All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #739511 (stock #LACQ-002)
Lacquered necklace holder, most likely for court officials. Gilded and painted with dragons and cloud formations. Age: Ming (1368-1644)Condition: Good. Some chipping around the edges.Size:17.7cm X 7.5cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #737611 (stock #86)
A blue and white glaze water dropper in mandarin shaped. Age: Anamese, circa 15th century Measurement: Height 6 C.M./ Width 8 C.M. Condition: very good with fault firing on the base and on the neck.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1492 item #737606 (stock #85)
Cup with everted flat lip and a short raised foot. Decorated in underglaze cobalt - blue on the rim with a key - fret design and a continuous chrysanthemum scroll on the exterior. Porcelain body with a transparent glaze. Base recessed and unglazed. D : 8 cm. Jingdezhen or Fujian. Yuan Dynasty fourteenth century...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1800 item #737371 (stock #lot411)
Description: One small but uniquely cast bronze censer was in decent look. Made of fine quality of metal material, the bronze censer was in good weight of 208 gram when in a lovely size of 6.1 cm in width and 4.6cm in height. By a unique trumpet form, the bronze bowl was easy to hold in the palms feeling the warmth, sniffing the aroma of the burning incense when in incense practicing ritual. It could be well used as a water basin or paper weight too...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1920 item #737056 (stock #MOR2330)
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A wooden sign of three golden characters carved into the surface of a solid slab of burled wood enclosed in a frame expertly carved with the four gentlemen, plum, bamboo, iris and chrysanthemum. It reads Yuraku-sai, A Place of Playful Enjoyment. The sign (with frame) is 11-1/4 x 21 inches (28.5 x 53 cm). It is signed Setsuyo (?) followed by two stamps. There is a chip into a hollow in the wooden plaque, lower left (see photos) otherwise is in excellent condition...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1990 item #736714 (stock #MOR2329)
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Cranes cut on the frosted surface rise from ice blue, their necks curling out as handles as they preen. A quintessentially Japanese subject executed with impeccable Japanese craftsmanship. The vase is 11 inches (28 cm) tall, 6-1/2 inches (16.5 cm) diameter and in perfect condition; enclosed in a covered wooden box.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #736412 (stock #lot410)
Description: An archaic nephrite jade pendant or Huang was in greenish tint with white patches. By incursions of calcified white dots on the surface, the ancient jade piece was verified as a newly excavated piece. In a decent look and quite good size, this rare piece was carved meticulously on two sides with characteristic grain patterns. From the jade quality, the sleek manual carving lines, and the obvious incursions, we could authenticate the piece was from the dated Han Dynasty for sure...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1900 item #736400 (stock #SK 074)
A Turkish tobacco pipe with a long wooden shaft. Both ends of the stem swathed with paper and tombak wire, the middle section with red cloth between two pompons. The bone mouth piece kept by a wooden bead. The pipe bowl made of clay, covered by metal wire, decorated with different colored glass beads. The lid entirely worked in metal wire and glass beads attached by a chain to the bowl. Condition: Traces of usage, some beads missing, cloth with holes...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #735596 (stock #73)
Decorated with lotus panel framing to the foot, diamond diaper, cloud scrolls and circle, on the body and cloud lappet on the shoulder .Overglazed red and green enamel decoration. Late Ming 17 th dynasty . Width = 14 cm. Height=13.5 cm Condition : Excellent, no chips, hairlines, cracks and free from restorations, enamel degradation for some area.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #735594 (stock #72)
Large export bowl, decorated with lotus petal, classic scroll and geometric decoration on the exterion, flower on the central , key fret, and floral on the interior. There is mark on the base. Late Ming (late 17th century) . Width = 23 cm. Height=12 cm Condition : Perfect, no chips, hairlines, cracks and free from restorations.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #735592 (stock #71)
Blue and white dish prunus decorated with dragon and mark on the base . Late Ming, late 17th century . Width = 17 cm. Condition : Excellent, no chips, hairlines, cracks and free from restorations.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1800 item #735580 (stock #70)
Export bowl decorated with floral on the exterior.and mark on the base. Qianlong 18th century . Width = 17 cm. Height=8 cm Condition : Excellent, no chips, hairlines, cracks and free from restorations.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1492 item #735573 (stock #69)
Six lobed jar with four loops handle and a brown spot. Height = 7.5 cm Width = 9 cm. Song Dynasty 12th Century. Condition : Excellent, no chips, hairlines, cracks or restorations.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #735572 (stock #68)
Blue and white bowl decorated with prunus and pine trees and waterweeds on the exterior and floweron the central interior. Four character mark on the base. Wanli 1573-1619 . Width = 12 cm. Height=6 cm Condition : Good, two hairlines, one firing fault no restoration.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1900 item #735570 (stock #67)
Blue and white dish decorated with prunus blossom on the interior, and mark on the base . Qianlong 18th century . Width = 26 cm. Condition : Excellent, no chips, hairlines, cracks and free from restorations.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1492 item #735145 (stock #66)
Melon shape with eight lobed decorated with panel, chrysanthemum and key fret on the shoulder. Bluish Bluish green glaze to the foot . Unglaze base. Width = 8 cm Height= 4.5 cm. Yuan Dynasty 14th Century. Condition : Perfect : no hairline, crack, chip or restoration.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1492 item #735142 (stock #65)
Blue green cracled glaze decorated with lotus petal on the exterior . Unglaze base. Width = 16.5 cm Height=6.5 cm. Song Dynasty 12th Century. Condition : Excellent : no hairline, crack, chip or restoration.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1492 item #735138 (stock #64)
Bluish Blue green cracled glaze to the foot . Unglaze base. Width = 13.5 cm Height=10.5 cm. Yuan Dynasty 14th Century. Condition : Excellent : no hairline, crack, chip or restoration.