One of the best ever seen Guandong ( South China ) Shiwan ware dishes. Seventeenth Century. Shiwan pieces like this do try to imitate the famous glazes of the Song Dynasty ( mostly the glazes of Jun or Jizhou pieces ). Diameter : 20,3 cm. Condition : Perfect.
A Sawankhalok jarlet, decorated with pair of handles, covered overall with a bluish green glaze. Condition is perfect.High: 7 cm
Philippine Pre-colonial pottery vessel with two ears.
Cylinder shaped (hanzutsu) tea bowl made of light, fine, unrefined Mino clay. Shape and style (note the trimmed walls) make it appear contemporary with the late Oribe bowls.
The expertly thrown body is covered with the typical white, feldspatic Shino glaze has been poured under which a decoration of a willow tree (yanagi) and a fence have been applied in iron oxide (oni ita). Just the foot ring and its immediate surrounding was left unglazed...
A Parcel Gilt Bronze Vase.
With two flanges and a straight neck.
The body incised with a Lingzhi
16/17thC.
Height: 7 1/2" (19.0 cm).
Condition: casting flaw to the front
Very decorative, large Ming mid 15th century blue and white bowl.
Diameter : 23,3 cm.
Condition : There is a professional, rather insignificant ( no lost ) and nearly invisible restoration done to the bowl.
A lovely bronze Buddha, Thailand, Ayutthaya style, 17th century.
Height: 24 cm Width 16 cm.
Condition: the mirror he was once holding is now missing. Very nice old patina with remains of gilding.
Statue of a snarling lion holding a smaller lion under its front paws, resting on a rectangular base. Bronze, with fine dark green patina with reddish areas. China, Ming Dynasty. Length: 6.7 cm. Height: 5.7 cm. Very good condition.
Chinese bronze censer with stand. Four character Xuande Mark. 22cm wide. 15,5cm mouth diameter. 11,2cm high only the censer. 15,5 cm high with the stand. 3855 gram weight with the stand. 2735 gram weight only the censer. Good conditions.
A Beautiful 16th C. Chinese ming dynasty blue and white porcelain plate, with a Chinese "Prosperity" character right in center. In excellent condition. D:10-3/4"H:2"
In the world of Japanese ceramics, Tamamizu-ware has an almost mythical standing. A branch of the main Raku line, at one time the two kilns held equal prominence, both being endorsed by the major tea schools of Kyoto and both being favored by the Imperial household. The first in the line was an illegitimate son of Kichizaemon Ichinyu (Yahē) who studied under his father and then left to open his own kiln in the village of Tamamizu (known today as Ide-cho)...
We proudly present this outstanding Mugi-de Oribe Chawan.
Distorted half cylinder shaped (kutsugata) tea bowl with slightly flaring mouth made of light, unrefined Mino clay. The expertly thrown body was trimmed with a potters knife. With the exception of the foot ring the bowl is covered with a clear (wood ash and feldspar) glaze inside and out...
We Japanese have been loving celadon from China since 11 century. Especially about the Long-guan ware, we categorize
3 types. 1."Kinuta"celadon in Song dynasty, 2."Tenryuji" celadon in Yuan dynasty, 3."Shichikan"celadon in Ming dynasty. This piece is categorized "Shichikan" celadon.
The celadon of Long-guan-yao had been declining in Ming dynasty and generally has not clear color...
Little distorted half cylinder shaped (kutsugata) tea bowl made of light, coarse, unrefined Mino clay.
The expertly thrown body is covered with the typical green copper oxide glaze inside and outside. A 'window' on the side has been left unglazed for decoration in iron oxide engobe under a clear ash glaze in a geometric pattern of squares and triangles and little circles. This is a typical late Momoyama design...
Statue of Buddha Sakyamuni, in monk's robes, his hands in "bhumisparsa mudra", sitting cross-legged on a tripod throne. Bronze, with remnants of the original gilding. Thailand, Ayutthaya Period, circa 16th/17th century. Height: 6 1/8" (15,5 cm. The piece is nicely mounted on a custom plexi stand. Very good condition.
A very nice and rare Ming Dynasty Yongle period ( 1403 - 1425 ) bowl , decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with a Lotus design. Jingdezhen ware.
Diameter : 9,9 cm. H : 5,4 cm.
Condition: Very nice glaze. There is a crack from the rim downwards, visible to the inside,(from the outside nearly invisible to the naked eye.)
Cylinder shaped (hanzutsu) tea bowl made of light, fine, unrefined Mino clay. The style of the foot lets it appear contemporary with the late Oribe bowls. But the shape of the expertly thrown body, the orange skin effect on the typical Shino glaze with beautiful orange 'fire colour' recalls the days of the single chamber kilns, but the glaze and the somewhat irregular foot is typical for the late production of the 1620's at the Motoyashiki and Kamagane kilns...
