19th Century Chinese White Jade Carved Handle Cup

It is 1 inch (2.5 cm) tall by 4.15 inches (10.6 cm) wide. It is 75.2 gram.

It has inclusions, flea bite chips, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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19th Century Chinese Embroidered Wall Hanging Knots & Tassels

It is 57.3 inches (145.5 cm) in length.

It has loose, pulling, and missing threads, frayed silk, stains, wears, and discoloration (as seen in the photos).

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1900's Japanese Kutani Porcelain Pink Kimono Geisha

It is 16.9 inches (43 cm) tall by 6.3 inches (16 cm) wide. It is 6 Lb.

It has rubbing of paint, skip glazes, chips, stains, and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).

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Handled circular ikebana basket (hanakago) in Chinese style, in vanished bamboo and rattan. Inside in copper alloy.

Ikebana or Ka-do (the way of flowers) is a traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement. Unlike Western floral art, ikebana does not aim to emphasize only the beauty of the flowers and the harmony of colours...

A VERY RARE SONG PERIOD, SAWANGKALOKE-SISACHANALAI, SIAMESE-THAI, IRON BROWN GLAZED SMALL MEDICINE BOTTLE. 14-16th Century. Has 2 intact loops as well as incised ringed ribbing. Good overall condition, no cracks, hairlines nor restorations. One inconsequential nick on the lip. Size: height 8cm. VERY RARE ITEM!

A Genuine Song Period SAWANGKALOKE-SISACHANALAI, SIAMESE-THAI IRON-BROWN GLAZED JARLET WITH LIP. This jarlet is half way glazed with horizontal incised ring ribbing towards the top. Very good condition.14-16th Century. Size:height 8 cm.

A genuine SONG DYNASTY,(960-1279 A.D.) CHINA, JAR WITH 4 LOOPS. Glazed in honey color, except for bottom area and base. Size: height 6.25" (16 cm.). Good condition overall.

A genuine antique KHMER LIME POT, 12-14th Century, Iron-Brown with incised motifs and horizontal ringed ribbing towards the top/neck. Size: 5" diameter x 3" height (13 cm x 7.75 cm). Condition overall good, no cracks/hairlines nor leaking, but several body chips and on the neck/lip as shown in the photographs.

A very impressive and extremely rare sculptural plaque in pottery, Greek, ca. 2nd. century BC.

Gorgoneion is depicted in 3D on top with wings and a lovely expression, the round Aegis below.

Size: 18 cm. wide and the head 4,5 cm. deep and 7-8 cm. tall.

Condition: Intact in all it's parts. The Aegis reassembled from fragments.

Ex Old Collection, aquired before 1980.

A splendid and rare pottery Oli lamp, likely North Africa, 4th. century AD.

The lamp depicts a wonderfully detailed portrait of the Empress Fausta in a central medallion inside a decoration with geomethric and floral symbols - very decorative composition.

Size: 13,3 cm.

Condition: Nearly superb, microscopic closed ding to the spout, but it's intact.

Ex. Old collection, aquired between 1970-1995.

This is indigo dye cotton tsutsugaki textile futon cover at the edo-Meiji era. Very auspicious, brave hawk and pine tree design. The material is thick indigo-dyed cotton. The technique of indigo dyeing Tsutsugaki is very good and beautiful. It is unused and has no stains or damage. The state is excellent. It is a very valuable gem. Please add it to the collection. Four panels are sewn together. Size: Length 168 cm (66.1 inches) / Width 126 cm (49.6 inches)

A Very Fine a Map of Korea with Sea of Corea (Mer De Corea-大韓海峽)-18th C.: 1746 Published. It's in good condition, framed, it measures 39cm x 24cm image only. This fine engraving map is from Antoine-Francois Prevost d'Exiles's Histoire Générale des Voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à present dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues...

Antique Japanese samurai's shiko ebira, open type of quiver for carrying arrows (ya). Finely made of carved wood with iron fittings and lacquer finish. Decorated with gold mon on a black lacquer ground. Comes with a set of 5 arrows and displayed on a custom fabricated bronze stand. Kyudo (the art of archery) was practiced in battle and in hunting.

Age: Edo Period (1603-1867)

Dimensions: including stand: 40 1/2" high x 8 1/2" wide x 4 1/2" deep

Terracotta head of one of the Dioscuri wearing a pointed cap with bulged rim. Strands of wavy hair frame the face.
The head is almost entirely covered with a white slip. The details of the face such as eyes and mouth were rendered with additional colors.
The celestial twins Castor and Pollux, the so-called Dioscuri, were regarded as the patrons of travellers and sailors...

A large for type attachment from a brazier, a pottery container for fire, molded within a rectangular framework and set vertically with the head of Silenos, his long full beard extended forward to form support for a vessel.

Size: 14 cm. wide and 12 cm. tall.

Ref: Hayes, John W., Greek and Greek-Style Painted and Plain Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum, 1992 ROM, fig. 247 - 250.

A very attractive terracotta figure, depicting a Eros riding a goat, Roman Emperial, ca. 1st. century AD.

Very nice details of the winged Eros holding on the Goats horns, and the are standing on a tall base.

Size: 13 cm. tall and c. 9 cm. wide.

Concition: Choice and intact, unrepaired and with the original sand in the devices.

Ex. Private Collection from before 1980.

A marble figure of a corpulent girl putting a finger at her mouth, the typical childish gesture known from Harpokrates. Graeco-Roman Period, 332 B.C. - 1st. A.D.

Very good style and workmanship and nice white marple with patina.

Size: 12,5 cm. tall and quite massive, mounted on a wooden plint which makes it 15,2 cm. high.

Condition: Choice and intact, but with a small ancient loss at the back of her head, not affecting the details of the face and hair...

Charming Ming Dynasty bowl with a pattern of a water buffalos in three different poses, there is hairline crack and gold leaf and lacquer repaired chip. D: 11.5cm/4.5in and H: 4.5cm/1.8in.

Special Offer: Reduced from $500 to $300. Rare and unusual 3 paneled piled blanket from the Rawang ethnic group in the Kachin State, Burma. The ground is woven from hemp, the reddish head ends are dog hair .There are a few areas that have a bright colored commercial yarn but other than that, all natural dyes. In the red field there are some bits of missing weft noted in enlargements. This piece is circa 1950 (plus or minus), definitely old an old piece...

Rectangular box for paper (Ryōshibako) decorated with birds and pine trees.

The lid presents a design mixing several techniques of lacquer work. This is visible with the three cranes represented in the middle of pine branches in gilded maki–e (a precious metallic varying density powdered sprayed onto a base or background of fresh lacquer) on a black background.

The crane in the center is in brown lacquer with metallic pigments...

A very attractive terracotta figure, depicting a standing pygmae, Roman Emperial, ca. 1st. century AD.

The Pygmae is very detailed depicted semi-nud with enormous phallos.

Size: 9,8 cm. tall.

Concition: Choice and intact! A few light chips to the base, the original pigments finely preserved!

A wonderful large Roman terracotta figure Aphrodite of the Anadyomene type, Roman 1st. cent. AD.

Exquisite roman statuette of Venus Anadyomene represented naked, standing, in contrapposto position, with a slight hip caused by the lifting of the right foot. With her elbows bent, she delicately holds back her hair...

A genuine TANG DYNASTY (618-906 A.D.), China, EWER-KENDI drinking vessel with spout. Exceptional natural emerald green/black patina (river find)! Good overall condition, tiny chip on the very front of the spout. Base is not glazed. Size: height: 6 3/4" inches x 5" center diameter(17 cm. x 13 cm. center diameter). VERY RARE.

Two Genuine SONG Period, SAWANGKALOKE-SISACHANALAI, SIAMESE-THAI iron brown glazed jarlets, both with 2 intact loops and horizontal incised ringed ribbing towards the top, 14-16th Century. The bases are not glazed. Size: height ~13 cm (~5 1/4"). Good overall condition, no cracks etc. Price: US$ 195 EACH, or $ 375.00 for both, excluding shipping.

Height: 3.5 cm (1.4 in)
Length: 5.6 cm (2.3 in)
Depth: 3.9 cm (1.6 in)
Weight: 195 gms

Quality miniature bronze okimono of a rat; fine casting and patina throughout

An impressive marble relief with a frontal youthful head of Gorgoneion with long hair and above a lesbian kymation. Eastern mediterranean, 3rd century A.D.

White, finely crystalized marple carved in wonderful details and with a fine patination.

Size: 32cm wide, 21cm tall, 12cm deep.

Old Private Collection, aquired before 1980. Comes with our Certificate of Authenticity and auction provenance.

A unusual example of an antique Japanese three section Tansu chest called Ishodansu made of Toneriko (Japanese Ash) and Katsura woods. Original bronze hardware including the Warabite handles and the kissing duck handle backplates. This one-of-a-kind Tansu highlights Yosegi (Marquetry) incorporated into the beautiful Japanese Ash burl...

Rare pair of Taisho Period, C.1920 clay Shinto Inari foxes. One has a scroll in its mouth, the other the Hoju sacred gem. Very good condition. 13" high by 7" wide. Ask for shipping quote from CA warehouse.

Terracotta head of Harpocrates wearing the double crown of Egypt flanked by lotus buds.
The expertly modeled face shows almond-shaped eyes with sharply defined eyelids, a broad nose, and fleshy lips. The head is bald except for small tufts of hair and the side lock of a child.
Harpokrates, the infant son of Isis and Horus, symbolized both youth and fertility. Harpokrates was revered as the patron deity of childhood.
For a close parallel, cf. item no. 29 in: Eva Bayer-Niemei...

Terracotta fragment of Harpokrates wearing a large stippled wreath topped by the Egyptian double crown.
The hair is arranged in tight curls and frames the face, which has large eyes with sharply defined eyelids, a broad nose and fleshy lips. The right index finger points to his mouth.
The youthful god is dressed in a long tunic, belted at the waist.
Harpokrates, the infant son of Isis and Horus, symbolized both youth and fertility. Harpokrates was revered as the patron deity...

This is a rare Japanese antique handspun & natural indigo dye cotton soft tenugi fabric in meiji period (1868-1911). It is a Swallow and plum character pattern. size: Length:80cm / 31.4" Width: 30cm / 11.8"

A massive greek terracotta figure of a Herm standing on a high base, Greek/South Italy, 4th-3rd century B.C.

The bust depicts a male deity with a high radiating segmented crown, underneath the long curly hair. Short wavy strands covering the forehead. In the middle of the statuette the male genitals are shown in relief. On the back of the base there's two engraved Greek letter (AK), which relates to workshop and is a signature. Herms like the present one were placed at crossroads, bor...

Pair of interesting and rare heavy bronze dishes, perhaps also functioning as weights, Roman 1st.-3rd. century AD.

With lovely brown and green patina and decorated with perfect concenthric circles. The largest weight 166,48 grams and the smaller 139,50 grams!

Size: 66 mm. and 64 mm. in diameter.

Ex Bavarian private collection, Germany between 1974-2015.

A Japanese gold lacquered wood incense tray (kobon) worked in hiramaki-e and Shibayama inlaid with polychrome mother-of-pearl and horn. depicting a wildlife scene of a pair of pheasants near a stream and a peony plant with swallows in flight. Nashiji ground at the back. Meiji period 19th century Sizes: 20 × 15 × 1 cm. Condition report: Good condition – structure a little crooked

An Amlash bronze humped bull pendant, circa 1000-800 B.C.

A very attractive bronze bull, standing on it's stout legs and with a oversize hump and pieced through the body.

Size: 64 mm. long and 48 mm. tall.

Condition: Superb for type, with very nice metal and great patina.

Ex Bavarian private collection, Germany between 1974-2015.

Adorable bronze figurine from the medieval period, Islamic, Seljuq Empire, 10th.-11th. century AD.

The Lion standing on erect with stylized double-legs and incised details of the mane and head.

A classic antiquity from this period and does not come better or more charming.

Size: 45 mm. long and 35 mm. tall.

Condition: Superb for type, with very nice metal and great patina.

Ex Bavarian private collection, Germany between 1974-2015.