Late Qing Dynasty (19th century) Chinese lady’s front-opening summer gauze kesi surcoat decorated with eight polychrome roundels, featuring a central crane surrounded by butterflies and flowers, set against a dark cobalt blue ground. The crane motif indicates the robe would have been worn by the wife of a first-rank civil official. The sleeve ends are decorated with a water and wave motif...

Description: An old Yixing flower arrangement basin with inscription " Sui Qing Xe Qi" (the water is pure while the rock is unique) on one side and carved flower motif on the other side had a special Chinese scholar taste. There're some defects on the rims but would never fail the beauty of this old piece. Date: Late 19th Century Length: 19.5cm Height: 5cm

A beautifully and well shaped Ming Dynasty (1368-1643A.D) rice bowl with a simple blue splashes of cloud like motives. This piece is retrieved from the sea. The bowl is a common household ware likely to be used for eating rice or drinking water/wine. It is an export ware for the South-East Asian market. It is also likely that this blue bowl can be dated toward the end of the Ming Dynasty - 17th century. The glaze, although is thin and smooth, is still in relatively good conditions...

A Han Dynasty terra cotta horse head with a very animated expression. The pottery horse which symbolises speed and perseverance are buried along with the dead royalty and generals as funeary objects. It is a status symbol to be buried with pottery horses and horse head. The horse head is painted with white slip paint with red paint showing as the harness on the horse head.

The horse head has abrasion, wear and tear due to the long period of burial...

Description: A bronze seal of Yuan dynasty was casted in simple form. The inscription of stamp surface was an extinct Shi-Sha tribal language. A rare piece can be used as your personal book-registered stamp. Date:(AD1206-1367) Width: 2.3 x 2.1 x 2 cm

Description: A bronze seal of Yuan dynasty was casted in simple form. The inscription of stamp surface was an extinct Shi-Sha tribal language. A rare piece can be used as your personal book-registered stamp. Date:(AD1206-1367) Width: 2 x 2 x 2 cm

Description: An Archaic bronze seal with a casting knob of a couple (means harmony) was from Song dynasty. The meaningful knob was accompanied with the joyful inscription of A rabbit motif. A scholar item was probably used in Chinese studio for making stamp inscription on a script of poem or a beautiful painting. Date: Song Dynasty(AD960-1279) Width: 2.2cm Height: 2.2cm

Description: A bronze seal of Han dynasty with inscription of Zhen-Chen was uniquely molded as a crouching bear as the knob. With beautiful blue-green verdigris and red tan underneath, this bronze piece was used by a middle ranking official ( In Han dynasty the knob figures of bronze seals were all categorized by official rankings, for example, the chimera figure was for king's only). The motif - a bear, was common seen in Han's picturesque relics but was rarely seen in bronze seal pieces...

Description: A tripod celadon incense burner was crackled beautifully. With animal masks decorated on the feet, the incense burner was uniquely in plate style. Date: Ming Dynasty(15-16th Century) Condition: perfect.

A beautifully and finely enamelled turquoise ground "famillie-rose" bowl. It has an alternate motive of a bat flying on top of a iron red Shou character followed by a lotus flower surrounded by meandering foliate and branching leaf. The base has four iron red Chien Lung (1736-1796) period character mark. This bowl is an early 20th century export piece for the South-East Asian market.

Minor firing faults and pinholes. No sign of cracks or chips...

Description: A bronze Buddha figure of Japanese was cast with very fine quality of metal. He was molded very well with the religious mood. Meditated in calm expression and with religious hand symbol, this Buddha was once installed on a pedestal which had been lost. Two drilling holes can be seen on the bottom. Date: 19th Century Provenance: Japan Height: 15.3cm

Description: An alloyed Buddha with Japanese origin was cast well and preserved perfectly. A very beautiful small sculpture which had east Asia religious taste. Date: 19th Century Height: 5.5cm

A Ming dynasty stem cup with flowers decoration on the outside and a boy holding a stem cup on the inside. Inside the cup, the boy is surrounded by a pair of 3 claws engraved dragons chasing each other tail. The cup has the rich 15th century color with the heaping and piling effect. The painting detail are not crisp because the blue has ran together which can happens often in blue and white ware...

Description: A bronze figure with the image of Luohan was casted in the 10th century or earlier. With sophisticated expression, this figure was carved vividly. The religious spirit had been casted in the image by the devoted craftsmen when. The material used in this piece was in very good quality. After enduring ages, the bronze surface had turned into dark black shining patina. Faded gilt had left between the pleats of the figure...

With deep sides rising from a tapered foot to an everted rim, decorated in delicate familie rose colours with a bird perched on a branch of wisterias beside flowering branches of poeny and seal mark " spring-time for the whole family of heaven earth" and the characters Daya Zhai (studio of Great culture) all reserved on a turquoise ground...

A beautifully Qing dynasty enamelled pink-ground "famille rose" bowl with seal mark and period of Hsien Feng (1851-1861) and of the period. Brightly painted with alternating upright lappets surrounded by meandering foliate and branching leaf on an incised with a wave like pink background. The interior of the bowl is evenly applied with light turquoise enamel.

There are no sign of cracks or chips...

Description: A pair of blue and white imperial dishes were painted in underglaze with tendrils, flowers and bats. Kept well in perfect condition, these dishes exemplified the beauty of the imperial porcelains of Qing dynasty with fantastic blue paintings, the pure quality of the body and the shape in regularity. By a rare opportunity, they were acquired in an adequate price and therefore were offered here at Trocadero in a reasonable manner...

Description: A real scholar's item with Zen atmosphere of this piece was ingeniously made use of a root wood. With good old patina, this piece was in original condition without any restorations. It testified itself that it had been carefully treated and treasured by the past collectors despite its informal style among typical Chinese scholar's items. Date: Qing Dynasty (mid or early 19th Century) Length: 14.8cm

Description: A religious oil painting on canvas was made in 19th Century from the minority people at southwest region of China. A piece of art from Dian people of Guazhou or Yunnam Province, this painting was displayed with bold colours. Sketched freely but regulated as well, it is in astonishing beauty.

Description: A wood panel was carved with a house, a plum tree, and an elephant. An odd combination when an elephant was described in Chinese garden. "Good sign(elephant) stays in my house" -a greeting words meant a lot to Chinese people. The panel or the architecture sculpture had always been bestowed with the best wishes like this. An elephant who doesn't seem to be realistic, maybe just because the carver had never seen a real one. Date: Qing Dynasty(early 19th century) Width: 19.5cm

Description: A wood panel was carved with motifs of a view of a pond. Two egrets were playing by picking a fish on a lotus leaf. Teased with enjoyment by two of the water fowls, the fish yet was not in a easy mood. Date : Qing Dynasty (19th century) Width with frame: 47cm Height with frame: 27cm

Description: An old ivory plaque was decorated with archaic scrolling Chilong(DRAGON) pattern in against position on both sides.On the rims, fret pattern was regularly carved. The motifs of this rare piece had long been used in traditional Chinese works of art. It was an abstract art and a decent motif which had always been adopted by the noble echelon. Date: Qing dynasty (18th Century) Length: 6.0cm Width: 3.9cm Depth: 0.6cm

Description: This white glazed stem cup was beautifully decorated with brownish black paint...

Description: An elegant Ru-Yi was rarely made of iron. Casted in a beautiful shape and preserved very well. Dark russet paint were reserved sparsely on the surface which reflected with good old black patina. Date: 19th Century Length: 34cm

Description: An excavated blue and white cup was in elegant water basin shape. With obvious excavation condition, the cup crackled well. The minor everted rim let it can be easily held when drinking tea. Condition of this cup is good. One darker spot on the rim is not a defect. It was due to the incursion under the earth. Date: Qing Dynasty. Width: 8 cm

Description: "Hundreds of monkeys" is only a description for the topic of this master piece. Amid the branches of a peach tree, a lot of monkeys are playing and teasing to each other. The exact numbers of these nimble animals had never been really counted. A deft open-work carving had been done in early 20th century China. Old black paint were faded due to age. An old amber bead was adorned. Width: 3.5cm

Description: Walnut carving was a typical Chinese craftsmanship. From late Ming until now, this skill was treasured by Chinese people. It has been a miniature art for hundreds of years. In a clear cut way this hard kernel was carved as a deity of longevity who was favored by Chinese people. Holding on the right hand with a staff and the left hand a Peach of Longevity, he was accompanied by a boy attendant and a crane. The brownish patina was due to the aged years not from dyeing. Date: early 2...

Description: A miniature porcelain figure was molded as Bu-dai Buddha with bare and protruding belly. With characteristic wide smile he was solid shaped as a porcelain toggle which was rarely seen. It was an excavation piece. The incursions were obvious within the pleats. The stand was newly custom made in a pattern of leaves troves. Date: Early Qing Dynasty (17th-18th century) Height: 3.7cm (including stand)

Description: A plain form inkstone with cloud scroll pattern on the rim and inscriptions of a palace scholar's poem on the back. A true Chinese scholar studio's object was in typical Chinese scholar's taste of esthetics. It was a piece from spring auction 2004 of Antique and Curiosity Company of China lot 685. The estimated price when was RMB 8000. The price was lowered for Trocadero's customers .Length: 21.5cm Width: 14cm Date: Qing Daoguang period (18th Century) Condition: some defects on t...

Description: A gilt-bronze figure of Bodhisattva was casted in Tang dynasty.
It was preserved rarely with original assemblies. Without any restorations, the Bodhisattva posed in a gesture of fear-not(abhaya mudra).
The stand was casted in a shape of a bud of lotus and with flouring floral motifs which had a likeness of Pala style of India from where the Buddhism was originated and was introduced to China in the 6th century.
The patina of the halo and bud-shape stand was different fr...

Description: A bronze brush rest in a shape of a stag resting under a tree and a bird perching on the branches with scholar rock's view. It is an elegant piece with traditional Chinese atmosphere. The antlers was delicately casted and tenoned on the stag's head. A glued work had been made to the tenon section for fastening. Date: Ming Dynasty (15th-16th Century) Width: 9.5cm Height: 10.5cm

Description: A wood sculpture of Guan-yin holding a baby was worshipped by Chinese people who wished to have children. Guan-yin had always been a deity who supposed to relieved people's agonies. Fertility was one topic the traditional Chinese religious people usually cared and needed to be blessed by this god of mercy. This sculpture was made in early Qing dynasty by one solid block of wood. Delicately carved and applied with several layers of fibers and white paste, the figure was then added...

Description: A piece of rootwood was adapted as a water dropper which was used by the Chinese scholars. Coloured inside with black paint for protection and to waterproof, the surface shone with old patina of dark brown. With intriguing shape and a savor of bookishness, this small piece yielded a true sense of Chinese scholar's connoisseurship. NOTICE: NO ANY WAX WAS USED ON THE SURFACE, IT JUST SHONE DUE TO ENDURING AGE. Date: 18th Century Width: 9.0cm Height: 5.0cm

A superb pair of Tokkuri sake flasks by LNT Tokuda Yasokichi III (Masahiko, b. 1933) enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden box. The slightly belted form seems to imitate a gourd, with glaze fading up from rich purple to green to deeply crackled white. Each piece is 6-3/4 inches (17 cm) tall, signed on the base in a traditional Kutani cartouche Masahiko. Masahiko was trained under both his grandfather and father, succeeding the family name in 1988. He has been awarded at the Nitt...

Description: The story of Bu-Dai monk was originated from Five Dynasties(10th centuries) when the raging wars between different countries put people's lives in jeopardy. The unfortunate miseries forced people to pursue the religious and spiritual comfort. A happy go lucky monk went to the markets and streets everyday soliciting alms for favorable karma. Dressed raggedly with a bag(Bu-Dai), he laughed all the time without any complaining and bore no grudges to anyone who had loathed him. One day...

Description: A beautiful toggle was made of ivory. The brownish and crackled surface was reflected with the old age. Date: Qing Dynasty(18th century) Width: 4.0cm Depth: 1.5cm