All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : English : Pre 1910 item #1489621 (stock #24024874)
Signed Webb Queen’s Burmese small pedestal footed creamer. The creamer stands 3 3/4 inches tall and has the impressed Webb signature on the ground pontil.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1900 item #1489631 (stock #13881)
A piece of hand-spun cotton cloth with katazome (stencil-resist dye) mum pattern on both sides. The ground cloth is vegetable indigo dye and flowers are benibana (safflower) dye. The first half of the 19th century. In excellent condition, except for a mending patch. W:29.5cm, L:60cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1489635
An interesting and quite attractive small limestone figure of a Noble Lady, New Kingdom, ca. 1300–1200 B.C.

The lady’s attire and hairstyle are typical of the fashion after the second half of the 18th Dynasty...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Metalwork : Pre 1800 item #1489653
A fine Chinese gold-splash two-handled bronze censer, delicately cast, of bombe form, early Qing, 17th/early 18th century, 12cms diam., Xuande six-character mark. Provenance: Collection of a lady, Wimbledon, South West London. Purchased from James Trigg, Antiquarius, Chelsea, London, May 1977 and sold with the original receipt.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Hardstones : Pre 1700 item #1489660 (stock #533)
Cup with handles cut from white Celadon jade. Decorated with “nails” in relief in the archaic style. The two handles stand out widely from the cup. The handles of this type of cup were most often damaged and restorers have partially reduced or even completely eliminated them. The one presented here has exceptionally preserved its handles in their entirety. One of the two has probably been slightly damaged and ground as we can see in the photos...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1837 VR item #1489671
This is a very elegant ramie summer children's kimono from the Edo period. The sleeves have a hand-painted bamboo pattern. The family crest is the rare mitsumorikumikaku. There are no stains or damage, and it is very carefully made.size: Length :90cm (35.4inch) / sleeve to sleeve :83cm (32.6inch)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1910 item #1489679 (stock #13895)
Outside cloth of yogi which is one kind of futon in the shape of kimono, made of hand-spun cotton and vegetable indigo dye. It has tsutsugaki (glue-resist dyeing) "takara-zukushi" (various treasures) design. In good condition as a whole but has three mending patches in front and a few stains. Meiji period (1868~1912) W:148cm, L:129cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1900 item #1489685
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A beautiful set of ten small shallow dishes, each uniquely decorated with a poem and image from the Edo period Sasashima Kiln of central Nagoya. The box, titled Sasashima Yaki Teshio Jumai (10 Sasashima Salt Dishes) is dated inside to the Tenpo era, (1830-1844). Each dish is 9 cm (3-1/2 inches) diameter and all are in excellent condition. Salt dishes were small plates used to hold salt, pickles or other condiments in a traditional Japanese meal...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1489738
A wonderful quality carnelien and agate cylinder seal, Neo-Assyrian, 9th.-7th. cent. BC.

Marvelous core Assyrian style depicting an offer scene: A manheaded and winged horse / winged Kentaur is bending it's knee to the great King or perhaps Sin the moon god, below the winged sun-disc emblem of Ashur. He is holding the beast, while another deity comes running swinging a sword. An attendant behind.

Height: 23 mm., diameter 12 mm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1489742
Interesting and elaborate cylinder seal carved in greyish black stone, with a bearded whorshipper standing before the combined alters of Ashur and Sin or Nabu. Nice Assyro-babylonian style and fine details.

Size: 20 mm. tall and 8-9 mm. wide.

Condition: Good Very fine, light wear and completely intact.

Provenance: The Karl Müller collection, Germany 1950-1977. Comes with COA and our imprint. (pictured).
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1489752
Scarce and attractive steatite scarab of the New Kingdom period, inscribed with the royal name / cartouche of Seti I, 1294-1279 BC.

Carved in greyish steatite with fine details of the beetle and inscribed with 'men ka re'. Thanks to a good collector friend reassigned from Thutmosis (men kheper re)

Size: c. 15 mm. long.

Condition: Extremely fine, particularly sharp and finely preserved specimen, patina with web-like crackles.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Snuff Bottles : Pre 1900 item #1489769 (stock #535)
The snuff box is made with a mold in 2 parts. On the sides are two Buddhist lion heads in relief, their eyes are made by 2 small clay balls. stuck to the slip. The decoration is painted in underglaze cobalt blue, the design is vigorous and goes to the essential, it represents 2 dragons pursuing the sacred pearl in the sky, surrounded by clouds and sparks. Below is written in 4 Chinese characters the apocryphal mark of the Ming emperor Tcheng-Hoa...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1930 item #1489792
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A large lozenge shaped bowl of thick clay covered in fawn spotted glaze by Kiyomizu Rokubei V decorated with a poem by Hashimoto Kansetsu enclosed in the original wooden box signed by both artists titled Gohon Fuseikei Hachi (Bowl of irregular shape in Gohon glaze. It is quite large, 34×26.5㎝ x 15cm (13-1/2 x 10-1/2 x 6 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883–1945) was born in Kobe, son of painter Hashimoto Kaikan from whom he gained a love of Chinese culture...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre AD 1000 item #1489796
A set of two very decorative Islamic tiles with floral motifs in fine colours, Qajar or earlier, c. 17th.-19th. cent. AD.

Unresearched but guaranteed at least from the 19th. century, probably older. With fine crackles in the glaze and a wonderful brownish patina on the backside.

Size: Each c. 14,7 cm. tall and 9 cm. wide.

Condition: Extremely fine! An intact pair.

Provenance: P. Treffz-Eichhöfer collection, Stuttgart.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Paintings : Pre 1900 item #1489815
Japanese antique small 6-panel screen painting of five cranes flying over waves as the sun rises in the distance. Painted in mineral colors with gold flecks on paper. Signature: Morifusa.

Age: Showa Period Mid 20th Century

Dimensions: 22 1/2" high x 62 1/2" long
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Stoneware : Pre 1930 item #1489820
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A dynamic floral pattern in pale blue and white on pink by Kiyomizu Rokubei V showing the developmental stage of his iconic Taireiji works. Undeniably Taireiji was the most important development by this innovative artist, and pieces are exceedingly rare. It is 19cm (7-1/2 inches) diameter, 27.5cm (11 inches) tall and in excellent condition...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1900 item #1489824
This is a Japanese antique textile indigo dye cotton narumi-Shibori kimono meiji period. This is a very rare and beautiful item created using 11 different Narumi Shibori techniques. Hand-spun cotton fabric is very thick. There are some very small stains, but they are not noticeable. Condition is good with no damage. Size: Length 153cm / sleeve to sleeve 141cm
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1489826
Interesting and massive cylinder seal in a beige-white attractive stone, Mesopotamia, probably 2nd. millenium BC, provincial manifacture.

A rare depiction of a seated main deity or king at the table and a servant or lesser deity in front. A large fish is placed on the table and there's a three below and a crescent above.

Size: 38 mm. tall and 15 mm...