Antique Japanese Fukusa (gift cover), an old Chinese koto player by a waterfall. Embroidered on silk satin, lined with soft crepe silk, circa 1800s. 27 1/2" x 30 1/2"
A large cloud moves in and stirs the air in the forest. Water falls to the river as if it were falling from the sky and ripples it to shore. The resonance of the koto breaks the silence of the forest. The design on this fukusa is likely to have come from one of the old Chinese poems...
Meiji (1868-1912) Japanese Mixed Metal Bronze Gourd Shaped Vase with Birds and Morning Glory
It is 9.6 inches (24.4 cm) tall by 5 inches (12.7 cm) wide. It is 3.8 Lb.
It is tarnished and has been repaired at the bottom. It also has missing some flowers, oxidation, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).
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A nice celadon jarlet from Five Dynasties to Northern Sung Dynasty, a shipwreck artifact and in good condition without crack, chip or repair, very much a perfect piece except glaze deterioration caused by sea water, pleasew enquire
This is a Ming Dynasty Swatow type blue and white plate with a nicely written fu calligraphy on it, it was written with an elegant, strong, smooth and stylish character. It carries the meaning of Prosperous- which is an important chinese character in their culture...This plate is in a very good condition without any chip, crack, or repair and its' glaze still intact. Please enquire and feel free to ask for more photos...Thanks
Chinese Yixing Teapot w Tri-Leg Stand & Signed
Description & Size: 9.14 x 11.43 x 7.62 cm (3.6" x 4.5" x 3")
Weight: 147 gram (5.18 oz)
Age: 19th Century
Production: Handcrafted
This is a rare form Chinese yixing teapot pear shaped & mounted on a tri-leg stand. The teapot is original & unpolished with brass mounted on the rims & spout...
Thick cotton, Katazome stencil dye, aizome Japanese indigo dye with beni flowers. 70 1/2" x 13". The width changes to 12 1/2 after 39 1/2" where the fabric is torn. One 1/2" round stain (at 20 inches from torn end). Weakened at the seam (visible in some area from reverse side).
Japanese Silver Ewer Teapot
Description & Size
16.51 x 12.7 cm (6.5" x 5") Height with & without handle
8.89 x 5.71 cm (3.5" x 2.25") wide with spout & base
Weight: 260 gram (9.17 oz)
Age: Meiji Period 19th Century
Production: Handcrafted & Etched
This is a nice and unique Japanese silver ewer teapot. It's constructed with heavy sterling silver gauge with nice etched semi-fish net with a cylinder design body...
Used for repeated printing of an image onto paper, this carved wooden ink block has the image of Fu Lu Shou, the Chinese God of Longevity. Almost 6.5 x 10 inches...this inkblock makes a nice wall hanging
This small old Chinese wood sculpture of a mounted horseman is probably of famous warrior or legendary character. Carved from wood and painted the horse and rider are fixed to the original wooden stand. Original paint with some loss and one arm missing. 6 inches high including stand and a charming artifact of centuries past.
Pair of folding screens with painted decoration on paper. The screens are made up of six leaves representing figures in a landscape decorated with pine trees and enhanced with gold leaf. On each of them is a cherry tree in bloom, indicating that the scene takes place in early spring.
On the first screen, several groups of figures, each holding a bunch of flowers in their hands, play and talk...
A Large, Splendid Bronze Walking Buddha Figure, Thailand 17th Century. With his left leg slightly raised over a square pedestal, his left hand raised in abhaya mudra and his right hand gracefully extended alongside his body. Wearing a diaphanous sanghati over his left shoulder and flaring down toward a gently undulating hemline. His face with graceful serene meditative expression, downcast eyes under arched eyebrows, elegated earlobes...
Museum quality and very rare group of three statues representing Indra and his consorts. Indra is sitting in "vajrasana" on a lotus throne, his left hand resting on his knee , his right hand in "vitarka mudra". Indra has his forehead showing the third eye horizontally, and is wearing an elaborate crown, jewels and a "dhoti". A lotus is attached to each shoulder...
Splendid Kuro Raku Chawan by one of the most important potters of all time, the 3rd Raku Donyu 三代 楽吉左衛門 道入 (1599 - 1656) also known as Nonko. It was made around 1650 and was named 'Hekigan' which means 'Pale blue water of a mountain stream'.
It comes in great antique condition...
Vase in fine Satsuma earthenware enamelled in Osaka in Yabu Meizan's workshop at the end of the 19th century around 1890. The decoration is compartmentalized in 4 cartouches and represents the 4 seasons. The landscapes are meticulously painted, the details are surprisingly elegant and realistic. For winter, a snow-covered port is represented, the trees are heavy with snow, everything is motionless, padded. The cartouches are surrounded by a beautifully painted thousand-flower background...
The Goddess Standing in samabhanga with both arms broken. Wearing vertical striated sampot with central fish-tail shaped flange, held with a belt, a folded rim at the front, bejewelled with a necklace and armlets...
A Fine And Large Khmer Stone Torso Of A Male Divinity, Pre-Angkor Prei Khmeng Period 8th Century.
Standing with fragmentary four arms.
Wearing a diaphanous ankle-length sampot with a long central sash hanging down.
Measurements:
Height - 106 cm (42 In)
Provenance: A Private British Colloction
Acquired in Late 50's in NYC
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Important Kuro Raku Chawan by 4th-generation master Ichinyû Kichizaemon (1640-1696)...