A Ming dynasty 16 - 17th century blue ground large ewer with cover, good condition size: 22 cm height.
A pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain cups. Nicely painted decoration of three flower arrangements on each cup - the bouquets respectively centering a peony, a chrysanthemum and a camellia bloom (appearing to represent blooms from different seasons.) The cobalt blue has a deep, clean quality. Late 19th to early 20th century. Condition is good - one cup with small flake inside the foot rim (illustrated.) Height each, little more than 2 1/4 inches (5.72 cm)...
A beautiful 19th/20th C. Chinese Famille Rose porcelain Longevity Buddha. It is customary, in Chinese tradition, to present the Longevity Buddha as a birthday gift for the elderlies. Signed and in excellent condition. H: 10-1/2"
Ming blue and white large dish decorated with fine under glaze blue of scenery river boat mountains pagoda and house motif at the center, inner rim with nine white stork at the pond, outer wall with three squirrels in the three branches of fruit trees. 34,5cm diameter. Dish has fourhairlines at the rim and fritting glaze at the rim. Free from restorations.
Beautiful antique Chinese monochrome porcelain vase of baluster form, ox-blood glaze with white rim and underside. Age: Qing Dynasty (18th/19th century).
Size: 13.75" height x 9" diameter.
This is silk tsumugi yuzen kimono textile in the edo-bakumatsu(1800-1868) age.
It is very graceful and is beautiful. There are a little stain and damage. However, it is overall good.
size:140cm x 124cm (55.1" x 48.8")
A rare Yuan dynasty blue and white square jar, jar decorated with under glaze blue of flower motif at each side (chrysanthemum, lotus, peony, Indian lotus). at the top there is two dragon motif around the rim, unglazed base.
Jar is in good condition with minor crackled at glaze surface, very small chip at the dragon motif, no restoration, good Persian blue color.
Size: 6.5 cm height.
17th c KANGXI BLUE AND WHITE PHEASANT PLATE (KBW021427)
ca. 1690-1700s, late 17th century
Mid Kangxi Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue
Diameter: 27.8 cm / 10.9 in
From an Dorset, UK estate
A large 1690s Kangxi blue and white “pheasants” plate, decorated in a shade of intense blue found only in select Kangxi blue and white wares, and covered with extremely fine luminous glaze...
Antique Chinese pair of yellow glaze bowls with incised flying dragons and clouds of smoke along its outer edges, and a single dragon within double rings on the inside center. Wonderful crackling in the glaze is most apparent near the rim and the foot of each bowl. The bottom of each bowl has a Xuande period mark, but most likely dates from the 19th century Ching Dynasty.
Size: 3.25" height, 6.5" diameter
Kesa was originally made from old scraps of material donated to the priests. The scraps became finer and quite luxious in time. People who gave to Buddhist institutions were often keen to give very expensive items, so some fabulous kesas were created from wonderful silk brocades. This also could mean that the wealthier temples end up collecting the better fabrics or are able to send out for the expensive custom made kesas...
This is Indigo dye cotton dotyugi coat of the Edo era(1800-1868). It is made of hand-spun and hand-woven and natural indigo dyed cotton.
It is katazome, and, as for the lining, the motif of the plover is very beautiful.
It has a few thin stains. However, as a whole it is in very good condition.
size:111cm x 126cm (43.7" x 49.6")
Antique silk Kesa, an outer garment worn by Japanese Buddhist priests, cotton liner, padded with paper, late Edo to early Meiji period. Dimensions: 76 1/2" x 43 1/2"
Tang dynasty "XING WARE" white glazed bowl. 14cm diameter. Good conditions.
A shipwreck Late Tang to Early Sung Green glaze celadon plate, incised toaism or lingzi pattern, unglazed ring among the green glaze. It is in good condition no damage, no crack, small manufacturing chip/defect, no restoration except glaze corossion cause by sea water.
A very richly decorated Famille Noire jar.
( Famille Noire is actually Famille Verte with a black background.) There is not only a pair of peacocks, there are also cranes, ducks and flying birds and a lot of Lotus flowers and plants. Apocryphal underglaze blue Ming mark.
Probably 19th. century or older.
On the base of the jar is an old inventory Number which probably indicates that the piece comes from an old German collection.
H : 26,8 cm.
Condition : Perfect
A rare Ming dynasty 17th century Dehua Blanc De Chine large censer with lion mask motif, rounded side with two eras covered with white glaze, good condition no damage no chip no crack no restoration, size: 15 cm diameter.
This is tsutsugaki & handwriting fireman's cotton coat sashiko hanten coat of a splendid firefighter of the late Tokugawa period of the Edo era(1800-1867). A fight of kawanakajima is a design. It is a very high technique.
A samurai (takeda shingen and uesugi kenshin) and a horse are drawn and are also the uplifting feeling and the excitement which seem to begin to move shortly.
And there is sashiko stitch on the entire surface by hand. As for it, length is longish with 92cm...
A fine and rare Ming 15th century bowl decorated with Scholar,Rider,fisherman and landscape. Good conditions.16cm diameter.