This traditional tribal comb would be worn for festival by Yao ethnic minority woman of Southern China. The comb was carved from sections of bone which are held together with a twining technique. The bone sections are tatooed with traditional Yao design pattern. The comb alone is 5.5 inches long and 3 inches wide. The combined length with the pompom and tassels is almost 12 inches long.
Chinese canton enamel box with slightly domed lid. The sides and top finely painted with scholars in landscape setting in famille rose palette. Interior with turquoise enamel. Condition: good - considering the delicate nature of enamel, rim of box with two very small retouchings and and sides of lid with three tiny enamel losses and few stress lines. Dimension: diameter: 10.2 cm, 6 cm high.
Japanese Sterling Silver CHRYSANTHEMUM Tea Set Marked
Description & Size
Teapot: 19.05 x 19.68 x 10.16 cm (7.5" x 7.75" x 4") height & wide with & without spout & handle
Sugar Pot: 9.52 x 15.87 x 10.79 cm (3.75" x 6.25" x 4.25") height & wide with & without handles
Creamer: 5.71 x 14.60 x 9.52 cm (2.25" x 5.75" x 3.75") height & wide with & without mouth & handle
Weight: 795 gram (28.04 oz)
Age: Meiji Period c19th Century, P...
Jalisco Pottery Male Flute Playing Figure. Mexico. Circa. 200 B.C. – 100 A.D. 6 7/8” x 3 ½ Need more sizes. Solid body pottery example. Standing male figure playing the flute, painted red and cream. A few minor chips, otherwise intact. A smaller matching twin was purchased at auction from Arte Primitivo a number of years back. Don’t miss this opportunity to reunite the brothers...
Standing female Figure. Vera Cruz, Mexico. Circa. 450 -1521 A.D. 7” x 5” x 2”. These figures are believed to be a representation of a harness device holding a person for sacrifice or imprisonment. Various repaired breaks throughout. Provenance: Arte Primitivo.
Large Standing Soriente Figure. Remojadas, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Circa. 600-900 A.D. 15 ¼ “ x 12” x 3”. Hollow molded terra cotta. He stands with his arms widely spread holding an object of unknown purpose. Typical sloping forehead. Headware has varied well defined designs. He holds a object in his mouth, (often referred to as a hallucinogenic). These figures are thought to be children readied for sacrifice and are often refered to as “Happy Faces”. On old wood stand...
Vera Cruz Warrior. Mexico. Circa. 600-900 A.D. 15 ¼” Hollow molded terra cotta, standing warrior with one hand raised showing an open palm. The other wields a large, trapezoidal shield and he wears a sleeveless vest, belt and a long loin cloth. With prominent teeth, sleepy eyes and a well formed nose. Restored from a dozen or so large pieces with restoration over the break lines. Rear, third, support leg reattached with visible gluing and edge losses.
An extraordinary photo frame made of steel and decorated with flower heads and foliage in silver koftgari work, the surface covered with gilt lacquer. Condition: without glass, decoration with minimal wear and loss of lacquer. Dimension: 25.5 cm, 15.5 cm wide, weight: 364g.
An extraordinary photo frame made of steel and decorated with scrolling leaf in silver koftgari work, the surface covered with gilt lacquer. The back embellished with geometric pattern. Condition: decoration with little wear and partial loss of lacquer, two clamps missing. Dimension: 24.5 cm, 15.5 cm wide, weight: 466 g.
JAPANESE SILVER CHOSI SAKE POT ENGRAVED w CHRYSANTHEMUM SEAL
Description & Size: 15.87 x 8.25 x 19.68 x 15.24 cm (6.25" x 3.25" x 7.75" x 6")
Weight: 849 gram (29.94 oz)
Age: Edo (Tokugawa) Period
Production: Handcrafted & Engraved
This is a rare & beautifully handcrafted Japanese silver chosi sake pot with rich engraved works during the late Edo Period to Early Meiji period. The silver chosi pot is designed with thick silver guage...
Height: 19 cm (7.8 in)
Width: 8 cm (3.6 in)
Chinese blue and white porcelain ewer with standing lappets; structural and rural scenes; good condition; circa early 19th century
This very well carved and colored Japanese polychrome ivory carving of a Chinese style lady is a mid or late 19th century product. It depicts a lady who wears a simple but elegant elaborate silk robe. She holds a peony blossom in her left hand and a fan in her right hand. It is 8 ½” high and 2” wide from the round base. It has very nice patina. Aside from two slight crack lines on her face and upper left arm, it is in very good condition...
CHINESE JIZHOU POTTERY TEA BOWL w PHOENIXES
Description & Size: 5.58 x 12.06 cm (2.2" x 4.75") height & wide
Weight: 142 gram (5.14 oz)
Age: Southern Song Dynasty (12th - 13th Century)
Production: Fine Glazing & Hand Painting
Condition: Excellent ORIGINAL as found condition
This is an early Chinese Pottery Chabei tea bowl known as Jizhou ware...
A Beautiful pair of late 19th C. Chinese famille rose porcelain figurines ladies in excellent condition. Signed. H:12" $1200
Ancient Egyptian Blue Faience Amulet Lion-Goddess Sekhmet 1200-300 BC
Authentic ancient Egyptian ca. 1200-300 B.C blue glaze faience amulet of Sekhmet, the lion-goddess, standing in a long gown with a necklace draping down her chest, hands at her side. She wears on her head the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
She was both a fierce lioness and the goddess of medicine connected with the soothing of illness and warding off trouble in general...
Authentic ancient Egyptian green turquoise glazed faience composition amulet, depicting the god Bes. The dwarf god wearing a feather plumed crown, standing on a slender rectangular base, with horizontal suspension hole in the headdress.
Late period 26th-30th Dynasty circa 664-332 BC.
MEASUREMENTS: Height 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in).
CONDITION: in original condition showing its age...
A Canton enamel bowl, beautifully decorated with flowers and a rock in Famille rose colors under a border in gilt and puce. Blue orchid mark to the interior, puce orchid to the back. 18th century, late Qianlong. Height "2¾/ 7,2 cm. Condition: damages and stress lines (cf pics.), no repair.
A pair of Yixing or Zi Sha tea bowls, the interior and the base glazed in turquoise, the exterior with four characters in white glaze. Both with impressed key fret border. China, c 1900. Height "2/5 cm and "2/4,7 cm Condition: a minimal glaze flake to one bowl.