All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1900 item #1448080 (stock #10691)
Midsize storage jar, tsubo. Greyish brown stoneware, with the typical white stone inclusions, partially bursting out through the surface. The ashes in the wood burning kiln settled during the firing onto the surface of the pot and melted, creating the beautiful brownish yellow ash glaze. This is a natural process that cannot be controlled by the potter beyond the decision of placement within the kiln...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1920 item #1448074 (stock #WN330)
Galerie Hafner
$980.00
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An exclusive large belt buckle made from a silver alloy bordered by two elephants. The center mounted with a pierced jade medaillon showing a bird by two bolts ending in a flower, surrounded by four lion heads, turquoise and coral or carnelian cabochons. Dating to the 19th/20th century. Condition: traces of usage, one flower bolt with a small loss (please look carefully at the photos, they make part of the condition report). Dimension: c. 12.8 cm long x 9 cm high, weight: 155 g.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #1448073 (stock ##0420)
Large mingei negoro tray. Edo period. Made of a rought piece of sugi (japanese cedar). The inner part has been lacquered with a fine negoro. The borders, following the natural lines of the wood, have been sculpted in a very unusual and interesting form. 34 x 30 x 7 cm.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Folk Art : Pre 1920 item #1448070 (stock #4A183C)
Chinese Red Lacquer Bamboo Bridal Food Basket, early 1900's, 15" high with handle, 10" wide & square, contains inner wood tray inside the lower compartment, high lighted with raise carved gold lacquered design on high handle, one metal butterfly is missing on one side.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Stoneware : Pre 1492 item #1448042
Chinese stoneware jar with two loop handles, high neck with small, rolled rim, and flat bottom. The jar is amber glazed only at the upper shoulder with a few drips extending down onto the body. This vessel is likely an example of Guangdong ware produced in Fujian province. 7” diameter x 6 1/4" high. Probably dates from the Southern Song to Yuan (12th to 14th century). Very good overall condition. From the collection of a former American expatriate to Guangdong province in 1983-2984.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1448039
An early Chimú blackware stirrup pottery vessel, ca. 700-900 AD.

A nice and attractive vessel with small monkey on the spout, no decoration.

Size: 25 cm. tall.

Condition: Superb for type.

Provenance: From prominent Danish private Collection. Formerly in the Preben Christiansen Collection, Frederiksberg Denmark (died 2006). Collected during his time as a guide in central-South America in the 1960s-1970s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1448037
A scarce pottery vessel with fine decoration, Peru, pre-columbian period, Chimú, ca. 900-1200 AD.

Attractive vessel decorated with zoomorphic feline creature one one side and a warrior on the other. Nice 'dot' decoration on the surface on both sides, single spot and one handle at the side.

Size: 16-17 cm.

Condition: Choice and intact, short and almost invisible thin hairline on one shoulder, no repairs or losses...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre 1492 item #1448035
Senatus Consulto
$1,350.00
Pre-Columbian, Ecuador/Colombia, Carchi-Narino region, Narino, ca. 750 to 1500 CE.

A superb large example of a hand-built pottery sculpture of a coca chewer (known as a "coquero"), seated upon a four-legged stool.

He sits in an upright pose with bent arms placed on his knees. He has thin legs with broad short feet, and wears a striped sash around his otherwise nude body. The enlarged head features bulging ovoid eyes, a narrow nose, and a horisontal slit as mouth...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Textiles : Pre 1910 item #1448011 (stock #EMT)
This long home spun background heavy cotton fabric is appliqued with embroideries salvaged from a very Dong minority old Jacket... the corner are accented with long beaded tassels... At great for table runner or shoulder scarf... Roughly point to point 73 inches long and 15.5 inches wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1448004 (stock #RAJ-8)
Gallery Rex
$1,320.00
This polychrome piece was made in Imari with Kakiemon-style in last 18th century. It has been transmitted from generation to generation in Japan with wooden box. The small handle on the rid has repaired at the base Size: 11.5cm(D) 14.0(H) Accessary: traditional wooden box YouTube movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz23dGVUEss&list=PLcPjV3Xf0-WPWoVxtqux54Unn8C1bQ7YJ&index=43&t=4s
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1448001 (stock #20210627-01)

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Offered is a set of three gorgeous 18th Century Japanese porcelain bowls with molded decoration to the inner sidewalls, and underglaze blue decoration inside the base and outside on the sides. A very similar bowl with nearly the same moldings (Object 254) appears in Volume IV of the Shibata Collection of the Kyushu Ceramic Museum in Saga Prefecture, Japan...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Enamel : Pre 1920 item #1447981 (stock #gy6361)
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1920's Japanese Aquamarine Color Silver Wires Cloisonne Vase with Iris Flowers Unsigned but Attributed to Hayashi Hachizaemon

It is 6 inches (15.2 cm) tall by 2 inches (5 cm) wide. It weighs 170.4 gram.

The metal rims and bottom are tarnished and have surface wears and scratches. It has surface wears and scratches, missing enamels at the bubbles, pitting, bubbles, and oxidized and tarnished wires (as seen in the photos)...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1900 item #1447978 (stock #gy6360)
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1900's Chinese Paktong White Copper Enamel Hand Warmer with Flower & Bird Signed

It is 5.9 inches (15 cm) tall with handle up and 4.1 inches (10.5 cm) tall with handle down by 7.3 inches (18.7 cm) long and 6 inches (15.2 cm) wide. It is 3 Lb.

It has loss of patina, oxidation and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).


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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1492 item #1447968 (stock #gy6358)
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Late 12th Century or Early 13th Century Dali Kingdom 大理國 Gilt Bronze Shakyamuni Buddha

It is 3.4 inches (8.7 cm) tall by 2.5 inches (6.3 cm) wide. It is 153.3 gram.

It has rubbing gilding, pitting hole, oxidation, peeling of lacquer, dents at the bottom, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

The Dali Kingdom, also known as the Dali State 大理國 was a dynastic state situated in modern Yunnan province, China from 937 until 1253...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Jewelry : Pre 1920 item #1447915 (stock #7061)
Hetian nephrite jade pendant with illegible archaic script incised on the surface. Cut from the edge of a jade boulder, this piece has a natural shape and “organic” feel. The russet highlights are attractive but artificially induced. H: 7.7cm/3in and W: 3.8 /1.5in- 29 grams.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Jewelry : Pre 1910 item #1447914 (stock #7060)
Hetian nephrite jade pendant with illegible archaic script incised on the surface. Cut from the edge of a jade boulder, this piece has a natural shape and “organic” feel. The russet highlights are attractive but artificially induced. H: 5.4cm/2.2in and W: 3.3cm/1.3in- 33 grams.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1900 item #1447902
Zentner Collection
$1,650.00
An antique Japanese Kasane Kimono Tansu (stacking chest on chest) made entirely of Kirinoki (Paulownia) wood. Constructed using straight dovetail joinery and hardened wooden nails. Hand forged iron hardware.

Originally used for the storage of Japanese Kimono, it functions well in today's home as a pair of nightstands, a daily dresser drawer or a beautiful accent piece in any room decor...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Baskets : Pre 1920 item #1447901
Antique Japanese ikebana basket. Woven of split bamboo in a round, footed form. The handle is made of a piece of bamboo that has been carefully curved to give the whole basket a lovely hourglass shape.

Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 16 1/2" high x 7 1/2" wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1900 item #1447895
Zentner Collection
$1,450.00
Antique Japanese small zushi, traveler's shrine which opens to reveal a seated figure of the goddess, Benzaiten. She is the guardian of the people of Japan and is considered the goddess of all things that flow: water, music, time, words, eloquence, and knowledge. In Japan, she is one of the 7 Gods of Fortune (or 7 Lucky Gods). In the Shinto religion, she is a kami (a divine being) and is often depicted with the likeness of kami Ugajin on top of her head...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1900 item #1447889
An antique Japanese Zeni Bako (money safe) made of Keyaki (Zelkova) and Suginoki (Cryptomeria) woods. Top cover is secured with an iron lock and serves a dual purpose. When closed, a slot is apparent for dropping coins into the box. When opened, the retrieval of the coins becomes convenient as well as keeping safe and storing paper money, IOUs, and financial bonds and certificates. A bottom drawer was often used to store writing paper, writing brushes and an inkstone...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1800 item #1447887
Zentner Collection
$6,000.00
Antique Japanese zushi (traveler's shrine) with double panel doors which open to reveal a standing figure of Jizo Bosatsu (O-Jizo-Sama). Jizo is the protector of travelers and firefighters as well as the guardian of the souls of all children. He stands on a lotus base with a Buddhist ring staff (shakujo) in his right hand and a jewel in his left...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Pre AD 1000 item #1447867 (stock #1444)
Rare and Ancient Celtic Stone Janus from the Published and Renowned Collection of Irwin Hersey, renowned author on primitive art, and publisher of the Primitive Art Newsletter in the 1970s. Irwin Hersey was an advisor to museums and prominent collectors, and vetted pieces for many of the international tribal art fairs. 4.5 inches wide, 3 inches high.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Lacquer : Pre 1700 item #1447858 (stock #122)
Black and red lacquer box inlaid with mother-of-pearl, sides in bamboo basketry. Interesting and rare Chinese work of the Ming period. The work of the basketry is exceptionally beautiful quality, the bamboo fibers are very fine and perfectly woven. The mother of pearl inlays are of excellent quality and extreme finesse. The interior is lacquered in red as well as a part of the sides. Many missing mother of pearl as you can see on the pictures. Part of the mother of pearl roof tiles replaced othe...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1900 item #1447855
Zentner Collection
$6,000.00
Antique Japanese Buddhist temple banner made of silk and woven with gold gilt paper weft (ginran or kinren) in a dynamic design of a pair of water dragons each facing the center where a burning pearl (woven with silver leaf) floats on a golden cloud. Dragons and pearls together in Buddhist art symbolize the endless cycle of transformation. The flaming pearl is one of the Eight Treasures and represents pure intentions as well as the sacred wish-granting pearl of the Buddhist faith. The back si...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1447842 (stock #2016-347)
GALERIE TIAGO
€15,000.00
Perfume fountain in porcelain Imari kinrandé mounted in gilt bronze from the same set of porcelain. The cup and the bowl form the base, the pot covers the perfume container.
Blue under-cover decoration with gold highlights of interlacing lotus flowers. On each of the ceramic pieces, two four-lobed spaces and sides with floral motifs (pine, yellow and red lycoris, carnation, phlox moss, bamboo) and two foxes. Top of the pot with a chrysanthemum pattern. The inside of the fountain has a ban...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre 1492 item #1447837
Senatus Consulto
$2,850.00
A fine pair of Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chancay culture star gazer figures, ca. 1000 to 1400 AD.

These stunning anthropomorphic figures are matching in style and colours and were likely built as a pair in the medieval period before the spanish arrived.

Featuring the typical highly stylized faces. Both the male and female figures stand nude on conical legs with their gender outlined in a minimalistic manor. They hold both arms out from the shoulders and are painted wi...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Sculpture : Pre 1700 item #1447835
A fine very early Thai bronze buddha, ca. 15th. century AD, mounted on a later Rattanakosin Kingdom wooden gilt base, 19th. century.

Interesting composition of a Suchothai standing buddha on a 19th. century base. The Buddha very attrative standing erect with a slight smile and hands in the calming of the seas gesture.

Size: 30 cm. incl. the base, 18 cm. for the buddha alone.

Condition: The buddha with attractive green patina, loss of left hand and some surface ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1447826
Undecorated Roman lamp inscribed CCLO.SVC on the base.
The impressed mark refers to C(aius) Clo(dius) Suc(cessus) whose Italic workshop had branches in Africa Proconsularis.
Loeschke type VIII lamp with plain discus set off by grooves. Small filling hole at center, tiny air hole pierced below.
Plain outward-sloping shoulder with arched bowshaped volutes, whose knobs continue down the side of the basin wall.
The nozzle separated from the discus by a straight horizont...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1447822
Senatus Consulto
$995.00
Reduced, was 1250.00
An incredible blackstone finial from a sceptre or macehead, Pre-columbian Moche Culture, ca. 4th.-7th. cent. AD.

An exceptional piece decorated with 4 figures in each corner of the trapezoid carving; they are holding on their belly with both hands and each is wearing a headdress. The space between the figures decorated with a pattern of oval depressions. The finial hollowed in the center for mounting it as a club or sceptre.

Size: 7 cm. tall and 7 cm. wide, 9 cm. from cor...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1447819 (stock #Lot1192)
Descriptions:
A granite head piece was well preserved.
With characteristic facial features, the stone piece was retained on the surface with old conditions that only ancient time can cause.

Date: Tang Dynasty (AD618-907) ,

Height without stand: 14 cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre AD 1000 item #1447774
A lovely condition pottery bowl with caligraphy, Islamic Samenid Dynasty, ca. 9th.-10th. century.

Interestingly this bowl has much original glaze with limited areas of restoring. Decorated with wonderful original caligraphy in black on white glaze.

Size: 18,2 cm. wide and 6 cm. tall.

Condition: Superb for type with original crackled glaze. See the closeups for the condition of the glaze.

Provenance: Important Danish Private Estate collection, (aquired ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Baskets : Pre 1920 item #1447761
Zentner Collection
$1,450.00
An antique Japanese Ikebana basket in a Cornucopia open flared mouth design tapering to a four post square base. Finely woven using a two tone caramel colored split bamboo with binding weaves forming frogs and turtles. Each post has inset caterpillar weave and the base has a cross slatted split bamboo that was signed by the artist. The handle is comprised of three delicate bamboo branches each of differing sizes representing a child, an adolescent, and an adult. The bindings along the rim rep...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1910 item #1447759 (stock #10222)
Small and shallow (thin) shrine. Inside are the figures of Bishamonten (right) and Kongoyasha Myoo (left), both standing. Bishamon holds a pagoda and a halberd. The three-headed Kongoyasha’s two hands are empty.
Both are standing on a rock which is placed on a pedestal and both have a small mandorla behind their heads.

Soft wood carved and decorated with mineral colors. Mandorlas, attributes and helmet ornament in gilt metal.
Case is lacquered black on outside with gilt co...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1447753
A massive solid silver or heavy silver plate bronze mirror, Cambodia, Khmer Empire, ca. 12th. century AD:

Very large and with a beautiful silver patina. It features a perfect circular form and a recessed side with concentric incised circles tracing the border. Objects like this one were signs of prestige, owned by the wealthy and elite in Khmer society.

The finest and one of the largest we've seen of these, normally of bronze and rarely of silver or silverplate.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre 1492 item #1447723
Senatus Consulto
$1,250.00
A superb and exceptionally large pottery bowl with torquoise glaze, black markings and a finely decorated pattern on the interior. Seljug period, 11th.-12th. centuries, Near East.

The finest bowl we've seen of the type. With silvery iridescence on the surface of both the interior and the exterior. Very beautiful colours. The patina and fine glass like gloss is difficult to grasp in our pictures but is very visible in hand.

Size: 23,7 cm. in diameter and 11 cm. tall.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre 1920 item #1447710 (stock #1295)
Chinese large yixing zisha teapot with silver decorations. 23 cm wide from spout to handle. 16 cm body diameter. 10 cm high. Teapot has few small chipped at inside the lid, no crack.