This old pair of Chinese shoes were made for a small child. Appliqued onto the red cotton background fabric are bits of trim and cotton fabric which give the appearance of a cats face. Gold thread is used in a couching embroidery stitch for the design on the both sides of each shoe.

An antique jade stone with landscape pattern in it

A Very Fine Brushed White Slip Decorated Buncheong Tea Bowl-16th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th or 16th century. The bowl, tapering to a raised ring foot and with slightly everted rim, decorated in brush applied white slip over a pale green, beneath a finely crackled clear glaze. It’s in very good condition with an almost mint condition, it measure 12 cm d. x 5.2 cm h...

Antique pair of Japanese shokudai (candle stands), made of bronze. Beautiful simple design with faceted stem and small chrysanthemum shaped detail where stick meets base. Each stand has a little hook and circular candle guard.

Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Dimensions: 17 1/4" high x 8" wide

A Chinese rank badge with a peacock set at the center standing on a rock formation surrounded with flowing waters. The peacock is surrounded by various auspicious Chinese motifs such as peonies and bats set under a dark navy color silk. Age: 20th century Size: length 14.9" width 13.9"

Height: 25.5 cm (10.2 in)
Width: 12 cm (4.9 in)

Fine Japanese Satsuma vase by Seizan; features two main panels showing raised polychrome decoration of Geisha and kodomo within rural and garden settings; panels bordered by richly gilt diaper work over a royal blue ground; signed on the base in gold; minor wear

Rare form Chinese Yixing lined pewter teapot with seal mark inside bottom. The exterior inscription reads, "To cook tea" "Middle aged man at last knows how" and is signed "Wang Tsieh". The other side features plum blossom flowers and is signed "I Shan". Measures 5.5" high, 5" across, and 2.25" wide.

A fine cylinder seal carved in an attractive beige-orange stone, Mesopotamia under the Achaemenid Empire, c. 7th.-5th. century BC.

Nice low relief depiction of the Great King wrestling with stags.

Size: c. 28-29 mm. tall.

Condition: Near VF, intact with some dirt deposits

Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.

Height approximately 8 cm/each. In good condition.

This copper awl with antler handle and perforated for suspension was found by Dr. Allen Heflin in Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan in 1947. It is 8 1/2 long. Please view my youtube video of this item at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C30caNNItA.

Pre-Columbian Jalisco Male Figure. Circa. 300 B.C. – 300 A.D. Standing Male figure with a cream slip with blacken facial markings with head, nose and ear ornaments showing extensive mineralization.. 9 1/2” x 6 1/2”. Provenance: John Platt Collection

The first contact with Europeans brought with it small pot to the Hopi people of the mesa's and to make things even worst they experience the worst droughts they had experience at that time which made some flee and take refuge with and in the Zuni Pueblo's to the east of them, the refugees returned to the Hopi lands appro: 1700 ad, and they had adopted the Zuni polychrome style of pottery making from that point forward to approx: 1890 ad. This canteen is appro: 1850 to 1890 ad...

A large white brass Chinese tobacco pipe with carvings on both ends. Size: L. 42cm. Condition: No repairs.

Late 19th – early 20th century
Late Qing Dynasty – Republic period
Porcelain with monochrome blue glaze
Height: 28.5 cm / 11.2 in, Width: 18.3 cm / 7.2 in (at widest point)
From a Northern California private collection

A late Qing / Republic anarchistic vase, shaped after “hu” bronze vessels. Its glaze is a semi-translucent bubbly blue, thinning near edges to create beautifully pale contours all around the piece...

Rare 13th Century Chinese Bronze Cong. Beautiful Yuan Dynasty flower vase. Its size and decoration are typical for the period. Dimensions 25 cm high and 7 cm wide

A long verse is incised into the side of this tea bowl by Otagaki Rengetsu. The poem reads:
Yorozuyo mo 10,000 ages
tae nu nagare to enduring the surge
shimetsu ran so well
sono kame no o no From Turtle Tail Mountain
yama no shitamizu. The water flows
The bowl is 12.2 cm (5 inches) diameter and in perfect condition. It comes wrapped in a silk cloth pouch, enclosed in an old box with original lid inside of which is a long verse...

Beautiful art work of Tosa Mitsutoki* embroidered with a theme from the Noh play "Takasago" on an antique fukusa, a Japanese gift cover. The signature, seal and other characters are embroidered. To find a signature on a fukusa from this period (late Edo) is very rare; in fact, I have never seen one. The characters (at the bottom left side) read "e-dokoro azukari" which is the title for the head of the Imperial Painting Bureau...

A lovely Chinese Tang dynasty pottery camel without any restoration. Ht. 30cm. Condition: no chip, no restore, in good condition as shown. Shipping from Taipei, Taiwan via EMS at actual cost. Item selling at various platforms, please ask before ordering.