All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1365655 (stock #MK-037)
A fine Song Dynasty Celadon Glaze Twin Fish Plate in overall good condition. 8 inch diameter. High resolution images on request.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1365654 (stock #MK-038)
Fine Song Dynasty celadon glaze twin fish plate in general good condition. Hi-resolution images on request.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #1365508
Chinese Qing dynasty bronze compressed globular bombe form censer with two well executed Buddhist lion-mask handles. High circular foot with an apocryphal six-character Ming Xuande reign mark in relief within a recessed rectangular panel on the base. 5 1/2” diameter (including handles) x 2 5/8” high. Weighs 1 lb. 2 oz. 19th century. Very good overall condition. Appears to have been polished years ago.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #1365140
Chinese late Ming dynasty Zhangzhou (Swatow) porcelain round form covered seal paste box decorated in green and iron-red overglaze enamels against a cream-colored ground with a deer in a central roundel on the lid surrounded by six alternating geometric panels set between a crossed line background. The interior and base are glazed but undecorated. 16th/17th century. 3 3/4” diameter x 2” high. Very good overall condition...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1900 item #1365109 (stock #SH-1027)
Spanish Colonial era wooden Santos in form of Mary from the Philippines estimated to be 19th Century. Powder blue hues. High resolution images on request.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1365107 (stock #MK-024)
Qing Dynasty carved white jade figure. Hi resolution images on request.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1365106 (stock #SH-1015)
Qing Dynasty Jade Pendent in yellow tone with gold loop fastener. High resolution images on request.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1365104 (stock #MK-023)
A Qing Dynasty Jade figure with some natural inclusions. High resolution images on request.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #1364856
Large Qing dynasty Guangxu period cylindrical scroll pot or brush pot decorated on opposing sides with a white foliate cartouche decorated with the one hundred antiques motif. The medallions are set against a blue background with white prunus blossoms. The pot has a massive presence, measuring 8” high x 8 3/8” diameter and weighing over 6 lbs. 19th century. Very good overall condition with no chips, cracks, or repairs...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1920 item #1364756 (stock #WN070)
A Chinese brush or ink cake rest in scroll shape. Made of porcelain, beautifully painted in the Qianjiang Palette, showing a river landscape. The sides with some gold paint. Base with four unglazed feet. Dating to the late Qing / early Republic period. Condition: gilding with little wear. Dimension: 8 cm long x 3.3 cm wide x 1.8 cm high.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1920 item #1364689
Chinese late Qing dynasty baitong (white brass), also called paktong, opium smoking pipe with nicely incised decoration featuring two beauties on a veranda on half of the base and calligraphy on the other half. Marked under the circular hinged top of the opium holder. The original tweezer and brush tool are included. Late 19th to early 20th century. 10 3/4” high to the tip of the pipe stem, base about 2 5/8” long x 1 1/4" wide x 2 1/2” high (to flat, circular lid)...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #1364686
Chinese Qing dynasty Guangxu mark and period “birthday” or “eternal spring” bowl, decorated on the exterior in famille rose enamels and gilt highlights with four medallions, each containing an iron-red and gilt seal-script character (wan shou wu jiang), symbolizing boundless longevity, set against a yellow ground densely covered in polychrome ribbons, pearls, clouds, and Buddhist swastikas. Foaming waves encircle the high recessed foot...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Middle Eastern : Pre 1900 item #1364523 (stock #3280)
An Iranian ceramic vase of baluster shape showing a youth and two young women among flowering plants. The thick glaze with craquele. Condition: fine, few burst glaze bubbles. Dimension: 28.6 cm high.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1930 item #1364495 (stock #298)
Chinese carved lapis lazuli tripod censer featuring 2 side dragon heads holding loose set rings standing upon and additional three dragon carved paws. The lid of the censer features a sinuous chilong as a handle. The stonework a deep blue with veins of mottled grey.

Size: Approximately 6-1/2" wide by 5-3/4" high by 4" depth

Condition: Good overall condition. One of the smaller loose set rings on the lid is missing and a second ring has broken...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #1364161 (stock #ALR6483)
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A superb image by Hirai Baisen depicting the fire lit on the mountains surrounding Kyoto on the final day of Obon enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled “Okuribi”. It is performed with washes of ink and gold on silk, bordered in a fine frame of patterned brocade. It is 22 x 79 inches (56 x 200 cm). It features large ivory rollers, which will need to be changed if shipped outside Japan...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1700 item #1364158 (stock #TCR6481)
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A lightning shaped Narumi-Oribe Mukozuke dish decorated with geometrics and drying persimmons enclosed in a fine custom kiri-wood box titled “E-Oribe Mukozuke” and annotated “Mino Ko-gama” by Living National Treasure Kato Takuo, who was well known for his research into old kilns and firing techniques. One of the best preserved pieces I have seen in a long time dating from the Momoyama to early Edo period.; it originally had three looping feet which have been lost...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1920 item #1364117 (stock #WN064)
This powder horn is dating to the 19th / early 20th century. The curved body is made from water buffalo horn, beautifully carved with curvilinear motifs, the wide end with a wooden stopper. The gunpowder was stored in the Batak house in large gourds, the chief carried his own personal supply in such containers, which he wore suspended from a chain around his neck. Condition: the spout was originally with a closing mechanism plug, now lost...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1930 item #1364063 (stock #271)
Chinese blue and white bottle vase with a garlic head rim. The base with a moulded design of two phoenix facing each other with outstretched wings. The same design repeated on the opposite side. There is a under-glaze blue border at the top rim with a further blue and white border at the center of the base and the base rim. The inside glazed clear with the outside a clear glaze with a bluish tint. The glaze stops short and evenly at the base rim...