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A Rare Chinese Cinnabar Lacquer Bitong (Brushpot) Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1950 item# 978134
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Early to Late Republic Period (circa 1912–1949). Brushpots are found in a variety of materials both humble and precious: root wood, bamboo, softwoods and hardwoods, marble and jade, bronze and even baitong. However, carved lacquered brushpots from any period are extremely rare and were certainly more expensive to produce than their counterparts in even huanghuali and zitan. By the late Ching, the technique is more often reserved for small precious objects. (See for instance, item 955216 in ...click for details

A Chinese ‘Kong Que Shi’ (Turquoise) Snuff Bottle Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Snuff Bottles: Pre 1920 item# 977476
click for details		Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 $660.00
Fashioned from a single piece of vigorously patterned turquoise, this snuff bottle is of classic form with rounded sides, sloping shoulder, a high neck and raised footrim. The bottle is well-hollowed and fitted with a matching blue glass stopper mounted on a black glass rim. Traditionally considered a type of jade, such patterned turquoise is called ‘kong que shi’ [lit. “peacock stone”]. The unusual pattern renders any added decoration unnecessary. Height with stopper: 6.8cm (2-5/8”) and we ...click for details

Fine Calligraphy Inscription on a Mottled Jade Pendant Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Hardstones: Pre 1900 item# 975943
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A softly-colored, semi-translucent and mottled jade pendant of pale white to celadon color with reddish-brown inclusions and a beautiful black-brown streak through both sides. The plaque depicts, in extremely fine relief, two children at play, marching with triangular-shaped penants, perhaps in mock military maneuvers, under the bough of a meticulously detailed pine tree in a garden pavilion setting, the artful vignette enclosed within a frame, the upper register, pierced at center with a tiny ...click for details

A Strange Fengli Scholar’s Rock with Root Form Stand Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1980 item# 975728
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As beautiful as it is grotesque: a small, vertically oriented scholar’s rock or gongshi (spirit stone), the delicate, pierced and textured FENGLI stone of white to pale grey color with yellowish inclusions suggesting a gap-toothed figure with bulbous and protuberant nose. The top heavy stone is well-balanced and fully detachable from its fine Southern openwork style, dark hardwood stand of rosewood or ebony (wumu) expertly carved to resemble a natural root form. Height (with stand): 18.5cm ( ...click for details

A Small Hardwood Devotional Figure, Ching Dynasty Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Sculpture: Pre 1900 item# 975698
click for details		Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 SOLD. Chia Yi City, Taiwan.
This item has been sold. Thank you. A small hardwood devotional figure, Ching Dynasty, 18th/19th Century. Probably a Daoist god or Chinese folk hero for use in a home shrine. A robed and seated judge or general figure wearing a helmet and/or fabric headress draped over the shoulders and tied across the forehead with a distinct knot at back from which depend two tabs or ribbons, and two tabs forward of the shoulders and flanking the face and which probably determine rank. This figure with fur ...click for details

A Japanese Gold Splashed Bronze GU Form Vase Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1920 item# 974989
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A Japanese Gold Splashed Bronze GU Form Vase. Taisho Period (circa 1910-20). Inspired by the distant rather than recent past, this strikingly modernist Japanese bronze embodies a rejection of European-influenced and over-decorated bronzes of the previous Meiji period. The base bears a three-character studio mark, written in stylized archaistic Chinese characters much in vogue with the literati class of China and Japan during the Early Republic and Taisho periods. The ancient Chinese bronze w ...click for details

An Elegant & Eccentric Gu Form Bronze Dragon Vase Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Pre 1920 item# 972691
click for details		Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 SOLD. Fengdu Xian, China
AN ELEGANT GU FORM BRONZE DRAGON VASE. Probably Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) or earlier (Edo Period) and very possibly Chinese (Ching Dynasty). An eccentric and fanciful interpretation of the ancient Chinese gu or wine vessel, the small lobed or foliate base narrows to a fluted column interrupted only by a narrow collar surrounded by a full bodied qilin or dragon with a long mane and forked tail rendered in the archaic Chinese style above which the fluted neck opens into a generous and ex ...click for details

Winter Prunus Vase: A Large Gu Form Chinese Celadon Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pottery: Pre 1900 item# 969774
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Late Ching Dynasty (circa 1850-1900). This tall, unmarked, bold celadon vase, with its wide flaring trumpet-shaped mouth and inverted base, was intended for the display of long branches of winter prunus as indicated by the traditional flowering motif on both sides of its upper section. Its shape derives from an ancient classical Chinese bronze known as a GU, originally a ritualistic wine beaker, but a form which was adapted during the Song Dynasty and widely popular in both China and Japan as ...click for details

An Elmwood (Jumu) Document Box, Late Ching Dynasty Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1910 item# 969742
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An Elmwood (Jumu) Document Box, Late Ching Dynasty Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1910 item# 969740
click for details		Ruyi Studio San Francisco 415.990.3524 SOLD. SUZHOU CITY, CHINA
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