56 x 37.5 cm

MIDDLE EAST. Hexagonal pedestal table in worked copper, the shaft decorated with mihrabs, probably Syrian work, 63 x 59 x 51 cm

Indochinese donkey's back desk with chair, decorated in bone marquetry, 106 x 95 x 42 cm, minor accidents to the desk

BIRMANIA. Welcome Buddha in gilded wood and verroterie, small missing parts, H. 83 cm

Japanese triptych print depicting women on a bridge, wear and tear, overall dimensions 34.5 x 71 cm

JAPAN. A pair of oil on cardboard paintings of Mount Fuji, signed lower left, early 20th century. One glass cracked. Size with frames :49 x 28,5 cm, View 29 x 11 cm

JAPAN. A pair of bronze vases, decorated with copper, gold and silver inlays, depicting cranes and rabbits. Height 24.5 cm

JAPAN. Pair of Satzuma vases with rich polychrome and gold decoration of figures, a chip in the heel of one, H. 24 cm

JAPAN. Pair of polychrome porcelain oil lamps decorated with birds in floral motifs, brass mounts (a small accident to one), H. 44 cm, without glassware, an accident to the base of one.

JAPAN. Altar in the form of a carved bone temple, minor damage, H. 38 cm

After Xu Beihong. Horses Ink, signed at bottom

Knightia" fossil fish, Eocene period, Wyoming. 9 x 12.5 cm Fossilised wood log, Oregon 12 x 10.5 cm Provenance: Les Minéraux - Paris

Carved jade haloed BUDDHA. 4x3cm

SUMBA or TIMOR, Indonesia. Scapula calendar figure with engraved decoration of symbolic motifs and a snake, ending in a wooden human head. Size: 31x16 cm.

CHINA: Three carved stone pendants in the shape of animals. Approx. 4 x 2.5 cm

CHINA: A chased metal egg-shaped box decorated with a branching bird. H: 5 - D: 11cm. Wear and tear.

Miniature grade mask, LEGA, Democratic Republic of Congo. Wood, pigments. Height: 13 cm.