Very rare pottery bowl and eclectic with Taoist imagery. This is made from a high fired light gray pottery, with traces of a white slip and depictions of musicians, dancers and “demon” masks. This is a funerary piece; the symbology suggests the transition from this world to the afterlife. D: 14cm/5.5in and H: 5.2cm/2in. No cracks original pigments with some kiln warpage
Indian pataka showing Hanuman. 50x49cm. Red ink on paper. Extensive restoration. Undated, estimated to be 19th century, or earlier. Can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide.
Large Indian yantra. 48.5 x 48.5 cm. Red and black in on thick paper. Text on reverse. Undated, estimated to be 19th century or earlier. Reinforced tape on reverse. Can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide.
Tokimono (kimono textile, unseamed and washed) of unlined summer kimono with katazome (stencil-resist-dye) Ryusui-mon (running water) design. It is made of hemp and gauze weave. Two pieces of cloth for bodies have tow slits (10cm) in the middle, for necks. Generally, in good condition but one panel, one front side has some light stain, however not serious from outside, and also one of a sleeve has a brown spot. Early 20th century...
Large Indian yantra. 51x43.5 cm. red and black ink on paper. Undated, estimated to be 19th century or earlier. Area of restoration. Can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide.
Japanese shunga woodblock print from the Meiji period.
The print features a close-up of a Japanese woman and her lover - a rare find!
The print was purchased in an antique bookstore in Jinbocho Tokyo 1951 and is in good condition with minor staining (see photos below).
Size of print: Approx. 19.5cm x 13cm.
Shipping included
Antique Indian Yantra. Double sided. Red and black ink on thin paper.
30x26.5 cm. Tape stains in corner, creases and tears. Undated, estimated to be 19th century or earlier. Can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide.
Antique Indian painting. Extensive text and coloured imagery on paper subsequently backed with antique laid paper. Missing top third. 57x37.5 cm.
Can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide.
A nice and rare porcelain cup, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with jumping horses.
Ming Dynasty, Chenghua Period ( 1465 - 1487 )
Diameter : 6,2 cm. H : 4,2 cm.
Condition : No chip, no crack, no repair. This what looks like a chip is covered by the original glaze. And this what looks like a crack is just a still very dirty scratch. This excavated piece is still un-cleaned. After a professional cleaning this scratch might become quite invisible to the naked eye...
Early 19th century Indian painting, Rajasthan, Mewar or Bundi, illustration of hell punishments, 21x17cm, gouache on paper, mounted, can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide.
It is a silk kimono made in Akita region in the latter half in the Meiji era.
In the times when better quality was found in the Meiji era, this is a superior expensive item.
It is a kimono of precious silk not to be able to make in the present age.There are very few stains a little. I recommend this to collection of you.
Size: 117cm x 114cm (46 "x 44.8")
Earthenware offering plate depicting seven seated Buddha surmounting fine Buddhist devotees. Thailand Khmer period known as Lopburi, 12-14th century. 72 mm high x 55 mm wide x 14 mm thick. The piece is nicely mounted on a custom stand. Abrasion due to age, otherwise very good condition.
Funeral mirror of circular shape decorated around its center with two chimeras facing each other. Bronze, with a nice slightly encrusted red and green patina on some areas. China, Jin Dynasty. Diameter: 8.5 cm. Very good condition. NOTE: this mirror is part of a small collection of funeral mirrors collected many years ago that we are starting to offer presently.
A nice round stamp seal with handle, with precise finding place near the ancient city of Antioch, and dating to the Mesopotamian late Halaf-early Ubaid period, Late Neolithic - Early Chalcholite, c. 5th. millenium BC.
Nice early hemispheriod stamp seal with low handle.
Size: 26 mm wide, 12 mm...
A set of five Arita sake cups, guinomi, in tsutsu-gata form decorated in sometsuke style with a scrolling vine arabesque, hagi-karakusa, imitating the habit of the Bush clover, hagi, a member of the Vetch family one of the seven plants emblematic of Autumn...
An old jadeite buried in the ground , carving of a boy , bat and Fan
Small light celadon colored jade cup of classical shape. China, Ming Dynasty period. Height: 1 5/16" (3,3 cm). Traces of long stay underground (small stains), otherwise very good condition.
Japanese woodblock print of two beautiful ladies at the ocean, with a basket full of shells they've collected. With calligraphy in right margin.
Size: 7.25" W x 9.5" H (artwork only)