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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

Description:

A solid cast bronze toad was finely rendered in a vivid way.
By a crouching posture, the momentum was gathered fully by the frog which is ready for a flying bug.
The bronze piece was very well depicted not only the outlook but also in the details on the surface, the toad’s skin. The irregular lumps and bumps may not be delightful but were manufactured so well as to activate the bronze frog to a real one...

Description: A jade pendant was lovely carved in bats and peach. By a Chinese metaphor-"Fu So Xuang Zhi"-Good Fortune and Longivity Come Together, the jade piece was in a pattern of two flying bats surrounding a peach. It was in light buff tint while some suffusions were happened in some portions in blackish color. The black tint was called by connoisseur as “ Xui Yin Chin” - incursions caused from buried mineral mercury, and was a selective item too...

An amazing sterling and coral concho belt by Cochiti silversmith Joe H. Quintana. There are 12 conchos measuring 2" horizontally and 1 1/2" vertically in addition to the belt buckle with center coral measuring 2 1/4" horizontally and 1 1/4" vertically. The leather belt including the buckle measures 38 1/4" end to end and the leather is 1 1/4" wide. All in fine original condition and weighing a total of 257 grams. Hallmarked JHQ on the reverse of the buckle...

A magnificent sterling and Mediterranean coral bracelet by Creek/Navajo artist David Tune. The design and construction are superb and the clasp is inspired. Rich, red stones all in fine original condition, free of chips or cracks. Measuring 7 1/4" end to end, 1 3/8" wide and 144 grams. Hallmarked with the stamped symbols for David Tune. He has been the winner of countless awards for his jewelry and this bracelet surely explains why.

An extraordinarily RARE 19th CENTURY piece of Black Americana advertising featuring a fabulous graphic of 2 young African American painters holding a "White-Wash Boy's Hydrated Lime" box.

This product was produced by the lime manufacturers, Hatmaker and Place, of Canaan, Connecticut, in the late 1800s. This small company was located within a large "lime belt" that stretched from Connecticut to Vermont...

An exquisite pair!!!

These mint condition, 1940s, PEARL CHINA Black Chef and Mammy salt and pepper shakers are simply outstanding!

Measuring a super-size 7.50 inches high, this exceptionally large salt and pepper pair are meant for stove-top and not table-top use, thus their robust dimensions!

The pair are in mint condition and likely were never used...

Description: The ovoid pot was suffused with striking purple bluish splashes on the surface. Standing on a circular solid foot with beveled edge, the jar has a bulge shoulder and a rolled rim to the mouth. A typical product from Duandian kiln Lusan county, Henan province of Tang Dynasty(8th-9th century) like this ware was preserved very well with obvious incursions left on the glaze. Some molding defects were found on the foot bottom and the burial dirt was hardened to the chips...

Measuring 8 inches long x 4 1/2 inches wide x 4 inches high, this colorful, 1920's, tin lithographed, wind-up toy featuring a Black Native Riding a Turtle is quite visually appealing!!

In very nice condition with minor scratches to paint here and there as seen in photos, this wind-up toy works, but the mechanism does have the tendency to stick a little. Marked J. Chein.

A must-have for the avid Black Memorabilia Toy collector!

This is a finely potted 8 lobed qingbai ewer from the Yuan dynasty. It stand on a flatten base with a sunken centre. On the base, there are also 4 iron brown spur mark. The good quality glaze with a tinge of bluish hue suggest that it could be from the Hutian kiln, the most famous kiln complex in the Jingdezhan area.

With the exception of some abrasion and a black spot (pic 5) on the body due possibly to the ash flake, the 8 lobbed qingbai ewer is in very good condition. It does not a...

A set of seven (7) miniature paintings on canvas of winged Tibetan protector deities and gods surrounded by flames including Vajrapani and Yama Dharma Raja. Four (4) of the miniatures are finely executed line drawings with color washes on a light-weight canvas. These four appear to have been done by the same artist and are of approximately the same size. The other three are painted on a heavier canvas - two of which are painted in full with darker pigments. The last of the seven is a red line...