Late Chinese imperial saucer dish and Qing bow case and quiver emerge in west London

This piece of late Chinese imperial porcelain, a 5½in (14cm) yellow ground saucer dish with an aubergine dragon encircling the ‘flaming pearl’ to the well and four incised cranes to the underside, has a dark brown six-character mark for the Tongzhi emperor (1861-75).

With a provenance to the KA Johnson-Hill collection, Hong Kong, it has an estimate of £1200-1800 a…

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