Late Ming to early Ching dynasty, 17th Century. A small footed blue and white dish made for the domestic Chinese market. The white porcelain clay body is visible on the bottom of the raised foot although the dish is too thickly potted to be translucent. The white glaze, with its characteristic blue-grey tinge, has been evenly applied and the underside of the plate has been carefully glazed and marked. The dish is decorated in underglaze blue, with minor decoration to the exterior...

Ching dynasty. 18th or 19th century. A very fine famille verte porcelain Foo Lion or Foo Dog mounted on a high, oval-shaped base bordered at top and bottom with Chinese key fret design and embellished with delicate white prunus branches in high relief on a soft yellow ground, supporting the recumbent foo lion with turquoise-colored body and aubergine mane, his slightly parted lips revealing well-articulated dentition...

Very late Ching dynasty or early Republic period (19th/20th century). A pair of standing foo dogs or foo lions, each with slightly differentiated posture, with upright tails, having blue-green or turquoise colored bodies and yellow striped tails and manes with spotted faces and discernible pink tongues slightly visible through their bared teeth and parted lips. Height: 7.5cm (2-7/8”). Weight: 87.5 grams and 96.5 grams; (combined weight) 184 grams (6.4 ozs). Condition: excellent.

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A VERY RARE SONG DYNASTY BLUE-GREEN CELADON PORCELAIN VASE (A.D. 960-1279) of classical baluster form on a high foot, with molded relief, rather than incised, decoration on the body, and a trumpet-shaped neck. Similar wares of the later Yuan period, particularly those intended for export, tend towards thickness. This vase exhibits the legendary “paper” thinness achieved by certain Song Dynasty potters being only approximately 3mm thick at the mouthrim...

With a pale ‘egg yolk’ colored glaze, depicting a farmer, ox, willow, fantastic mountains, buildings, hillside, humble dwellings and pavilions amidst fantastic peaked mountains and an inscription to the upper left. This item was probably once an insert to a wooden tablescreen, hanging panel or box. Of finely levigated white porcelain, the thin yellow glaze has been applied only to the face where the white porcelain shows through small areas of the relief carving; the underside is unglazed...

An elegant, pale blue-green glazed celadon bowl of classic form, thinly potted with a translucent porcelain body, hand-shaped at the wheel but with molded decoration to the interior, the thin glaze pooling around the molded flower and foliage decoration below a band of key-fret pattern, with a fine web of allover crazing originating in the kiln This elegant little bowl dates from the Southern Song (1127-1279) to Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)...