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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre 1700 item #1489661 (stock #MC388)
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Tall Chinese Ming Dynasty Glazed Pottery Figure

This pottery model of an official figure was made during the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). It is quite highly-fired and made from a pale pinkish-brown pottery and includes an integral hexagonal plinth on which the figure stands. The head has been made separately and slots into the hole at the neck. The figure has been coated in green and amber glazes that have, over much of their surfaces, acquired a silvery iridescence, a result of long burial i...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1489662 (stock #MC387)
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Chinese Han Dynasty Glazed Pottery Lian Tripod with Bear Feet

This pottery vessel, its form known as a "lian", was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is made from a red pottery and relatively highly-fired. The wide cylindrical body stands on three feet moulded into the form of bears. There are a series of recessed decorative bands around the body. It is coated in a green glaze that has in places acquired a silvery iridescence, a result of exposure to moisture during its long ...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1489743 (stock #MC399)
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Fine Chinese Yuan / Ming Dynasty Celadon Glazed Stoneware Bowl

This attractively-shaped bowl was made in the 13th - 14th century during the Yuan (AD 1279 - 1368) or early Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). It is particularly "heavily-potted" and coated in quite a thick finely-crackled celadon glaze save for the unglazed stacking ring in its centre and its heavy foot. The glaze has a very pleasant "silky-smooth" feel to it. This high-fired type of ware is variously described as stoneware or porcelai...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1489748 (stock #MC392)
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Very Rare Chinese Song / Yuan Dynasty Textured & Interior Glazed Porcelain Wine Cup

This extremely rare (unique?) porcelain wine cup was made during the 12th - 14th Century (Song - Yuan Dynasty). The inner surface is coated in a finely-crackled pale olive-green celadon or qingbai type of glaze. But its most interesting feature is the unglazed textured outer wall, decorated with cord or fabric impressions. There is a firing bubble to the inner surface.

Height 3.8 cm. It is in fine conditi...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1465514 (stock #MT90)
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GBP £165.00
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Rare Chinese Early Tang Dynasty Painted Pottery Figure (AD 618 - 906)

This rare and interesting pottery figure was made during the early part of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). It is made from a grey pottery that is solid (as opposed to being hollow as are the majority of Tang figures) and relatively highly-fired. It has been "cold painted" in various coloured pigments, very good amounts of which still remain. The figure wears a hood and stands alert with his right hand across his chest. Li...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1474385 (stock #P23)
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Chinese Han Dynasty Sichuan Pottery Duck

This pottery model of a duck was made during the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25 - 220) and has been excavated in Sichuan province. It is very "heavily" potted and sturdy, and has been made in a two-part mould. Note the detail of the feathers on its back.

It is of a good size with a length of 17.5 cm. It is in good condition with no obvious sign of restoration or repair.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1488308 (stock #ML022)
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Small Chinese Tang Dynasty Pottery Recumbent Horse

This small pottery model of a recumbent horse was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). It is made from a buff-coloured pottery that has been "cold painted" in a white pigment. Note the detail of the horse's mane and its legs tucked under its body. Length 14 cm. A chip to its front left knee. No obvious sign of any repair.

Our last images above show other Tang Dynasty horses we are selling separately.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1461983 (stock #MB733)
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GBP £150.00
Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar - Siwa Culture (c. 1350 BC)

This attractively-shaped pottery jar dates to the Siwa culture (c. 1350 BC), one of the later Chinese Neolithic cultures overlapping the Bronze Age. It has been fired to an attractive orange-red and has a burnished surface making it smooth to the touch and a pleasure to handle. It has a wide body with a relatively small flat base. There are two loop handles joining the shoulder to the mouth which is of the form sometimes referred to ...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1472121 (stock #MB821)
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Chinese Jin Dynasty Pottery Tile - Performer (AD 1115 - 1234)

This moulded and "heavily-potted" pottery tile was made during the Jin Dynasty (AD 1115 - 1234) and has been excavated from Shanxi province in the northern region of China. Theatre, opera and music was immensely popular during the Jin Dynasty and in recent years various pottery tiles have been excavated depicting a whole range of musicians and characters from various musical and artistic performances. 

This particular tile de...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1482002 (stock #MC233)
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GBP £150.00
Chinese Neolithic Qijia Culture Incised & Cord-Impressed Pottery Jar

This pottery jar was made some 4,000 years ago by peoples of the Neolithic Qijia Culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC), in the north of China, what is now eastern Gansu province. They produced a variety of pottery vessels including cord-impressed pottery of many shapes and sizes. This particular example is quite "heavily-potted" with the upper body decorated by one long incised line that spirals, haphazardly, down from the neck to t...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Ceramics : Pre 1492 item #1484611 (stock #MC123)
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Thai 13th - 15th Century Sawankhalok Stoneware Covered Box

This covered stoneware box was made during the 13th - 15th centuries at the Sawankhalok kilns. It is elaborately decorated in underglaze blue with a ring of yellowish-brown glaze around the moulded top of the cover that is in the form of picked fruit. Diameter 9.75 cm, height 8 cm. There are a couple of fine hairline cracks to the edge of the cover and minor chips to the edge of the box. No repair or restoration; overall a nice examp...

All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : References : Antiques : Contemporary item #1484629 (stock #MB788)
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New Reference Book: Classical Chinese Furniture – Marcus Flacks

Unlike other Asian cultures of the 17th and 18th centuries, the Chinese did not sit on the floor. The simple fact that the Manchu invaders imported highly flexible furniture from their yurts influenced the development of Chinese design and decorative arts. Within a few years of the Manchu invasion, Chinese craftsmen combined their highly refined design aesthetic with extraordinary exotic woods, veneers, and lacquer to create s...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1484639 (stock #MC226)
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GBP £150.00
Chinese Southern Song Dynasty Moulded Qingbai Porcelain Vase

This attractive pear-shaped vase was made during the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1127 - 1279), most likely at one of the kilns in Fujian province. Interestingly it is made in several sections that have been luted together. The mid section is decorated with a scrolling lotus blossom pattern, below which is a repeating lotus leaf pattern. It is coated in a finely-crackled pale greenish-blue qingbai glaze of good colour, the colour at i...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1484974 (stock #MC305)
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GBP £150.00
Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty Glazed Pottery Jar (AD 25 - 220)

This pottery jar of "hu" form was made during the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25 - 220) and comes from Shaanxi province in the northwest of China. It is made from a relatively highly-fired reddish pottery and is quite "heavily-potted". There are decorative incised lines surrounding the jar at its shoulder. The surface of the jar and the inner mouth are coated in a unusual coloured glaze, varying in places from a yellowish olive-green t...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1486242 (stock #MA366)
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GBP £150.00
Chinese Neolithic Painted Pottery Jar - Machang (c. 2300 - 2000 BC)

This twin-handled pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago during the Machang Phase (c. 2300 - 2000 BC) of the Majiayao culture, also known as the Gansu-Yangshao culture, from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. It is relatively highly-fired and made from a buff-coloured pottery with a smooth burnished surface. It has a wide body and two loop handles joined at the waist and upper neck. The outer surface and inner mouth ...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1488031 (stock #MC334)
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GBP £150.00
Chinese Neolithic Twin-Handled Pottery Jar - Qijia Culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC)

This attractively-shaped pottery jar, or cup, was made around 4,000 years ago by peoples of the Neolithic Qijia Culture (c. 2050 - 1700 BC), from what is now eastern Gansu province, China. It is made from a fine-grained grey pottery that is fairly highly-fired. There are two "strap" handles joined at the waist and mouth edge. The surface has been burnished making it smooth to the touch. This form is typical of sma...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1489728 (stock #MC408)
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GBP £150.00
Chinese Southern Song Dynasty Moulded Qingbai Porcelain Vase (with characters)

This attractive pear-shaped vase was made during the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1127 - 1279), most likely at one of the kilns in Fujian province. Interestingly it is made in several sections that have been luted together. The mid section is decorated with a scrolling lotus blossom pattern, below which is a repeating lotus leaf pattern. The body and inner mouth are coated in a pale greenish qingbai glaze that has a ...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1489731 (stock #MC393)
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GBP £150.00
Chinese Song /Yuan Dynasty Qingbai Glazed Incised Porcelain Bowl (with characters)

This porcelain bowl with flared rim was made during the 12th - 13th Century (Late Song - Yuan Dynasty). It is fairly "heavily-potted" and coated in quite a dark greenish qingbai glaze that is finely-crackled. The rim edge remains unglazed and in places has fired to a deep reddish-brown. The inner surface is simply decorated with an abstract incised pattern whereas the underside is more elaborately decorated wi...