Roy Hu's Asian Art 竹溪小隱
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1837 VR item #1363434 (stock #Lot1121)
Hu's Collection
$300.00
One nice set of cup/stand was well mold.
It was applied on the surface with persimmon glaze. The body clay revealed was whitish gray tint.
Both were in old feel.
Date: Ming periods.
Cup width : 7.2cm
Stand width : 11cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Hardstones : Pre 1700 item #1301797 (stock #Lot1090)
Hu's Collection
$800.00
Description:
A Houtien jade horse was nicely carved.
In crouching posture, the horse was rendered in simple carvings.
Old condition was kept for verification.

Date: Ming Dynasty, 15th century.

Width: 4.5cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1900 item #1144064 (stock #lot983)
Hu's Collection
$800.00
Description:

A root wood carving of a goose was well depicted in vivid form.
In perfect condition and nice patina preserved, the small bird was in charming look by standing on herself.

Date: Qing Dynasty, 19th century.

Width: 10cm, Height: 6.2cm.

A CUSTOM-MADE SILK BOX IS INCLUDED.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1444153 (stock #Lot1187)
Hu's Collection
$3000.00
Minute restoration on the nose's tip, otherwise is in good condition.

Height with Stand:43cm.

Height without Stand :27cm.

It was from an old collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1201913 (stock #Lot1044)
Hu's Collection
Price on Request
Description:
A finely potted Zadou was in nice form.
Well glazed in golden tint, the ware obtained the time-enduring characteristics by immensely spread crackles, the iridescent effect reflected inside the body, the spiral-like scars left at the bottom (they were caused by the potter when they moved the vessel from the mill by a wire.) and the old-looking surface.
It was kept in perfect condition except some time-caused frets on the mouth rim...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1050705 (stock #lot824)
Hu's Collection
SOLD
Description:

A Cizhou gourd bottle was in lovely shape and was in striking image of russet mottles on the surface.
Well preserved and owned the very characteristics for authentication, the bottle can an important and charming item in early Chinese ceramics' collection.

Date: Yuan Dynasty, 14th century.

Height: 18.5cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #1042229 (stock #lot804)
Hu's Collection
$1200.00
Description:

A celadon ewer or water dropper was intriguingly mold as chicken pot.
By cute-looking spout and simple-form wings, the porcelain pot was applied with glass-sheen glaze all over the surface.
On the unglazed bottom, the dense-feel clay was revealed and was with adhesives of burial earth.
Crackles and abrasions were resulted from incursions too.
It was kept in very fine condition...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1900 item #1044903 (stock #lot810)
Hu's Collection
$600.00
Description:

A pair of bronze mirrors was intriguingly set into one piece.
As in a hidden look, the erotic motifs were only revealed when turning over the bronze plates.
They were well cast in solid form and were preserved in a latter-lade linen wood box.

Date: Qing Dynasty, 19th century.

Width: 8.5cm, Depth: 1.1cm.

Weight: 363 gram.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Snuff Bottles : Pre 1900 item #1004478 (stock #lot741)
Hu's Collection
SOLD
Description:

A fish-shaped snuff bottle was in treasurable ivory material.
Finely carved in details and adapted with a charming coral topped dipper, the snuff bottle was in perfect condition without any defects.

Date: Qing Dynasty, 19th century.

Length: 6.0cm including cap.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1920 item #1020057 (stock #lot762)
Hu's Collection
$500.00
Description:

A straight bamboo stalk was well shaped into a useful walking stick.
In very good condition,the bamboo stick was preserved with nice patina and can be as firm as being used now. A new plastic plug was added at the tip.

Date: 1950s

Length: 88cm.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1920 item #1453617 (stock #lot1202)
Hu's Collection
$ 350.00
One Crack line is found inside.
And there are some old restorations on the outside.
Width: 11.5cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1930 item #1475956 (stock #lot1243)
Hu's Collection
$350.00
A wood brush pot was in nice form.
It was well preserved despite the bottom cover was lost and was replaced by an old plank of wood.
The surface was in kind of dry-feel and in pale tint. But I believe it can be transformed easily by rubbing with wood wax and changed to a beautifulcolor.

Date: late Qing to early republic periods, 19th/20th C.

Height: 15.5cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Hardstones : Pre 1492 item #512857 (stock #lot183)
Hu's Collection
$250.00
Description: A beautiful pair of agate beads were excavated from Liao tomb. With still glittery condition, incursions was obvious on the surface with milky white tone. Date: Liao Dynasty(AD907-1125) Width: 1.6cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1463150 (stock #lot1218)
Hu's Collection
$200.00
A Pair of bronze Coins was issued by Wang Mang 王莽 of the short-lived Xin dynasty新朝(AD9年-23年) 。
The 'hanging needle' script on the coin is special.
The last picture is from Numismatic Museum in Beijing.

Length: 5.9cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1429626 (stock #Lot1081)
Hu's Collection
$2500.00
A set of archaic stone carvings were rarely found in pairs.
Obviously excavated from an ancient noble people's tomb, the pairs was used as protection guardians...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1152559 (stock #lot992)
Hu's Collection
SOLD
Descriptions:

A pair of Cizhou vase was in the same form of floral mouth rim but with different glaze.
They were found in same origin.
They were unique in different characteristics.
The black vase was decorated on the bulge body with ribbed lines when another vase was painted with green slip on the surface.
They were both in very good condition with obvious incursions to the glaze.
One minute glaze defect was found at the lower portion of the stem foot...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1281954 (stock #Lot1080)
Hu's Collection
$800.00
Description:

A pair of Jianyang hare-furs tea bowls was well mold in fine shape.
In evert mouth rim, the bowls were stand by circular foot rings.
Characteristic abrasion was found at the foot ring where the body clay was covered with burial adhesives.
Incursions were also found on the mouth rim.
They were in lovely sizes- very hard to find on the market, but ideally for tea ceremony.

Date: Southern Song dynasty, 1127-1279...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #640502 (stock #lot278)
Hu's Collection
$1500.00
Description:
In abstract form, a pair of stone tiger weights of Han dynasty was preserved in original excavation condition.
Covered all over the surface with adhering earth coatings, the images of recumbent tigers were still revealed by the silhouettes.
Han-Bar-Dao, a typical carving skill of Han Dynasty was used on two of the pieces.
In simple and clear carving skill, the images of two tigers were vaguely and subtly rendered...