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A wood mountain alcove was carved from a block of precious sandalwood.
Nice aroma is the characteristic of this rare wood.
By great patina and well-shaped form, this wood mountain can be the focusing view on your desk.
The small cave can be an ideal alcove for a figurine of about 5-6cm in height.

Date: Qing Dynasty, 19th century.

Height: 17.8cm

A CUSTOM-MADE SILK BOX IS INCLUDED.

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A black-glazed tripod censer was in decent look by molding with two long handles on the sides.
Uniquely there were squeezed and applied motifs of dragon and phoenix being decorated on two sides of the surface separately.
The coarse but dense-quality body clay was revealed at the bottom including the feet.
The feet were squeezed and applied to the bottom when potter's finger-mail prints were being left to the body clay...

A rare Yuan longquan celadon large guan jar, rounded side with globular body and glazed. Jar decorated with ribbed motif at the exterior. PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty 1279-1368 AD. MEASUREMENTS: 22 cm wide. CONDITION: no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restorations.

A lovely bowl of Song Dynasty with good glaze. PERIOD : Southern Song Dynasty (12-13th Century). MEASUREMENT : 8.5 cm wide, 4.2 cm height. CONDITION : tiny chips/frittings on the foot and rim; free from restorations.

A beautiful Japanese Art nouveau carved wood urn or vase stand finely carved details of Iris flowers measuring approx. 28 inches tall. A fine decorative piece.

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A russet-glazed Yuhuchun vase was well mold in decent look.
Fine glaze in retrospective sheen was applied on the surface when greasy-feel body clay was revealed at the bottom in brownish tint.
The vase was preserved in nearly perfect condition when two minute and shallow glaze chips were found under the flaring mouth rim.(see picture 3 )
They were being restored and were not noticeable from usually watching angles...

A beautiful antique carved Tibetan Ivory Vaishravana Buddha with exquisite intricate carved detail measuring 5 Inches OR 12 CM tall. AND 3.5 inches 9 CM. wide

Porcelain covered with greyish glaze to the foot and decorated with crisscross motif, unglazed base. PERIOD : Yue Ware 9th Century MEASUREMENTS: 24 cm tall. CONDITION: some frittings on the back of the rim, no cracks, hairlines or restorations

Beautiful foliated small dish covered with crackled white glaze and spotted on the interior. Unglaze base. Song Dynasty. Width = 13.1 cm Condition : perfect condition.

Beautiful foliated small dish covered with crackled white glaze. Unglaze base. Song Dynasty. Width = 13.1 cm Condition : perfect, mint

Drinking dancing and shamisen playing, a skeleton crew doing donchan-sawagi on the back of a pale gray jiban crepe-silk kimono. The figures are performed in the painstaking shibori technique where each dot is hand knotted before dying, each laborious knot making up one dot in the matrix of the design. The piece likely dates from the Meiji to early Taisho era, late 19th to early 20th century. This is not one of the modern bleached versions of this theme, but an antique original...

A very elegant pair of Antique Andon lamps dating from the Meiji period in the original storage box from a Kyoto estate. The box is dated Meiji 36 (1904) and stylistically these fit perfectly into that era, with a fine transparent red lacquer finish. They are in excellent condition, each standing 31 inches (79 cm) tall, 8-1/2 inches (22 cm) square. Due to size these will require special shipping consideration, the cost to be accrued separately.

Spiraling lines and wispy trees rise up to the heavens in this convoluted landscape by Fujimoto Tesseki dated 1855. If one looks carefully, it is fun to see the artists playful choices of colors, not apparent at first, like the blue trunk on the central tree at the base of the painting...

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A Blanc De Chin or DeHua tripod censer was in unique purplish-red glaze.
It was very rare to find a Blanc De Chin piece in such glaze. Most of them were in pure white.
The body clay revealed at the tips of the foot and inside was in dense-feel quality which was consensus to the quality of Dehua wares.
The censer was mold in decent look and was preserved in perfect condition.
Some glazing imperfections were found at the bottom of the surface...

A large and exceedingly rare work by Kiyomizu Rokubei V (Rokuwa, 1875-1959) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. In relief are scrolling vines and flowers in white and pale blue on a soft porous pink glaze. For a nearly identical work see the collection of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Modern Art, or the book Kiyomizu Rokuwa (1977) figure 60 (dated 1923). The vessel is 42 cm tall, 28 cm diameter and in fine condition. The box is stained quite dark with age...

A fine Song Dynasty period East Asian celadon vase measuring 5 inches or 13 cm tall. In excellent condition a fine example.

Chinese ceramics of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) constitute perhaps the foremost expression of ceramic art, not only in China but in the entire world...

Leather tobacco pouch with embossed and faded polychrome stained decoration of Buddhist Apsara, the pouch well worn. Ornate repousse metal dragon clasp and fastener on the verso engraved with decoration of an active sea. A chain with similarly decorated metal slide, depicting a dragon in relief with incised and stippled details, secured to an ivory and metal kagamibuta netsuke - the metal face again decorated with repousse dragon among flames against clouds with pearl...

Japanese limited edition copperplate etching titled “Manpukuji Temple” by Tanaka Ryohei (b. 1933). Pencil-signed, dated 2002, and numbered 11/150 in the lower margin. Paper size about 12" x 10 1/4" (image: 8" x 6 1/2"). Excellent condition.