Bottle from PHDS Wikramaratna Islamic Pottery Collection

PHDS Wikramaratna (PH) was born in Ceylon in 1916 and moved to London in 1937 where he gained a first class honours degree in Engineering. He returned to Ceylon at the outbreak of war and settled back in the UK following the war. PH gradually built up an extensive collection of Middle and Far Eastern ceramics becoming a member of the Oriental Ceramics Society in London. Several of his pieces were loaned for lectures and display and with his extensive knowledge and resource chose his pieces carefully. Over the years PH gifted many examples to museums, including The British Museum, Victoria & Albert, Ashmolean and Fitzwilliam. PH died in 2010 and our client was fortunate enough to acquire a substantial part of his collection. A fine Islamic earthenware jug of squat rounded form standing on a narrow rounded foot and potted in a light red clay decorated in green turquoise glazes with black painted floral...

A fine quality Chinese miniature vase decorated in mottled glazes dating from the latter 19th or 20th century. The stoneware vase stands raised on a narrow round foot and is of tall ...

A fine antique Chinese Qing porcelain snuff bottle decorated with underglaze brown patch work designs and dating from the 19th century or earlie...

A fine quality Chinese onion shape bottle vase decorated in mottled glazes dating from the latter 19th or 20th century. The stoneware vase stands raised on a narrow round foot and ha...

A scarce and stylish Chinese Qing pottery figure of a cockerel dating from the 19th or early 20th century. The hollow lightly potted figure is very finely detailed and portrays the c...

A good and unusual pair antique Japanese Satsuma Meiji diamond shaped pottery vases decorated with monk figures with a scrolling dragon dating from the 1...

A collection of two small pottery bowls with polychrome central figurative decorations, matching size and similar conical form. These bowls are identified as Nishapur ware circa 10th century (in nowadays Iran). They were stoneware (possibly buffware) and covered with opaque white glaze. Both were lovely decorated with a central human figure within an outer border. One is predominantly yellow, an imitation of luster ware...

A deep and wide earthenware bowl supported on a foot ring decorated with slip paint from Nishapur 11th century under the Seljuk Empire (in nowadays Iran). This bowl features a thinly...

An earthenware bowl supported on a foot ring decorated with elaborate slip paint. The bowl was made in Kashan (in nowadays Iran) during 12-14th century, under Seljuk empire or after ...

A large earthenware bowl with a deep and wide body supported on a foot ring decorated with incision and slip paint circa 11-12th from Iran when ...

Incredibly rare/unique & monumental antique Mamluk/Nasrid Islamic pottery copper lustre candlestick, circa 1870. This incredible pottery candlestick follows the the form of a 14th C...

A good antique Islamic Ottoman Kutahya pottery rosewater dropper, Turkey, circa 1900. The rosewater dropper of globular form with a tall tapering neck...