All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1465837 (stock #MB866)
Large Chinese Early Tang Dynasty Pottery Horse with Oxford TL Test

This impressive pottery horse was made during the early part of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). It is made from a grey pottery and is quite "heavily-potted". The horse stands upright with its head and neck turned very slightly to its left.

Height 39 cm (15.5 inches)...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1488035 (stock #MC325)
Rare Chinese Sui Dynasty Glazed & Painted Pottery Horse & Rider (AD 581 - 618) (Ex. Roger Moss Collection)

This rare and finely-detailed model of a horse and rider was made during the Sui Dynasty. The horse stands upright with head straight ahead but slightly lowered. The dignitary sits upright upon the horse with his hands raised and wears elaborate robes and headgear. It is made from a relatively highly-fired buff-coloured pottery...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1390164 (stock #TC-B)
A Changsha bowl was painted in the cavetto with motif of bird and water weeds. Maneuvered by deft brush strokes, the picture was vividly rendered with simple lines. The bowl was heavily potted and was revealed with rough-feel body clay underside. The characteristic disk-like foot ring was well shaped. It was applied with white lining paint before dipping into to the brownish pigment and commencing the picture.Tang Dynasty (9th Century). Diameter: 15.5 cm...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre AD 1000 item #1323983 (stock #CER-001)
A pear-shaped vase freely painted with foliate designs in a dark chocolate brown glaze over a white slip. The slightly flared footrim is also painted in dark chocolate brown. Comes with a certificate from an auction in Beijing. Period: Song (10th Century) Size: Height = 22.5 cm (8-7/8") Condition: A very small chip at the foot-rim.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #785082 (stock #lot472)
Description: One elegant elm bowl or water pot was from Changsha kiln of Tang Dynasty. By a very rare type of glazing of iron-greenish mottles amid straw-glazed slip on top and around the mouth rim, the water pot was finely molded with characteristic flat bottom. In a chalk-feel quality, the body clay was left with obvious molding scars and was adhered with excavation mud. Slight incursion was occurred to the glaze and was yielded in a whitish look. The glaze condition of this pot was very good...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre AD 1000 item #1337665 (stock #NEO - 001)
A miniature neolithic pottery jar with fishnet pattern and outlined in black separated by fields of X patterns. Attached to the rim are two lug handles. Age:Hongshan Culture, 2nd half to 3rd millennium BC. Size: H. 9cm. Rim Radius 9cm. Condition: No repairs. Few chips from age.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1436856 (stock #MA035)
Large Chinese Neolithic Machang Phase Painted Pottery Jar (c. 2300 - 2000 BC)

This large pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago during the Machang Phase (c. 2300 - 2000 BC) of the Majiayao culture, also known as the Gansu-Yangshao culture, from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. It is made from a pale yellowish-brown pottery. It is of quite an unusual form, a wide body with two sturdy loop handles, a tall narrow neck and a flared mouth...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #790096 (stock #lot478)
Description: In greenish straw glaze, a Zhejiang porcelaneous ewer was finely molded in good shape. Can be a wonderful example of the famed Yueyao wares, the pot was preserved with the original excavation condition without any restoration. By the least abrasions though, the pot's surface was in somehow dry-some feel. It was resulted from the long time of burial. Well stand in an elegant profile, the ewer owned a charming atmosphere by its fluently crafted handle and spout...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1353938 (stock #GLASS-008)
Fourteen rare multi-colored glass Han beads that can be used as a bracelet or necklace. Size:Between 2cm to 2.2cm each. Condition: All intact. Needs some cleaning from long burial.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1470846 (stock #MB968)
Chinese Tang Dynasty Painted Pottery Horse (AD 618 - 906)

This fine and attractive pottery model of a horse was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). It is made from a buff-coloured pottery that has been "cold painted" in a creamy-white pigment on top of which have been applied red and black pigments to pick out the details of the head, mane and tail. For its size it is particularly well-modelled...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1484095 (stock #MC266)
Fine Large Chinese Han Dynasty Glazed Hu Jar with Hunting Scene

This fine and attractive pottery jar (hu) was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is made from a fairly high-fired reddish pottery and coated in a very finely-crackled glaze of unusual colour varying in places from green to a yellowish-brown...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1480358 (stock #MC201)
Very Rare Chinese Northern Dynasties Painted Pottery Horse (AD 386 - 581)

This extremely rare pottery model of a saddled horse was made during the Northern Dynasties period (AD 386 - 581). It is rather naively modelled from a dense grey pottery that is fairly high-fired. The body has been cold-painted in yellow-ochre, black and pale reddish-brown pigments whilst the upper surface of the base is painted white.

Height and length 27 cm...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1470693 (stock #MB950)
Chinese Han Dynasty Glazed Pottery Jar with Geometric Pattern

This rare pottery jar, or "guan", was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC- AD 220). It has an unusual raised decorative geometric band surrounding the shoulder and is coated in a yellowish-brown, almost golden glaze, the colour of which varies in places according to the thickness of the glaze as well as, in places, iridescence, a result of long burial in damp conditions...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1483948 (stock #MC254)
Fine & Rare Chinese Western Zhou Dynasty Pottery Jar

This very rare jar was made during the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 - 771 BC). It is made from a hard high-fired pale pottery...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1436947 (stock #MB141)
Chinese Han Dynasty Black Pottery Amphora

A superbly conceived design; jars of this general type have been found in excavations dating as far back as the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 BC). Although perhaps not obviously Chinese in design, this type of vessel is one of the most iconic forms of Han Dynasty pottery and is thought by many archaeologists to be anthropomorphic, with the shape and "swirling" design of the main body based on the female human form. 

This particular example w...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1464355 (stock #MB567)
Rare Chinese Han Dynasty Large Glazed Pottery Ding Tripod - Dragons

This very rare and unusual example of a ding tripod was made during the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25 - 220) from a fairly high-fired pale reddish-brown pottery. It is extremely "heavily-potted" and unusually tall. It is coated in a streaky green glaze, the colour of which varies due to runs and variations in its thickness. In places the glaze has acquired a silvery iridescence, especially where thin, a result of exposure to mo...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre AD 1000 item #683837 (stock #GLASS-012)
A beautiful and rare glass stupa from the Pyu area.Most of the glass has turned into a beautiful iridescent color which gives a wonderful feeling to this piece. The stupa is unusual as it has a hollow opening in the center. Age: 100 AD. Size: H. 1.9cm. W. At the base. 1.9cm. Condition: A small piece is missing at the base and because it is iridescent at the part also it probably was made that way.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #816053 (stock #lot508)
Description:

A stoneware jar was preserved in an original condition.
Being applied with olive-green glaze on the the body, the jar or Hu was molded with a trumpet-like mouth and stand on a flat bottom.
Two well- mold loops were nicely pressed to the body as handles.
Decorations of incised wave bands were around the mouth while grooved patterns were carved around the body in the middle segment.
Black hue was affected to the slender neck and the mouth portion. It was caused...