An Excep. Large/Rare Korean 12 Faceted/Open Carved Decorated Table-19th C.: For Palace. Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th century. 31cm h. x74cm d. x 74cm d. Of polygonal form rosewood mahogany table with raised border top, tapered shape sides with open work carved design depicting different floors and trees, alternating with solid panels, raised on angled steep feet. It is very fine condition but missing one leg rim (see ph0t0) and a few hard to notice losses to decoration...

A large Korean black lacquered wood box with mother of pearl inlay. The depiction of pairs of cranes and songbirds within the decorative panels likely relevant to a wedding gift.. Joseon dynasty, 19th century. Condition is fair to good, with some some light loss to inlays and minor distress from age and use. From the hardware, 19 1/4 inches wide, 10 1/8 inches deep, 10 3/4 inches high.

Rare Red Lacquered Inkstone Box of Drawers adorned with ancient symbolism: bullocho (mythical longevity plant) lock plates, bat (symbol of happiness) drawer pulls, and swallowtail (symbol of beauty) braces. The inkstone box was a Korean scholar's most treasured item. He handled it every day, when he would take out the contents to write and paint. The lid opens to reveal the compartment for the inkstone. The drawers hold the brush, ink, and paper...

Fine old Burma lacquerware box. This piece is quite rare in that it is a complete set with three compartments on top and one shallow “hidden” compartment in the base. There is an old repair on the cracquelure on the lid as well as some traditional restoration on the undecorated portions. This is an early 20th century piece (possibly 19th century) from the Gadu-Ganan region, Shan State. D: 16.cm/6.2in and W: 16cm/6.2in.

Very Rare Joseon Period Lacquered Bamboo Fan with the Korean Taegeuk National Symbol.The last photo here shows a similar fan in a recent Korean auction with an estimate of $3,000 to $5,000. You can see similar examples on page 475 of the catalogue of the Korean art collection of the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, Germany. The Taegeuk symbol has been used in Korea for thousands of years and is the center of the Korean flag...

Fine/Rare Korean Mother of Pearl/Tortoise Shell Inlaid Up-Right Mirror/Stand-19th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th century...

A Very Fine/Rare/Large Korean Mother of Pearl, Shagreen Inlaid Tray-19th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th century. A Solid thick wood formed a circular box inlaid with a mother of pearl and shagreen with a large character in a center, a double happiness, surround by a key-fret band and floral heads, inlaid shagreen red colored on the raised wall top and interiors of wall unusually, and also exteriors inlaid with mother of pearl in simbols of treasure between coiled wires on top and bottom, ...

A Very Fine/Rare Pair of Papered Wood Chests: Korea, Choson Dynasty, 19th Century A very rare and pair of decorated with 3 characters “ Double Happiness” on the two open doors and under the “C” shaped front handle on the oiled paper over wood chests, rectangular chest resting on two roll-up carved feet in the front, opening two doors to the inner storage compartment, covered extra thick oiled paper around the edges and door edges. And this chest covered paper turns into a beautif...

A Rare Oiled Entire Papered Marche Documentary Box: Korea, Choson Dynasty, 19th Century It is of rectangular shape with a flat base and fitted with a rectangular cover hinged at two places in the back, the interior box applied with an original decorated silk, it has two c-shape cast iron handles on back and front sides and the front applied with a foliaged rectangular lock plate...

A Rare/Fine Korean Wood Portable Food Container (Carrier)-19th C.: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th century. The lantern shaped portable wood box was used to carry food including side dishes. One side can be up-right open by pulling upward and the other back side has two vertical opens for pushing forward 4 drawer shaped food containers carrying lunches or snacks. It’s in very fine condition with dark brown patina, it measures 10.7cm x 10.7cm x 23cm h...

A late Joseon dynasty mother of pearl inlaid black lacquer cosmetic and mirror box of drawers. Cranes and peaches decoration on the top. Butterflies, flowers and rockery decoration on the sides. Bamboo decoration on the back. Honeycomb pattern decoration on the front. Good condition, retaining the mirror, and with only light mother of pearl and lacquer loss. A recent owner lined the bottom of the hinged top mirror compartment with a drawer liner and felt. 19th century...

A good Korean mother of pearl inlaid small chest of drawers. The front with inlaid decoration of pairs of birds (including, recognizably, ducks and phoenix) among lotus, bamboo, peaches and peonies on flat black lacquered ground. This is one of those wonderful finds of both honest age and undisturbed condition. All the wood with evidence only of being hand worked and appearing untouched since made with good, honest patina on all the secondary woods as well...

A Very Fine/Rare Small Jewelry Box Inlaid with Mother of Pearl,Tortoise Shell, Shagreen-19th C...

A Very Rare Mother of Pearl/Tortoise Shell Inlaid GO Playing Board- 19th C./ Korea, Joseon dynasty, 19th century. This GO playing board is extremely rare, each side panels inlaid with Phoenix and Dragon in mother of pearl and tortoise shell excusitely, on the top each vertical and horizontal lines inlaid in wire and covered with dark brown enamels, resting on four bracket feet joined by a scroll outime apron, on the bottom it covered with loose cotton linens and covered with dark enamels. ...

Black Lacquered Mother of Pearl Table. This is a low table used in ancestor worship rituals. The gorgeous peony flower is a symbol of abundance and wealth. The delightfully rendered dokkaebi goblins that adorn each leg are guardians that chase away evil spirits. The clouds are symbols of Heaven, and the plum blossoms are symbols of courage. As you can see in the photo, there is some loss to one of the dokkaebi goblins, but this table is in otherwise amazing and excellent condition. 25w x 13d x 1...

A Fine Mother of Peal/Tortoise Shell Inlaid Lacquer Low Table: Korea, Choson period, late 19th Century, This rectangular low table is lacquered with dark brown over all, and top decorated with a confronted large four-clawed dragon and a long-tailed phoenix inlaid in tortoise shell, twisted wire and mother of pearl, and amid clouds enclosed in a floral scroll-form border. It is in very fine condition except a corner having lightly crashed (see photo). Measures 13 ½” h.x 39/ ¼” L...

A Very Fine Lacquered Wood Wedding Gift Box: Korea, Choson dynasty, 19th Century This is of square form of marriage gift carrying chest to bride from bridegroom, mounted with brass edges mounts cast as stylized flowers and brass lockplate with as a long handle, lower pull drawer with a stylized C hanle, and with a stand. *** This type of wedding box or “Ham” so called, the day before wedding ceremony, bridegroom males deliver a container of wedding gifts to a bride from a bridegroom t...

A Extremely Rare/Fine Mother of Pearl Inlaid Red Lacquer Sutra Reading Desk(Kyung Sang): Korea, early 19th Century, This red lacquered and mother of pearl inlaid sutra reading desk is an extremely rare for Buddhist reading sutra desk as a Korean, Joseon dynasty's, of rectangular section with rectangular top with fitted two upward-curved flanges without any metal hinges and supported on the undersides by 4 reticulated scroll brackets, and also supported on the double straight legs, fitte...