All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #1388761
Chinese late Qing dynasty (19th century) front-opening Han style lady's jacket embroidered on the front and back in silk polychrome thread with clusters of flowering plants and butterflies on a dark cobalt blue silk satin ground. Much of the embroidery is executed with the “forbidden stitch.” The sleeve bands are similarly embroidered with flowers and Buddhist swastikas on a white silk ground. Three round floral metal buttons secure the front opening and silk closures secure the neck...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1474100 (stock #MB998)
Fine Chinese Song Dynasty Qingbai Glazed Porcelain Bowl

This fine porcelain bowl was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279). The inner surface is decorated with an incised scrolling stylised floral pattern. There are five "V"-shaped notches spread equidistant around the rim. Its best feature, however, is its translucent pale blue qingbai glaze of such good colour, the glaze also being attractively crackled...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Pre 1492 item #1284717
The stoneware body covered with a thick lavender glaze, a small purple splash on the inside. Diameter: 9 cm, h. 4,7 cm. Condition: normal age wear, stains and crackled glaze. Song Dynasty (960-1279).
All Items : Archives : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Period : Pre 1980 item #1412501 (stock #TR1061)
This estate ring was made by KABANA Jewelry Company. The geometric design is created by onyx and mother of pearl triangular inlays. In the center 4 excellent quality channel set diamonds are in a graduated row. The approximate total weight of all diamonds is 0.15Ct.The width on the top is 11 millimeters graduating to 3 millimeters on the bottom of the shank. The ring is a size 7 ¼ and can be sized.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1920 item #1389722
Chinese Republic period white molded biscuit porcelain seven-piece scholar's desk set decorated in relief with bird and flower motifs...
All Items : Archives : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Period : Pre 1940 item #1375284 (stock #TR914)
A very pretty 14Kt yellow gold filigree flower bracelet from the 1920-s, has a wider center design which is set with three single-cut diamonds. The total weight of the three diamonds is approximately 0.08Ct. The center of the bracelet is ½” wide, the rest is ¼” wide and the length is 6 7/8”.
All Items : Archives : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Mexican : Pre 1960 item #1407660 (stock #190409)
We are offering a signed Los Castillo bracelet with five amethyst stones. They are finer stones with minimal inclusions and truly glow. The strap type bracelet is not often used by Los Castillo and it takes on a Salvador Terran style who did produce some designs with Antonio Castillo. The diameter is 2.25in. and a weight of 102 grams of quality. All five stones sit on top of the wrist and line up small to large in their dish like setting...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1388694
H. 21 cm. excl. stand, 25 cm incl. stand. Ca. 3rd century AD. Ex private collection The Hague, The Netherlands. Ex. Coll. Ostracon, Switzerland.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre AD 1000 item #1345969
Decorated with stylized mythical beasts against a geometrical background. Diameter 9,4 cm. Excellent condition with good age wear and patina. Comes with a custom made stand.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1960 item #1407674
Japanese limited edition sosaku hanga woodblock print depicting three chickens titled “Jealousy” by Kiyoshi Saito (1907-1997) dated 1952. Pencil-signed and numbered 91/300 in the bottom margin. Visible paper size: 14 3/4" x 10 1/4" (image: 13 3/4" x 9 1/4). Framed size: 24 7/8” x 19 3/4.” Visibly in very good overall condition and color. The print is currently framed but can be purchased and shipped either framed or unframed...
All Items : Archives : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Victorian : Pre 1900 item #1421544 (stock #40I61-276)
A pair of Victorian garnet dangle earrings in gold filled settings. Each set with two seed pearls, surrounded with faceted garnet arabesque scroll motif. Circa 1850-1860. Bohemian, with European wires.. Size: 1.75 inches ht.
All Items : Archives : Collectibles : Dolls and Figures : Pre 1900 item #1424898 (stock #740)

Particular rare to find all original fashion doll Tournure of silk and horse-hair , all hand made at early 1870 in France for one of special elegant French Poupee .

A bustle form like this gives a special elegand and curving line for a pretty skirt back and producing the fashionable silhouettes of the couture at 1870 .....

Possible to kept in perfect position by a pair of panels beneath the garment that maybe laced more loosely or tightly , depending upon the desired effec...

All Items : Archives : Decorative Art : Pre 1920 item #881694 (stock #39B14 7879)
Louis Comfort Tiffany art glass bowl of lobed and paneled form, decorated in an iridescent finish, and with grape and vine motifs engraved on the top border and on its bottom. Signed: L.C.T. Favrile. Size: 7 5/8" diameter x 3 1/4" height. Circa 1900-1915. Condition: some discoloration to the interior of the bowl's base; no chips or cracks.
All Items : Archives : Estate Jewelry : Gold : Art Nouveau : Pre 1940 item #1417587 (stock #AN5-301)
A delicately carved mother-of-pearl cameo is surrounded by rose-cut diamonds in this lovely pendant. It is 14 k yellow gold, and the diamonds are set in 14 k white gold. Ten larger and 47 smaller rose-cut diamonds surround the cameo, and nine more diamonds are pave-set on the bail. Overall size is 1 7/8" x 1" including the diamond encrusted bale. The piece is marked [and tested] 14 k gold...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : India : Pre 1910 item #1189360 (stock #581)
A beautiful antique Indian statue of a Hindu female deity standing approx. 14 inches tall finest details patina and form. A beautiful piece would enhance any collection.
All Items : Archives : Decorative Art : Pre 1900 item #1004970 (stock #26C10E 3081)
Figural cow creamer, 800 silver, German, late 19th century. This heavy silver creamer is fashioned in the form of a cow with horns and with a curled tail that serves as the handle. A hinged cover adorned with a fly on the cow's back is used to fill the creamer, and the cream is poured from the cow's mouth. Size: 3 3/4 inches ht. x 5 3/8 inches length x 2 inches depth. 4.76 troy ounces. Condition: one of the cow's legs is bent, but the creamer rests firmly on a table without any wobble...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1960 item #996242 (stock #40F47 254)
Cesare A. Ricciardi (Italian/American, 1892-1973) oil on canvasboard marinescape of a Misty Morning in a New England harbor. Dated 1954. Size: 20 inches x 24 inches. Cesare Ricciardi emigrated from Italy to the United States as a young boy. His art studies began at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, but he eventually enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Thomas Anschutz, Cecilia Beaux, Hugh Breckenridge, Robert Henri and Leopold Seiffert...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #1098010 (stock #38B20 332)
New England folk art theorem with fruit painted on velvet. Circa 1830s. Attractively painted with grapes, peach, lemon, strawberries, pear, cherries, black currants and other fruit. Offered in its original pine frame and wavy glass. Found in a Dorset, Vermont residence. Excellent original condition. Size: 11 inches x 14 inches.