All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Earthenware : Pre 1700 item #1337919 (stock #0325)

Rarely seen Shigaraki kettle with a fantastic shape, slightly deformed without any damage or repair. It dates from the early stages of the Edo Period.

Shigaraki is one of the oldest pottery towns in Japan with a history dating back more than 1,200 years. Historians say that local kilns were producing roof tiles when the emperor Shomu briefly relocated his palace to the area from Kyoto in 742 AD...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1270793 (stock #KBW021427)
17th c KANGXI BLUE AND WHITE PHEASANT PLATE (KBW021427)
ca. 1690-1700s, late 17th century
Mid Kangxi Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue
Diameter: 27.8 cm / 10.9 in
From an Dorset, UK estate

A large 1690s Kangxi blue and white “pheasants” plate, decorated in a shade of intense blue found only in select Kangxi blue and white wares, and covered with extremely fine luminous glaze...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #989764 (stock #0427)
A fine Ming dynasty large dish decorated with incised "dragon fish" at the center and flowers at the inner wall.Covered with nice celadon glaze.Late ming period (Swatow).36cm diameter,8cm high. Very Good conditions.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1700 item #1100665
This is dangawari katazome & tsutsugaki cotton katsugi kimono of the Edo era(1770-1799). The 18th century. The form size of the collar of this katsugi kimono has a characteristic of the 18th century. This katsugi kimono is rare, and I recommend it to collection of you. It is indigo dyeing and green of very beautiful nature. It is a plum and a family crest of a hemp leaf and the motif of the flowering fern...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1700 item #1391696 (stock #0443)

Only very little distorted half cylinder shaped (hanzutsu) tea bowl made of light, coarse, unrefined Mino clay.

The expertly thrown body is covered with the typical black iron oxide glaze inside and outside...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1012136 (stock #8023)
A Chinese Blue and White Bowl from Ming Dynasty. Decorated with 8 Mandarin Ducks, Flowers, Pagoda, Ships, etc. 8 mandarin ducks and flowers decoration on the outside. Boats, seas, and pagodas decoration on the inside. In good condition. The rim is not evenly round around the edges. On mark on the outer base of the bowl from the production process. Unnoticeable chip on the rim as seen on the enlargement no. 5. Approximate diameter is 20.5 cm on one side and 22 cm on the other side...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1700 item #1384733 (stock #736)
The censer is cast with twin upright handles and the body is decorated with three taotie panels divided by flanges. It is raised on three tall supports each decorated with a stylised mask and a flange. Late Ming Dynasty, 16th - 17th century. H : 25,9 cm. There is an old inventory Number to the base of the body. Ex Christie´s London.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #832874 (stock #251)
The extraordinary small size is so nice on this piece. Ming Dynasty Wanli Period ( 1573 - 1620 ), Jingdezhen ware. Diameter : 4,1 cm. H : 3 cm. Condition : Perfect
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Lacquer : Pre 1700 item #1426914
Antique Chinese large 12-panel Coromandel screen with sweeping scene of palace life. Inside the palace the emperor attends to royal business while he and other noblemen are waited on. To the far left, the empress sits in her pavilion while court ladies attend her and children play in the gardens. Outside the palace walls on the far right, a procession and military exercises are observed by noblemen...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1700 item #1320228 (stock #2916)
An e-kagami of very small proportions 69.4mm (2.73 inches) in diameter, and 12.2cm (4.8 inches) weighing 51gm. Decorated with a sand textured ground and Hares, usage, leaping over stylised waves, nami,in this example taking the form of ryusuimon in which there is a reflection of a crescent moon. The mirror is signed Fujiwara and probably dates to the late seventeenth century, Mid Edo period. For condition see photos, some wear and minor corrosion. Worldwide shipping at Cost.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1700 item #1473360 (stock #02032023A)
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This is a very finely cast Tibetan bronze fragment dating to the 17th century or possibly earlier. It depicts a wrathful deity, possibly Vajrabhairava, complete with finely modeled skull crown/tiara to the wrathful head. Please have a look at the photos and feel free to ask any questions. the piece measures 2.5" in height (6.25cm), not including the custom base. Exceptionally well cast with very fine detail. Not easy to find these days
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Lacquer : Pre 1700 item #1155590 (stock #tiger957)
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Chinese Tixi Lacquer Carved Bowl with Cover, 16th /17th Century

It is 2.25 inches (5.7cm) tall by 3.5 inches (9cm) wide. It is 1.4 lb.

It has peeling of lacquer, hairline cracks, surface wears and scratches, and filings to hairline cracks (as seen in the photos).

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1032831 (stock #TR 1469)
A good late Ming dynasty - Jiajing Wanli period blue and white large dish, rounded side with raising rim and glazed base, dish decorated with under glaze blue of rare two chicken fighting among flowery motif, inner rim with rare squirrel on fruits branch motif, outer wall with birds on a tree.
Dish is in good condition with 3 faint hard to see hairline on the rim, no restoration, rare to find this motif on a large dish.
Size: 29.5 cm diameter.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1700 item #959581 (stock #263)
This rare standing figure of the Amida Buddha still shows remainders of a former very qualityful thick Lacquer Gilding. Ming Dynasty. H : 64 cm.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1423825
Rare 17th Century Chinese Kangxi small peach bloom vase scholars object. Incredible speckled glazing revealing natural lighter of purple, off whites with a touch of green under tones. May have been used as a glaze example, kept with similar objects, each an example of glazing techniques. Inscribed with six character Kangxi signature

His reign lasted 61 years, from February 7, 1661 until his death December 20, 1722, making him the longest-reigning Emperor of China in history...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1488841 (stock #77)
A Chinese Blue and White Miniature Guan Jar. Circa, 1368-1644, Ming Dynasty. Found in the Philippines. Its tapering body is horizontally joined in two sections with a bordering underglaze decoration of acanthus leaves running along its shoulders and panels above its foot. Its base is fully unglazed...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Lacquer : Pre 1700 item #1471781 (stock #374)
Very rare lacquered wooden box, inlay of the "hundred precious items" type...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Ceramics : Pre 1700 item #1160890 (stock #445)
A definitely lvely pot with an extraordinary rich floral decoration with birds. The glaze and the deep cobalt blue blue strongly reminds on Chinese Jingdezhen ware pieces of the Ming Dynasty. Annamese ware ( Vietnam ) 15th - 16th century . Diameter : 7,4 cm. Condition : Perfect ( the glaze a little bit eroded, some fine glaze cracks, but no cracks in the body of the piece. )