A Chinese Bronze Vase, Qing Dynasty. Height approximately 41cm. Few parts have been repaired.
This very nice archaic style bronze incense burner is an early 20th century product. There are stylized dragons over the entire body and three small elephant heads as decorative handles. On the top of the cover, a lion with a large tail plays with a ball. It is 11” high and 6” at the widest part. It is in excellent condition.
This rare standing figure of the Amida Buddha still shows remainders of a former very qualityful thick Lacquer Gilding.
Ming Dynasty. H : 64 cm.
A Chinese bronze stand for tripod censer from shipwreck.17th-18th century. 15,1cm diameter.1260 gram weight.
Ca. mid 1800s
Painted in thick blue enamels surrounding an overall floral pattern in pale green and turquoise. A cartouche with a design of a bird among flowers is painted in famille rose pallet on the two large sides. A hanging tassel design is on the two narrow sides. The lid rests on top of the mouth and is painted with a single open flower. The base is unglazed. There are two glaze chips on the shoulder and a crack to the interior collar of the lid...
A Tang dynasty yue two lugs jar, rounded side with globular body and flat unglazed base, jar decorated with two lugs and covered with creamy green celadon glaze.
Jar is in good condition, no chip, no crack, no restoration.
Size: 17,5 cm height.
A Chinese Bronze Censer. Length approximately 11.2 cm (handle to handle). Height approximately 8.5 cm. There are two hairlines at the handle. In good condition.
A rare Ming dynasty 15th century blue and white kendi (pouring vessel), globular body, tubular neck, dish shape mount, and mammiform spout, kendi decorate with under glaze blue flower motif.
Kendi is in very good condition no damage, no chip, no crack, no restoration.
Size: 18 cm height
Height approximately 16.6 cm. In good condition.
Size : 20cm wide. 2764 gram weight. Good condition except small fault at the handle from old time (please see on the picture).
Late 1700s
The base has a “min yao” Yongzheng seal mark in overglaze iron-red enamel, but the cup probably dates to the later 18th Century. The decoration is in overglaze enamels and the rim has a faint brownish wash. Although the piece is in very good condition-- no chips, cracks or restoration, the glaze has numerous tiny iron specks, particularly visible on the interior. The footring displays the very white paste often seen in 18th Century wares...
A rare Siam 18th. century Ayutthaya gilt bronze Buddha sits with legs crossed, right hand in the bhumispara mudra, the "calling the earth to witness" gesture, left hand in the mudra of meditation.
This posture symbolizes the union of method and wisdom, samasara and nirvana, and the realization of the conventional and ultimate truths. It was in this posture that Shakyamuni overcame obstructions while meditating on Truth, transforming delusions into mirror-like wisdom...
Early to mid 1800s
Painted in famille verte enamels, one side showing a woman in a scholar’s studio, and the other side showing a child and a seated woman. On the long narrow sides are scenes of a woman gazing out a window into a garden. The scenes are bordered on the sides by a diamond lozenge pattern as if it were the brocade framing a hanging scroll. The smaller narrow sides have a pierced double coin design surrounded by flowering branches...
A very thin and fragile in a typical Yuan shape potted porcelain bowl covered with a nice pale blue Qingbai glaze. Yuan Dynasty ( 1279- 1368 )
Diameter : 11,4 cm.
Condition : Perfect
A very nice Pumpkin form made in the manner like one of the most famous Yixing potters Chen Ming Yuan ( 1662 - 1735 ) modelled the Pumpkin form.
Qing Dynasty.
Bronze with workshop mark.
L : 12,5 cm. H : 7,8 cm.
In bhumisparsa mudra (calling the earth to witness). Carved in hardwood, then lacquered and gilded. H. 52 cm. Condition: wonderful original condition with expected age wear.
Provenance: Dutch private collection.
Chinese Ming dynasty swatow polychrome dish decorated with Islamic or Arabic inscriptions. 24,7 cm diameter. Good condition except two small fritting at the rim. No additional colour or repair.
Yuan Dynasty ( fourteenth century ) small Jar decorated in underglaze cobalt - blue.
Produced in Jingdezhen or Fujian.
Mint condition. H : 2 inc.