All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre AD 1000 item #1389412 (stock #3#5)
Chinese Tang dynasty Changsha bowl. Diamater 12.5 cm Height 4 cm. Bowl in good condition except a crack (as seen as in the picture) and glaze erosion. Free from any restorations or repainted.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1920 item #1470026 (stock #MW011)
The Kura
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A beautifuly formed iron sake kettle known as a Choshi with a solid silver lid and featuring sliver inlay designs on the handle enclosed in an age darkened kiri-wood bos titled Tetsu Choshi Jungin-futa. It is 8 cm (just over 3 inches) diameter, 16 cm (6 inches) to the top of the handle, and is in excellent condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1910 item #1473649
Antique Japanese single section Mizuya Tansu (kitchen chest). Made with Hinoki (Cypress) and Sugi (Cryptomeria) woods. Restored to reveal the beauty of the natural wood grain. Pair of matched sliding panels open to a spacious storage area. Addition of an optional simple, strong, Japanese inspired shelf if you so choose for us to construct it.

Age: Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)

Dimensions: 74" L x 28" H x 14" D
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1900 item #85561
Lovely pair of sterling silver sugar tongs with opaque turquoise and white enamel decoration. The quality of these tongs is apparent from the ornate and elegant piercing of the tips. Stamped on the inside “Sterling 1212” and hallmarked by the H. H. Curtis Co. (North Attleboro, MA, 1891-1915).

Origin: America, circa 1900. Condition: excellent, no missing enamel, no monogram, faint lemony gilding. Size: 3-1/4” long.

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Jewelry : Pre AD 1000 item #1392176 (stock #AB-080)
JJ Oriental
$750.00
Ancient Chinese bead necklace from the neolithic period made from assorted beads made from stone and jade dating back thousands of years. Size: 58cm end to end.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Sculpture : Pre 1920 item #1216534 (stock #A-SAN)
Very large Burmese hammered repousse copper-brass-bronze alloy bowl, with traces of silver, decorated with 4 relief panels depicting rice farming scenes and stylized scroll foliage. This type of bowl was primarily used in ceremonies. Nice natural aged patina. 19th Century. Good condition. Size: H. 16 cm. x 30 cm. diameter at center (6.5" x 12")
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : English : Pottery : Pre 1837 VR item #1180349 (stock #SR8081)

C. 1820, 1 3/4"W x 4 1/2"L x 2 1/2"H. Condition: excellent

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1227667 (stock #TR 2267)
A rare early Ming 15th century Yongle - Xuande minyao blue and white large bowl, rounded side with deep center and glazed base, decorated with underglaze blue early Ming Yongle - Xuande style flower motif, fine and beautifully drawn, good condition no damage minor crackled at glaze surface, size: 17 cm diameter.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Netsuke and Related : Pre 1900 item #1406465
19th century netsuke of seated Kanzan with a wide grin on his face as he holds an open scroll in his hands. Kanzan (Hanshan in Chinese meaning "Cold Mountain”) is believed to have been an eccentric Zen poet from the Tang Dynasty (618–907) who lived on the Tiantang Mountain in Zhejiang Province. According to a legend, Kanzan and his friend Jittoku, who was a kitchen worker at the nearby Guoqing Temple, talked nonsensical language, which some took as a sign of them being enlightened...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Pre AD 1000 item #1375576 (stock #2551)
CLAY FIGURE OF A STANDING ASTARTE “FERTILITY GODDESS”
Mesopotamia, Old Babylonian; 1800 BC

Dimensions:
Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 3.5 cm
Height on stand: 14.5 cm

Ishtar (Akkadian), Astarte (Phoenician), or Inanna (Sumerian) was the most important female deity in Mesopotamia through the second millennium BC. She was identified with the planet Venus, and the sunrise. She was the goddess of both sexual love and warfare...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Textiles : Pre 1920 item #1138651 (stock #Tc160)
Pair of Chinese Embroidered Childs Silk Shoes. E20thC. Length 12.4cm. Condition: some wear to blue edging and soles.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1411150
An antique Korean Vase with a fluted rim and medium long neck. The cream color glossy transparent glaze has small pittings and stains.

Date: 18th/19th Century

Dimensions: 8.5" tall X 6.5" wide
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1900 item #1436624 (stock #BNJaddyTEA)
June Hastings
$1,250.00
Rare, circa 1860, English walnut tea caddy featuring nice clean lines with its only decoration being the word “TEA” inlaid in sterling silver. The lid is hinged and the interior features two separate rectangular compartments with removable wooden lids for storage. In very good antique condition with expected signs of use with some light scratches, a minor nick to the walnut finish, and a small piece of silver missing at the food of the “T”. Measures 3.5" high, 7.5" long, 5" wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1920 item #1182612
Zentner Collection
$1,800.00
Antique Chinese monochrome porcelain Langyao vase with dark peach bloom glaze with white rim. Period:19th century Size: Height 3.5"
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1197585
An interesting curved board with three openings on the wooden tool. It is not known what the object was used for but the wear on the wood invokes a rustic or the beauty found through the soft roundness of the edges. Age: 19th century. Size: length 35" width 13.5"
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Implements : Pre AD 1000 item #1435386
A couple of very rare Pre-Columbian containers, made of a long hollowed bone, clad in leather and decorated with shells, Chancay or earlier, pre 15th. century AD

Containers for holding pins, likely darts for a blow gun!

Size: 17 cm. for the longest and 11,5 cm for the smaller.

Condition: Choice, some loss to leather and shell decorations, but remarkable intact for type and age. With remnants of a cord on one of them...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : German : Porcelain : Pre 1920 item #18361
Porcelain decanter in the shape of a bellhop, complete with his ring of keys, decorated with overglaze red, black and pink enamels. The bottom is marked "Germany" and also has a decorator's mark.

Origin: Germany, ca. 1920. Condition: Light glaze crazing; a small chip on the cap and three small flakes at the bottom edge are visible in the photos (all could be easily repaired). Size: 9-1/2" tall.

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Pre 1920 item #1351903
Zentner Collection
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Antique Japanese carved Keyaki hardwood Raijin, God of lightning, thunder, and Storm. A protector deity for the Shinto religion. The surface of the grain is raised with the original red rimpa paint still intact. Typically these sculptures would be very fierce with demonic features. Which in this case, is contrary which makes it more benevolent, compassionate, and sympathetic in its appeal. The condition of the piece is consistent of its age. Minor repairs on base with large iron staple...