18th century or earlier unsigned iron Japanese sword tsuba depicting four scholars and an attendant boy in a bamboo grove. Nicely designed piece with copper, bronze and silver inlays with gilding, old deterioration to both top and bottom part, but the design and detailing is there - see their faves and robe patterns. Great example of early work. Height 3.14 inches.

Fine Egyptian bone carving of a Fish with nice details of scales and head, Egypt, 1st. millenium BC.

Size: c. 5 cm. long.

Condition: Fine-VF, with minor losses to tip of tail and head.

Ex. Old German collection, aquired in the 1980s.

Height: 5.5 cm (2.2 in)
Width: 5 cm (2 in)
Depth: 1.9 cm (0.8 in)

Good quality Chinese cloisonne opium box; decorated with auspicious objects over a jintai blue enamel ground; no losses; good condition

Width: 5 cm (2 in)
Height: 1.7 cm (0.8 in)
Weight: 89 gms

Fine Chinese Paktong ink box with silver inlaid script to the top and an individual wandering through a rural landscape on the base; each cartouche is encircled with double silver rings; lovely patina; good condition

Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon washer bowl. 12,7 cm diameter. Good condition.

Rustic Thai ox cart wooden wheel with stand.

Age: Thailand, 19th Century
Size: Diameter 58 C.M. / Thickness 4.7 C.M.
Size including stand: Height 88 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon washer bowl. 12,3 cm diameter. Good condition except single hairline.

Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon washer bowl. 9 cm diameter. Good condition except single hairline.

Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon washer bowl. 12,8 cm diameter. Good condition.

Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon washer bowl. 12,7 cm diameter. Good condition.

Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon washer bowl. 12,8 cm diameter. Good condition except very small chipped at the rim.

Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon washer bowl. 13 cm diameter. Good condition except very small chipped at the rim.

BLACK AND RED LACQURED CONTAINER

Old wooden lidded container for storing food like vegetables, lacqured up in the refined two tones of black (for surface) and red (for inside), once used among the middle class or richer in the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan, D 35 x H 26cm (13.77 x 10.23in). Some lacqure-peelings due to aging as is...

Chinese Song dynasty longquan celadon small jar. 6 cm high. 8,5 cm body diameter. Good condition.

ORT. The Order of Railroad Telegraphers (ORT) was a United States labor union established in the late nineteenth century to promote the interests of telegraph operators working for the railroads...

A Very Rare/Fine/Large Korean Iron Black Porcelain Jar Painted with a Plum And Bamboo-19th/Older: Korea, late Joseon Dynasty, 18th century, or older. This unusual large global shape of inky tones of underglaze blue and white porcelain jar painted with large wind-blowing bamboo, and old and large plum tree with flower blooming underglaze inky blue, in this case, this cobalt blue turned to black-inky tones under firing circumstances, this well-balanced jar must be painted by professional ...

A pair of massive museum quality matching pottery figures of two male house attendants, middle Ming Dynasty, 15th.-16th. century.

The figures are matching in the Green and Yellow Sancai colors and they are plced on large plints. The figure to the left in this pair was Termo-Luminescence testet by Ralf Kotallas Laboratory and it was made during the Middle Ming period (15th.-16th. cent.).

They are both carrying scarfs. Figure to the left also an umbrella on his back...

A beautiful & large Indus Valley pottery jar, dating to c. 3rd mill. BC. Probably Mehrgarh-civilisation.

The jar is designed beautifully as a large beaker with a wide mouth, a concave body on a narrow base. The jar is decorated with several concentric rings and an animal and a flower. The other decorations could be some sort of writing (?).

Size: ca 14 cm each 8-9 cm. wide - nice pieces from Indus Valley.

Condition: Superb for age and type...