A pair of 19th century Chinese enameled blue and white porcelain bowls, of small size and finely potted, each bowl decorated with a band of interlinked swastika motif in iron-red and dots in yellow enamel between bands of "ruyi" in underglazed-blue, center of the bowl painted with an iron-red bat above which a double blue-circles around the rim, the base inscribed with a four-character Hall mark "Youyu-k ...click for details
A good and unusual early 20th century Chinese famille-rose porcelain bowl, delicately potted and finely painted in Yongzheng style with a bird perching on flowering branches, interior and underside glazed white, the base stamped with an iron-red four-character seal mark "Xianshi-jingpin" within underglazed-blue double-circles. (Wooden stand not included).
...click for details
A small 19th century Tongzhi mark and period Chinese famille-rose scholar's porcelain paint palette, of circular form with an "S" shaped divider simulating the Daoist "yinyang" symbol, interior decorated with sprays of flowering branches with the rim dressed in brown, reverse painted with three flower scrolls, the base bears the seal mark of Tongzhi in iron-red and of the period.
...click for details
A fine quality early 20th century Chinese Republic period famille-rose porcelain vase, superbly decorated with three geese in a landscape scene, amongst rockwork and colorful flowering branches, two other geese and two bees hovering above, a band of key-fret motif in over-glazed blue-enamel encircling the foot and under the top rim below which a "ruyi" pattern and beaded "curtain" overhanging around ...click for details
A fine and rare early 20th century Chinese Republic period famille-rose porcelain vase, the baluster vase finely potted with an inverted compressed mouth and the neck flanked by a pair of stylized "chilong" in café-au-lai glazed forming as handles, body of the vase superbly decorated with the "hehe-erxian" (laughing-twins immortals), one figure holding a stalk of lotus and the other holding a bamboo ...click for details
A good 19th century Japanese carved bamboo incense holder, the long thin cylindrical bamboo tube finely carved in shallow-relief with a continuous scene of Samurais in battle, the bamboo has aged to an attractive golden color, with fitted ivory cap and end.
DATE : Japanese, Meiji period, late 19th Century. ...click for details
A fine large and unusual late 19th century Chinese white glazed porcelain wall-vase, the baluster form vase relief decorated with a large panel of seven finely detailed Buddhist-lions playing a ribbon-tied ball amongst flame-scrolls, the trumpet neck further decorated with a pair of lions within rectangular cartouche, all against a beaded background, together with a pair of lion-masks to each side forming as handles, c ...click for details
A fine and rare 16th century late Ming dynasty Chinese bronze tripod incense burner with carved wood cover and stand, the bronze vessel very well cast with three panels each containing three large "shou" characters in different archaistic seal script, against geometric ground and each panel divided by raised vertical flanges, the top rim flanked by a pair of vertical looped handles and supported on three cyli ...click for details
A fine and superb 18th / 19th century antique Chinese white nephrite jade carving of a melon, the pendant of large size, finely carved in the round with a large and a smaller melon hanging below vines, with a small butterfly clinging on below, the stone of fine mutton-fat color with scattered areas of golden-russet tone. (Wooden stand not included)
...click for details
A good quality 19th century antique Chinese white nephrite jade carving of a fruit, the pendant very well carved and pierced with a fruit hanging below a batch of leafy-vine, the stone of very pale-celadon color with a small area of russet tone to the top of the pendant. (Wooden stand not included)
