All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #936847
From our Japanese Collection, a good Fuyode Ko-Imari Arita blue and white porcelain dish, the term "Fuyode" referring to late 17th century Japanese porcelain painted in the style of Chinese Ming Dynasty porcelain. This is one of the earliest examples of Japanese Arita ware. This dish is painted in underglaze blue with a central panel of flowering peony, and with panels of the “Three Friends of Winter" design (pine, bamboo, and prunus) in the border...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1254898 (stock #2721)
A very rare “mark and period” wucai dish dating to the late Ming period and the reign of the Emperor Tianqi decorated with the Chinese literati subject of the scholar Wang Xizhi standing beneath a Willow tree observing a flock of Geese in flight. Wang Zhi was a noted Chinese scholar and calligraphy master, known as the Sage of Calligraphy, who lived during the Jin Dynasty...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #994317
A rare and large blue and white porcelain jar, decorated with figures in a garden. China, Transition, ca. 1620-1640. Condition: wear and fritting of the glaze on the mouth rim, no damage or repair. Height 22 cm.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Textiles : Pre 1700 item #1390584 (stock #CMZ28R01)
Framed Chinese early Qing dynasty imperial silk and gold threads brocade fragment with 5 claws dragon. This piece most likely is under part(knee) of a dragon robe. This dragon holding a firing pearl flying above sea waves and mountain. Dimensions: 51 x 23 cm without frame, 73 x 45 cm with frame. Condition: no repair, stain outside the fragment, discoloration and loose threads at lower right part as shown due to the age. Shipping from Taipei, Taiwan via EMS at actual cost...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1433634 (stock #4599)
Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen period, 1628 ~ 1644.

The twelve sided dish with brown-dressed rim is decorated in enamels that appear to be an attempt to reproduce doucai wares. The decoration features a bee, a monkey, a bird and a deer in a landscape.This forms a rebus on the auspicious line ‘feng hou jue li’, “enfeoffment and emolument”...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1433762 (stock #4604)
An early Arita porcelain bowl made for export to the Far East. The decoration is based on a Ming Chinese dragon & phoenix bowl, the interior with a fish rising from waves. Fuyoyama or Tengudani kilns. See Impey, ‘The Early Porcelain Kilns of Japan, Arita in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century. Clarendon Press, Oxford.1996’ where several sherds are illustrated. Circa 1650 - 1680. Found in Cambodia...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1700 item #1483979 (stock #0606)

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...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1240116 (stock #TR 2347)
A Ming dynasty 17th century Chinese bronze figure of multi arms Guanyin, good condition with small old defect on the left arms join, no chip no crack. size 30 cm height with about 4 kg weight.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1700 item #1465749
Excellent light tea bowl fired in the Busan kiln which was run by the Tsushima feudal clan in the middle of the Joseon era (17c)...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1062664 (stock #8235)
A Chinese Blue White Ewer from the 16th/17th century. Height approximately 21 cm. The tip spout and part of the rim have been repaired.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1461468
Diameter approximately 39 cm. There are some hairlines. There are some improvements at the rim. More pictures are available.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1700 item #1470115 (stock #OC081)
The Kura
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An exceptional web of gold interspersed with nishiki-cloth patterned designs on gold lacquer fuses this once broken 16th-17th century Koro with ami-me net patterned solid silver lid. This was likely originally made as a tea cup, considering that the entire interior is glazed. Broken and reassembled using the Kintsugi gold technique and placing unusual patterns on the missing portions, this is an exceptional work of art...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre 1700 item #1166175 (stock #0276)
Ming Dynasty, ca. 1600s

This Tang-style camel is glazed overall in a transparent turquoise and stands on a rectangular base, the bottom of which is unglazed, showing the terracotta clay body. The right ear is mostly missing. The neck has a clean break about midway and has been restuck. There is a glaze flake on the left nostril, and an old glaze chip to the base beneath the left rear foot...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1489695 (stock #1098)
A pair of Chinese export blue and white porcelain plates from Kangxi Period (1662-1722).
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1159342
A blue and white kraak dish
Late 16th century – early 17th century
Wanli period, Ming dynasty
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue; Jindezhen ware
D: 14.5 cm
Perfect condition; some typical rim fritting
From a New Canaan, Connecticut private collection


Description & Notes

This particular dish features underglaze cobalt blue painting that is swift, confident, and well-done...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1434172 (stock #4607)
Hawkes, Asian Art
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An Arita Export porcelain plate in Dutch ‘Kraak’ style. A plate with the same border is illustrated in the Impey Collection “Japanese Export Porcelain, Catalogue of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam, 2002”, item 12. The border pattern shows a striking similarity to that used for V.O.C. orders produced at the Hikeoba and Sarugawa kilns...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1418300 (stock #4583)
A fine and large Arita export octagonal jar, 1680 ~ 1700. The jar has similar painting around the neck and shoulder as those produced at the Kakiemon kilns.

Approximately 40 cm high. In fine undamaged condition. I have shown some very shallow flakes on the inside of the neck, this appears to have occurred before the firing.

Please study the photographs.

Within the UK payment by bank transfer is preferred.

Customers resident in China must make arrangements...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1405626 (stock #EW3145)
An Ai Kakiemon dish decorated with a repeating pattern of Hosoge, flowers of Precious appearance, which in this case would appear to be representations of auspicious Pomegranate fruits constructed from Ruyi, Acanthus style leaves and other disparate elements. The ring of Hosoge pierced by a circlet binding them together with a gobenka motif in the centre. The reverse decorated with a lotus arabesque, karakusa, and a stylised fuku mark within a double square; a mark exclusively used by the Kaki...