Large white glazed cover box with flower decoration in the center, unglazed base. Song dynasty. Measure : W=18.5 cm, H=10 cm Condition : perfect, no chips, cracks, hairlines or restoration.

Description:
A Changsha ewer pot was rarely kept with the original cap.
Being applied with yellowish glaze, the ewer was decorated on the body with characteristic brownish stripes.
Intriguingly made to imitate a fowl, two wings and a tail were squeezed to the body. They were also the characteristic form for the Changsha wares.
The glaze was transparent and in greasy look while immensely spread crackles were yielded and were accompanied with incursioned earth...

A fine small blue and white bowl painted with the three friends of winter consisting of the pine, bamboo and prunus rendered in varying tones of blue pigment enclosed by a double line border just below the rim and another at the bottom of the bowl. The interior is decorated with prunus spray. Ming Dynasty Diamater = 14 cm Condition : no chips, hairlines or cracks and free from restorations.

Description:

A Yaozhou incense burner or XinLu was intriguingly squeezed with five feet.
In saucer form, the body was decorated with carved motifs on the surface of the rim.
It was preserved in very good condition by nice glaze when sandy-tinted incursion were happened in portions.
One broken foot was caused during burial.
A nice restoration may do it's justice. But I would rather to leave it the buyer to decide...

A very rare big shard sample of five dynasty covered box, this large shard is decorated with celadon glaze, there is good sample drawing of twin birds. This shards is very good for studying and comparison to any one who interested in studying early Chinese porcelain...

Two Chinese porcelain bowls, decorated in blue and white patterns; the exterior with relief dragon and Greek key designs, the interior with figured and dragon patterns with a central facing dragon also done in relief. The base glazed white with the rims left bare. The center has a six character mark surrounded by double circles in under-glaze blue...

 

FIREWORK MOLD 1890

Old wooden ball mold for making 'hanabi' (traditional Japanese firework), with aesthetically many random cutting tracks for peeling the papers off, signed as Meiji 23 (1890), D 10 cm (3.93in)


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Miniature Porcelain jar covered its body with a Qingbai ( Yingqing ) glaze and reddish unglazed base. H : 4 cm. D : 4 cm. Jingdezhen or Fujian. Yuan Dynasty, fourteenth century. Condition : invisible hairline, no chips, cracks and free from restorations.

Large Chinese Neolithic Machang Painted Pottery Jar (Ex. Christie's)

This large pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago during the Machang Phase (c. 2300 - 2000 BC) of the Majiayao culture, also known as the Gansu-Yangshao culture, from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. It is a well-made jar of fine form and good proportions. At the waist of its wide body are two sturdy loop handles. At the top of its wide body is quite a narrow neck with a flared mouth...

Decorated with qilin in the center. Width = 17.5 cm Period : Ming Dynasty, late 16th century.. Condition : no chip, hairline, crack or restoration.

Beautiful longquan celadon bowl with good green glaze to footrim , red burnt on the base. Dating from late the 15-16th Century from longquan Kiln, Width = 14 cm, Condition : Excellent, no chips, cracks, hairlines or restoration. Good sound when tapping by finger tips.

Fine Large Chinese Jin Dynasty Carved Stone Tile - Phoenix (AD 1115 - 1234)

This extremely rare large stone tile, or panel, dates to the Jin Dynasty (AD 1115 - 1234). The carving is of fine quality and features a phoenix standing amongst foliage within a square panel...

Yu-Peng (1955-2014), very famous Taiwanese painter.

It was his original work in fossil pencil from 1970s.

44cm x 32cm with framework.

Description:

A black-glazed Jianyang Temmoko tea bowl was in nice form.
It was decorated in the covetto and partial of the outer surface with charming and rarely-seen oil spots.
The body clay was revealed at the foot ring in dry and grayish tint which was caused during long periods of burial.

Date: Southern Song Dynasty.1127-1279

Width: 12cm, Height: 6.6cm.

A CUSTOM-MADE COTTON BOX IS INCLUDED.

Lady's red silk satin garment with front overlap closing to the right, fastened with four knot and loop toggle buttons, slit sides. Embroidered with multicolored scattered scheme of butterflies, double gourds and flowers. Four lobed collar terminating in ruyi heads. All borders extravagantly embroidered with romance figures in a landscape setting, with gold thread couching and Peking knot. Green silk lining...

A small statue of a dancer in traditional costume, finely cast and cold-worked in bronze and fixed on the original wooden stand. Such small bronze figurines were souvenirs and gifts from British Burma of the 1920s/30s. Condition: fine, only wood stand with some chips and traces of usage. Dimension: total height: c. 16 cm, base: 12.3 cm x 8.8 cm, figure: 12.5 cm high x 9.5 cm wide, weight: 1200 g.

This strand of malachite Tibetan Prayer beads has been somewhat dulled with time and use, but the color patterns of the beads are still clear and beautiful. The coral counter beads are a bit lighter color than appears in the photo. I am dating them conservatively as pre 1950 but it is possible that they actually are from the later Qing dynasty. If open up, the total length of the mala would measure 39 inches.

Chinese Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Musician (Zither)

This fine pottery figure of a kneeling musician in the act of playing a stringed instrument, probably a zither or similar, was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is quite "heavily-potted" and made from a fairly high-fired pottery that has been cold-painted in a thick white pigment on top of which are traces of red and black pigments used for highlighting the details of the clothing and facial features...

 

Ewer with a straight round body shape with a flat shoulder and set on splayed foot. There opposite shoulder tip of spout and handle. Part of the body is decorated with a flower chrysanthemum. On the shoulder there is a key decoration fret or thunder pattern border. The lower part of the body to the feet decorated with early - type petal lappets and diamond diaper border. Perfect condition, no chips, cracks, or hairlines and free from restorations. Measure 10 cm wide and 9.5 high.

Made of red pottery, covered with a white slib on which the painting was applied. Some of the pigments are still remaining. H. 34 cm. Condition: very good, no traces of repair, although repairs are very common and accepted on archaeological pieces. There is paint loss and there is soil stuck to the figure. On the inside there are the remains of plant roots. A TL-test from Laboratory Kotalla confirms the authenticity of this piece. We bought three fat ladies that came from the same tomb...

This is a Chinese export blue and white miniature bottle vase, Kandxi period, unmarked, decorated with floral cartouches and bands of leaves; hairline crack at rim; 5" high.

This is an exceptional very rare poster, not only showing three beautiful girls with elongated bodies, but it also shows the the furniture of the Qing period. Size: 76cm X 50.8cm. Condition: Very good.

The gist of the script is Taoist, something to the effect of: This is my life, I am neither overtly talented nor gifted with genius, like a sail boat alone tossed among the waves I drink freely of sake untouched (unfettered) by others seen only from a distance...

A splendid Chinese export silver circular egg cruet fitted with four egg cups and four spoons each decorated with bamboo. The cruet standing on 3 ball feet, the cups and spoons with gilt bowls. The cruet and cups with maker's mark "TC" standing for Tuck Chang who was active between the late 19th century and early 20th century in Shanghai. Condition: few traces of usage, few wear to gilding. Dimension: total height: 19 cm, cups: 7.4 cm high, spoons: 10 cm long, total weight: 386 g.

A Japanese Meiji era soft metal (kinko) pipe (kiseru) in patterned silk liner and stag horn sheath en suite with a shaped wood tobacco box (tonkotsu) of natural finish accentuating the natural figure and rings in the wood specimen. The pipe with chiseled decoration of a tiger on the mouthpiece and Mt Fuji on the bowl end - silver accenting sparse details. The two parts joined by an ink decorated hollowed bamboo. These metal parts may once have enjoyed a patination such as shakudo which has since...

With traces of the original pigments. No visible repairs, although repairs are common on early pottery. H. 26 cm. China, Tang Dynasty (618-906)

An antique Japanese Ivory Netsuke 19th century carving of a Oni and Dragon lots of wear and patina from years of use a very fine example.

A very rare Nana-sun plate with swirling hake-me design from the kilns of Utsutsukawa dating from the early to mid Edo period wrapped in a ragged bit of sarasa dyed cotton cloth and enclosed in an age darkened wooden box titled Utsutsukawa-Yaki Kashibachi - Ikko (Sweets dish-1) It is 7-1/2 inches (19 cm) diameter. Thinly potted, there is a tiny chip in the rim, otherwise is in perfect condition; exceedingly rare for this type of pottery.
Utsutsukawa-yaki originated in Nagasaki in the lat...

A pair of Japanese polychrome Imari porcelain bowls with subtly shaped rims. Alternating dragon and floral reserves on a patterned red ground centering three friends of Winter (pine, bamboo, prunus) medallion. The verso with karakusa around a raised foot ring surrounding a broad, unglazed band around a small, glazed center. Good condition. Each about 5 3/4 inches diameter (14.6cm) and about 2 inches high (5.1cm). A little more hoist than might be expected - together with the foot these chirashi ...

A finely potted and vividly painted of late Ming 17th century b/w cup, decorated to exterior with bird, floral spray and grasshopper, a beautifully Jindezhen Mingyao ware with very smoothly glaze surface like official ware products. Condition is perfect excepted very minor age fritting to rim area, no chip and no crack. High: 4,2cm and Diameter: 6.5cm.

SOLD. SIZE: 31mm (1 3/16") diameter. Cond: very good for age. NOTE: signed below self-shank. SOLD. NO PRICE, NO INFO

A shallow dish, heavily potted, covered in a beautiful celadon glaze producing the crackles of the Geyao type glaze. The recessed base is glazed while the foot rim is dressed with an iron brown wash. Periode : Qianlong (1736-1795) Century Diameter : 11 cm. Condition : Perfect, no chips, cracks, hairlines or restorations.

Ducks are the only life in this landscape of frozen rice paddies by Shirakura Niho enclosed in the original double wood box (Nijubako) signed Kanyu (the name he used later in his career). Teh composition is very minimalist, relying on the diagonal lines of paddy walls to define the foreground, only a haze of color to intimate the hills beyond. Judging by the style this likely dates from the 1940s and is an exceptional work by this innovative artist. Ink and pigment on silk in a superb border ...

A nice black glaze candle holder, slight thickly potted with handsome figure of the Ram. Five dynasty-Song dynasty probably Southern China kiln in perfect condition and free from any restoration, only aside above the foot with degradation glaze. Long measure: 20.5cm and High maximum: 14cm.