Diameter approximately 13 cm. In good condition.
A Very Fine Pale Celadon White Jade Circular Water Coupe: 19th –early 20th C.: China, 19th or early 20th century.
The container carved with high walls and supported by lotus leaf ahapeed foot,
with opposing handles in the shape of the Hehe Twins, they holding a lotus bud shapped coupe
with an other lotus stem and a bud against the inverted rim of the coup on a large lotus leaf as stand with insised details of lotus leaf and bud, and its textures are very translucent with a gray green ...
An Hirado incense burner of squat globular form with three scroll feet and lion mask handles with a high domed reticulated cover surmounted by a Shishi and ball filial. The body of the koro decorated in underglaze blue with a Chinese “ko sometsuke” style landscape.
The censer is in good condition without chips, restoration, but there are some firing flaws notably to the juncture of the legs and to the body of the koro, and a minor firing crack to the rim...
A Song dynasty longquan celadon large dish with two fish motif, rounded side with deep center and glazed base, dish decorated with two rare shape molded fish motif, covered with good celadon glaze, good condition no damage no chip no crack no restoration, size: 21 cm diameter.
Beautiful, yet unusual two-section tansu from the Nigata region of Japan, made from kiri wood. Reddish brown lacquer has been applied to its hardware to give it a very nice contrast to the woodgrain. It has four large drawers with gunbai style iron handles mounted upon pierced and stylized mounts, with a large fan-shaped lockplate in its center, pierced hardware along the front frame between each drawer, and quarter-circle hardware in the drawer corners...
A Song dynasty longquan celadon large ribbed jar with cover, rounded side with globular body and glazed base, jar and cover decorated with ribbed motid, covered with good celadon glaze, good condition no damage no chip no crack no restoration, size: 11 cm height 14 cm diameter.
Antique Chinese bronze hanging bell with beautiful casting and patina. It hangs by a hook shaped as a two-headed serpent, and its sides are decorated with phoenixes (fenghuang in Chinese, ho-o in Japanese) flying with their head downwards and their long, beautiful tail feathers floating up and over their bodies. The phoenix is a bird of the Sun, so a small Sun adorns two sides of the bell, along with curling motif running along the bottom.
Size: 6.5" height, 4.75" width
A pair of perfectly and thinly potted porcelain dishes, brilliantly enameled in famille rose enamels.
Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period ( 1736 - 1795 ).
Diameter : 23,3 cm. Condition : Perfect.
Provenance : Old German collection.
Chinese Bronze Censer decorated with The Eight Auspicious Symbols. 18thC Height 14.7cm. Condition; one handle leaning slightly inwards otherwise good. Original patina.
Ca. late 1800s
This male figure, molded in the manner of the English Staffordshire tradition, carries a swooning lady on his shoulders, with a snake hanging from his neck. Facial features and clothing details are painted in colorful overglaze enamels. On the base is a factory mark in an oval cartouche. There is some wear, soiling, and minor glazing flaws, but no repairs or damages.
Height: 8 5/8 in.
A Qing dynasty 18th century blue glaze square vase, tall body with short neck and glazed base, vase is in good condition no damage no restoration, size: 27 cm including wooden stand.
Good Famille Rose Punch Bowl. Very well decorated with floral bouquets and insects below a finely painted butterflies and diaper border. Qianlong C1770/80. Diameter 28.7cm (11 1/4") Condition; excellent.
Rare Chinese Famille Rose Teapot finely decorated with figures in a landscape on a scrolling gilt ground. Unusually both the handle and spout are painted with a delicate floral spray. Qianlong C1750/60. Height 13.7cm. Condition; 1.2cm section to rim filled and restored, frit to knop. Some wear to gilding. Otherwise excellent.
RARE – Golden-Yellowish glazed pottery wine rython flask
Persia, Parthian period, 100 – 300 AD
Graceful globular body with a cylindrical- shaped neck with a rim folded outward, two handles and a roundel base...
RARE - Terra-cotta belly-shaped wine amphora
Roman, Herodian, 37 BC – 70 AD
Second temple period
Time of Jesus and King Herod the Great
Extremely rare and excessively “Egg-shell” thin pottery belly-shaped wine amphora with an elegant cylindrical shaped neck and two handles...
Snake “Serpent” pottery jar
“Tell El-Yahudiyeh ware"
Holy Land, Canaanite, Middle Bronze Age
1730 - 1550 BC
Time of Abraham
The jar is outstanding in its excellent workmanship and decoration, a fine creation of the master potter in a period when pottery-making reached a peak of achievement.
The jar is well proportioned, with a flaring neck, graceful ovoid body and a pointed base...
From our Sake Tokkuri collection we offer you a very old example of oldest Oribe ware, made in the mid Edo Period, around 250 years ago.
Wonderful umanome design (horse eye) and vivid Oribe glaze.
Oribe ware, type of Japanese ceramics, usually glazed in blue or green and first appearing during the Keichō and Genna eras (1596–1624)...
India, albumen photograph by unknown photographer 1880's or earlier of the Gold Lily Tank at Madurai.
B.L number 807129. 29 x 23 cm. Pencil location on reverse, some fading at top.