Quirky ceramic image of a boy and beast emulating lacquer and wood, circa late Qing Dynasty or Republic Period. This is the first time I have seen a ceramic glaze imitating lacquer (also note the bottom imitates wood). L: 10cm/4in and H: 7cm/2.8in. This has few small chips.
Antique Chinese Jun Ware (Chun Yao) chawan (tea bowl) with grey-blue glaze. Outside with drips of dark and light blue glaze mingling to create greens and browns. Evaluation done in the 1930's by TZ Shiota when the family was inheriting the collection from their great grandfather, Federic Torrey...
A rare Imperial Yellow Ming Pottery Goutou tile terminal, late 14th or early 15th century, probably South Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
The circular roundel is moulded with an Imperial ‘Five Claw Dragon’ in a fine yellow glaze.
High relief and very attractive.
Size: 14,7 cm. in diameter.
Condition: Very fine for the type, which is always repaired...
A Chinese, white ware, ewer of an elegant double-gourd form and incised line delineations; from the Northern Song dynasty...
A lovely Chinese Song dynasty Cizhou painted jar. Ht. 8.5, Dia. 10.5cm. Condition: water leak thru base, no restore, in good condition as shown. Shipping from Taipei, Taiwan via EMS at actual cost. Item selling at various platforms, please inquire before ordering.
A large Chinese Jin to Yuan dynasty Cizhou iron painted bottle with 4 lugs. Ht. 30cm. Condition: minor chipped mouth rim, no restore, in good condition as shown. Shipping from Taipei, Taiwan via EMS at actual cost. Item selling at various platforms, please inquire before ordering.
A nice Chinese Jin to Yuan dynasty Cizhou painted floral bottle with 4 lugs. Ht. 23cm. Condition: minor chipped mouth rim and base, no restore, in good condition as shown. Shipping from Taipei, Taiwan via EMS at actual cost. Item selling at various platforms, please inquire before ordering.
A finely potted, 'tortoiseshell', Jizhou bowl; Southern Song dynasty.
Of conical form, covered inside and out with a dark brown glaze, which terminates just above the shallow and well-cut foot, and splashed with light brown suffusions to the exterior.
Diameter, 12.5 cm
Condition; Good...
Fine Chinese Song Dynasty Glazed Stoneware Jar (Dragon Chasing Pearl)
This interesting stoneware jar was made during the Song Dynasty (AD 960 -1279). It is quite "heavily-potted" with deep ridges to the body and the applied decoration around the shoulder featuring a dragon chasing a pearl. The story of the dragon's pearl is one of the oldest tales in Chinese folklore. In addition to the dragon and pearl are five small appliqués. It is coated in a yellowish-brown glaze...
Large Chinese Ming Dynasty Stoneware Jar with Spout
This unusual jar was made during the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). Apart from the short spout at the shoulder, it is a conventionally-shaped storage jar. The outer surface and inner mouth are coated in a black glaze. The glaze falls just short of the bottom of the jar leaving the concave base unglazed. Likewise, the inner surface also remains unglazed.
This is quite large jar with a height of 22.25cm, diameter 20.5 cm...
Chinese Yuan Dynasty Glazed Stoneware Jar
This stoneware jar was made during the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279 - 1368). It is quite "heavily-potted" and made from a sandy coloured stoneware. The inner and upper outer surfaces have been coated in a chocolate-brown glaze. Around the shoulder on opposing sides are two loop handles...
Tall Chinese Song dynasty brown glazed tapering form horizontal ribbed vase. The glaze was poured into the interior while the top shoulder of the jar was left unglazed. 14” high. Circa 13th century. The unglazed base has significant grit adhering from the kiln which causes the vase to be slightly slanted and a bit unstable. There are small chips along the rolled mouth. The form of this vase would eventually develop into the better known meiping vase...
Chinese Song to possibly Yuan dynasty brown glazed stoneware jar with horizontal ribbed body moulded in high relief with a dragon chasing the pearl of wisdom. The glaze stops above the unglazed foot. 6 7/8” high. Circa 12th/13th century. Very good overall condition with a barely visible old break to the horns (see closeup image). The lighter areas on the surface of the glaze are burial encrustations...
A Northern Chinese, Cizhou-type, black glazed jar; C12-13th, Northern Song-Jin dynasty...
Afine large Cizhou floral ceramic vase, Song-Yuan Dynasty c. 12th-14th century AD.
Very decorative vase and quite rare!
Height: 23,5 cm.
Condition: Choice for the type, very thin hairline in the body but intact and unrepaired with typical small spots of missing glaze. Spout is intact without chips. Beautiful patination!
Ex. Danish Private Collection.
A Chinese, Henan, Cizhou-type black glazed bowl; C13-14th.
The deep, rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the interior covered in a black glaze decorated with two rows of closely spaced vertical russet stripes, while the slightly mottled black glaze on the exterior falls in an irregular line above the foot to expose the fine buff ware.
Dimensions; approximately 15 cm diameter.
Condition; good condition, with some age related wear. There is a short firing defect to the in...
A Chinese, Longquan kiln, celadon jar with incised geometrical decoration; Ming dynasty, C16th. Although rare in this small size, this jar has not been reduced, as there are traces of glaze on the mouth rim. Originally, it would have had a cover.
Height; approximately 12 cm
Condition; with some age-related wear. There is a discreet old restoration, where a 1.5 cm long chip has been reattached; it can be seen in the photo.
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A sancai-glazed,foliate-rimmed, pottery dish from the Liao dynasty, of elongated barbed quatrefoil shape, the everted rim molded with a foliate scroll border glazed in amber, the interior impressed with three lotus blossoms in amber glaze, against a green ground molded with wave patterns, the unglazed base partially glazed in green and revealing a layer of white slip.
Based on a silver or gold prototype, the artisans who created these forms in pottery prove innovative in their use of mol...