Description: A stone inkstone was in a simple and plain form. By a characteristic “Chao-Sou” form which was named after its easy-handle type, or “Lu-Xin”-shoes like form, the inlstone was carved from solid stone and was shaped regularly in a rectangular form. Starting from the wider side, the grinding surface was sloped slowly to the other side and being as an ink pool.
The inkstone is in quite good size of 15.5cm in length. It was carved by an affluent craftsmanship...
The front of this Tibetan wooden snuff bottle is covered with silver repousse ornamentation. The back is surface is also silver.
The bottle is 5 inches x 4 inches x 2.5 inches.
A small koro made of porcelain with a splendid celadon glaze, in the style of the famous Chinese Song Longquan tripod censers. The pierced lid in silvered metal with design of clouds. Bottom with signature in cartouche. Condition: fine, minor surface scratches caused by the lid. Dimension: 7.4 cm high, diameter: 8 cm. Weight: 228 g.
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...
"Mountain Bridge in Spring, Jackson, New Hampshire" by Roger Deering (American, 1904 - ?) Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches, dated 1968 & signed in lower right. A landscape painting of a covered bridge in Jackson, NH, painted in May 1968 by the Maine artist Roger Deering. Signed by the artist in the lower right and also with the artist’s name, title and date on the stretcher, and offered in what is probably the artist’s original frame...
An oval domed jade plaque of pale celadon color. Beautifully carved in relief with design of two scholars in a landscape. The reverse side with tiny drilled holes for mounting. Condition: fine. Dimension: 7.1 cm high x 7.9 cm wide, 1.7 cm deep. Weight: 64 g.
A polychrome dish, decorated in the center with a fish among water weeds, cavetto sides with chrysanthemum scrolls, alike motif to underside. Ming dynasty 16th century Zhengde-Jiajing phase. Condition is perfect excepted a bit warped. Diameter: 21cm.
A very rare found of Fujian Southern-Song black ware Temmoku, decorated at the rim, interior and exterior with russet marking in iron oxide. The shape, foot rim, glaze and clay it's indicated as Jian ware which only a few examples has been survived. Condition with D shape re-stuck and leaving with a large chip missing to rim. Restoration available till invisible for free included deal price. Diameter: 12.7cm, High: 7.1cm, Foot diam: 3.8cm.
A fine polychrome dish, decorated with green,red and yellow enamels of flower sprays to interior, brown glaze finished to rim and the exterior is plain. Early Qing dynasty Kangxi period in perfect condition. Diameter: 22.3cm.
A rare Ming dynasty 17th century Wanli period blue and white big bowl, rounded side with bracket lobbed rim and glazed base, bowl decorated with under glaze blue of galloping horse at the exterior and weaves at interior, center also with horse and weaves, ruyi cloud motif at lower part.
Bowl is in good condition with a faint hairline on the rim, no chip, no restoration.
Size: 22 cm diameter.
A Song dynasty longquan celadon big bowl, rounded side with unglazed base, bowl decorated with rising lotus petal motif at exterior, center with flower motif.
Bowl is in good condition no chip no restoration, some crackled glaze at the surface.
Size: 21 cm diameter.
Description: An old wood incense utensil's holder was intriguingly carved from one original wood trunk. Making use the fine quality Huali wood, the scholar piece was rendered delicately on the top around the rims of the hole and around the top. Being preserved with the original old patina, the wood scholar item was in good size of 16.3cm in height and in perfect condition. Date: Qing dynasty(19th century), Height: 16.3cm. Material: Huali wood. A CUSTOM MADE SILK BOX IS INCLUDED.
Offered for consideration is a rare and often overlooked pharmacy tool-of-the-trade called a Pill Rounder (Pill Finisher)that dates to the late 1900s.
A pill rounder was used to create perfect pill spheres just prior to the pill being dusted with powder.
Made of a light colored hardwood, this pill rounder is in fine condition and is double sided which means that it was used to finish two different diameter pills...
A Georgian 12-1/8" sterling silver stuffing or dressing spoon circa 1809. This fine antique serving item is fully hallmarked for London, England 1809-10 and it is in the Fiddle pattern. Made by William Eley, William Fearn & William Chawner (registered 1808), one of the most notable families of English spoon makers. Examples with a largish bowl like this are great serving spoons for many occasions...
A really valuable example of the middle Ming Jiajing phase, decorated outside with reverse a white on blue of two flying dragons among clouds to upper side, rocks and waves to the bottom. Inside the center with a crane flight among clouds. Four character mark Fu Que Jia Zhi to base. Founded at Moluccas Halmahera island site. Condition is re-stuck with no missing pieces, two hairlines, done and locked by glue repaired. Diameter: 12cm.
A b/w bowl with flared rim, decorated at exterior cavetto with a scroll of lotus flowers supporting Buddhist emblems beneath a border of classic scrolls. The interior center with medallion consist of six lotus panels each framing a Sanskrit character. On the cavetto, there are fungus/ruyi scrolls, each of which supports a Sanskrit character beneath a trellis border, all design painted in good cobalt-blue material. Ming dynasty late 15th to early 16th century, late Chenghua to Hongzhi phase...
A fine Qingbai bottle vase with balance potted in pear-shape form, decorated with incised of freely drawn scrolls motif to the lower part and covered overall with pale greenish Qingbai glaze. Unglazed base slightly concave. Southern Song dynasty Jindezhen ware excavated on South-Sulawesi area in perfect condition. High: 25.5cm
This hand made beater board was used with an old backstrap loop by one of the hill tribes of northern Thailand. Now, as a folk art tool from another culture, it is an authentic ethnographic artifact and is also an interesting piece of sculpture.
The beater board is 4 inches wide and 27+ inches long, and has lost a few "teeth" with age.