19th century Chinese-Tibetan mala - Buddhist rosary consisting of 108 ivory beads with 4 larger stained red ivory ones that serve as spacers dividing the prayer beads into groups of 27 each. Traditionally Buddhist rosary of 108 even-sized beads is used for mantra recitation. The thread represents the continuity of the buddhadharma piercing the 108 worldly passions. The mantras are recited to accomplish the four karmas or enlightened activities of pacifying, enriching, magnetizing, and destroying...
The signed and numbered English Coalport vase with original lid, measuring 10.5” hand decoration of floral patterns highlighted with applied gold leaf decorations.
Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue & White Porcelain Dish with Fish (Ex. Grahame Clarke collection)
This porcelain dish was made during the 15th century. It has rounded sides and a "hole-bottom" base. It is decorated inside with, although rather indistinct, a "red biscuit" fish amongst water weeds that are in underglaze blue.
Diameter 11.5 cm. There are some crackles to the glaze and the glaze to the underside has an "orange peel" effect with some kiln grit embedded within the glaze...
Burmese alabaster Buddha sitting in Mara Vijaya (calling the earth to witness) posture on a base, with inlay of glass pieces on the headband.
Age: Burma, Mandalay Period, 19th Century
Size: Height 41.6 C.M. / Width 33.5 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.
Deep brushwasher basin with two children on either side. Excellent condition, with light blue glaze and a porcelain body. The bodies of the figures are hand sculpted rather than molded, circa late Republic to early 60s. W: 17cm/6.8in and H:14.8cm/6.2in
Beautiful image of Tang Dyansty noble woman or lady-in-waiting. Good condition no damage or repair. She is standing in relaxed natural pose, with a sweet face and complicated to coiled double chignon. H: 27cm/10.6in.
19th century Japanese bronze tea ceremony hibashi (long metal chopsticks for handling charcoal in hibachi brazier) with finials in a form of heads of the Fungus of Immortality. These hibashi are for use in the summer time (winter ones have top half covered in wood). Finely made of bronze, beautiful casting and chiseling of the fungus, embossed areas at the working end for better handling of charcoals...
19th century Japanese iron tea ceremony hibashi (long metal chopsticks for handling charcoal in hibachi brazier), each inlaid with 3 multimetal flowers with leaves. These hibashi are for use in the summer time (winter ones have handle parts covered in wood)...
Meiji / Taisho (1910s) lacquered wood kogo (box for incense during tea ceremony), its top decorated with low relief depiction of an elephant, its trunk raised. Very nice object in Japanese taste, multilayered differently colored lacquer, two parts fit perfectly, beautiful surfaces, in excellent condition. Diameter 2.2 inches.
Taisho (1920s) lacquered wood kogo (box for incense during tea ceremony), its top decorated with gold lacquer pine cones and needles. Elegant object in Japanese taste, perfect lacquer work, two parts fit perfectly, beautiful surfaces, in excellent condition. Diameter 1.88 inches.
Taisho period (1920s) lacquered wood kogo (box for incense during tea ceremony), its top decorated with two cherry flowers. Elegant object in Japanese taste, beautiful lacquer work, two parts fit perfectly, in great condition. Diameter 2.18 inches.
Twin lotus pods on one stalk signify permanent and single minded love in old Chinese culture. This is Qing Dynasty natural Burmese Jadeite, the green color will not fade. Please note scale is metric. Free shipping.
A pair of Chinese pottery granary jars with bear-shaped legs, cylindrical shape, decorated with bands of incised lines, and supported by three legs.
Age: China, Han Dynasty, 206 B.C. - A.D. 220
Size: Height 32 C.M. / Width 23.5 - 24 C.M.
Condition: Well-preserved old burial condition overall with some amount of soil adhering (some abrasions and wearings on the piece due to the long burial time underground)...
Dochugi made of kudzu fiber for wefts and cotton yarn for warps. Dochugi is a kind of haori worn over kimono and kudzu-fu one is worn in summer. Kudzufu has been produced mainly in Kakegawa in Shizuoka prefecture since 13th century. It was used for hakama (pants), kamishimo and dochugi. The collar and one of straps of this dochugi are replaced. straps have damages and several pin holes in the back and a cut (3cm) in front. It has a slit for a sword in the left side...
Ensemble of seven small antique natural Burma Jade, circa Qing Dynasty “lucky charms", the green colors are original and will not fade. Scale is metric, see descriptions under enlargements. Free shipping.
Width: 9 cm (3.6 in)
Height: 4 cm (1.6 in)
Depth: 6.8 cm (2.8 in)
Weight: 300 gm
Japanese Komai box; an iron box inlaid with gold and silver to depict a dragon moving through clouds over Mt Fuji; the sides show various detailed insects; internal gilt decoration shows phoenix and florals; Komai Otojiro dragonfly mark to base; minor wear to lid; good condition
Chinese Yixing teapot 19th-20th century with inscription and inceased bamboo motive.
Size: 15,2cm Wide x 8cm Height
Condition: 2 small chips at the lid and small chip at the mouth rim
Incredible circa 1870s Cantonese export finely carved natural (no finish applied) sandalwood three place photo frame. This frame has the best fine carvings in minute detail of any Canton worked frame we have ever seen. It has adult and young Kylin animals along with figures, including a friar, in a central medallion, the finest carved pillars separating each lower photo area...
An antique Japanese Ko Tansu (personal storage chest) made entirely of Kiri (Paulownia) wood. Hand forged iron hardware including the Warabite style handles. Features 6 drawers of varying sizes, a lift-out door and a hinged door behind which 2 small drawers are hidden...
18th century or earlier Japanese magatama bead made out of muddy green jadeite. Magatama are curved beads which first appeared in Japan during the Jomon period (circa 1000 BCE), and in Korea during the Prehistoric period, mainly in the Bronze Age and Neolithic. They are found in mounded tumulus graves as offerings to deities, and continued to be popular with the ruling elite throughout the Kofun Period, and are often romanticized as indicative of the Yamato Dynasty of Japan...
Japanese Neolithic period magatama bead made out of agate (carnelian type). Magatama are curved beads which first appeared in Japan during the Jomon period (circa 1000 BCE), and in Korea during the Prehistoric period, mainly in the Bronze Age and Neolithic. They are found in mounded tumulus graves as offerings to deities, and continued to be popular with the ruling elite throughout the Kofun Period, and are often romanticized as indicative of the Yamato Dynasty of Japan...
Japanese Neolithic period magatama stone bead. Magatama are curved beads which first appeared in Japan during the Jomon period (circa 1000 BCE), and in Korea during the Prehistoric period, mainly in the Bronze Age and Neolithic...
A very nice triangular stamp seal with a wide base engraved with the image of a Bull, Western Mesopotamia, 4th. mill. BC.
Nice and unusual carving.
Size: 32 cm. wide and 23 mm. tall.
Condition: F-VF, the base of the seal intact, smaller ancient loss to the top.
This seal was aquired in 1992 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection (see picture).
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired ...
Interesting and impressive large stamp seal of the hemispheric form so popular in the late Ubaid/Uruk period in Mesopotamia.
The seal is carved with the image of a bird or animal headed demon walking. Really high relief and artfully done. Also interesting, the surface of the seal is drilled with small holes (not deep) as a sort of decoration.
Size: 31 mm. max. in diameter, rather massive in hand.
This seal comes with hard impression and COA, from below collection...
A lovely intact late neolithic period stamp seal, found in West Mesopotamia and dating around the 4th. mill. BC.
Hemispheric stamp seal with a low handle and a fine high-relief carving of a sun-symbol in the base - attractive!
Size: 25 mm. in diameter and 11 mm. tall.
Condition: Near Extremely fine, choice and with fine patina.
This seal was aquired 2008 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: G...
An exceptionally large and attractive bronze bow fibula, Migration period, Ostrogothic / Merovingian, c. 6th.-7th. cent. AD
The fibula with semi-circular headplate with four profiled knobs, rhomboid footplate with an animal-head ending. Head and footplate decorated with carved bulls-eye ornaments.
Size: 16,3 cm. long - very large for these!
Reff. See Gorny & Mosch auction 252 lot 395 for an almost similar size and type, estimated and sold for €1000.
A Chinese Qingbai Glazed Ewer. Circa, 960-1279, Jingdezhen, Song Dynasty.
Found in the Philippines.
Ewer with a baluster shaped body, rising from a short straight foot, tapering inwards to its shoulders onto a waisted neck and a flaring mouth with an applied strap handle, opposite a long curved spout. The ewer is covered overall in a translucent blue-green glaze, stopping short above its foot and its base remains fully unglazed.
Measurements: height (16.5cm)
Condition: in perfect con...
Rare and Beautifully Embroidered Joseon Dynasty Korean Scholar's Rank Badge (Fusu) adorned with metallic thread throughout giving it a luxurious sheen. After 19 years in business, we have finally acquired a rare Korean rank badge (fusu) for the first time. This one belonged to a scholar aristocrat, as indicated by the cranes. It is rendered in a unique and lovely golden palette and is wonderfully designed with clouds (symbol of longevity), peonies (symbol of wealth or abundance), and rows of wan...
An antique Japanese Gyosho Bako (street peddler's chest) made of Kiri (Paulownia). All original hand forged iron hardware. Hinged door opens to 5 inner drawers of varying sizes where special wares were stored. 4 upper rings were used in conjunction with rope to provide back pack support. Unusual back handle was used to assist in lifting the Tansu onto ones back.
Age: Edo Period (1750-1800)
Dimensions: 12" Wide by 25 3/4" High by 21 1/2" Deep
19th century ichii (yew wood) netsuke of a resting wild boar, its head raised. Skillfully carved out of chosen matsu (Korean pine wood) in characteristic Hida school ittobori (one cut) style with clever use of wood texture to represent the creature’s fur and add to the charm of the piece. For similar examples see Bushell’s NETSUKE FAMILIAR AND UNFAMILIAR, p. 128. Excellent rendition of its alert posture, wonderful mellow patina. Length 1.96 inches.
Unusual late Meiji period (1890s -1912) wooden sashi netsuke in a form of a pillar, its top carved as a face of the Zen Patriarch Daruma wearing monk’s cape. Wonderful face with severe expression, carved out of chosen matsu (Korean pine wood) in ittobori (one cut) style characteristic of Hida school of netsuke carvers, eyes are inlaid with metal. Himotoshi (cord opening) goes through the bottom to the back of the netsuke. Beautiful patina, very pleasant to hold. Height 4.2 inches.
19th century netsuke in button form carved out of the coronet part of a deer antler. Strong early piece, nicely chunky, beautiful staining, warm patina, natural blemishes as is usual with staghorn, which make it so attractive. Wonderful tactile object. Average diameter 2.15 inches.
Quirky pair of fishing bobs from the Mentawai Islanders off the coast of West Sumatera. These are probably multifunctional as I have seen them described variously as turtle net buoys, fishing bobs as well as net weavers. The larger one has a fishing hook fashioned from a nail as well as old stone bead. L: 49.5/19.5in and 53cm/20.8in.
This is wonderful Japanese Imari cup 3 1/4 in diameter 2 3/8 in height is in good condition with No damage
Only original kiln pin hole and some gold wear
I have other pair total for 4 if you are interested please let me know
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This is nice Japanese Imari cup pair 3 3/4 in diameter 2 3/8 in height is in very good condition with No damage
I have other set total of 4 if you are interested other set please let me know
Pair of cup has some original kiln pin hole and some gold wear to the top from Edo era
If you have any question please email me anytime
Shipping cost will provide with your shipping address
Thank you very much
This is nice hand painted Japanese old Imari 9 3/4 in diameter is in very good condition with No damage
Only top rim has goals wear and bottom has original firing from late Edo era
If you have any question please email anytime
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