Nice Stoneware Dish with incised and carved decoration, covered by a nice Celadon glaze. Ming Dynasty, Longquan Ware. Diameter : 21,1 cm. Condition : There is a quite invisible, insignificant, professional restoration to the dish.

A rare Yue ware Jarlet. Porcelaneous ware with a molded decoration. Western Jin Dynasty ( 265 - 316 ) Zhejiang ( Yue ) Diameter : 9,8 cm. H : 5,8 cm. Condition : There is a very small damage to one lug which can be seen on the last enlargement.

A beautiful 19th C. Chinese soapstone carving from a very famous Chinese love story "Dream of Red Chamber". W:5",H: 4-1/4" with wood stand. In excellent condition. Signed. SOLD

The most important first : This piece is not from Ancient Dragon House and not from Roy Hu´s Asian Art ! A very small Song Junyao bowl with slightly rounded sides and incurved rim covered with a grayish-blue glaze with an very nice splash of purplish-red to the interior of the bowl. The glaze thinning at the rim to a buff tone. The base is unglazed and is burnt reddish in the firing. Northern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) Diameter: 6,3 cm...

It is beautifully potted in an ovid melon form with in a transparent icy green glaze, with the rounded side tapering to a short foot. The qingpai glazing which is uneven, fall short of the short foot-rim with a recessed base.

There are no repairs or restorations. There is some minor firing fault, degradation, glaze crazing and minor losses as shown in all the photograps. Minor scattered oxidise spot as shown in all the photographs...

Porcelanous stoneware with a molded decoration covered with an elegant pale gray glaze. Yue Ware ( Yueyao ), Five Dynasties to Song Dynasty, tenth to eleventh centuries. Diameter : 9,8 cm. Condition : Perfect

A green glazed "celadon" stoneware vase with flattened pear-shaped body,ring handles and moulded decoration made in the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province in the 14th Century, during the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). On each side of the vase are six-lobed cartouches containing the Chinese characters "shou" (longevity) and "fu" (prosperity). Bronze vessels of a similar form have been produced in China since the Yuan dynasty. For a very similar example please see exhibit no...

This old Chinese stoneware ceramic pipe bowl (smoke chamber) would have been placed onto the smoking pipe to allow for a small piece of opium to be smoked. The tiny opening at the top would allow the smoke to be drawn into the stoneware chamber and cooled before being inhaled by the smoker.

The piece has 2 different makers marks which are clearly stamped into each side of the clay underside of bottom hole.

Superb potted by Yixing artist Jiang Qinfen and signed 3 times ( 2 x to the inside of the lid and 1 x to the underside of the handle ) all the marks are visible on the enlargements. Late Qing Dynasty, Jiangsu ( yixing ) Diameter : 10,3 cm. L.: 14,5 cm. H : 8,2 cm. Provenance : Old German family collection. Condition: Perfect

Stoneware bowl with black and brown Cizhou glaze. China, Henan, Yüan Dynasty (1279-1368) Diameter 20 cm , H. 7 cm. Condition: excellent. I have more Cizhou pieces in stock, please email me if you're interested.

Lovely stoneware Cizhou bowl with a wonderful lustrous glaze. China, Henan, Song Dynasty (960-1279). Diameter 17,7 cm , H. 6 cm. Condition: excellent. I have more Cizhou pieces in stock, please email me for pictures.

A lovely stoneware bowl with hare's fur glaze. China, Song Dynasty (960-1279). Diameter 13 cm, H. 5,5 cm. Condition: excellent. I have more Cizhou pieces in stock, please email me for pictures.

Rare and unusual stoneware censer with brown Cizhou glaze. China, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Diameter 13,5 cm, H. 8 cm. Condition: excellent.

A very nice molded sancai glazed covered box, decorated with a twin fish motive. Ming Dynasty, probably Guandong ware. Diameter : 5,6 cm. Condition : Perfect

A hard, white stoneware body covered with a crackled creamy white glaze. Song - Yuan Dynasty. Diameter : 12,7 Condition : Perfect

The dish is remarkable because of its very decorative extraordinary deep and intensive crackled Guan like glaze. Song - Yuan Dynasty Longquan ware. Diameter : 12,6 cm. Condition : Perfect

Like all our pieces also this piece is genuine, the body of the piece is in a perfect condition with no chips or cracks. The only problem of this extremely rare excavated piece is that to the outside the surface of the glaze during hundreds of years was heavily attacked by aggressive soil. To the inside of the piece there still are remainders of the former very attractive oilspot decoration. Jian Kilns, Fujian or Henan province, 12th - 13th century. Excavated in Indonesia. Diameter: 8,3 cm...

An Yixing stoneware teapot bearing a rare seal "Li Bang Shui Ji" - which might be a retailers mark. There is a single hole inside the spout. This item was made in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1908),possibly during the reign of either the Jiaqing or Daoguang emperors (1796-1850). Condition - good - no damages and no restoration...

A nice potted Song Dynasty Henan ware pot and a definitely wonderful glaze. This very decorative piece comes from resp. was in use in an old temple in Klungkung, east Bali. The inscription to the unglazed base of the piece could be associated with this provenance. Diameter : 12,4 cm. H : 8,4 cm. Condition : Perfect

It is the very nice and rare " Bulb Bowl " form that makes this small bowl to a very special Southern Song - Yuan period Longquan ware Celadon bowl and an additional bonus is the nice "Guan" crackled glaze that covers the body. ( Please look at the images ) Excavated in Central Sulawesi. Diameter : 8,2 cm. H : 4,4 cm. Condition : Perfect

Rare Chinese Martavan. A martavan is a large stoneware or highly fired earthenware storage jars. Martavans were made by the Chinese in the ports of Maraban and Burma to ship goods to India and the near east. Their primary function was to store goods for shipment. Martavans were also used to store tuak, rice wine...

This Ge glazed dish is at least from the early Qing Dynasty but most probably the piece is older. Please compare the shape and the unglazed base of the piece with similar Ge glazed pieces from the early Ming and the Yuan Dynasty. There was an interesting discussion concerning this topic last year at Gotheborg forum. Diameter : 10,8 cm. Condition : Slightly chipped resp. glaze fritting to the rim ( please look the images )

An extremely rare perfectly potted teabowl ( Temmoku ) with a most decorative partridge-feather mottle decoration. The partridge-feather mottles nearly look like oil-spots. Cizhou-type ware, Henan, Northern Song 10th - early 12th century. Diameter : 12,3 cm. H : 5,7 cm. Condition : Perfect

Please see an absolute identical vase in the Art Gallery NSW dated to the Song Dynasty ( 960 - 1279 ) : ( http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/EC73.1962/ ). A 13/14th century vase with a very interesting glaze...

Perfectly potted body, nice ( Guan ) crackled glaze. Southern Song Dynasty ( 1127 - 1279 ) Diameter : 9,1 cm. Condition : Perfect

Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). Diameter 13 cm. Condition excellent. Origin: Jiangxi Province.

A nice quite good Jian ware Temmoku ( teabowl ) Dark brown stoneware with a thick combined black brown glaze. Song ( 12th - 13th centuries ) Fujian ( Jianyao ) Diameter : 12,7 cm. H : 6,7 cm. Condition : Perfect

A very rare, lovely, dark brown glazed, lobed stemcup. Song Dynasty ( 12th - 13th centuries ) Most probably Jizhou ware. Diameter : 8,2 cm. H : 6,4 cm. Condition : Perfect

This Jian ware Temmoku ( teabowl ) is extraordinary small and absolutely lovely. Dark brown stoneware, the thick combined black brown glaze in heavy drops come to an end at the base of the bowl. Song ( 12th - 13th centuries ) Fujian ( Jianyao ) Diameter : 9,3 cm. H : 5,4 cm. Condition : Perfect

True conneusseurs do know how rare is the opportunity to buy a genuine painted Jizhou ware vase like this. Southern Song Dynasty ( 1127 - 1279 ) The long necked vase is painted with wave and flower pattern. H : 12,6 cm. Condition : The body in perfect condition with no chips and cracks. Glaze losts to the uppermost part of the neck ( below the rim, please look at the last enlargement )

Attractive small bowl, possibly a brush washer. Diameter: 11 cm, H. 4,5 cm. Excellent condition. China, Song Dynasty (960-1279).

The conical body covered with a black glaze and russet splashes. Diameter 13 cm, H. 5 cm. Excellent condition. From Hebei Province. China, Song Dynasty (960-1279)

A nice Jian ware Temmoku ( teabowl ) Dark brown stoneware with a thick combined black brown glaze. Song ( 12th - 13th centuries ) Fujian ( Jianyao ) Diameter : 11,8 cm. H : 6,5 cm. Condition : Perfect

With a brown glaze. Diameter 10,5 cm, H. 4 cm. Condition: minor fleabite to the rim, oven sand stuck to the inside. China, Song Dynasty (960-1279)

A pair of petal-lobed stoneware bowls, covered with a transparent greenish glaze. Five Dynasties ( 907 – 960 ) Diameter : 11,6 + 12,1 cm. H : 4,6 + 5 cm. Condition : Perfect.

A extremely rare Southern Song ( 1127 – 1279 ) Guan ware, Guanyao washer. The well potted body in a very nice shape covered with a grayish-sea-green glaze with a highly attractive crackle. The light grey ware burnt brown in the firing. Guan´, the official ware of the southern Song court, is perhaps the most admired and desirable of all Chinese ceramics. This rare washer is probably an excavated piece. Diameter : 17,2 cm. H : 5,3 cm. Condition : Perfect.

Description: This is a vey finely potted yingqing or qingbai meiping from the Song dynasty. The body is incised with a beautifully free hand drawing of lotus flower with scrolling foliages.

Dimension: The height is 17cm and the dimeter at the widest part of the body is 11cm.

Condition: In good condition with no repair, restoration, chip or crack. Minor abrasion, especially at the mouth (picture 5)and very minor abrasion on the body.

A rare teabowl. Stoneware with charcoal glaze and overglaze painted decoration of Prunus in pale russet. Southern Song Dynasty 12th century. Yonghe Kiln, Jián, Jiangsu province (Jiangxi ) ( Jizhou ). Diameter : 11,3 cm. Condition : Perfect.

Decorated with a dragon hunting the flaming pearl. Made in two segments with a horizontal seam. Excellent condition with slight age wear and scratches to the glaze. H. 7 cm , diameter 8 cm.

There are traces of an very attractive formerly gilt decoration and connoisseurs will agree that exactly this is it which makes this bowl ( Temmoku ) to an great rarity. Even in Museum collections there are almost no references for such pieces. Southern Song blackware ( 1200 - 1279 ) Diameter : 11,3 cm. H :6,1 cm. Condition : The bowl itself and the glaze in absolute perfect condition...

The body of the bowl is covered with a thick greenish-creamy-grey glaze whose surface appears like old polished marble. The crackles in the glaze are very attractive. Most probably Ming Dynasty, sixteenth century or earlier. Diameter : 14,6 cm. H : 7,2 cm. Condition : Perfect.

Perfect condition

Dark grey stoneware body covered with a very nice and glossy, fine Guan - crackled, quite uncommon brownish celadon glaze. Song – Yuan Dynasty ( thirteenth to fourteenth centuries ) Longquan ware, Zhejiang. Diameter : 6,4 cm. H : 6,7 cm. Condition : Perfect.

This is another antique wine bottle of the Song Dynasty from our collection.

This large wine bottle is about 1000 years old and has been made in the Ji Kiln. It has a dark glazed body with an some unglazed dragon / phoenix decoration.

It is in good condition. There are only some little spoils of time and a little scratch ( please watch photos )...

A rare quite small and lovely, well potted Longquan ware lotus bowl with a pale bluegreen Celadon glaze. Late southern Song Dynasty ( 13th. century ) Zhejiang ( Longquan ) Diameter : 10,6 cm. H : 4,7 cm. Condition : Perfect, nice glaze condition.

A Ming dynasty 17th century Chinese bronze censer with elephant head motif, base with six character xuande mark, censer is in good condition with small dent near the footring, no damage no restoration, size: 11.5 cm mouth diameter, 15 cm wide with handle, height 9.5 cm, weight is about 850 gram.

Nice and elegant shape, rounded side with slight flared lip rim to outside, covered overall with black glaze above unglazed foot rim. Yuan dynasty 13th/14th century, possibly from Fujian province. Perfect condition. Diameter: 11 cm.

Ming Dynasty Celadon charger with floral/leaf and apparent bird (Bird of Paradise) pattern in center. Overall in good condition. Per images, note crackled surface, several small pockmark chips and what appears to be a hairline in the glaze. Slight warpage. Diameter: 9 and half + inches.

Fine little green Song dynasty celadon fish plate. A line marking within glaze at top rim and chips at base, noticeable in images. Diameter: 5 inches.

Description:
This is a late Song dynasty finely potted qingbai meiping vase.The whole vase is incised with a freely carved design of lotus scrolling flowers and foliage, with combed detail on the petals and leaves. There are a total of 4 large lotus flowers on the vase...

This is a very fine Sung Dynasty celadon brushwasher, scholar's table object de art and used as brush washer, a beautiful collector piece ...

The rare shape of this bowl is so to say a forerunner of a shape which was common during the Yuan Dynasty...

With a lustruous brown glaze over a black underlayer. H. 8,5 cm, diameter 8,5 cm. Very good condition with nice spur marks under the foot. Song Dynasty (960-1279).

Ca. 1700s

This stoneware dish is shaped in the form of an oval tray with straight walls, raised on four molded feet. It is glazed overall with a semi-transparent brownish-amber glaze with areas of faint purples and reds. An unglazed area in the center of the base is brush painted with six Chinese characters in iron slip glaze. Some kiln cracking is present on one end and the typical wear for an item of this age and use is evident on the feet and areas of the glaze. There are no restoration...

Ming Dynasty Blue and White Plate with a nice silky glaze. Flaws and dimples during manufacture and a small chip to underside edge of the rim. Diameter is 6.75 inches.

Small Song Dynasty celadon plate with foliated edge. Olive green color with crackling in the glaze. Some wear to glaze. Diameter: 4.50 inches, Height: 1.25 inches.

Large Ming Dynasty light green bowl with crackling in the glaze. Overall in very good condition. Hi-resolution images on request. Diameter: 10 inches, height: 2.50 inches.

Lovely Song or early Ming Dynasty green glaze bowl. Nice symmetrical shape and thick glaze with crackling. No cracks, chips or damage. Diameter: 4.75 inches, height: 2 inches.

A well potted Longquan ware Lotus bowl with a sea-green Celadon glaze. ( Rare flat shape, nice glaze ) Late southern Song Dynasty ( 13th. century ) Zhejiang ( Longquan ) Diameter 14,3 cm. H : 4,5 cm. Condition : No chip, fine crackles to the glaze but not in the body. ( Nice " Ping - tone " when tapped. )

A well potted jar, very thinly potted ( which is typical for Ding ware ). Very hard creamy white stoneware body, covered with a thin creamy - transparent glaze. Song Dynasty, Ding ware ( Dingyao ). H : with lid : 9,8 cm ( without lid : 9,2 cm.)