Antique Korean bandaji, or blanket chest made with hardwood with original finish, iron plates and mounts on the front of the piece with floral cut-out motifs. The front has a drop-down lid with two iron pulls on decorative plates.

Dates c1900

Dimensions: 41" L x 16 1/2" D x 32" H

A Very Rare Korean Wood Carved/Painted Standing Dongja-18th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty(1392-1897), 18th century. A small wood elaborate carved Dongja (Buddhist boy attendant) shown standing with his hands held together as if to clasp a ritual object, the robes painted in red, black, green and the face and hands with traces of white pigment, set on an inverted lotus pedestal...

Antique Korean low table, of a rounded form with raised, scalloped flower petal edges. The apron below is openwork carved with scrolling vine motifs and double happiness symbols. The table's top is highly decorative with fine inlay work of brass, shell, and shagreen, creating a depiction of a phoenix and a serpentine dragon. The edges of the table top are decorated with various scholar's objects, such as a gourd bottle, an endless knot, and a gunbai fan...

A Very Fine Korean Goryo Bronze Mirror with a Sailing Ship-14th C.: Korea, Goryo dynasty, 13th -14th century. The design is cast in high relief on the obverse of this Mirror depicts a ship sailing on a stormy sea. A large dragon arises from the upper left and right with clouds of spray cap the surging waves...

A Very Fine, Rare and Large Korean Sea-Dragon Painting-19th C.: Korean, Joseon dynasty, 19th century, framed with plexi glass This sea dragon is leaping out with a big water-waving in sea under thick clouds in sky with lightening, exquisitely painted in ink and light color on paper, It’s in very fine condition with small parts repairs...

Antique Korean bandaji (blanket storage trunk), made of beautifully rough hewn wood. A single door is hinged horizontally and opens downward to reveal a large compartment for storage. Hardware is made of iron and includes large hinges and lock plates with Buddhist symbols. Stunning warm original finish.

19th century

Dimensions: 27 1/4" high x 29 1/2" wide x 15" deep

A Korean Very Rare Old Tale Landscape Hanging Scroll Painting(四皓團棋-사호단기/고사인물도-古事人物圖) -18th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 18th century. anonymous This painting depicting an old 4 Chinese scholars (4 sages) who turned their backs on political power, and gathering in a deep mountain are playing “GO” in deep mountain...

We like to present you this Korean Hori Mishima tea bowl for the Japanese Tea ceremony, made in the late 16th/early 17th century.

It is a low wan shaped tea bowl. Its expertly thrown body with its lower part was trimmed with a potters knife and shaped into the typical Korean bamboo node foot, creating a chirimen (crepe de chine) effect at the bottom. The bowl is decorated on the inside with an incised fish bone pattern and stamped flowers, both filled with a white engobe...

A Very Fine Brushed White Slip Decorated Buncheong Tea Bowl-16th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th or 16th century. The bowl, tapering to a raised ring foot and with slightly everted rim, decorated in brush applied white slip over a pale green, beneath a finely crackled clear glaze. It’s in very good condition with an almost mint condition, it measure 12 cm d. x 5.2 cm h...

Rare, Museum Quality 19th Century Medicine Chest (Yakjang) with Paulownia Doors. This is the finest work of Korean antique furniture we have ever offered, and likely the only example of this type anywhere outside of Korea. Antique medicine chests with doors are extremely rare even in Korea, and this is probably the best known condition among the very few left. Each drawer has the name of the medicine inscribed on it. Perfectly proportioned at 100 x 75 x 33 cm, 39.5 x 29.5 x 13 inches.

A Very Fine and Rare Korean Women’s Silver Samjak Norigae (은 삼작노리개)-19th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th C. The word Sanjak refers to a trio, the three individual accessories’ thaw tied together on the ttidon of the norigae on the ttidon of the norigae...

A Fine Korean Buncheong White Slip Inlaid Bowl-15th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th century. The deep bowl on short raised ring foot with everted rim, decorated in inlaid white slip with a central medallion of floral heads surrounded by a narrow band of stylized flower petals, a wide band of “rope curtain” design, the exterior decorated en suite beneath a pale brown celadon glaze. It’ in good condition but has two tiny chips to rim, it measures 18.5 cm d. x 7.8 cm h...

A Very Fine/Rare Beautiful Evenly White Glazed Porcelain Korean Bowl: Korea, early Joseon period, 18th-19th century, with fitted wooden box. The characteristic deep bowl with a flat interior bottom and recessed well set on a ring foot and with gently everted rim, the base glazed, decorated evenly with a beautiful light blue tinged white glaze, . It’s in very fine condition. it measures 3.5” h. x 6” d. (8.9 cm x 15.3 cm).

Korean bulbous vase, blue and white, dating from the 18th/19th century, with a cylindrical lip over a round body with a floral design and a cylindrical foot, the design in a whimsical style of Korean art.

Provenance East Coast NY Estate
Choson Period 18th/19th century
Size H 7" x W 8 1/4" x D 8 1/4"

Low rectangular Korean Inlaid table depicting a swirling 4-toed dragon with gold swirling inlaid whimsical clouds. Overall very good condition consistent with age. Brown lacquer over card wood body...

A Fine Korean White Slip Inlaid with Chrysanthemums Oil Bottle-13th C.: Korea, Koryo dynasty, 13th century. The flattened globular sharply tapering to a raised ring foot, and sloping to a narrow neck with everted cup-shaped mouth decorated in inlaid with white slip with chrysanthemum floral heads between a double circular ring, applied with a grey celadon glaze overall. It’s in good condition, it measures 7.8cm d. x 4cm h.

Very Rare/Fine Korean Copper/Brass Inlaid Circular Iron Box: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 18th/early 19th century. Unusually this Iron box decorated with copper and yellow brass on the cover in circular shape with a swirl pattern, C-shape brass handle and ball shape lock, yellow brass ball pull down for lock and pull up for unlock, set on three small brass ball feet in the base...

Antique Korean pair of nong, bedside chests for storage. Made of zelkova elm wood panels with cypress wood frame. Hardware is made of brass and has butterfly shaped door latches and hinges. The upper portion of each chest has a row of 4 small drawers with handles featuring bat shaped back plates. There is additional decorative corner hardware on the body and doors of the chest...