A Chinese temple sculpture of a fisherman being lifted from the sea on the back of a large fish. A folk art carving and likely one of a myriad of wooden figures from a rural Tin Hau Temple depicting various miracles involving the Queen of Heaven (or Tin Hau, also Thien Hau, Mazu or Matsu) who is, among other things, patroness and rescuer of sailors and fishermen. The peasant, sun-burnt fisherman is bare-chested, wearing a red scarf around his shoulders and a red sash around his waist. Both t ...click for details
A very large, elegant and highly unusual, signed Yixing (I-Hsing) teapot of the Shou Xing type by the famous potter Shi Jinting. The very long, upright handle is decorated allover with carved nuts and leaves, a pattern which is continued onto the body. The teapot stands approximately 18 inches tall and is in excellent condition with careful wear and patina from use but without cracks or chips. The lid is stamped twice with a gourd-shaped seal containing the two characters “Yu Feng” referring ...click for details
Circa 1890-1940. This is a charming miniature hardstone carving of greyish-lavender color depicting dramatic mountain peaks, clouds, trees and foliage rendered in the style of classical Chinese landscape painting. The carving is attached to its original and traditional fitted display stand of a contrasting darker colored stone. In very good condition with only superficial and minute scratches without cracks or chips. Dimensions & Weight: approximately 9.7cm (3-3/4”) high x 6.7cm (2-5/8” ...click for details
A GOOD SET OF FOUR CHINESE DREAMSTONE PANELS, a total of 16 framed landscape scenes in Dali marble (limestone) resembling scholary Chinese brush paintings in black ink with very subtle variations in brown, dark green, grey and occasional suffusions of yellow-orange and red. The relationship of dreamstone panels to the connoiseurship of Chinese scholar’s rocks (gongshi) and other nature-derived Chinese literati art forms should be immediately apparent.
There are four scenes per frame whic ...click for details
A MINIATURE SCHOLAR’S ROCK or gongshi. A wonderful and naturally formed scholar’s rock with a variegated but overall waxy white color. This is a superior miniature with all the desirable traits of larger scholar’s rocks, elegant and bordering between the abstract and the figural. The tiny “spirit stone” has been fitted to a small and finely carved formal stand with four tiny raised feet and fashioned from one piece of dense Asian hardwood of a light variety of Asian hardwood known as hongmu. ...click for details
A CHINESE BRUSH PAINTING FROM THE SHANGHAI SCHOOL: MAGPIE ON PRUNUS BRANCHES BY SHI WAY SHYY (1901). An energetic and spirited black ink scroll painting competently executed in the bold spontaneous strokes characteristic of the Shanghai school of Chinese brush painting. The subject matter is a magpie perched on prunus branches depicted in late winter bloom. We have not identified the painter who seems to use the sobriquet of “Taste Plum.” The seal is “Shi Way Shyy” which seems to refer to a ...click for details
