This fine quality blue & white porcelain bowl was made during the mid 17th century. It is of a very pleasing shape and the porcelain is particularly translucent. It is finely decorated with a design featuring a hare sitting by a tree in a garden with the moon in the sky. Around the rim is a key-fret pattern. The underside is more modestly decorated with several ba ...click for details
This impressive pottery model of a dancing girl was made during the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25 - 220). It is quite "heavily-potted" and made from a red pottery. A variety of entertainers and dancers in all sizes of this general type have been excavated from Sichuan province. Note the detail to the head-dress and the flowing robes, particularly the long sleeve in ...click for details
Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Bowl with Fish Pattern
This attractive porcelain bowl was made during the 16th/17th century. It is decorated in a pattern featuring three fish and flower blossoms. To its base is an untranslated mark. There is minor "fritting" to the rim, caused during manufacture. Diameter 10.5 cm. No repair or restoration and a good ring when tapped; fine condition.
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Fine Chinese Song Dynasty Qingbai Porcelain Bowl with Moulded Floral Panels
This fine quality porcelain bowl was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279). Almost all of the inner surface is decorated with an elaborate moulded pattern comprising six panels and a center design of flower blossoms, above which is a key-fret band. The moulded design is particularly crisp. It is coated in a finely-crackled greenish-blue ...click for details
Fine Chinese Song Dynasty Qingbai Porcelain Bowl with Moulded Phoenix Pattern
This fine quality porcelain bowl was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279). Almost all of the inner surface is decorated with a elaborate moulded pattern featuring phoenixes and flower blossoms above which is a key-fret band. It is coated in a finely-crackled Qingbai glaze that has been fired to a pale greenish-yellow colour. The glaz ...click for details
Fine Chinese Song Dynasty Incised Qingbai Porcelain Bowl
This fine quality porcelain bowl was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279). The inner surface has been decorated with an incised scrolling floral design with the rim decorated with six "V"-shaped notches. The bowl is coated in a finely-crackled blue Qingbai glaze of particularly good colour. The rim was left purposely unglazed, thus allowing suc ...click for details
Rare Chinese Song Dynasty Moulded Qingbai Porcelain Bowl
This porcelain bowl was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279). It is quite "heavily-potted" and stands on a sturdy foot. The inside is decorated with a moulded floral and flower blossom pattern above which is a band of key-fret pattern. There is a central ring that is unglazed, this allowing such bowls to be fired stacked on top of each other. I ...click for details