Chinese late Qing to early Republic period ceramic modeled container shaped like a "ha ma," or toad, with a hollow body and flat base covered in a monochrome pearl glaze with a seeded finish. Measures about 10 ½”L x 9 ¼”W x 6”H. There are some old surface cracks visible. The back section appears to have been restored and the gray areas in the pearl glaze appear to be old restorations which were executed in China...

Description: Can it be a marvelous addition to your jade collection when it is worn on your or your beloved one's finger and is admired by the gazing eyes. A slender jade ring in warm yellowish tint was exquisitely carved on the surface in several rectangular sections...

Description: An archaic turquoise pendant was carved into two crouching Chilongs around a circular Huang. By ferocious features and animated postures, the fairy animals were rendered deliberately in every detail. From the characteristic features including the grooved spines, strenuous hips, legs, and claws, and the tiger-like heads, this carving piece embodied all the essential points in authenticating the Han date...

Pair late Qing dynasty porcelain bowls. Overglaze decoration in blue and green enamel of peonies. Also decorated with inscriptions in gilt enamel and chop marks in red enamel. The rims an intentional, attractive caramel colored burnt biscuit. Apocryphal Qianlong seal marks in blue under the glaze. One in good condition with only minor enamel loss and light rubbing inside the bowl. The other also with an old, small area of repair along the outside of the rim...

Description: With incurving rim, a small Jun bowl was shaped elegantly. In two purple splashed strokes, the bowl was added with more charming atmosphere. Being glazed over all inside and outside of the surface, the bowl’s foot ring was left unglazed in a firm and regular shape. Incursions were amid the glaze cracks when earth was adherent to the pinheads of the burst bubbles. Date: Song or Jin period(AD960-1234). Width: 9 cm

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A Cizhou tea bowl was in good elm bowl's shape.
Well glaze on the surface with russet slip and therefore the intriguing firing effect, the bowl was well shaped on the foot ring with steep wall.
Buff-tinted of the clay, and all other obvious characteristic like the retrospective sheen of the glaze proved the bowl an ancient one.

Date: Jin Dynasty, 12th/13th century.

Width on the mouth rim: 6cm, Height: 5.3cm.

Chinese Qing dynasty Yongzheng period (1723-1735) export porcelain hemispherical form punch bowl decorated with famille rose overglaze enamels and gilt highlights set against a white porcelain ground. A floral spray is in the center and a band of flowers, bamboo, and geometric forms decorates the interior rim...

Chinese scholar's desk root wood (possibly cypress) sculpture depicting Sanxing (Three Star Gods) representing longevity, happiness, and wealth. The god of wealth holds a small child representing wishes for future good fortune through healthy offspring. Measures nearly 11" high by 12" long. Late Qing dynasty to early Republic period. Very good overall condition. There is old bug damage to the back of two heads which appears at one time to have been filled (see enlargements 9 and 10)...

A celadon, crackle glaze inverted rim bowl. The unglazed rim suggesting this had a cover as some examples of this form (sometimes referred to as an alms bowl) did. The shoulder, below the inverted rim, with two double fine line bands flanking relief flower head bosses. Strait lotus leaf motif adorning the side tapering to the foot. The foot unglazed (both the foot rim and inside the foot rim.) Though an earlier form, the weathered pretty green glaze appears to be Qing dynasty...

Description: A brushpot was uniquely made from old wood root. In natural form, the twisted wood root was skillfully cut, shaped and formed as a scholar utensil with real Zen atmosphere. Date: Late 19th century. Height:13cm

The monkey is a symbol of rank and promotion. Here we see a kneeling monkey holding its legs. It has a warm glossy patina, some parts of the foot are missing. H. 5 cm.

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...

Description: A charming amber pendant was carved with Chilong motif. Silver framed with chiselled flower motif and a word " Fu " (well-being) on the reverse side though at 19th century, the carving amber piece was from 17th-18th century of Qing dynasty. Preserved in very good condition, attractive ice cracks can obviously seen under magnify glass. Aged but greasy feel looking, the hue is much more darkened in real than in the pictures...

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An ancient paper weight and also a lucky charm for the nomadic people was from the fossil of an antelope's patella.
By a long history, GaHaLa, the patella of animals like rams, tigers or antelopes were revered as tokens of good luck...

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A Yueyao water basin was in form of a squat turtle.
Well applied with characteristic greenish celadon glaze on the surface, the basin was sit on the flat bottom which was un-glazed and was revealed with the grayish-tinted body clay.
It was preserved in perfect condition and was well cleaned by ex-collecter intended for practical use.
Minute old frets and incursions were found on the glaze when slight crackles were rendered.
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Description: An ancient inkstone was from Song dynasty. By a typical sleek shape, the inkstone was carved in a simple and plain form. The obvious carving scars can be easily observed. After enduring thousands of years of burial in a tomb chamber, the surface of the stone piece was oxidized into a grayish patina when rust mottles were yielded too. Made of Duan- a high quality material which was originated from Song and lasted to now, the inkstone is truly a prototype for Chinese ancient inkstones...

A very finely decorated jar or lantern depicting flowers and insects reserved against a delicately incised pink ground. The base carries the iron red seal mark of the Qianlong Emperor (1736-1795) but this item was probably made early in the 20th Century - durig the Guangxu or early Republic periods. Condition - very good. No damages and no restoration. 10cm (4 inches) high

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Description: A wood stand was made in rectangular shape.
Supported by four horse-hoof feet, the stand was designed in elegant form by beautiful curves.
It was tenoned perfectly by excellent craftsmanship.
Being preserved with brownish patina, the stand can be in well use for your wonderful collections.

Date: Late Qing periods, late 19th century.

Length: 39.3cm, Width: 27.5cm, Height: 10.6cm.

Material: Honmu, Rose Wood.