A rare b/w bowl, decorated at the exterior with continuously of Indian lotus flowers and inside the center with a rosette design medallion, surrounded to the inner rim with key-fret border. Ming dynasty Chenghua period. Condition with a hairline, a tiny flake chip to the foot rim and minor glaze hairlines to the base but not crossing to inside the center of the bowl, free from any restoration. Diameter: 14.6cm and High: 7cm.

A very good example of b/w bowl, decorated at the interior with foliated dragon, inside the center with lotus petals medallion and surrounded to the inner rim with fine Tibetan characters. Ming dynasty late 15th century to early 16th century. Condition with two missing area, one to the rim side and the other to foot rim and gilt repaired, also two hairlines crack appears. Diameter: 14.7cm.

This is a Yuan dynasty qingpai or yingqing octagonal shaped vase with a cover. It stands on a small flat base rising to a octagonal shaped body and then towards a straight short neck and small mouth rim. The body is divided into three horizontal sections. The octagonal shaped body is sandwich between two horizontal bands of moulded relief of lotus leave. The octagonal body is moulded with alternating moulded relief design of lotus plants with flowers and that of sunflower plant...

Description: A pair of wood figures were depicted as civil official and military official separately. With obvious contrasted facial expression, the military official held a hammer-like weapon when the civil official holding a Hu board ( Hu board was used by an official in a court meeting). Kept in very good condition-only with some decay at the bottom of the base of the military figure, the paired figures were used to be the guardians for a master deity...

A fine b/w bowl, decorated with precious emblems supported by continuously chrysanthemum scroll below encircled key-fret pattern to the rim. The interior with a blossom of peony within double circle and Tibetan characters around the inner rim. Condition is excellent considered it's an excavated piece with no any chips, no cracks and free from restoration. Ming dynasty late 15th to early 16th century. Diameter: 14.5cm and High: 7cm.

A fine tone of small celadon dish, decorated exterior with lotus petals rising from foot, is plain to interior and unfortunately a bit dull to the glaze cause long time buried, otherwise is really a quality one of Southern Song dynasty Longquan ware covered overall with a powder green or pale bluish green glaze in Chinese so-called 'Fen Qing' and definitely rare tone of genuine celadon wares founded in South-Sulawesi region...

A good blue & white bowl, well balance potted and decorated with double blossoms of chrysanthemum scroll. Ming dynasty 15th century interregnum period Jingtai-Thianshun ware. Condition is perfect except a bit flaw or a kiln chip to the rim, otherwise is excellent. Diameter: 14.2cm and High: 6.5cm

A Tang bronze seal with the symbol for happiness. Size: 1.8 x 1.8 cm. Condition. Nice patina. A part of the finial is missing.

Description: All the rocks came from ancient time. But It was rarely to find a scholar rock selected from old studio. Preserved with an fitted old Honmu stand, this scholar rock was in stylized form. Introspective patina and sophisticated stone tissue add more to this scholar object with typical Chinese taste. Date: Qing Dynasty(19th century) Height: 43cm Condition: It had presumably been broken and was matched back to the original shape.

A Chinese Tang bronze seal with the good luck symbol. Size: 2 x 2 cm Condition: No repairs.

A very unusual pale yellow-green (kiji) porcelain vase in the shape of a Chinese Gu by Seiji Celadon master Suwa Sozan enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Fretwork and a roiling dragon body have been softly engraved into the sides; the slightest variation in tone the only hint to the subtle design-work. The vase is 11-1/2 inches (29 cm) tall, 6 inches (15 cm) diameter and in fine condition...

Tang official's bronze seal of the 2nd rank. Size: 2.3 x 2cm. H. 1cm. Condition: No repairs. Nice patina.

This baluster form vase is quite large by Japanese standards at 14 inches (35 cm) tall and in perfect condition. Chrysanthemums decorate the sides in rich, dark blue. There is a slight yellow tinge to the white glaze. It is signed on the base Makuzu Kozan Sei. The name Kozan was granted by Prince Yasui-no-Miya in 1851 in honor of the tea ware produced during the later Edo for the imperial Court by the tenth generation head of the Kyoto pottery family Miyagawa Chozo...

The Manchu woman did not practice foot binding or wear Lotus Shoes. However, the women did wear various styles of thick soled and platform soled shoes. The sole on this pair of Manchu shoes is 1.5 inches thick. The vamp is canvas with wonderful large eyed fish embroidered with silk thread towards the back of the shoes. The front fish are made of velvet fabric with chain stitched embroidered details...

A very good example of typical design of Ming Chenghua blue & white small dish, decorated at the interior with a Conch in the center within double circle and surrounded by lotus flowers and water weed above diaper pattern border. The exterior with four Mandarin Ducks swimming among lotus pond. Ming dynasty Chenghua period. Condition: restored to a large missing chip to the rim and two hairlines, the condition before restore would be available to send by request. Diameter: 17.3 cm.

A large heirloom object b/w jar founded in South Sulawesi, decorated with a typically early Ching Kangxi period Circa (1662-1722) of continuously large Lotus blossoms around the body, base unglazed. Condition is perfect except minor glaze fritting to rim sides, no chips and no any cracks and free from restoration. Mouth diameter: 20.7cm/ High: 48cm/ Body maximum wide: 37.5cm.

This Chinese winter court officials hat has an elaborate gold acorn finial, silk velvet brim, and red silk tassels. The black chin strap cord is tied with a double adjusting slip knot. The hat is in good condition.

This antique Chinese necklace has an ornately detailed large Kylin as the central medallion. The medallion is 3.5 inches across and there are are five decorative chains hanging from it. Each of these chains ends with a fruit. The low grade silver used for the necklace is typical of the Chinese silver used in old China. The Kylin is a Chinese mythical animal.

This lock necklace can comfortably be worn by a adult even though it was originally intended for a child...

Finely crackled which glaze covers this late Meiji Chinese inspired form clearly stamped inside the footring Tozan Ito Tozan. There is an incredible sense of mastery in the concise lines and perfectly sculpted form. It is 13 inches (33 cm) tall, 10 inches (26 cm) diameter and in excellent condition, enclosed in an older custom made wooden box.

Description: A black Jianyang Temmoko tea bowl of Song Dynasty was intriguingly transformed into a whitish tint by natural burial's incursion. In typical black body of Jianyang kiln, the tea bowl was applied with shear black glaze before being affected by the incursion. In a still slippery feel on the surface, the rare bowl showed itself a charming piece. A similar piece was in a loan exhibition from MOA Japan at The Museum of Fujiang Province. It can be as referent in the last two pictures...

Description: One exquisite Jun stand with subtle purple splashes and elegant five-foliate rim was preserved in perfect condition. Reserved with obvious burial deposits and incursions which causing some pinhead holes on the surface, the stand's surface was over all in retrospective glaze luster. Naturally rendered bubbles were yielded under the glaze...

A fine tone of Sawankhalok celadon dish, covered overall with a bluish green glazed, exterior is plain and a circular firing scar appear to the unglazed base. Thailand 15th century and condition is perfect. Diameter: 20.2cm.

A celadon cup with fluted sides, covered overall with grayish celadon glazed. Southern Song dynasty, founded in South-Sulawesi area. Condition is perfect excepted minor glaze lines indicated on enlargement 6 & 7. Diameter: 8.6cm and High: 4.9cm.

A rare example of celadon dish, decorated with an impressively twin fish in the center, the exterior with lotus petals rising from foot, covered overall with fine tone of olive green glazed. Southern Song dynasty Longquan ware, excavated example found on Kalimantan region. Condition damaged split to three pieces and glue restored. Diameter: 20.5cm.

Description: A wood carving of a tiger was a typical Taiwanese religious deity. Instead of scaring people, the cute tiger was for comforting uneasy babies for worshipers. Date: Qing dynasty, Height: 14.5cm

Description: A typical Taiwanese Daoist tiger deity was made of brick mud. In cute facial composition, The molded animal was applied with white paint before brushed with black pigment and sketched with detailed lines.Tiger deity was usually seen in Taiwanese shrine for comforting the uneasy babies. Date: Qing Dynasty, Height: 6.0cm

Description: An elegant celadon water basin of Longquan kiln was molded in beautiful shape. Cutting plum flowers were stick around the upper portion of the basin and at the lower portion around the foot ring. Whitish incursions and burial earth were reserved on the glaze surface when obvious brownish firing effect was at the unglazed clay. A beautiful Longquan piece was applied with fatty milky celadon glaze which was usually seen for pieces from Yuan Dynasty...

It's rare one example of b/w bowl produced of transition between late Yuan to early Ming Hongwu period, decorated with emblems to the exterior and Tibetan characters around inner rim, base unglazed showing the characteristic of Yuan wares. Condition is perfect. Diameter: 14 cm.

A celadon dish with finely potted, decorated at the exterior with lotus petals rising from foot, interior is plain and covered overall with olive green glaze. Condition cracks such like indicated on the pictures. Southern Song dynasty. Diameter: 16.8cm

A brown glazed celadon bowl, decorated with incised motif to the interior, outside is plain and unglazed base. Northern Song ware. Condition is perfect. Diameter: 16.8cm and High: 7cm.

A plain white glazed dish with brown glaze finished to the rim, three characters "Yu Chin Thang" mark on the base within double circle. Early Ching Kangxi period. Condition with a hairline like indicated on the picture and invisible re-touched tiny flake chip to rim. Diameter: 21.5cm

Description: An exquisite conical Yaozhou bowl was molded with beautiful motifs of flowers and tendrils in the cavetto. Preserved in perfect condition, the bowl's foot ring was adhesive with kiln sands. Numerous bubbles were characteristically revealed in the glaze. Some minute burst bubbles were left on the outer mouth rim, Otherwise the over all condition is perfect. Date: Song Dynasty(AD960-1279), Width: 10cm

A rare of excavated pieces of Changsha type bowl was found in South Sulawesi area and exactly not from shipwreck in Belitung Sumatera. Bowl with everted rim and square-cut foot. Decorated in brown and pale brown under a green glaze with a freely drawn floral motif in the center and brown area on the rim. Late Tang dynasty 9th century, Hunan Changsha ware. Condition is excellent with no any cracks and no chips, also still with very finely glaze. Diameter: 15.9 cm. Note: Reportedly from Indonesia....

A small square form blue & white dish, decorated with figures in the center among floral sprays. Ming dynasty late 16th to early 17th century. Condition is perfect. Measure: 8.5cm x 8.5cm, High: 2.3cm.

A good and rare to survived polychrome enamel jarlet considered it is an excavated piece from underground, decorated with continuously chrysanthemum in green and red enamels, base unglazed. Ming dynasty 15th-16th century. Condition is perfect with original enamel color. Wide: 6.5cm and High: 6cm.

A nice blue & white small jar, decorated to the body with fruit blossoms and cloud scroll to the shoulder, base unglazed. Ming dynasty 16th century. Condition is perfect, unfortunately just a kiln rock adhered to the shoulder area, otherwise is very fine excavated piece. Wide: 8cm and High: 8.5cm.

A beaker with bowed profile, decorated in underglaze iron-brown with a summarily drawn calligraphic scroll. Base unglazed, four spur marks on the interior bottom. Vietnam Ly-Tran 14th to early 15th century. Condition is perfect, unfortunately tilt to one side. Diameter: 10.5cm and High: 8cm.

Well potted of celadon small jarlet, decorated with two ring handles and covered overall with a pale bluish green celadon glaze. Condition is perfect. 15th-16th century Sawankhalok ware. High: 7cm and Wide: 7.3cm.

As the enlightened man is a product of this world so too the Lotus grows in the mire, a symbol of the attainable state of Nirvana. Here is a breathtaking hand-made bronze Koro in the shape of a blossoming lotus in deep red patination dating from the late Edo to Meiji period (mid to late 19th century). Consisting of 30 individual pieces, each petal is uniquely incised with veins by the hammer and chisel of some long lost craftsman. The base is a large leaf turned upside down, rising on a round...

One similar piece appear on Christies 1984 auction cataloque in London, with high 11.5cm and wide 15.7cm. They also note the other only one recorded example in that times of this Double-Headed type appears to be illustrated by William Willets, 'Ceramic Art of Southeast Asia, 1971, no.85. which is subsequently illustrated, Strait Times Annual, 1981, pp, 57-58, and Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Vietnamese Ceramics, 1982, no.103.

An extremely rare and important example of b/w Annamese water dropper/Kendi, in globular form body and painted vividly in imported cobalt with naturalistic feathers around the shoulder, a wing, a breast and a foot on each side divided by a lotus cluster at the front and three clusters of grasses at the rear below two moulded tails, each surmounted by a 'Ruyi' lappet, the heads each finely modelled with long crests surmounted by simple whorls and painted with dots on the cheeks and upper bills, t...

A rear and large lacquered manuscript chest. These chests were essential to every monastery as the stored Buddhist scriptural texts. Size: L. 61cm. W. 17.6cm. H. 15cm. Condition: Normal wear. One leg has been replaced. See photo.

Description: A magnificent wood ShuanTien( The Northern God) was finely carved in 13th-15th Century. Clad in sophisticated motifs on the robe, the deity sit easily with one arm(which had been lost) resting on the raised lap. It was an excellent traditional carving piece. With flouring lines of the robe, the softness and naturalistics of the flesh of the revealed toes and the torso under robe were vividly rendered. Enduring over 500 to 600 years, the huge museum-class sculpture was preserved in ...

Description:

A bronze ladle of Warring States was found in perfect condition.
In simple and slender form, the bronze ladle was inscribed with 14 Chinese ancient characters.
Archaic bronzes with inscriptions have been highly appraised by serious collectors.
For this rare piece, the inscription was clear and recognizable for a professional study.

Date: Warring States(481BC-221BC),

Length:26.5cm

A CUSTOM-MADE SILK BOX IS INCLUDED.

Large Chinese famille rose porcelain jardiniere with wide mouth and flattened rim enameled in bright pigments with a figural scene extending around the circumference. Diaper pattern band below rim. Unglazed foot and base. Original drain hole and plug. Late Qing dynasty (19th century) to possibly early Republican period. 13"H x 15 1/4" diameter. Weighs about 15 lbs. Very good overall condition with no chips or cracks. Some soiling to the interior from use.

A set of two b/w wine cups, each decorated with chrysanthemum and inside the center with chrysanthemum head. Yuan dynasty 1279-1368. Condition is good, each with a chip and re-touched, no crack. Diameter: 8.3cm and 8cm.

One of survived b/w bowl from late 15th to early 16th century, rounded sides with everted lip rim, decorated with four large blossoms of continuously peony flowers to the exterior. Interior design to the center with a floral spray within double circle. Collected in Halmahera island, similar examples also found on South Sulawesi. Ming dynasty late Chenghua to early Hongzhi period ware. Condition is perfect excepted a tiny flake chip to rim, no cracks and free from any restoration. Diameter: 14 cm...

A large and nice jun yao bowl of sky blue colour. It stands on a short recessed foot rin and then everted upwards towards a slightly straighten side and then towards the rim it folds slightly inwards. There is a slight colour variation between the actual bowl glaze and the photograph taken.

In good condition. No repair or restoration, there are abrasion, minute bubble burst, pin hole and minute glaze fritting.

The measurement of the jun yao bowl: The diameter is 18.5cm and ...

A finely b/w wine cup with slightly everted lip rim, decorated with a stylistic and popular both on imperial or private kiln wares with lotus and water plant at the exterior. Inside the center with a Tibetan character. Condition is perfect considered it's an excavated piece, just tiny flake chip to foot rim, no any chips, no any cracks, flawlessly and free from any restoration. Diameter: 7cm and High: 4.5cm.

A finely b/w bowl, rounded sides body and decorated at the exterior with four continuously blossoms of Indian lotus. Stylistic private kiln seal mark on the base. Ming dynasty Jiajing period (1522-1566) Condition of the bowl is excellent, no any chips, no cracks and flawlessly as well. Diameter: 12cm and High: 6cm.

A White glazed small dish, slightly conical shaped and covered overall with a milky white glaze. Ming dynasty 15th century. Condition is perfect excepted firing fault to the foot rim visible on the last enlargement, no any cracks, no chips and free from any restoration. Diameter: 13.5cm.

A fine and rare small b/w dish, the rounded sides rising to slightly everted rim, the interior painted with a central flower-head and radiating lappets enclosing lotus bloom, below hanging 'ruyi' heads filled with one of the eight Buddhist emblems called 'Endless Knot' the symbol of longevity. This kind motif also found at some Ching dynasty Ming style imperial porcelain wares, for example in Christie's cataloque Hongkong 29 September 1992, lot 519 'A pair of b/w floral bowls' Daoguang period, t...

The is a rare, old, long Chinese lock necklace with coral beads and matching amber drops. The handmade upper chain leads to a lower strand of very small silver beads, with 4 pumpkin shaped coral beads alternating with 5 silver balls on each side. From each side of the beaded chain is a short chain ending with male and female ducks which represent a long and happy marriage. The medallion is 4" wide and 3.5" long with numerous beautifully articulated images. There are 4 chains which drop ...

Recently excavated on South Sulawesi of Sawankhalok celadon dish or so-called Sisatchanalai wares. The dish with flattened rim and rounded lip, decorated with an incised chrysanthemum flower head in the center medallion and floral sprays on the cavetto. The exterior is plain, covered overall with a beautifully pale bluish-green celadon glaze and circular firing stand scar appear to the base. Sawankhalok ware 14th-15th century. Condition is very good, only one chip found on the foot rim, under gl...

It is the one of the rare and outstanding Ming dynasty dish excavated on Halmahera island Indonesia, the interior of the dish with a turquoise glaze and exterior with a sapphire blue glaze. Presume as Ming dynasty 15th-16th century piece. Condition is good except minor flaked glaze to the rim, interior center adhered sands because buried for long times. Diameter: 14.5 cm and High: 2.5 cm.

A definitely rare polychrome enamel bowl, decorated outside with five double lotus blossom in red and yellow among cloud scrolls in green enamel, unusual border of hanging 'ruyi' to the foot rim. Inside the center with tree bloom of peaches and the wall cavetto with a rare "Anhua" of a pair dragons, very rare specimen example to private kiln ceramic art from Ming dynasty Chenghua period, just a few pieces had been survival consider it is an excavated piece and i have never seing any similar piec...

Description: A Jun bowl with intriguing purple splashes inside and out of the bowl was molded in unique straight-wall type. In absolute Zen spirit, it was an ancient prototype of Chawan. Without exaggerate addition of purple glaze, the subtle purple strokes yielded by firing effects and the beautiful proportion exemplified the true beauty of the wares of early periods.Other than that, the introspective luster was convincing for a real Jun ware. Please see detailed pictures fo...

A rare blue & white dish, at interior decorated with foliated dragon within double circle and border with diaper pattern around the rim, the exterior with continuously flower scroll. Foliated-Dragons design on Ming imperial porcelains first appeared in underglazed blue during the Xuande era and commonly appears on porcelains made by private kiln wares during Zhendong-Jingtai-Thienshun the so-called Interregnum period from 1436-1464, this one is the best examples from the end of Interregnum Thien...

A fine and rare small b/w dish, the rounded sides rising to slightly everted rim, the interior painted with a central flower-head and radiating lappets enclosing lotus bloom, below hanging 'ruyi' heads filled with one of the eight Buddhist emblems called 'Endless Knot' the symbol of longevity. This kind motif also found at some Ching dynasty Ming style imperial porcelain wares, for example in Christie's cataloque Hongkong 29 September 1992, lot 519 'A pair of b/w floral bowls' Daoguang period, t...

A rare small celadon dish, decorated in the center with moulded of twin fish and underside with lotus petals rising from the foot rim. Covered overall with a quality of 'powder green' glazed with slightly bluish tone. Southern-Song dynasty. Condition is very good, excepted a tiny flake glaze to the mouth rim (visible on enlargement 4), minor flake surface to foot rim, but no any cracks and free from restoration also. Diameter: 12.3 cm and High: 3 cm.