Washer bowl covered with shufu white glaze ; unglazed concave base. PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 12.5 cm wide, 5 cm tall. CONDITION: no chips, cracks or hairlines and free from restoration.

Jar with floral sprays and bead-lines. Porcelain with painted underglaze and applied decoration.PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 7.5 cm wide, 8.5 cm tall. CONDITION: two tiny chips to the foot, reglued one lug, no cracks or hairlines, good blue color.

Description: What an artistry it is indeed for this 800-years-old Minyao bottle vase which full of strong Zen spirits.
With four leaf-like handles, the vase was mold in oval shape and was applied with buff-tinted glaze on the surface.
Being decorated with circular lines around the body which like the halos around the stars, it was in simple form and owned with serene atmosphere.
Had been produced in one of the Cizhou kilns of northern China in 12th-13th centuries, the bottle was done...

Longquan celadon censer with tripod. Celadon glazed and unglazed on the base. PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 12.5 cm wide, 7 cm tall. CONDITION: broken but no missing part.

Description: A big Qingbai bowl was elegantly carved with motifs of dancing boys amid scrolled cloud. Believed as being a product from famed Hutien kiln of Jiangxi province of 9-12th century, the bowl was in pale blue tint and was in very good condition except one faint hairline at the cavetto(about 6.5cm that in half way to the cavetto). It was almost invisible without reminding. The bowl was believed to have been highly esteemed for its once framed mouth rim...

Description: A lovely Jun tripod censer was mold finely by beautiful bluish glaze. A purple splash was on the body being very interesting. In a good shape of bulge belly, elongated neck and flat rim, the censer was supported by three hand squeezed feet. Rolled, twisted and squeezed to adhere to the bottom, the feet were intriguingly made by the affluent-skilled potters-a joyfully find for Minyao wares. The spiral molding mark was left in the center of the cavetto...

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A bronze bodhisattva sitting on a lion was the legendary Mañjuśrī who using the wisdom to tame the mind.
In perfect condition, the bronze figure was heavily cast and preserved in dark patina...

Qingbai double gourd ewer with stylized dragon handle with an iron brownish splash on the neck ; bluish white glaze stopping above the base which is concave and unglazed. Yuan Dynasty 13th-14th Centuries. Height = 14 cm, Width=14 cm. Condition : handle restored.

Description: A triad of brown glazed figurines (two officials and one servant) were preserved in good condition except one minor fret on one of the doll's shoulder. Very amusing pieces indeed. Height: 5.7cm, 5.5cm, 5.4cm.

Description: A black-glazed Jianyang tea bowl was in a rarely-seen unique and great look...

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A black-glazed temmoko tea bowl was produced from famous Jianyang kiln, Fujiang province.
Well mold in decent Wan shape, the bowl was stand on a finely defined foot ring which revealed with the body clay that in grayish black tint.
While the body clay was in obvous old look and being caused with frets and incursions. the bowl was also being verified by the obvious characteristics of :
1, The dry-feel condition happened to the mouth rim...

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A Yaozhou bowl was mold in curved rim.
Well carved with floral motifs on the surface outside the bowl, the bowl was stand on a circular foot ring.
Padding grits were preserved at the bottom when incursions were happened to the mouth rim and on the ridges of the patterns where the glaze was thinner.
It was in perfect condition.
Iridescent effects were reflected in the glaze.

Date: Song/Jin periods, 11th/12th centuries...

Description:

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...

Description:
A Qingbai covered box was beautifully mold in a form of a pair of Mandarin Ducks.
By greenish-white tint reflected in the glaze, the birds were well depicted in the detailed features and on the overall look.
For authentication:

1, Minute pinpoint incursions were happened while obvious crackles were spread under the glaze.

2, The burial dirt was reserved at the inner side and at the bottom of the box for verification.

3, From the characteristics of the...

Description: A white glazed covered box was made in plain and simple form. Condition is very good except one minor manufacturing chip at the inner rim of the cover. Date: Early 20th Century Width: 6.1cm Height: 2.0cm Provenance: Jingdezheng

Rare Chinese Song Dynasty Zoomorphic Water Pot with Dragon Handle

This very rare vessel, a water pot, was made during the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127). The vessel is zoomorphic being in the form of a recumbent animal with four legs/feet tucked under its body. Where an animal's head would be is a wide circular pouring spout. The applied handle is in the form of a dragon...

Description: A blue-glazed tea bowl from Jun kiln was well mold in a decent look. Being applied with light bluish glaze all over the surface only stop nearing to the foot ring, the bowl was decorated characteristically by some splashes of purple glaze in the cavetto and on the outer surface. Subtly rendered under firing in the kiln, the charming glaze effects were harmonized to the blue glaze by the crackled and fish-scales like condition...

Longquan bowl covered with guan type - crackle celadon glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 南宋 (1127–1279). Measurement : Diameter: 21.5cm. Condition : no chips, cracks, hairlines and free from restorations.

Green glazed to square cut foot rim, exposing grey body burnt red. Decorated with ferruginous brown spots in triplicate. H= 5.5 cm W=7.5 cm Period : 14th century, Longquan Kilns, Zhejiang Condition : Very good condition, initial firing cracks but free from restoration.

Longquan bowl covered with greyish green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : no chips, hairlines or cracks and free from restoration. Diameter: 13.5cm

Porcelain of washer bowl covered with blue green celadon glaze to the foot and decorated with incised lotus flower on the center, glazed base. PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 10 cm wide. CONDITION: perfect, no chips, craks, or hairlines and free from restorations.

Pale green glazed, red firing ring base. Interior decorated carved floral pattern. Dimater = 17.5 cm Height = 6 cm Longquan Kilns, Zhejiang, Yuan Dynasty. Condition : shipwreck glaze, no chips, cracks, hairlines or restoration.

Good thick green glazed. Unglazed concave base. Height = 7.5 cm Width=7.5 cm. Yuan Dynasty 14th Century. Condition : Excellent : no hairline, chip or restoration

Qingbai double gourd ewer with stylized dragon handle ; bluish white glaze stopping above the base which is concave and unglazed. PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty 13th-14th Centuries. MEASUREMENT : Height = 12 cm, Width=11 cm. CONDITION : no chips, cracks or hairlines and free from restorations.

Fine & Rare Chinese Jin Dynasty Painted Pottery Tile - Entertainer

This impressive pottery tile was made during the Jin Dynasty (AD 1115 - 1234). It is made from a relatively high-fired grey pottery that has been cold-painted in various coloured pigments, traces of which still remain.

Theatre, the arts, music, performances were a very popular part of life during this period in Shanxi province, from where this tile has been excavated...

Description: A celadon tripod censer was from Longquan kiln of Yuan Dynasty.
Applied with light-green glaze, the censer was mold on the outer surface with Eight Trigarms for decoration.
Supported by three slightly everted feet and with the circular foot ring at the bottom, the censer was in elegant flatten form.
Characteristically, the body clay revealed at the foot ring was in pale-gray tint and was in tense quality.
From excavation, burial earth and fine crackles was obvious fo...

Description:

A Jizhou jar was applied with beautiful tortoiseshell glaze on the surface.
In nice condition, the glaze was yielded with finely spread crackles.
The characteristic soft paste was revealed in beige tint.
The jar was used as a water coupe for scholar work or a tea power mixer in tea ceremony.

Date: Southern Song Dynasty, 1127-1279

Body Width: 12.5cm, Height: 10cm,

A COTTON BOX IS INCLUDED.

Song white glaze jar, glazed base. H= 6.5 cm, D= 8 cm Condition : a tiny chip on the rim, no lid.

A nice small celadon Ribbed-Potiche jar with cover, covered overall with smooth bluish-green glaze except foot rim exposing buff body. Glazed base. 14th century. Longquan Kilns, Zhejiang. Condition is excellent,no chips, cracks or restorations; matching lid but the same period High: 7.5 cm; Diameter : 8 cm

Porcelain covered with green glaze to the footrim, glazed base.PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) MEASUREMENTS:22.5 cm wide, 5 cm tall. CONDITION: chips to the footrim, glaze flakes to the back of the rim, free from restorations.

Longquan bowl covered with greyish green glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 12th-13th century. Condition : frittings on the foot rim, no chips, hairlines or cracks and free from restoration. Diameter: 13cm

Deep rounded form with steeps side and slight indentation belom the everted rim, covered in lustrous caramel-brown glaze streaked with black element emanating from the central flattened base of the interior, the glaze thinning to a dark brown colour at the upper end, the exterior similarly decorated the glaze falling short of the foort with sumptuous globules dripping over the body burnt a brown in the firing. H = 8 cm W = 12.5 cm Period : Shoutern Song Dynasty, 12th-13 th Century Conditio...

A very nice example jar decorated with lines of splashed iron spot. Qingbai glaze over a porcelain body. Jingdezhen ware, Song Dynasty 12th. century. H : 7.5 cm. Diameter : 12.5 cm. Condition : excellent glazed and splashed iron spot, 2 crack on the base, restoration to chip on the mouth rim.

Rare Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Qingbai Porcelain Bottle / Vase

This porcelain vase was made during the 13th - 14th century, during the latter part of the Song Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368), or possibly the following Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368). Its moulded decoration is most unusual with two bands of raised studs surrounding the body at its waist. Around the shoulder is a more conventional floral scroll. The outer surface, as well as the inner mouth, is coated in a finely-crackled pale green ...

Measuring 6" in diameter and 2 3/8" high, this Nishapur polychromed bowl dates to the 9th to 11th centuries, and is buff ware ceramic with decoration in magenta, yellow and green. The central image features a peacock with elaborate tail, and the border around the edge is abstracted, with a resemblance to calligraphic writing. The exterior of the bowl features vertical lines in magenta, with interspersed sections of yellow and green. There is restoration to the bowl, most visible in one sectio...

Jar with floral sprays and bead-lines. Porcelain with painted underglaze and applied decoration.PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 7.5 cm wide, 8.5 cm tall. CONDITION: restoration to the broken piece, good blue color.

This is a very beautifully potted and unusual Yuan Dynasty(1277-1367) qingbai (yingqing) meiping or plum vase. It has a thick foot base then rise slightly upward to a beaded and slightly baluster body with a slightly rounded and then flat shoulder and then rising to a single loop neck. The design is that of moulded lotus flowers and leaf in various stages of flowering in four carthouces on the shoulder as well as the body. On the lower part of the meiping, towards the base, there are three layer...

Description:
A Jizhou bowl was applied with dark brown nearing black glaze on the surface.
Characteristically and famously a leaf pattern was applied in the cavetto.
By greasy-feel quality belong to the Jizhou glaze, the surface was spread with subtle crackles which were caused by the age.
The body clay revealed at the bottom was in soft and loosening quality which was in line with the characteristics of the dated Jizhou wares.
The leaf design was vivid with stems...

A Longquan celadon dish, decorated in the center with an impressively of twin fish dish and covered overall with pale bluish green glaze. Condition : two tiny chips to the rim. Diameter: 12.5 cm.

Beautiful foliated small dish covered with crackled white glaze. Unglaze base. Song Dynasty. Width = 13.1 cm Condition : perfect, mint

Longquan washer bowl covered with blish celadon glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 南宋 (1127–1279). Measurement : Diameter: 11 11.8 cm height = 3.6 cm. Condition : no chips, cracks or hairlines and free restorations.

This is a Northern Song - Jin dynasty cizhou sancai dish with incised lotus design, with green and brown colour enamel. It stands on a short foot rim and then everted into a u-shaped body. The centre of the dish is incised with a single lotus flower with a large open leaf below it. The lotus is painted with a shade of brown colour on the inner side and the outer side a dark cream colour. The lotus leaf is painted in green colour with brown shading on the inner side. The design is surrounded with...

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A Jizhou bowl was characteristically yielded on the surface with striking kiln effects(Yaobian).
Transparent and in flowing look, the glaze was suffused with mix tints of milky brown blue and white colours.
The bowl was finely mold in typical Wan form when flat bottom with shallow foot ring was supported underside.
Frets were found around the mouth rim and old crackles were rendered in the glaze due to age.

Date: Southern Song Dynasty, 12th century.

Bowl decorated with chrysantemum spray on the center, chrysantemum scroll on the exterior, and classic scroll on the inside rim. Porcelain with painted underglaze and applied decoration.PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 12 cm wide, 5.5 cm tall. CONDITION: restoration to the broken artefact.

Diameter 14 cm Perfect condition, no chips, cracks or hairlies and free from restorations.

Description: A lovely celadon Longquan jarlet was excavated intact. By an interesting lotus-leaf cover, the small pot was applied on the surface with dark olive-green glaze. In a perfect condition except one minor imperfection of shrinking-glaze on the body, some foggy-look condition was obvious in the glaze. It was a characteristic for excavation pieces. Firing-red tint was obviously revealed at the body clay. The jarlet was in adequate size which would be fine for caressing in your palms. It w...

Description:

A pair of Jianyang hare-furs tea bowls was well mold in fine shape.
In evert mouth rim, the bowls were stand by circular foot rings.
Characteristic of smoothened surface was found at the foot ring where the body clay was revealed. It was caused due to age.
Incursions were also found on the mouth rim.
They were in lovely sizes- very hard to find on the market, but ideally for tea ceremony.

Date: Southern Song dynasty, 1127-1279.

Condition: Per...

Stoneware jar with black glaze and brown spots. H. 12 cm, diameter 14,5 cm. Minor chips to the inside of the mouth rim. Song Dynasty (960-1279)

Description:

A white-glazed incense burner was mold in stem foot.
Wheel-turned in flat circular rim and with trumpet foot, this porcelain ware was in form of the characteristic metal counterpart of the dated periods or earlier.
It was in perfect condition with only one minute dent on the rim. It was caused before glazing.
Obvious burial characteristics were preserved for verification.
An old auction tag was kept.

Date: Northern Song Dynasty, 960-1127.

Heig...

Longquan plate/bowl covered with greyish green celadon glaze. Glazed Base. Southern Song 南宋 (1127–1279). Measurement : Diameter: 14.3 cm. Condition : perfect, no chips, cracks or hairlines and free from restorations. ...

Rare Finely Detailed Chinese Song Dynasty Incised Celadon Porcelain Bowl

This very attractive porcelain bowl was made during the 12th or 13th century at one of the kilns in Fujian province, where such wares were made for export around south-east Asia; indeed the silky-matt feel and appearance of the glaze suggest this bowl has been recovered from a shipwreck.

The incised pattern is particularly fine and well-executed. In the centre is what appears to be a lotus flower surrounded by flor...

Porcelain covered with green glaze to the foot, glazed base. PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 9 cm wide, 6.5 cm tall. CONDITION: two frittings to the foot and minor restoration to the frittings on the rim.

Description: A wonderful Jun bowl was with purple splashes in the cavetto in strong form. Molded in quite good size of 15.8cm in width, the bowl was applied with characteristic sky-blue glaze inside and out of the surface only stop short of the foot ring. While was shaped in sleek skill, the steep and unglazed foot ring was cut to a domed shape on the bottom and was slanted outward forming a good angle as a firm support. The molding scars were left obviously at the center of the foot ring. The n...

Description:

A Jianyang tea bowl was applied with rarely-seen white slip.
Nicknamed as "Butter Bowl" by local collecters by it's yellowish white tint, the bowl was revealed with black-tinted body clay at the bottom.
It was preserved very well when all the necessary characteristics were owned for authentication.
Not easily seen in the documentation, but some are in the Museum of Fujian Province.

It was really a museum piece especially for collection and study of Jiany...

A large and nice jun yao bowl of sky blue colour. It stands on a short recessed foot rin and then everted upwards towards a slightly straighten side and then towards the rim it folds slightly inwards. There is a slight colour variation between the actual bowl glaze and the photograph taken.

In good condition. No repair or restoration, there are abrasion, minute bubble burst, pin hole and minute glaze fritting.

The measurement of the jun yao bowl: The diameter is 18.5cm and ...

Thin porcelain of washer bowl covered with blue green celadon glaze to the foot, glazed base. PERIOD : Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 13.5 cm wide. CONDITION: two chips, no cracks or hairlines and free from restorations

Charger covered with green glaze and decorated with chrysantemum on the center; glazed base. PERIOD : Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 34 cm wide. CONDITION: glaze degradation, no chips, cracks, hairlines or restorations. Good sound when tapping by finger tips.

White-glazed ceramic ewer with globular body and arched handle. PERIOD : Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD) MEASUREMENTS: 12 cm tall and 12 cm wide. CONDITION: good, frittings to the rim, no cracks, hairlines or restorations.

This is a finely potted Song dynasty qingpai covered box in the shape of pumpkin from the Hutian yao kiln. The colour is that of aqua sea greenish glzed.

Generally in good condition with the exception of some minor chip at the base of the covered box. Other wise no chip, crack, resoration or repair. Glaze in good condition. No glaze crazing or fritting.

The measurement of the pumpkin shaped covered box: the height is 11.2con and the diameter is 10.5cm.

ecklace is comprised of greenstone beads, some jade, with a jade pendant carved in shape of frog. The silver beads are not pre-columbian, but vintage or antique. Necklace measures 18 1/2" long, with pendant 1 1/2" long. Beads include barrel shapes, round, flattened round discs, and irregular stone nuggets. The beads vary in color, all with some green, most with some brown or yellowish matrix. Clasp is S hook, unmarked, so is likely silver plate. Restrung within last 10 years on braided m...