All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1910 item #1448193 (stock #2020-806)
Set of bundai, ryōshibako and fudebako in wakasa lacquer with an old rose background and black traditional Japanese patterns.

The saya pattern (or sayagata) is composed by Chinese svastikas. This symbol linked to Buddhism, mean intelligence, power and peace. It is a good omen sign. The kanoko pattern reminds stains on fawn back. The sakura (cherry blossom) pattern is emblematic of Japan...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1920 item #1448191 (stock #2020-855)
GALERIE TIAGO
€1,700.00
Kobako in dark brown lacquer. In imitation of bamboo, the inner part is made of bamboo and the outer part of the box is made of kaki wood. It represents the cross section of a bamboo cane node with its light brown diaphragm slightly bulging in the center of the lid and stand. External layer of the bamboo cane representing the cellulosic fibers.
Bamboo, strong, flexible and fast growing, symbolizes strength, flexibility and prosperity...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1448183
The head of Dionysos with almond-shaped eyes, a strong nose and a small mouth with pursed lips.
The broad beard with fine wavy strands. Undulated, slender moustache. The hairdo with strands of hair that end in curls, without the hair band above. Traces of red (carmine) pigment on the forehead and the beard.
Fine archaic style, excellent modeling. Mounted on an acrylic stand.
For a related example, cf. fig. no...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1448179
Fine bowl on a low ring base, the floor with two concentric grooves. The inside of the rim with steps along a central ridge. Eight groups of notches on the lip. Thin smoothed slip.
Shape form 71A – Hayes 1101-1102 – fig. 34, pl.55, pp. 227-228 in: John W. Hayes. Roman Pottery and Fine-Ware Imports. The Athenian Agora. Vol. 32. Princeton 2008.
Ceramic
Roman, North Africa, 375-400 AD
D. 15.3 cm (6 in)
H. 4.7 cm (1.9 in)
Intact...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1448178
Fine red slip ware bowl on a low ring base, the flat floor offset from the steep wall by a groove.
The flat rim with a fine groove around the outer edge. All covered by a thin smoothed slip.
Roman African red slip ware pottery is characterized by an orange color and a shiny surface.
By the third century AD, fine African red slip pottery wares became the most popular type of tableware in the Roman Empire.
Ceramic
Roman, North Africa, 375-400 AD
D...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1448177
Bright red bowl covered by a dense, smoothed and highly glossy slip.
Deep bowl with shallow floor, steep wall and simple lip. Standing on a ring base.
Roman African red slip ware pottery is characterized by an orange color and a shiny surface.
By the third century AD, fine African red slip pottery wares became the most popular type of tableware in the Roman Empire.
Ceramic
Roman, North Africa, 375-400 AD
D. 12.1 cm (4.8 in)
H...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1920 item #1448173 (stock #08262)
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$300.00


MUDRA OF ESOTERIC BUDDHISM

10 pieces of the practitioner’s manuscript of various hand-signs called ‘tein’ (also ‘inso’, ‘ketsuin’) as the mudra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra) of ‘mikkyo’ (Japanese Esoteric Buddhism), as the symbolic or ritual gesture or pose performed with the hands and fingers for marking each secret of various buddhas, bodhisattvas, deities, etc. Early 20th century. approx. 31 x 26cm (12.20 x 10.23in) each...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1900 item #1448157
Zentner Collection
$1,750.00
An antique Japanese Yonezawa Kasane Kimono Tansu (stacked chest on chest) made of Kirinoki (Paulownia) wood. Beautiful Ume (Plum Blossom) motif on lock plates with a nickel rim. Four large drawers with a hinged door that hides two small drawers. Constructed using straight dovetail Japanese joinery and hardened wooden nails. Hand forged iron hardware with Mokko handles.

Can be separated and used as bedside nightstands or used as a daily dresser drawer or accent piece in any room decor...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Pre 1920 item #1448155 (stock #BNJ)
June Hastings
$425.00
Figural hand painted faience hatpin holder of a Danish boy by Aluminia Royal Copenhagen. Measures 7.25 inches high, 3" at widest, 2.5" diameter at base. Excellent antique condition with one chip at bake side of base. Dates 1910 and a very rare find!
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Devotional Objects : Pre 1900 item #1448153 (stock #10379)
Very small portable shrine, zushi. The figure of Amida Nyorai is standing on a lotus base with intricately carved curled lotus petals. His slender body covered in a finely, gold ornamented garment, his left hand pointing down in mudra, his now missing right hand would be held up in mudra, as well.

Soft wood stained dark brown, with gold painted decoration and some red.
The insides of the doors decorated in reddish brown with meandering flowers over gold foil on black lacquer.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1900 item #1448147 (stock #10416)
Hanging scroll. Portrait of probably Sugawara no Michizane, sitting in court dress - a black garment with a long white sash - holding a wooden mace. The black garment, with red liner, is delicately decorated with flowers between waving lines. The sash also decorated with stylized flower shapes.

Tosa style. Signature at bottom: Yuho Issho ga. Red seal: Issho no in.

Colors on silk.

Japan, early 19th century.

Painted area: 23 5/16 x 10 13/16 in. (39.7 x 27.9 cm).
...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1837 VR item #1448138 (stock #2016-327)
GALERIE TIAGO
€2,500.00
Tebako (cosmetic box) with black and nashiji background, decorated with several mon (family crest). Each side of this rectangular box is divided into two registers, separated by a diagonal golden maki-e flash. The black lacquer interior features a tray.

Among the mon is that of the Mizuno clan, which is said to be descended from the Seiwa Genji branch of the Minamoto clan. During the Edo period it counted several vassals (fudai daimyo) serving the Tokugawa shogunate. The mon...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Sculpture : Pre 1800 item #1448136 (stock #66)
Dragon's Pearl
$1,000.00
An unusual and charming votive image of carved wood depicting Guanyin seated in her grotto on Putuo Island with the secondary figures, the Dragon Maiden and Sudhana attending her on either side. Above a small grotto with the seated image of a Buddha and flanking it on both sides are the four popular companions from the Journey to the West (Xiyou ji), the monk Xuanzang, Sandy, Pigsy and Monkey. In the water below a pair of nagas and a large fish. On the back of the sculpture is a place for relics...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Sculpture : Pre 1700 item #1448135 (stock #65)
Dragon's Pearl
$3,200.00
A bronze figure depicting the City God, (Chinese: Cheng Huang). Cold gilding and rest of coulors. The City God is one of the important Gods of Daoism, he is a kind of guardian deity of the City, a heavenly magistrate responsible for the protection of the territory, the safety and prosperity of the locality. Temples dedicated to Chenghuang were built allover China and annual processions of the God were carried out. Ming Dynasty. H. 29 cm. Condition: Very good, just some wear to gilt.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1448128
An extremely rare and important Etruscan offer bowl (omphalos), made in thick terracotta glazed pottery, 400-300 BC.

This shallow terracotta bowl is moulded after bronze vessels and has a dome-like omphalos emerging from its interior. Around the omphalos are deep relief decorations. Very rare in terracotta.

The exterior is finely glazed and the bowl has two holes for hanging, typical for the Etruscan ware.

Size: ca. 20,5-21 cm.. (diameter) Extremely large and ver...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre 1492 item #1448127
An attractive very honest pottery bowl, in a original state for type, basically repaired, Islamic Samenid Dynasty, ca. 10th. century.

The bowl decorated with brown line decoration on white glaze. Old tag from European collection on the side.

Size: 19,5 cm. wide and 7 cm. tall.

Condition: Very fine, assembled from fragments and intact. Completely original crackled glaze, no repainting. See the closeups for the condition of the glaze.

Provenance: Impor...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre AD 1000 item #1448126
A superb quality Islamic dish, Seljuq period 12th century A.D. (494 AH – 597 AH). Ancient near East.

In wonderful green-blue glaze, the center decorated with a carved flower in the typical style of the Seljuqs.

Condition: Superb, with fine crackled glaze, intact.

Size: ca. 133 mm. wide (diameter)

Provenance: Important Danish-French Private Estate collection, (aquired 1970- c. 2007) of Islamic pottery ware from the 9th.-12th. century. Comes with COA.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre AD 1000 item #1448125
Senatus Consulto
$1,250.00
A beautiful ceramic dish with caligraphy, Nishapur or Samarkand, Samenid Dynasty, Western Asia 9th.-10th. century AD.

Lovely quality for the type with artful black and red caligraphy on a cream-white ground.

Size: 29 cm. in diameter.

Condition: Extremely fine, superb for this rare type and large size. Restored from a very few larger fragments with a very large part of original crackled glaze. See the closeups for the condition of the glaze.

Provenance:...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre 1492 item #1448120
A wonderful pottery bowl, in a original state for type with Pseudo-caligraphy, Islamic, ca. 10th.-11th. century.

A larger conical bowl both wide and tall and decorated with stylized pseudo-caligraphy in black on beige glaze all around the interior and a line in green near the rim. Inscribed with old hand from the collector in the bottom 'Nichapour'.

Size: 25 cm. wide and 11 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice for type. A few cracks restored, but much original glaze. See...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre AD 1000 item #1448118
A very attractive pottery bowl, in a original state for type with caligraphy, Islamic Samenid Dynasty, ca. 9th.-10th. century.

A larger bowl both wide and tall and decorated with wonderful caligraphy in black on white glaze.

Size: 26 cm. wide and 9 cm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine for type. Original crackled glaze with much patina. See the closeups for the condition of the glaze. Cleaning marks and perhaps some very light restoration of glaze, but looks un res...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Tea Articles : Pre 1970 item #1448103 (stock #11036)
Kogo, container for storing incense during the tea ceremony, in the shape of the bud of a lotus flower.
The bottom half decorated on the outside with classic lotus sepals, as used to image a Buddhist lotus dais, in relief. The top half also decorated in low relief in a much more stylized manner. The closed lotus bud, crowned by a 16-petal chrysanthemum and topped by a knob, which is probably a stylized rendering of the chrysanthemum heart.

Alternatively the shape could refer to the s...

All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Pre 1900 item #1448098 (stock #1704)
L'Enfant Gallery
$7,600.00
French Eighteenth Century Provence Sideboard Cherrywood,Louis XVI Period Measuring 65” length,43” tall,18” deep
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Pre 1920 item #1448095 (stock #1711)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,900.00
A beautiful and important Qing Dynasty styled Vermilion colored cabinet measuring 62 inch wide,17 inch deep, and 37 inch high. Finely made with deep storage space and shelf interior. Chinese hardware and fitting
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Pre 1800 item #1448093 (stock #1710)
L'Enfant Gallery
$12,000.00
Louis Xv- Louis XVI transitional Semanier Chest of drawers original finish and condition circa 1770, 58 inch Tall, 15 inch deep,26 inch wide. Beautiful travertine marble sculpture top
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Pre 1900 item #1448092 (stock #1712)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,000.00
English Georgian Chippendale style gilt wood carved marble top mixing table made in Italy circa 1960, travertine marble top. Ornate carved legs and stylized wave motif apron. Measuring 42” wide, 22” deep, 30” tall
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1900 item #1448080 (stock #10691)
Midsize storage jar, tsubo. Greyish brown stoneware, with the typical white stone inclusions, partially bursting out through the surface. The ashes in the wood burning kiln settled during the firing onto the surface of the pot and melted, creating the beautiful brownish yellow ash glaze. This is a natural process that cannot be controlled by the potter beyond the decision of placement within the kiln.

Japan, Edo period, 19th century or a bit earlier

H 11.25 inches

Very good ...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1920 item #1448074 (stock #WN330)
Galerie Hafner
$980.00
shipping included
An exclusive large belt buckle made from a silver alloy bordered by two elephants. The center mounted with a pierced jade medaillon showing a bird by two bolts ending in a flower, surrounded by four lion heads, turquoise and coral or carnelian cabochons. Dating to the 19th/20th century. Condition: traces of usage, one flower bolt with a small loss (please look carefully at the photos, they make part of the condition report). Dimension: c. 12.8 cm long x 9 cm high, weight: 155 g.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #1448073 (stock ##0420)
Large mingei negoro tray. Edo period. Made of a rought piece of sugi (japanese cedar). The inner part has been lacquered with a fine negoro. The borders, following the natural lines of the wood, have been sculpted in a very unusual and interesting form. 34 x 30 x 7 cm.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Folk Art : Pre 1920 item #1448070 (stock #4A183C)
Chinese Red Lacquer Bamboo Bridal Food Basket, early 1900's, 15" high with handle, 10" wide & square, contains inner wood tray inside the lower compartment, high lighted with raise carved gold lacquered design on high handle, one metal butterfly is missing on one side.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Stoneware : Pre 1492 item #1448042
Chinese stoneware jar with two loop handles, high neck with small, rolled rim, and flat bottom. The jar is amber glazed only at the upper shoulder with a few drips extending down onto the body. This vessel is likely an example of Guangdong ware produced in Fujian province. 7” diameter x 6 1/4" high. Probably dates from the Southern Song to Yuan (12th to 14th century). Very good overall condition. From the collection of a former American expatriate to Guangdong province in 1983-2984.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1448039
An early Chimú blackware stirrup pottery vessel, ca. 700-900 AD.

A nice and attractive vessel with small monkey on the spout, no decoration.

Size: 25 cm. tall.

Condition: Superb for type.

Provenance: From prominent Danish private Collection. Formerly in the Preben Christiansen Collection, Frederiksberg Denmark (died 2006). Collected during his time as a guide in central-South America in the 1960s-1970s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1448037
A scarce pottery vessel with fine decoration, Peru, pre-columbian period, Chimú, ca. 900-1200 AD.

Attractive vessel decorated with zoomorphic feline creature one one side and a warrior on the other. Nice 'dot' decoration on the surface on both sides, single spot and one handle at the side.

Size: 16-17 cm.

Condition: Choice and intact, short and almost invisible thin hairline on one shoulder, no repairs or losses.

Provenance: From prominent Danish p...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre 1492 item #1448035
Senatus Consulto
$1,350.00
Pre-Columbian, Ecuador/Colombia, Carchi-Narino region, Narino, ca. 750 to 1500 CE.

A superb large example of a hand-built pottery sculpture of a coca chewer (known as a "coquero"), seated upon a four-legged stool.

He sits in an upright pose with bent arms placed on his knees. He has thin legs with broad short feet, and wears a striped sash around his otherwise nude body. The enlarged head features bulging ovoid eyes, a narrow nose, and a horisontal slit as mouth. A large ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Textiles : Pre 1910 item #1448011 (stock #EMT)
This long home spun background heavy cotton fabric is appliqued with embroideries salvaged from a very Dong minority old Jacket... the corner are accented with long beaded tassels... At great for table runner or shoulder scarf... Roughly point to point 73 inches long and 15.5 inches wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1448004 (stock #RAJ-8)
Gallery Rex
$1,320.00
This polychrome piece was made in Imari with Kakiemon-style in last 18th century. It has been transmitted from generation to generation in Japan with wooden box. The small handle on the rid has repaired at the base Size: 11.5cm(D) 14.0(H) Accessary: traditional wooden box YouTube movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz23dGVUEss&list=PLcPjV3Xf0-WPWoVxtqux54Unn8C1bQ7YJ&index=43&t=4s
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1448001 (stock #20210627-01)

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Offered is a set of three gorgeous 18th Century Japanese porcelain bowls with molded decoration to the inner sidewalls, and underglaze blue decoration inside the base and outside on the sides. A very similar bowl with nearly the same moldings (Object 254) appears in Volume IV of the Shibata Collection of the Kyushu Ceramic Museum in Saga Prefecture, Japan. That bowl has the same mark as appears on t...