All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1900 item #811275 (stock #ZT132)
The front of this Tibetan snuff bottle has deep silver repousse with animals and plants. Top stopper has a long copper spoon. The front has a larger circular opening which is fitted with a matching silver repousse stopper decorated with a piece of turquoise. Both the top and front stoppers are tied to the main bottle with a leather thong to prevent loss. The rear has a design deeply etched into the silver surface.

The bottle is roughly 4 inches high, 3 inches across and 2 inches thick.

All Items : Archives : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Designer Signed : Pre 1960 item #811638
This is a magnificent sterling and Bisbee turquoise necklace and earrings set. The necklace is 17 1/2" end to end and the center dangling arrow shaped piece measures 3" long and 2" at the widest point. Each arrow from the center graduates smaller with the smallest measuring 1 1/4" long and 7/8" wide. The necklace weighs 115 grams. The earrings are screwbacks measuring 2 1/2" long and 1 1/8" wide. They weigh 19 grams.Both pieces are in fine original condition...
All Items : Archives : Decorative Art : Ceramics : American : Pre 1930 item #811990
Niloak Pottery Missionware vase with swirled colors of red, blue, grey, brown and white. Glazed interior. This pot has the first art pottery mark used from 1910 to 1924. No chips, cracks or repairs; minor surface marks. Vase is in as found condition it has not been washed. Pot measures 5 inches in diameter and is 3 1/2 inches tall.
All Items : Archives : Decorative Art : Glass : Italian : Pre 1960 item #811994
Archimedes Seguso bottle with stopper in Merletto glass. The glass is internally decorated with fine lace like pattern of lattimo threads, the whole is cased in clear glass. Flame shaped stopper is clear glass with gold foil inclusions. Both the stopper and bottle neck are ground. There are no chips, cracks or repairs. The bottle has the remnant of a red and silver foil label with scalloped edges, which was used by Seguso in the 1950's...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1920 item #812370 (stock #ZSEA122)
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.

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #812718 (stock #3008)
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
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #813118 (stock #3011)
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...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #814580 (stock #3017)
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.
All Items : Archives : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1837 VR item #814591 (stock #5948)
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...
All Items : Archives : Instruments and Implements : Pre 1900 item #814716 (stock #M957)
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...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #814929 (stock #lot507)
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.
All Items : Archives : Pre 1492 item #815045 (stock #TR 614)
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.
All Items : Archives : Pre 1700 item #815050 (stock #TR 615)
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.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1800 item #815272 (stock #3018)
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.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #815679 (stock #3019)
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.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #815692 (stock #3020)
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.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1900 item #815699 (stock #3721)
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.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1970 item #815867 (stock #26C10E 300)
"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...