Wonderful Japanese antique two panel byobu screen painting in ink and mineral colors on silk, Nihonga School, depicting a scene of a group of seven crows and a single magpie near a waterfall and hot springs possibly Onsen Baths, beautifully painted churning water and falls, signed and with hanga of artist Aizu Katsumi: born Fukushima Prefecture.
Exhibited Teiten and Bunten Exhibitions during prewar period.
c. 1900.
Size: 76 3/4" high x 90" wide
Pair of Antique Chinese horseshoe armchairs made of beautiful light color huanghuali wood, woven rattan seats, carved with chimera motif on back splat and front apron, nice joinery and smooth carving, original condition.
Size: 39 1/2" high x 27 1/2" wide x 27" deep.
A rare sample of Yuan dynasty blue and white large ewer with double spout, very good sample for studying and comparison excavated from east java, broken and re attach please see picture for detail, size: 15 cm height, 13 cm diameter.
Ming blue and white large bowl decorated with dragon motive at the center and flowers at the outer wall.fluted body and rim.Possible jiajing period with four character as ming dynasty.
Size:27,5cm diameter.11cm high.
Conditions with one large chip at 7.00 a clock on restoration and one one hairline.Please inquiry for more large picture.
Diameter approximately 21 cm. Height approximately 8.5 cm. In good condition.
Extremely rare and hard to find Edo Period c.1860 byobu screen in good condition and featuring tigers frolicing in bamboo. One of a pair most likely as the other six panel screen had the hanko. This screen has been repaired a long time ago and we challenge you to find the repairs. All and all, a museum piece that fits handsomely over a couch.
A beautiful & cute small 19th C. Chinese filigree sterling silver & enamel lion play with a ball. The lion head & ball is movable, very intricate workmanship. In excellent condition. W:2"x H:1-3/4"
Rare Purple glaze bowl.Qing dynasty (possible kangxi period).Bowl has two hairlines,no chip and free from any restorations.Size:17,7cm diameter,6cm high.
ca. 1860-90s, latter half of the 19th century
Tongzhi-Guangxu Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
H: 36 cm
Lamp hole professionally filled in to bottom, some fritting to rim. Visible outer body perfect.
From a Greenwich, CT estate
This vase is lavishly painted with a young wife and nine sons in a garden, and flanked with landscape scenes, dragons in relief, and faux cloths...
A Song dynasty 12th - 13th century large qingbai ewer, melon shape body with straight cylindrical neck, loop handle and rising spout covered with bluish white qingbai glaze, body with cloud motif.15,5 cm high. good conditions with just small cipped on the cover and small chipped on the left earing (plese see on the picture).
A hanging scroll (kakejiku) attributed to Kano Masunobu (1823-1880) entitled "take suzume" (Bamboo and Sparrow) with Kiri (paulownia wood) box. Kano Masunobu, also known as Toun, was a member of the Kano School of painters who excelled in ink paintings (occasionally with the addition of pale tints) of landscapes and birds. The school's founder, Kano Masunobu (1423-1530,) was attached to the court of Shogun Yoshimasa.
Scroll dimensions: H.90cm(35.25") x W.43cm(17")...
A rare and very unusual underglaze blue decorated Gu shaped Altar Vase with fine crackular glaze. This item was made in Southern China, probably during the second half of the Qing dynasty.
Condition: damaged - with very old (possibly Chinese) double stapled and lead infilled repairs.
31cm (12 inches) high.
Chinese 17th century blue and white kendi with flowers decorations. 22,5cm high. Possible has small damage at the top rim and small chipped at the spout covered with metal decorations.
Southern Song Dynasty Longquan ware ( 1227 - 1279 ) Diameter : 16,4 cm. H : 6,4 cm.
Condition : Perfect
Ca. 1870-1900
late 19th century Guangxu period,
Qing dynasty Porcelain with transmutation flambé glaze
Height: 35.3 cm / 13.9 in
From a New York area estate
A 19th c Guangxu mark and period tianqiupin vase with transmutation flambé glaze, of a striking mottled red-blue-purple coloring, which Jingdezhen potters achieved through mixing colloidal copper, iron, or other metallic materials into suffusions breaking up the glaze surface...
Early 18th century
Yongzheng Period, Qing Dynasty
Porcelain with overglaze famille rose enamels
h: 6.5 cm (cup 1); h: 6.2 cm (cup 2)
Perfect condition, age wear to enamels
From a Delaware, USA collection
This pair of cups belong to superior class of delicately enameled Yongzheng export wares. There's a bowl and saucer in the same pattern in the collection of King Augustus the Strong (see last photo).