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The Art and Orchid Gallery

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian (57)

Chinese (19)
Porcelain, Pottery, Stoneware, Ivory, Metalwork, Paintings, Sculpture, Snuff Bottles, Textiles

Indian Subcontinent (4)
Himalayas, India

Japanese (27)
Earthenware, Tea Articles, Ivory, Netsuke and Related, Metalwork, Enamel, Paintings

Southeast Asian (5)
Ceramics, Metalwork

Central Asian (2)
Metalwork

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Antique Japanese Koro of Mixed Bronze Alloys Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920 item# 1183397 (stock# 500AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's large koro, or incense burner, has a vented, domed cover and applied sentoku bronze alloy shi shi atop a twin-handled elongated ovoid bronze burner with three feet on a base.[197A, 25B, 120C, 9D] The Japanese are famous for their use of mixed metals, particularly in koros and vases. On our metalwork a cast bronze corseted, pierced dome of mixed patinas has an attached sentoku, golden tone satin sheen bronze alloy shi shi, via rivets.[120C, 25E] Stylized 'mou ...click for details

Antique Japanese Brazier, Bunsei Era by M. Seimin Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1837 VR item# 1180068 (stock# 495AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's sentoku bronze brazier was cast by Murata Siemin, Japan's most famous ornamental metal worker, during the Bunsei Era (1818-1830) of the Edo Period.[120A, 197B, WEBC, WEBD, WEBE, 32F, WIKG] Murata Siemin initiated the lost wax process for bronze casting in Japan and became its most famous metalworking artist of the 18th Century.[197B] This brazier was made from a type of bronze called sentoku. It contains some zinc, like brass, which gives it a gold color but ...click for details

Antique Ping Sancai with Prunus Relief Decoration Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Porcelain: Pre 1920 item# 1177223 (stock# 485AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's translucent porcelain vase, or ping in Chinese, is hand decorated with relief appliques of Prunus branches, flowers and fruit.[86A] Prunus has been a favorite decorative symbol of the Spring on Chinese ceramics from the Ming Period. On our ping the Prunus is done in the style of the Kang Hsi Period.[204B] The sancai (or san ts'ai in Wade Giles) are light blue, yellow centered plum flowers and fruit with aubergine, or eggplant color, tree bark in relief agains ...click for details

Antique Bowl Done in Sancai with All Relief Ornaments Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1920 item# 1176812 (stock# 484AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's bowl, or wan, was crafted in China of stoneware, or what the French call 'gres', which has a hardness of 7 on Mohs scale but is not translucent.[86A, 33B, 28C] The ornamentation of chrysanthemum flowers, leaves and stems were hand made as applique relief with the wan hand glazed in iridescent sancai, or three color (also called san tsai during the Ming Dynasty).[73D] The colors on this piece of gres are green, a brownish aubergine on the florals and mudd ...click for details

Tour de Force Large Tibetan Covered Bowl Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Pre 1920 item# 1174587 (stock# 478AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's antique large Tibetan bowl with cover is multimedia and probably multi-cultural . It is an unusually skillful, ingenious and creative mixture of decorative motifs and techniques. It has the typical ambiguity of provenance one finds in objects of "Tibetan Art".[187A] This exemplary creation exhibits Chinese brightly enameled metals over Indian repousse copper lotus designs and appliques of carved semi-precious stones, characteristic of Nepalese craftsme ...click for details

Antique Signed Ivory Netsuke, Fine Carving Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Netsuke and Related: Pre 1920 item# 1173721 (stock# 474AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's finely carved Japanese ivory netsuke is 19th Century Meiji with age cracks and wear. It depicts an elderly smiling woman holding her prize fish/fruit (?). She is wearing an outer coat, an under robe and a handkerchief head cover. All three have minutely incised and stained details, but some are worn. Some of these diaper patterns include: seigaiha (stylized wave), kame, kiri no mon and squares with dots.[34A, 42B, 33C] The netsuke also has 2 holes for the himo (s ...click for details

Antiquity of 14th-15th Century Sold by Marshall Field Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Ceramics: Pre 1492 item# 1173460 (stock# 473AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's ceramic covered bowl is an antiquity from Southeast Asia, made in the ancient Sawankhalok or Annam kilns during the 14th-15th Century. Both were cultural centers and are now part of Thailand, Vietnam and Laos.[179A, 38B] The bowl still bears the sticker, dated 14th Century, of the largest retail store in Chicago, named Marshall Field and Co., founded in 1852.[179C] Around the turn of the last century prestigious stores with wealthy clientele, such as Marshall Fi ...click for details

Japanese Carved Ivory Taoist Immortal, Meiji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Ivory: Pre 1920 item# 1173249 (stock# 472)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's antique ivory carving is the figure of the Taoist immortal, 'Ramsaikwa' (known as Lan Ts'an-ho in Chinese), wearing her mugwort leaves skirt and carrying her characteristic attribute of a basket of flowers.[200A, 191B, 33C] She represents a Taoist immortal, possibly the least well-documented but best known for her basket of flowers, a Taoist attribute.[86D, 73E] One story claims Ramsaikwa to have been a weird woman dressed in tattered clothing and le ...click for details

Antique Benjarong Porcelain Funerary Urn, Thai Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Ceramics: Pre 1920 item# 1173010 (stock# 471AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's cinerary, or funerary, urn with cover is made of a very translucent porcelain.(see photos) Even with its interior brown stained crackle glaze and fine enamel colors over glazed exterior, one can easily pass light through the urn. It was probably made in South China for export to Siam ( now Thailand). This may have been as early as 1775 based on referenced colors, particularly the red ground for the Siamese Buddhist deities.[198A] The major ornamentation is altern ...click for details

Antique Benjarong Lidded Polychromed Jar Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Ceramics: Pre 1910 item# 1172955 (stock# 470AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's hand decorated condiment jar is from Thailand, the 19th Century Bangkok Period.[198A] Similar ceramic lidded jars from Thailand (Siam) were made in China for the Thai market between 1775 and 1825 and can be found in references.[198B, 179C] Larger covered containers were used in Thailand to serve food and smaller ones, like ours, contained betel nuts (nuts of the Betel palm), or a condiment made of betel nuts.[198D] This vessel and cover are made of porcelain wit ...click for details

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