All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Chinese Export : Pre 1800 item #1260836 (stock #TBD00155)
A underglaze blue hand painted blue and white export plate depicting three sprigs of flowers enclosed in a lobed border with fleur- de-lis and on the outer border a loosely painted fence. The outer edge is painted brown. Given the vague Western references in the decoration the plate is probably after 1750. 8 7/8th inches (22.5 cm) diameter.

Condition: No chips, cracks, hairlines or repairs. Very minor stacking wear...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1260833 (stock #577)
This piece comes with a whole set of superlatives. Quite large size, the lid is still there, excellent condition, excellently potted, excellent Celadon glaze, excellent blue-green resp. sea-green color - the most admired color among Longquan ware. Song - Yuan Dynasty, Longquan ware. Outstanding quality ! Diameter : 13,6 cm. H ( with lid ) : 11,7 cm. ( without lid ) : 8,7 cm. Condition : Perfect.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Sculpture : Pre 1800 item #1260781 (stock #0160)

Large and heavy Chinese antique Bronze Guanyin buddha statue, Qing dynasty, c. 18th century. Really impressing. The Guanyin buddha is sitting on a lotus base, the clothes are so graceful and elegant and the details of the figure are magificent.

Good "Xuande" mark on the back.

Size: 15,1'' height, weight 15 lbs!!

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1920 item #1260727
Beautiful bronze flower vase, long and cylindrical. Has a gorgeous boss relief of carp emerging from water in a delicate sweeping motion around the vase. From Meiji Period (1860-1912) Dimensions: 12" High X 4.75" Diameter
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Hardstones : Pre 1900 item #1260721 (stock #0334)
Ca. 1800s or earlier

The stone is a creamy tone with pale russet flecking mainly seen on the back. A darker brown veining can be seen on the lower leg. It is carved overall, including the underneath showing one leg folded under. The polish is an even soft gloss like that produced from years of handling. Good condition, with no chips or restorations.

Length: 1 ¾ in., Width: 1 3/8 in., Height: ¾ in.

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Pre 1800 item #1260667 (stock #2740)
An oblong shaped dish, a kaku-nagazara, decorated in sometsuke style with a delicately painted dense vine, hagi karakusa, and Lotus arabesque, with a stylised representation of the auspicious ‘Three Friends of Winter’ shochikubai, in the central reserve mikomi of the dish. The reverse painted with the same arabesque pattern has used on the front of the dish, and the interior of the foot-rim with a four character fuki-chosun mark...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Pre 1800 item #1260666 (stock #2739)
A Ko Imari Arita tea bowl and saucers decorated with a Lotus arabesque karakusa pattern in underglaze blue incorporating auspicious Lotus and Aoi. The tea bowls date to the Genroku Kyoho periods. Blue and white tea bowls tend to be both earlier and rarer than their coloured counterparts. The tea bowl measures 6cm or 2.5 inches in diameter and is 3.5cms, approximately 1.375 inches in height...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1800 item #1260658
This is Shibori Kimono produced in Akita Asamai area for Edo period. As for this, a pattern is Eba-gara. A carp swims in spray like a brick. The lower part is expressed in dark indigo dyeing Shibori in Shirakage-Shibori at the upper part. This cotton is spun by hand...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Lacquer : Pre 1920 item #1260642
Charming Kiri (paulownia wood) lacquered Japanese Container. Inlaid on branches with mother of pearl. Decorated elegantly with blooming cherry blossoms, with bird perched on a branch. Has a pleasing deep mahogany-like lacquer finish. Taisho Period (1912-1926) Dimensions: 7.25" High X 3.25" diameter
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Scandinavian : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1260591 (stock #TBD00149)
A medium size porcelain bowl with a lattice impressed border at the top and blue hand painted flowers. On the underside are the three waves and the number two, both hand painted in underglaze blue. Additionally there is a hand incised three in the body. This piece must have been early to have escaped the factory with the fairly dramatic warping that must have occurred during firing. The rim feels unglazed, so it may have had a cover...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Furniture : Pre 1920 item #1260588
Antique Chinese table, made from huanghuali with a beautiful, glowing grain. Around its sides are carved spirals designs over a large border panel. The front and back panels are carved with the calligraphy symbol for double happiness in between two dragons with clouds of billowing smoke around their bodies and two phoenixes flying on either side. The table's side panels are without dragons but otherwise the same with carved double happiness symbol and smoke detailing...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1920 item #1260575 (stock #1035)
A finely crafted three piece Altar garniture comprising two bronze Chinese "Gu" form flower vases and a small bronze Koro (incense burner).Condition: excellent.Vases : 9.8cm (3.9 inches) high.Censer: 4.5cm (1.75 inches) high.Total weight: 1.08kg (2lb 6oz)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Textiles : Pre 1800 item #1260451
This is Sashiko Hanten which the leader of certain occupation group of Edo period wore. A technique to be called very high Sagara embroidery is used for this. This embroiders all by hand. The cotton thread used for embroidery is spun by hand. The thread is dyed with plant dye. It is clothes to identify social position promptly even if anyone looks. The part of the collar has a kanji of Toudori...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1900 item #1260368
From our European Collection, an absolutely marvelous Victorian sterling silver two-handled oval serving platter by Mappin & Webb, London, 1897, fully marked, with superb chasing and casting featuring floral scrolls and phoenix, open-work gallery lions, basins and ancient mask heads, and with curled serpents for handles...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Earthenware : Pre 1900 item #1260340 (stock #0159)

We offer this fine antique Japanese Meiji Satsuma Kyoto lidded teapot decorated with a dragon curled between eleven Immortals and dating around 1880. This well decorated earthenware teapot stands on a narrow rounded unglazed foot with a recessed base and is of rounded shape with the dragon tail forming the handle and the neck and head forming the pouring spout. The teapot has a further smaller dragon forming the finial to the cover...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Hardstones : Pre 1920 item #1260266
Antique Chinese carved jadeite with hues of white and light green, with apparent areas of bright apple green. It is carved into a smooth cylindrical shape and would have been used as a thumb ring in archery. 19th century, Qing Dynasty era Size: 1" height, 1.25" width, .25" thickness
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1260236
The exterior of the deep rounded sides carved with a band of petals rising from the foot to the flat everted rim, and the interior decorated in the center with two molded fish, covered overall with a glaze of guan type sea-green tone except for the foot rim burnt reddish-brown in the firing 12 cm diam. 1 cm crackline on the rim No chips or cracks and free from restoration.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Enamel : Pre 1900 item #1260213
These extremely decorative pair of food containers are beautifully ornamented. A turquoise background, these cloisonne containers model a beautiful array of blue, yellow, and red shades of swirling chimera and flower design. Made of bronze, The containers have one compartment each. Lid opens at top. The "shou" symbol on lids represent longevity. Turn of the 19th century. Dimensions: Height 12 in. 13.5 in. Long 7.25 in. Wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Scholar Art : Pre 1920 item #1260200
Used antique Chinese calligraphy inkstone in the shape of a melon, with carvings of vines and leaves at its top near the most shallow point. It comes with a hardwood box with a light reddish-brown tone and darker areas. Early 20th century. Size: 5.25" length, 4" width, 1" thickness
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : English : Pottery : Pre 1837 VR item #1260154 (stock #TBD00147)
A pair of Ironstone plates with Chinese style decoration of a willow tree, a Chinese fence and flowers. With a lobed edge they have an elaborate border between the rim and the center of the plate. The blue is underglaze decoration while the colors and gilding were applied after the glaze. The underside with the Royal Warrant, “STONE CHINA/No. 7.” 8 ¼ inch (21 cm) diameter.

Condition: Neither have chips, cracks, hairlines or repairs. One has some gilding wear and slight scratching...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1260148
Diameter approximately 10 cm/each. Height approximately 7 cm/each. In good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1260129 (stock #0333)
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1260114 (stock #576)
A lovely, small, rare, middle Ming dish ( fifteenth century ) decorated in underglaze blue with a bird. The representation of the bird very attractive and swinging. The extraordinary strong resp. deep Cobalt blue of this dish is very nice. Diameter : 9,7 cm. Condition : No chip, no crack, the glaze of this excavated piece slightly degraded by aggressive soil.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Pre 1900 item #1260097
Diameter approximately 25 cm (across the masks). Old repaired. In good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Metalwork : Pre 1900 item #1260048
Pair of Japanese antique abumi (horse riding stirrups), made of iron with silver inlay all over in beautiful designs of vines and leaves, the bottom of each stirrup is decorated with a bamboo motif, the foot areas are lacquered black, each abumi is inlaid with writing: Kaga Ishikawa Prefecture, Mori Hei Saku (artist's name and "signed by") lived in Komaki. Edo Period (18th century). Size of each: 9 1/2" high x 11 1/2" long x 5" wide.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Korean : Paintings : Pre 1900 item #1260020 (stock #1350)
A Very Fine and Old Korean Painting of Grass and Insects (õ®õùÓñ-ÃÊÃæµµ)-18th -19th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 18th to early 19th century. signed. This painting paited by a literary painter on the cloth in ink color in early period, with beeds, a big frog, autumn plants and flowers on silk? or cloth, has a red seal on the lower right but unfortunately unclear. It¡¯s in very fine condition with some painting fained associated with its age, matted with cloth and framed la...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1492 item #1259955 (stock #1140)
15th Century Gilded Tibetan Manuscript Cover. 28 x 11 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Furniture : Pre 1920 item #1259936
Beautiful and unusual chest from China with a very interesting, highly figured hardwood with warm brownish tones. The chest is one solid piece with four drawers running along its top front and two sets of hinged doors on its bottom, with brass hinges and lockplates. The interior of the chest has been coated with blue and red lacquer. The chest stands on six legs, three in front and three in back. Very roomy. Size: 37" height, 74.5" width, 24.5" deprh
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1920 item #1259929
Beautiful contemporary Japanese todana tansu (shelf chest) with two sections, made from a very light keyaki wood with a nice smooth finish and attractive grain. It has two large sliding doors with open wood panes and interior shelving, two smaller sliding doors below with horizontal slats, and two sliding drawers with hirute shaped handles. Size: 74.75" height, 34.75" width, 17.75" depth
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1910 item #1259881
Diameter approximately 28 cm/each. A chip at the rim. In good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1259878
Diameter approximately 13 cm. In good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Hardstones : Pre 1910 item #1259868 (stock #1348)
A Very Fine Pale Celadon White Jade Circular Water Coupe: 19th –early 20th C.: China, 19th or early 20th century. The container carved with high walls and supported by lotus leaf ahapeed foot, with opposing handles in the shape of the Hehe Twins, they holding a lotus bud shapped coupe with an other lotus stem and a bud against the inverted rim of the coup on a large lotus leaf as stand with insised details of lotus leaf and bud, and its textures are very translucent with a gray green ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Pre 1800 item #1259804 (stock #2734)
An Hirado incense burner of squat globular form with three scroll feet and lion mask handles with a high domed reticulated cover surmounted by a Shishi and ball filial. The body of the koro decorated in underglaze blue with a Chinese “ko sometsuke” style landscape. The censer is in good condition without chips, restoration, but there are some firing flaws notably to the juncture of the legs and to the body of the koro, and a minor firing crack to the rim. The koro has a lean to one side, of...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1259747 (stock #TR 2441)
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A Song dynasty longquan celadon large dish with two fish motif, rounded side with deep center and glazed base, dish decorated with two rare shape molded fish motif, covered with good celadon glaze, good condition no damage no chip no crack no restoration, size: 21 cm diameter.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1920 item #1259683
Beautiful, yet unusual two-section tansu from the Nigata region of Japan, made from kiri wood. Reddish brown lacquer has been applied to its hardware to give it a very nice contrast to the woodgrain. It has four large drawers with gunbai style iron handles mounted upon pierced and stylized mounts, with a large fan-shaped lockplate in its center, pierced hardware along the front frame between each drawer, and quarter-circle hardware in the drawer corners. Meiji period (1867-1912) SIze: 41.75"...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1492 item #1259585 (stock #TR 2440)
A Song dynasty longquan celadon large ribbed jar with cover, rounded side with globular body and glazed base, jar and cover decorated with ribbed motid, covered with good celadon glaze, good condition no damage no chip no crack no restoration, size: 11 cm height 14 cm diameter.