A fine carved Norhern Song ( 960 - 1127 ) Yaozhou bowl.
Diameter : 13,3 cm. H : 5 cm.
Condition : Perfect !
Incised decoration, matt pale blue-greenish grey glaze over a porcelain body and base. Foot rim unglazed.
Longquan ware, Zhejiang.
Southern Song Dynasty thirteenth centry.
Diameter : 15,4
Condition : Perfect ( nice bell like ring tone when tapped )
A very rare Yuan dynasty longquan celadon dish, rounded side, flattened rim with deep center and glazed foot ring, dish decorate with impressed flower motif at the center, at the inner wall there is molded weave or cloud motif, at the rim there is 12 unglazed biscuit fired brown of flower motif, glazed base with ring for firing.
Dish is in very good condition no damage, no chip, no crack, no restoration, dish has wrapped (unbalance) rim.
Size: 35 cm diameter.
A really nice Ming Chenghua period ( 1465 - 1487 ) Minyao ( peoplesware ) blue and white dish, decorated with 4 different kind of fishes among water plants at the outer side. The inner side decorated with a conch shell against a concentric wave pattern design, surrounded by a for Chenghua typical Lotus and other water plant decoration.
D : 12,9 cm.
Condition : On the inner side of the dish partly a slightly degraded glaze, and one old (easy to open) glue repair. No chip, no further crack.
A superb early Qing Shunzhi - Kangxi wucai baluster jar, this large jar has straight neck, broad shoulders with sides tapering towards and flat unglazed base...
A rare early Ming 15th century blue and white large dish, rounded side with deep center, glazed base, and unglazed inward foot ring, dish decorate with large single fish motif swim among schematically arranged aquatic plant...
A superb museum piece. Not only the shape of this piece is extremely rare. This piece belongs also to the few Song Dynasty Dehua ware pieces, the earliest kind of Dehua ware.
A very hard, high fired clay on this piece did allow a extremely thinly potting of the body.
H : 9 cm. Diameter of the body : 10,2 cm...
A nearly Imperial quality piece.
Ming Chengua period ( 1465 - 1487 ) decorated with " Ruyi " scroll.
Extremely well potted body, a wonderful very white silky glaze and exclusively painted in the for Chenghua tylical watery blue.
The rim covered with solid gold with a solid golden lid.
Diameter : 9 cm. H : 7,5 cm. without lid. ( With lid : 9,2 cm. )
Condition : All visible parts of the porcelain body are in a absolutely perfect condition.
Very decorative, large Ming mid 15th century blue and white bowl.
Diameter : 23,3 cm.
Condition : There is a professional, rather insignificant ( no lost ) and nearly invisible restoration done to the bowl.
Large late Ming Wanli period ( 1573 - 1620 ) blue and white bowl with an typical Kraak ware design.
Diameter : 22,7 cm.
Condition : Perfect
A Fine blue and white Small Bottle Vase, early qing dynasty.found from shipwreck in Indonesia.good glaze, good conditions. size: 12cm high. 5cm body diameter.
A Fine blue & white bowl, decorated with two Dragon.transition period with six caracter jiajing mark.Found from shipwreck in Indonesia.Bowl in good conditions and glaze still in good conditions too,no crack,no restoration. size :8cm diameter
A rare Hutian Song dynasty qingbai - yingqing bowl with carved infant (wawa) and leaves or flower motif. rounded side with conical shape covered with light bluish white glaze, products of Hutian kiln.
Bowl is in good condition with two fine hairline at the rim, no chip, no restoration.
Size: 21 cm diameter.
A rare large deep dish, of Imperial quality, very finely painted in shades of iron red depicting two five clawed dragons amongst clouds contesting a flaming pearl. There are two similarly painted five-clawed dragons, each in pursuit of a pearl, painted on the underside. The base carries the partly erased six character mark of the Qianlong Emperor but this item was probably made later, during the reign of the Guangxu Emperor (1875-1908). Condition - excellent...
Beautifully blue & white bowl, decorated with two Dragonfish.transition period with six caracter jiajing mark.Found from shipwreck in Indonesia.glaze still in good conditions,it just has friting at the rim,no crack,no restoration.
size :8cm diameter
A blue and white Small Bottle Vase, early qing dynasty.found from shipwreck in Indonesia.good glaze, has small chip mouth.
size: 12cm high. 4cm body diameter.
A Fine Blue and White Ming Dish. Interregnum Period. Decorated with phoenix in the center surrounded by flower stes in the caveto. Good conditions.no chip, no crack, no restoration.
size : 24 cm
A magnificent Yuan 14th century Qingbai glaze dragon shape boat, item decorated with detailed dragon boat with human passenger and covered with bluish white qingbai glaze.
Boat is in good condition with one of the human head is being reattach / repaired, still a very magnificent and important piece.
Size: 20 cm wide.
A rare Ming dynasty 15th century blue and white kendi (pouring vessel), globular body, tubular neck, dish shape mount, and mammiform spout, kendi decorate with under glaze blue flower motif.
Kendi is in very good condition no damage, no chip, no crack, no restoration.
Size: 18 cm height
A rare Ming dynasty 15th century interregnum (Zhengtong - Tianshun) blue and white ewer, this large ewer decorate with under glaze blue of scholar motif covered with blue tinged glaze.
Ewer is in good condition no damage, no chip, no crack, no restoration, small glaze line at the handle.
Size: 24 cm height.
Qianlong or Jiaqing period, late 1700s
Molded in the form of a sauce dish with an attached handle in the shape of a stylized dragon, this was an item of fairly high quality made for the Chinese market—not for export. It is covered with a thick imperial yellow glaze on the exterior and the interior is enameled in turquoise. It is raised on a tall foot of which the interior and base is clear glazed with a slight bluish tone...
A good early Qing 17th century Shunzhi - early Kangxi period famille verte baluster jar, rounded side with globular body, short neck, and flat base, jar painted with red, green, yellow, and aubergine enamel, decorated with Buddhist emblems, rock, weave, and flower motif.
Jar is in very good condition no damage, no chip, no crack, no restoration, minor glaze crackled at inner wall and base.
Size: 31 cm height.
1700s or earlier
This solid porcelain water pot fits comfortably in the hand and its size and heavy weight indicates dual use as a paperweight for the calligrapher’s table. The form is that of a Chinese drum with bosses encircling the perimeter of the top and bottom imitating nail heads. The underglaze blue decoration is hastily painted with floral-like flourishes around the side. The top is painted with four Chinese characters around the central opening for containing water...
A fine early 18th Century blue and white bowl attractively painted to the exterior with a continuous scene of ladies at leisure in a fenced riverside garden. The interior is painted with a central roundel of the Three Friends of Winter. The base carries the six character mark of the Yongzheng Emperor and was made during his reign (1723-1735)...
A richly enameled and well modeled Kannon seated upon a purple scrolled tailed beast of green. Measuring 10" in height and 10" in length, the figure is well preserved. There is a chip to the right foot of the Kannon and three enamel flakes to the hair. No cracks or repairs.
A large Yuan 13th - 14th century longquang celadon dish, rounded side with flattened rim and deep center, decorate with large dragon chasing flaming pearl motif at the center, inner wall decorate with carved weave motif, outer wall decorate with raised lotus petal motif, covered with green glaze...
A magnificent Yuan Qingbai large ewer with dragon shape handle and bird head spout, body with bird and flower motif, cover with qilin, unglazed base.
Very good condition with part of the rim and spout damage, restored / re-attach no missing part, complete...
An exceptionally well decorated and finely potted bowl made to the best Imperial standards. The base carries the six character reign mark of the Chenghua Emperor enclosed within a double circle. This item was made later - during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor - probably in imitation of or as a replacement for a 15th Century Ming original. There are eight chips to the rim. There is a 2.5cm light hairline running from the rim.
17cm (6.7 inches) Diameter
7.5cm (3 inches) High...
1700s
Used for grinding ink sticks to make ink for painting and calligraphy. These two palettes were fashioned on the potter’s wheel from dense, thick porcelain. The upper surface is left unglazed for ink grinding. The circular grinding area is slightly concave and is surrounded by a channel for water used in the ink-making process. Both are incised with a design of stylized bats encircling the perimeter of the body and glazed with a deep, vibrant cobalt blue...
A very finely decorated Imperial wine cup depicting two iron-red five-clawed dragons, over breaking waves, in pursuit of flaming pearls.
The base carries the underglaze blue seal mark of the Daoguang Emperor and was made during his reign (1821-1850).
There is a 4cm hairline running from the rim ...
Eighteenth century, most likely from the Yongzheng or Qianlong period.
Very well potted porcelain body of Meiping shape with a two coloured Teadust resp. Iron - rust glaze.
The darker part of the glaze shows the darkest kind of Teadust glaze.
The last image shows a selection of different Teadust resp. Iron-rust glazes from the famous Vermeer & Griggs Collection.
What this Meiping makes so rare and important is the fact, that on this piece two different colours of the Teadust colour-palette ...
A Very large Ming Wanli blue and white serving dish with rounded sides and broad flat upturned rim with a bracket lobed rim, stand in low tapering foot ring, dish painted with under glaze blue in Kraak style motif, with ducks in the lotus pond, filling the space between the frame sorounding this scene and edge of the edge of cavveto with diaper pattern, at the cavetto with eight large radiating panels of flower head and Buddhist symbols such as gourd, fan and leaches.
Large serving dish lik...
Jar of globular form with a short cylindrical lipped neck and two horizontal lugs on the shoulder. The body is divided into four panels by vertical lines of applied studs, alternate panels being decorated in underglaze cobalt - blue with a chrysanthemum spray. Porcelain body covered with a transparent glaze stopping short of the foot. Flat base unglazed. H : 7,8 cm. Jingdezhen or Fujian. Yuan Dynasty, fourteenth century. Condition : 1 very minute, unimportant chip resp. lost visible on the last ...
1700s / early 1800s
This piece is in one of the eight prescribed peach bloom shapes that were designed for the scholar’s table. The base is marked with a properly written six character Kangxi mark in underglaze blue. This pot is well-potted in conformance with the shape of these vessels, rising from a slightly demarked foot visible on the outside as a light trimming line. The walls bulge outward and turn in at the shoulder which rounds to a depressed mouth opening. The glaze is largely o...
A ribbed cylindrical celadon censer.The censer stands on the unglazed base though it does have three vestigial feet.In fine condition with no cracks or restoration.There is a very small and shallow chip to the glaze on rim.size 9 cm diameter, 4,5cm hight.
Early Ming dynasty, late 1300s / early 1400s
This box is molded to resemble lacquered basketry—the cartouches on the sides representing finely woven panels separated by what would have been lacquer work. The top of the lid is molded with a design of a crane in flight among stylized clouds. The box is glazed overall, including the interior and the base, with an even-toned white glaze with a faint bluish tint. The glaze has a silky, flat sheen, almost having the appearance of marble. This ...
Late 1800s
Well-potted brushpot with a very carefully painted dragon and fish design in a deep sepia-toned enamel that is slightly raised on the biscuit-fired background. Like the exterior, the interior is also unglazed. The base is slightly recessed and marked with a spurious six-character Xuande mark. This piece most likely dates to the Guangxu period, 1875-1908. Very good condition with no damages or restorations. The painting is extremely well executed.
Height: 4 3/8 in.; Diamete...
A Fine Blue and White Jarlet. with plum blosom flower. YUAN Dynasty
good condition with minor chip on restoration at the rim.
size : 10 cm body diameter
8 cm hight
A large blue and white bowl from the Ming Jiajing period.
Jingdezhen ware, 1522 - 1566
Diameter : 20,1 cm. H : 9,1 cm.
Condition : cracked and a small restored chip to the base.
Tang Changsha large bowl from Belitung shipwreck.
Bowl in good condition with some glaze degradations at the rim, free from any restoration.
Size: 20 cm diameter.
A good Ming celadon dish with incised phoenix motif, dish is found from shipwreck,good condition with minor glaze degradations.crackled glaze.
Size: 25 cm diameter.
A very nice decorated Yongzheng dish decorated in brilliant famille rose enamels.
On the back undecorated.
Engraved on the back is a inventory number of the Dresden Collection of August II ( the Strong ) the elector of Saxony. Another nearly identical dish of this set is in the Zwinger Museum in Dresden, another in the Musee Guimet, another in the Victoria & Albert Museum and still another in the collection of a very famous dealer in USA.
Diameter : 22,5 cm.
Condition : 2 invisible very prof...
A nice study object, where one can look how the base and the glaze of a genuine Yuan Qingbai piece should look like. Porcelain body covered with a crackled Qingbai ( Yingqing ) glaze. Base unglazed. H : 4,4 cm. D : 8,3 cm. Jingdezhen or Fujian. Yuan Dynasty, fourteenth century.
Condition : broken and re-glued, chip to the base.
A rare Dehua 'Blanc de Chine' porcelain figure group depicting two kneeling women and a crucifix - made in the 18th Century for export to Europe. An identical piece - part of the P J Donnelly bequest - is currently on display in the British Museum. There are two light hairlines visible on the front and a firing crack following the mold join on one side. Only traces of the original gilding remain.
3.9 inches (10cm) High.
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A extrmely decorative Ming Chenghua period ( 1465 - 1487 ) Minyao ( peoplesware ) bowl.
A well and very fragile potted bowl with an outstanding decoration.
Jingdezhen ware with an extremely nice cobalt blue.
You come across hundreds of Ming Minyao bowls until you get a piece like this.
Condition : Please look the condition on the enlargements.
H : 4,9 cm., Diameter : 9,7 cm.
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This extremely rare jarlet is from the transitional period between the Yuan and early Ming period. Jingdezhen or Fujian. H.: 5,7 cm. Condition : Perfekt.
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It is extremely rare to find a Yuan blue and white piece in an absolutely perfect condition like this Cup with everted flat lip and a short raised foot. Decorated in underglaze cobalt - blue on the rim inside with a classic scroll and a continuous chrysanthemum scroll on the exterior. Porcelain body with a transparent glaze. Base recessed and unglazed. D : 8,1 cm. Jingdezhen or Fujian. Yuan Dynasty fourteenth century. Condition : Absolutely perfect - perfect glaze, not the smallest chip, not t...
Cup with everted flat lip and a short raised foot. Decorated in underglaze cobalt - blue on the rim with a key - fret design and a continuous chrysanthemum scroll on the exterior. Porcelain body with a transparent glaze. Base recessed and unglazed. D : 7,9 cm. Jingdezhen or Fujian. Yuan Dynasty fourteenth century. Condition : Restored. ( John S. Guy , Oriental Trade Ceramics in South - East Asia, item Nr. 55 )
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Cup with everted flat lip and a short raised foot. Decorated in underglaze cobalt - blue on the rim with a key - fret design and a continuous chrysanthemum scroll on the exterior. Porcelain body with a transparent glaze. Base recessed and unglazed. D : 7,6 cm. Jingdezhen or Fujian. Yuan Dynasty fourteenth century. Condition : Please look the condition on the images. ( John S. Guy , Oriental Trade Ceramics in South - East Asia, item Nr. 55 ) Dear Customer, in the earlier times of Trocadero that w...
1800s
Elegant pear-form vase with a gracefully tapering neck is raised on an elongated and subtly flaring foot. It is covered overall in a medium-blue robin’s egg-type glaze mottled with lighter and darker blues that drains toward the foot with violet-toned mottling. The base and interior are both glazed with a clear glaze that is tightly cracked. The footring is unglazed exposing the buff-colored china-like soft paste porcelain. Though similar to the robin’s egg glaze seen on hard por...
Jar of Guan form, decorated in underglaze cobalt - blue with a classic scroll and a continuous chrysanthemum scroll set between horizontal lines. Porcelain body covered with a transparent glaze. Base unglazed. H : 6,6 cm. D : 9,4 cm. Jingdezhen or Fujian. Yuan Dynasty, fourteenth century. Condition : The glazed area of the piece is in a absolute perfect condition ( nice glaze, no chip and no crack ) but to be absolutely correct : there is a minute chip on the inner side of the body resp. the ...
1800s
This cream-white glazed vase is covered overall with a network of fine crackles stained over time with a pale brownish tone. The small meiping form tapers gracefully from a broad shoulder to a narrow waist and flares out again at the base. The base is glazed leaving the slightly rounded footring unglazed. The interior is glazed and the crackle pattern continues inside the neck. Vases like this one were used in the scholar’s studio. Good condition, no damages. Small pin pricks from ...
Qianlong mark, but 1800s
The black enameled background provides a striking contrast with the colorful flowers in brilliant shaded enamels. Lilies, chrysanthemums, peonies, iris, and other blossoms cover the entire exterior of the bowl, even the entire exterior of the foot down to the footring. The interior is glazed white and left undecorated, further enhancing the contrasting effect of the exterior and interior. The base is glazed white and displays a four-character Qianlong mark in iron-...
Guangxu mark, ca. 1875-1908
Interior of dish is decorated with multi-colored overglaze enamels in a pattern known as “thousand flowers” in the West. Most of the various blossoms are painted in thick white enamel which is then shaded with different colors of enamel glaze. Space between the flowers is filled with gold enamel. The reverse is enameled with a design of three flower sprays. A six-character Guangxu mark is painted on the base in red enamel. The plate is raised on a low, inwar...
Very rare Jar of cuboid form. Floral decorated in underglaze cobalt - blue.
On the shoulder are two moulded lugs in the form of chi dragons. Porcelain body covered with a transparent glaze, the base flat and unglazed. Height 5,4 cm. Jingdezhen or Fujian. Yuan Dynasty fourteenth century.
Condition : No chip no crack, a small demage resp. repair to one of the molded dragons.
Please look : John S. Guy " Oriental Trade Ceramics in South - East Asia " page 92, item Nr. 56.
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Late 1600s / early 1700s
Large mountain-form brushrest molded with a fanciful design of a mythical horse prancing over stylized waves. Known as haima in Chinese, this decoration was popular on ceramics in the late transitional period through the early Kangxi period and often seen painted in wucai or enamels on biscuit. The molded haima design appears to be somewhat unusual and the high relief of this design combined with the cobalt glaze make for a striking effect similar to that of carved...
1700s
Small beehive-form pot is covered in a rich, lustrous copper-red glaze that drains to a pale celadon tone on one side. The interior is glazed white with the glaze crackles being highlighted by ink staining from long term use. The copper has drained from the mouth leaving the often seen attractive white ring. The glaze stops at the beginning of the foot which though left unglazed has burnt a pale orange tone in the firing. The foot has kiln grit adhering to it from the sandy clay pad ...
Qianlong seal mark, but 1800s
Round box is very well-potted and very skillfully painted in underglaze cobalt blue with a design of a boy, or possibly an immortal, riding on the back of a crane flying among clouds. The brushwork is finely detailed—even picking out tiny feathers on the crane’s back. Encircling both the base and the lid are bands of mille-fleurs decoration executed in minute detail with skillful brushwork. Numerous types of flowers are depicted with leaves and buds fillin...
Guangxu mark, ca. 1875-1908
Both finely potted bowls are covered with a lustrous clear glaze, then painted in a broad palette of overglaze enamels. The thousand flowers design, known in Chinese as jiacai (mingles colors), covers the entire exterior of each bowl from the foot to the rim. The flowers include lotus, peony, hydrangea, chrysanthemum and more. The small spaces between the leaves and blossoms are filled with gold enamel. The interior of each bowl is decorated with five bats (wufu...
1800s
Bulbous jar with rounded shoulders rising gently to a low, tapering mouth. Glazed overall with a fine clear glaze on the inside and outside as well as the base. Painted with bird and flower scenes within two cartouches in a famille verte palette of greens, yellow, aubergine and iron-red. The two main paintings are separated by a red and green enamel floral arabesque. A diamond diaper pattern band with four red flowers encircles the mouth and a band of alternating aubergine and yellow...
