Roy Hu's Asian Art 竹溪小隱
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1350066 (stock #Lot1114)
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Old wine cups were wrapped by bamboo wires.

Date, Qing Dynasty, 19th century.

Width: 5.8cm, Height:4.6cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1350065 (stock #Lot1113)
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Old wine cups were wrapped by bamboo wires.

Date, Qing Dynasty, 19th century.

Width: 5.8cm, Height: 4.6cm
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1350064 (stock #Lot1112)
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Old wine cups were wrapped by bamboo wires.

Date, Qing Dynasty, 19th century.

Width: 5.8cm, Height: 4.6cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1950 item #1341794 (stock #lot1109)
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Yu-Peng (1955-2014), very famous Taiwanese painter.

It was his original work in fossil pencil from 1970s.

44cm x 32cm with framework.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1837 VR item #1338663 (stock #Lot1108)
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An old soapstone seal was in very good mood of scholar taste.

Two lions were vibrantly rendered on the top of the seal as a knob.

While well maneuvered inscriptions were on four side of the stamp.

For Chinese literati, the scholar taste was most treasured, by the meaning of the inscriptions and by the craftsmanship of the carving on the inscription.The seal obtained all these characteristics.

And the tint of this stone was in great mood too...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1338293 (stock #Lot1107)
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A very rare Jianyang temmoko bowl was in unique firing effects.

Perfect condition.

Width: 12.3cm.

Date: Song Dynasty, 12th Century.

A custom-made cotton box is included.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1326245 (stock #lot401)
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By charming atmosphere and with mysterious beauty, an excavation piece of a jade Bi was presented in a unique form.
As seemly a remnant of a hardstone's boulder of making the jade Bis, the Bi was actually a formal ritual object despite the roughly shaped side and the original stone encrustation preserved.
In ancient times, jade pieces could be always so precious that nothing would be discarded even there're some defects...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1700 item #1324710 (stock #lot1099)
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Creamy-feel, crackled glaze with old body clay revealed.

Height: 10.3cm

Date: Yuan/Ming periods.

A cotton box is included.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1311166 (stock #lot1027)
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A black-glazed stem cup was uniquely mold with decoration on the surface with thorn-like pattern.
It was a transition from early periods and was also a counterpart of metal wares of persian cultures which had been introduced into China 6th-8th centuries.
It was an one-of-a-kind piece but was not odd to the pottery cultures of the periods.
Foggy-look incursions were happen to the glaze in a subtle way.
The body clay was in grayish white tint...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #1307744 (stock #Lot266)
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Description:A beautiful and rare imperial famille-rose crane-medallion porcelain bowl and saucer, the bowl decorated to the exterior with seven roundels of crane-medallions in purple red enamel, between bands of crosshatched pattern around the rim and blue and green breaking sea waves above foot rim, centre of the bowl finely painted with a single peony flower and leafy branches enclosed within blue-circles. The interior of the saucer was decorated with the same patterns of the roundles...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1305058 (stock #Lot1092)
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Description: A black-glazed water dropper was from famous Ding kiln.
Characteristically the body clay revealed was in dense and greasy feel quality.
It was kept in perfect condition when some incursion was found on the surface.

Date: Song Dynasty, 12th century.

Height: 6 cm,

A Custom-Made cotton box is included.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1900 item #1302666 (stock #Lot1091)
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A wood Bian with carving inscriptions was in very good scholar taste.
" Zun Yo Xuon Tan" means eloquent talking will be amid the seats.
With simple words, it showed the enthusiastic inviting of a family host.
This kind of Bian was most likely having been put in a scholar chamber.
It is really hard to find a real scholar Bian like this. Most of them we found were for business using.

Date: Qing Dynasty, 19th Century...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1301159 (stock #Lot1089)
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A wood stand was well preserved.
It was in good mood with literati taste.

Date: Qing Dynasty, Late 19th Century.

Width: 45cm, Depth: 24.3cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1910 item #1300915 (stock #Lot1088)
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An old wood scholar rock was well preserved.
it was in good shape with strong literati taste.

Date: Qing Dynasty, 19th Century.

height: 53.5cm including stand.

A Custom-Made Cotton Box is included.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1492 item #1300051 (stock #lot1086)
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A Jizhou bowl was applied with dark brown nearing black glaze on the surface.
Characteristically and famously a leaf pattern was applied in the cavetto.
By greasy-feel quality belong to the Jizhou glaze, the surface was spread with subtle crackles which were caused by the age.
The body clay revealed at the bottom was in soft and loosening quality which was in line with the characteristics of the dated Jizhou wares...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1262951 (stock #Lot1078)
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A black-glazed tea bowl was in a unique form.
Apparently caused by firing effects, the surface of the glaze was transformed to a mysterious image that was charming and different.
It was not sure if it was intentionally finished by an ingenious potter or just an accidental surprise.
But it was indeed a unique and sought-after piece for real connoisseur.

Date: Tang Dynasty, 10th Century.

Width:11.3cm.

Fitted cotton box is included.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1920 item #1253413 (stock #Lot1076)
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A small and nice brush pot was exquisitely carved on the surface with beautiful secenes.
In typical picturesque of Chinese's literati, the brush pot or poem pot was in nice and warm patina.

Height: 9.5cm.

Condition: Perfect.

Date: Early 20th Centuries.

Material: Prongs (Deer's horns).
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #1252240 (stock #Lot1075)
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A Yaozhou conical bowl was in decent look with persimmon glaze.
The glaze was covered all over the surface except to the foot ring.
The foot ring was revealed with the body clay in gray tint.
The glaze surface was reflected in retrospective sheen in old look.

Date: Northern Song Dynasty,960-1127.

Width: 14.8cm,

A CUSTOM-MADE SILK BOX IS INCLUDED.

A similar piece was found as follow:
Lot43, Sotheby's London 12 Nov 2003...