Late Meiji (1880s-1910s) Japanese chaire (tea caddy for storing powdered green tea used in tea ceremony) with ivory cover. Seto ware with stoneware body of katatsuki shape. Fantastic light brown glaze with deeper brown runs all over. Potter’s seal by the bottom, typical Japanese elliptical lines on the bottom left by a string used to cut the item off the turning wheel. Turned ivory (characteristic ivory cross hatching pattern can be seen on Enlargement 6) cover lined with gold paper on the insid ...click for details
19th century Japanese ceramic chawan (tea bowl) for tea ceremony with mottled orange and white glaze. Aka-Raku (red Raku) pottery produced in the Kyoto region. Excellent design, beautiful potting with body first turned and then formed by fingers, spiral line on the bottom of the bowl showing the way potter finished turning the piece. Great crackled glaze, inscribed by the potter on the body by the foot. Very attractive object, well-used, in great condition. Comes with new box inscribed on the to ...click for details
Late Meiji - early Taisho (1910s-1920s) Japanese pottery Raku ware natsume (tea caddy for storing powdered tea used in the final portion of tea ceremony) of cylindrical shape slightly widening towards the top. Wonderful potting, beautiful purplish glaze with salad green decoration of two long-tailed birds and a butterfly in flight. Very beautiful crackle to the glaze, pleasant patina. Great elegant piece in excellent condition, comes with wrapping cloth and original kiriwood box inscribed by the ...click for details
Late Meiji (1880s-1910s) Japanese ceramic chaire (tea caddy for storing powdered green tea used in tea ceremony) of squat shape with a top handle. Seto ware with variegated brown glaze and cream splashes around its mouth and shoulders. Buff body, concentric lines on the bottom. Inscribed with a potter’s mark by the bottom, very nice patina. Old resin lid is lined with gilded paper on the inside. Beautiful piece in excellent condition, comes with wrapping cloth and new wooden box, height with cov ...click for details
18th century unmounted Tibetan thangka depicting Vaishravana (Kubera) - one of the Four Great Kings and the Guardian of the North. He is also worshipped as the God of Wealth and the promoter of prosperity. He is sitting on a lion standing on a lotus throne, and in his left hand he is holding his usual companion - a jewel-spouting mongoose, symbolizing the deliverance of living beings from poverty. Central figure is surrounded by his eight attendants, the Ashvapatis (riders), protectors of the Ei ...click for details
18th century (could be earlier) Tibetan bronze vajra - the primary symbol and ritual implement in Tantric Buddhism. It symbolizes the essence of esoteric practices and the perfected state of reality. This vajra has 9 prongs on each end - one at the center and four at the cardinal directions symbolizing five cosmic Buddhas, with the four intercardinal prongs symbolizing four consorts of the directional Buddhas. It also symbolizes the nine vehicles or yanas, and all other groups of eight surroundi ...click for details
Good size 19th century (can be earlier) Tibetan turned burl wood dish / stand with massive high foot for temple offerings. Very nicely turned, in great shape, usual burl wood blemishes, fantastic dark patina on beautiful wood. Very pleasant piece with wonderful feel of age. Diameter 6 1/2 inches, height 3 5/8 inches.
19th century Chinese export silver open salt in a shape of a bamboo section with low relief sprays of bamboo on the sides and glass insert. Excellent crisp work, in very good condition, hallmarked with 2 stamps on the bottom - one with Chinese characters, and the other one with letters HC. Wonderful old piece in great condition. Height 1 3/8 inches.
Pair of 19th century Chinese export silver open salt and pepper shaker, each on 3 makara (mythical dragon-fish) shaped feet, and engraved with bamboo leaves on punched ground, all under a key fret border. Excellent crisp work, hallmarked with Chinese stamp on the bottom of the salt. Pepper shaker height 1 15/16 inches.
19th century Chinese bronze scholar’s seal with a thoughtful monkey resting on an oval base. Wonderful piece with very good casting and chiseling, great thought face, beautiful patina on the surface. Nicely carved characters on the base, traces of red seal paste in the grooves. Excellent piece for scholar’s table. Height 1 5/16 inches, base 1 inch long.
