Chinese Tang dynasty YUE YAO bowl decorated with incised dragon motive inside and lotus petal at outer wall. 17,3 cm diameter. Repaired conditions.
Antique Chinese pair of small porcelain plates. Foliate rims and raised design of two fish and swirling waves. Intricately modeled with great detail. Very delicate and beautiful.
Song Dynasty
Size of each: 4" wide
Chinese Tang dynasty Changsha large bowl. 20 cm diameter. Bowl in good conditions except glaze erosion. Free from any restorations or repainted.
A large and impressive Qingbai glazed "Crysanthemum - box" and cover. Northern Song Dynasty. Diameter : 11,8 cm. H : 8 cm. Condition : The lower part of the box in perfect condition. The cover has an old, very professionally done restauration which is invisible to the naked eye ( even this restored cover still with a nice "ping" tone when tapped ).
Lovely fluted porcelain teapot decorated in the Imari palette with butterflies and flowers. H. 12,5 cm. This teapot is in in excellent condition: original lid, no cracks, chips or repairs, only minor ware to the gilding.
Extremely rare. Thinly potted six lobed body, covered with a thin glaze of ivory tone. Northern Song Dynasty, 10th - early 11th century. Diameter : 13,9 cm. Condition: Perfect.
A very rare Ming Dynasty, Chenghua period porcelain Minyao ( peoplesware )bowl with an underglaze blue Chenghua Palace bowl motif. ( 1465 - 1487 ).The design of this bowl is based on 'palace bowls' with Chenghua reign marks, of which an example in the Ataka Collection is illustrated by T. Nakano, The Panoramic Views of Chinese Patterns, Tokyo, 1985, pl. 109, and another in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Hu, Shanghai, 1989, p. 52, no. 19...
Chinese Qing dynasty wucai Jar. Good condition except glaze fritting at bottom part ( please see on the pictures). 9,3 cm high. free from any repair.
Apart from the very nice underglaze blue and white decoration with four deers it is the extraordinary wide form of the body that makes this jarlet to a really special piece of its kind. Ming Dynasty, Wanli period ( 1573 - 1620 ) Jingdezhen ware. Diameter: 9,2 cm. H : 7,8 cm. Condition : Perfect.
H. 14,5 cm. One side decorated with a landscape with figures, the other side with flowers. Condition: firing crack in the neck, age cracks in the glaze. Comes with the original Christie's sticker, the original certificate and the invoice from 1992.
The Vung Tau sank in 1690 on its way from China to Batavia, Indonesia. The cargo was meant for Amsterdam. The wreck was found in the early 90's and it's content was auctioned at Christie's Amsterdam in 1992...
A jar of squat form with three lugs and a short neck with flaring mouth. Moulded peony spray decoration in low relief on the shoulder. A translucent glaze over a white porcelain body, the flat base unglazed. Yuan to Ming Dynasty, fourteenth to fifteenth centuries. Dehua ware Fujian. H : 4,3 cm. Diameter : 5,4 cm. Condition : Chips to the flaring moutg ( see images ) further in excellent condition.
Please see an exactly similar jarlet, but with four lugs on page 84 ( item Nr. 20 ) in John S...
It is the decoration and this really brilliant cobalt blue that makes this jar to an realy extraordinary nice example of an Qing Dynasty blue and white vase / jar. Qing Dynasty, late 18th. century.
H.: 9,4 cm. Diameter: 8,7 cm. Condition : Perfect.
An attractive blue and white Qing Dynasty snuff bottle with lid. Small chip to base, but otherwise in good condition. High resolution images on request.
A small globular porcelain vase with short neck, unglazed base and decorated with an score design. The scores emphasized with underglaze cobalt blue. Late Ming Dynasty, sixteenth century. H: 5 cm. Diameter: 4,9 cm. Condition: Perfect.
A porcelain jarlet with underglaze Cobalt blue decoration. Ming Dynasty ( 1573 - 1622 ). Diameter : 6,2 cm. H.: 4,6 cm. Condition: Perfect.
Diameter approximately 10.8 cm. In good condition.
Diameter approximately 17.5 cm. Little dirt to the dish. A hairline at the rim. In good condition.
Excellently potted porcelain jarlet with underglaze Cobalt blue "Lotus" decoration.The base unglazed. Ming Dynasy, Jiajing Period ( 1522 - 1566 ). Jingdezhen ware. Diameter: 7,5 cm. H.: 7,8 cm.
Condition: Perfect original condition, very nice glaze, no chip, no crack, some original glaze fritting to the rim which is absolutely is normal for such kind of ware.