All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1837 VR item #138142 (stock #g1)
This is a lovely famille verte emanel on biscuit stand having a Mongolian leading a horse through a sparse landscape; the contoured edge is finished with a floral border in excellent condition. Measurements: 8" x 8".
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1268348 (stock #CER-007)
A Cizhou ceramic pillow with an ivory colored glaze which continues to a little above the base. The center of the headrest is painted fluidly with a floral spray in a brown iron pigment while a loose band of three freely incised lines encircle the flower. The base is left unglazed. Period: Song (10th Century) Size: Width = 23.5 cm (9-1/4 inches) Condition: No chips, cracks or repairs. Some loss of the glaze on both top edges.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #872554 (stock #3218)
A Qingpai small pear-shaped vase with fluted sides body in perfect condition excepted slight degradation to glaze. Southern Song dynasty. High: 9.2cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #665313 (stock #2628)
A rare found of green glazed 'Kendi' with mammary spout and a dragon in applied relief, base flat unglazed. This kind of ware has been identified with 14th century Tz'u-Tsao kiln ware at Quanzhou Fujian province. Fairly good condition with no any restoration. High: 19.8cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #699519
Chinese late Qing to early Republic period ceramic modeled container shaped like a "ha ma," or toad, with a hollow body and flat base covered in a monochrome pearl glaze with a seeded finish. Measures about 10 ½”L x 9 ¼”W x 6”H. There are some old surface cracks visible. The back section appears to have been restored and the gray areas in the pearl glaze appear to be old restorations which were executed in China...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #647775 (stock #2545)
A definitely rare polychrome enamel bowl, decorated outside with five double lotus blossom in red and yellow among cloud scrolls in green enamel, unusual border of hanging 'ruyi' to the foot rim...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #657921 (stock #2597)
A fine b/w bowl, decorated with precious emblems supported by continuously chrysanthemum scroll below encircled key-fret pattern to the rim. The interior with a blossom of peony within double circle and Tibetan characters around the inner rim. Condition is excellent considered it's an excavated piece with no any chips, no cracks and free from restoration. Ming dynasty late 15th to early 16th century. Diameter: 14.5cm and High: 7cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #663533 (stock #2618)
A Pair of Blue & White in square form small dish, each decorated with flowers and Butterfly, Late Ming 16th century Jiajing period. Good condition except each with fritting rim, no crack and free from restoration. Dimensions: 8.2 cm x 8.2 cm
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #720882 (stock #lot392)
Description: Can it be a marvelous addition to your jade collection when it is worn on your or your beloved one's finger and is admired by the gazing eyes. A slender jade ring in warm yellowish tint was exquisitely carved on the surface in several rectangular sections...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #607840 (stock #2420)
A nice celadon cup with globular body, covered overall with a powder green even slightly bluish tone and ice crackled appears to the glaze. Unglazed around the rim area. Song dynasty Longquan ware "Guan" type. Condition is perfect except tiny flake chips to rim. Diameter: 9.2 cm and High: 4.1 cm
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #791551 (stock #lot479)
Description: An archaic turquoise pendant was carved into two crouching Chilongs around a circular Huang. By ferocious features and animated postures, the fairy animals were rendered deliberately in every detail. From the characteristic features including the grooved spines, strenuous hips, legs, and claws, and the tiger-like heads, this carving piece embodied all the essential points in authenticating the Han date...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1920 item #1178317
Pair late Qing dynasty porcelain bowls. Overglaze decoration in blue and green enamel of peonies. Also decorated with inscriptions in gilt enamel and chop marks in red enamel. The rims an intentional, attractive caramel colored burnt biscuit. Apocryphal Qianlong seal marks in blue under the glaze. One in good condition with only minor enamel loss and light rubbing inside the bowl. The other also with an old, small area of repair along the outside of the rim...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #636665 (stock #lot273)
Description: With incurving rim, a small Jun bowl was shaped elegantly. In two purple splashed strokes, the bowl was added with more charming atmosphere. Being glazed over all inside and outside of the surface, the bowl’s foot ring was left unglazed in a firm and regular shape. Incursions were amid the glaze cracks when earth was adherent to the pinheads of the burst bubbles. Date: Song or Jin period(AD960-1234). Width: 9 cm
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #448772 (stock #008)
Ming dynasty blue & white large dish, collected in Ternate/Halmahera island Indonesia,my opinion it is from heirloom pieces and not from excavated pieces. Diameter: 45.5 cm. The condition before restoration appears on enlargement 10 & 11.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #791880 (stock #2923)
A real good and extraordinary state glaze of Longquan celadon jar, such like never touched by age, decorated to exterior with ribs line, covered overall with sea green glaze. Longquan ware 13th-14th century. Condition with glaze hairlines like appear on enlargement 5 & 7, no any problem further. High: 10.5cm and Wide: 13.3cm.